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

[Bud Tillinghast]

Hi George
I recall you and Carol as stars of our Galaxies in our Bay Area days. I had looked at your picture on your website and had no trouble recognizing you, as you still look like I remembered you. Got some secret the rest of us need to know?

I've added as cc's to this email the Galaxy clergy I have emails for. I don't have one for Bob Stewart; Bernie Mott has died, as I believe Charles Shindler has. Don't know where Gary Weatherly is; I've also included Jim Burnett, who organized to bring the Institute to California in the first place. Many of these were also at Summer '66.

For the new ex-Local Church Experiment persons I've added, let me repeat the link that provides the reason for my being in contact with you EI folk.
http://need-for-progressive-christian-course.wikispaces.com/

I had hoped to find in reconnecting that things were still happening. And they are. The work you are doing with WTS looks interesting. I've looked at the Resurgent Publishing material, including seeing that you and Holcombe provided material in "Bending History". (Any chance of Resurgence material becoming ebooks? I carry my library with me on my computer these days.) I've noted the offerings that Gene Marshall has listed and envy him his hay-bale house! I've started looking at the listserv archives and found David Yost's video form of the NRM- good despite the 'disengagement' fluke. And I've just made contact in the last few days. I just don't want to reinvent the wheel, and I think something like R S I is needed in the progressive churches.

Love to reconnect with you when we get back to the states. However, I've had CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) for the last 10 years, which slows me down except in virtual reality and moving from offspring to offspring.

Warm regards,

Bud Tillinghast

On 14 Oct 2011, at 12:10, M. George Walters wrote:

> 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
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -----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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