[Oe List ...] Development of RS-1

Thu Aug 11 02:32:13 EDT 2011

I became interested in who this David guy was during the time of the "big kerfufful."   He joined in the dialogue and he seemed to know so much about that current situation that I became curious and wrote him privately asking him about how he was so informed.  I was so grateful for his voice at that time that I experienced almost no one was speaking up except David, Marshall Jones and Milan Hamilton (maybe there were others) but they were saying what I wanted to say.  Thanks, guys.  Joan Knutson

-----Original Message-----
From: LAURELCG <LAURELCG at aol.com>
To: oe <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Wed, Aug 10, 2011 10:05 pm
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Development of RS-1

I'm so glad that David has now been properly introduced to those of us who didn't formerly have the pleasure. I've sometimes wondered if he was George and Carol's oldest son:)
Jann McGuire

In a message dated 8/10/2011 2:18:02 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, walters at alaweb.com writes:

Sunny, you brighten my day.

-David Walters

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From: "Sunny Walker" <sunwalker at comcast.net>
To: "'Order Ecumenical Community'" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Development of RS-1
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:38:42 -0600

I’ve meant to weigh in briefly on “who is David Walters.” I got a phone call from him near the beginning of the great debacle (October 2006 – known also as the great whacking, the kerfuffle, the formation of the Institute of Something Else…etc.). I didn’t know him from Adam (or Eve for that matter, though clearly both were involved somewhere back there long before Georgia!). But I “KNEW” him – a good ole boy from the south per his lovely and familiar accent, but on the other hand, one clearly upset and “hot to trot to get some different outcome” kind of colleague.

The phone call came at a time when I needed to hear support from someone I didn’t know and yet “KNEW” at the level of interior angst and “we’re in the same trench here.” Deep thanks, David. 

Sunny 
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From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of David Walters
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 2:33 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Development of RS-1 

No, I am not George Walters' son. However, somewhere in the early 1800s our forebearers were in Georgia. One part of the family left for north Florida and George descends from them. Another branch wound up in sout Alabama where I now live. This makes kin us somehow but I now not quite sure how to state it - maybe fifth cousin seven times removed. Otherwise I think Georg is a real great guy who publishes fine books. 

-David Walters

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From: Martha Talbott <mltalbott at att.net>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Development of RS-1
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:17:58 -0400

When I have seen David’s name, I have assumed that this is David, the son of Carol and George.  Maybe I’m wrong.

Martha Talbott

On 8/8/11 11:15 AM, "Jack Gilles" <icabombay at igc.org> wrote: 

This is a real mystery.  I thought I was familiar with just about everyone from the early days, but I don't have any image or memory of a David Walters.  Do you think he really exists?  Perhaps it's another colleague using a false name so they can speak without people judging.  We need to get to the bottom of this!

Jack
On Aug 8, 2011, at 9:50 AM, jbames10 at aol.com wrote: 
Well David's a mystery to us too, Charles; however he is listed on page 87 of the 2011 Directory!   Bud and Jan Ames

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Lingo <clingojr at aol.com>
To: oe <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Cc: dwarren <dwarren at indiana.edu>
Sent: Mon, Aug 8, 2011 5:54 am
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Dear David Walters,

Where are you?
I was just speaking on skype with Paul Schrijnen who asked me, 'who is David Walters?'  
I couldn't tell him, what you 'looked' like or how old you are, or what you did with the order, or anything very much when he asked.
So, here I am, hanging out, asking you for an introduction.  My apologies to you for my forgotten remembrances.
Your sharings on the list serve have been meaningful to me, and I assume to several others.  What's to know about you?

It was pleasant to see you refer to the May1962 Time Magazine article on the CFLC just after its faculty had exploded.
Doc Wagener captured the articulation of our self-understanding well for the Time writer.

The answer to your 'mansion' question is: The Wooten Mansion. It served as the first women's residence of the CFLC.
Later, it was more well known nationally as the LAOS HOUSE, where PLCs and RS-1s and other curricula were presented and developed.  It's very special dining room was not only the lecture hall for these courses, but was the elegant space where the House Church Common Meal service was celebrated, studied, and experimented with.
In 1991 a 'retired from Cornell' Jack Lewis summoned a reunion of 40 plus former members of the CFLC for two days in that space.  It was there that he declared his common sense of his having been and, still being, 'a Christian heretic'.  There, also, he chose to share his profound admiration for the faith and life of the Dali Lama as a symbol of our faith and life continuity.

It will be good to hear from you again.
Lurking for your reply,
Al Lingo in Decatur GA.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Walters <walters at alaweb.com>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Mon, Aug 8, 2011 12:48 am
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Development of RS-1

Bishop Jim gives a better explaination in Brother Joe.

Here is a link ti a Time artticle from 1962 about the Cristian Faith and Life Community. Page 2 of the article has some interesting quotes. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,827348-2,00.html

Speaking of CFLC do any remember the building where it was located. This article describes a place called Mansion on the Hill that notes the CLFC bought it in 1953 and used it for its student dormitory. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,827348-2,00.html

-David Walters

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From: "Rod Rippel" <rodrippel at cox.net>
To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Subject: [Oe List ...] Development of RS-1
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 17:48:16 -0700

What's the history of development of RS-1 -content, structure and choreography?
Did it begin with CFLC?  RR

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