[Oe List ...] Intro/ need for New Course for Progressive Christians

[M. George Walters]

Hi Bud
George Walters here. We were in Summer 66 with you.

Harry and Maryanne Wainwright must have been in SFO n early 70s and then
Carol and I came to SFO in Fall of 71 after two years in India, Ethiopia and
the Philippines. Galaxy Days were great days as we remember them.

Bud, there is a group of us working intensely with Wesley Theological
Seminary following on a Symposium hosted by them December 2009. We are
publishing from the JWM Archives now located at WTS and it is our intent to
take advantage of the opportunity to use tools we have like ToP and
redevelop new tools for the local congregation leadership and the emerging
ecumenical parish which is Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jew, etc.

Hope to catch up with you when you are back in the States. We are in Tampa
Florida. See our publications at www.ResurgencePublishing.Com. A Second
volume of Bending History goes to Press next week focused on the New Social
Vehicle.

With kindest regards.

M. George Walters

Resurgence Publishing Corporation
4240 Sandy Shores Dr
Lutz, FL 33558
USA
Tel: +1 (813) 948-7267
Fax: +1 (813) 333-1787
Mob: +1 (813) 505-9041

URL: www.ResurgencePublishing.com 
Professional Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mgwalters




-----Original Message-----
From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of Bud Tillinghast
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 02:54
To: oe at wedgeblade.net
Cc: Jim Burnett; Bill Miller
Subject: [Oe List ...] Intro/ need for New Course for Progressive Christians

I've just joined the list, so let me introduce myself. I'm Bud Tillinghast.
I first met Ecumenical Institute in its absence. That is, I showed up in
Austin TX in April of 1961 to discover that most of the Faith and Life
Community weren't there. They had gone to Chicago.

After the initial course in Sacramento CA I was among a group from
California that attended Summer '66. In 1969 I helped do the groundwork for
the first RS I in Britain, held in Rochdale, Lancashire. In the early '70s I
was back in California and, pastor of Laurel United Methodist Church,
Oakland. We were part of the East Bay Galaxy of the Local Church Experiment.

I dipped into the OE archives and ran across George Holcombe's report of the
death of Carlos Zervagon. I remember Carlos. During the MLK march in Summer
'66 he carried our three year old daughter on his shoulders. She remember it
to this day. A caring man was Carlos.

I'm joining the list missionally. I'm interested in helping to create a
course for progressive Christians that is transformative. In the U S and
England and beyond conservatives have such a course or courses: Cursillo and
Alpha. I've been spending half the year in the U S and half in England. I'm
near Oxford where I've been in relation to two settings where they are using
the Living the Questions videos. It's good material, but very much of a head
trip. And they don't know how to run a conversation!

Over the years I have not discovered anything with the transformative power
of R S I. I see it as the keystone of such a course for which I see the
need. I'm not sure where R S I has gone since my involvement in the '70s.
I've a link to give more historical setting and rationale if you are
interested:   
http://need-for-progressive-christian-course.wikispaces.com/

I would be interested in you comments and input.

Bud Tillinghast
"I am a stranger here, within a foreign land..."

In England now
In Pittsburgh PA in two weeks.
In California in December

Skype: budtill



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