[MD] New Model Army, Mystic(DQ) Experience, and Religion (SQ) as Power

[Case]

[Ian]
As well as Lao Tzu's Way of Zen, we need Sun Tzu's Art of War.

[Case]
Just a picky correction: Lao Tzu wrote the Way of Virtue. He had nothing
whatever to do with Zen.

But as for a group of Christians who exhibit DQ at its finest, you might
find these folks interesting:
http://www.koinoniapartners.org/missing.htm

Their founder, Clarence Jordon did a fresh translation of most of the New
Testament. He set the Gospels into the politics and climate of rural
Georgia. This is from Matthew: 

"When Jesus was born in Gainesville, Georgia during the time that Herod was
governor, some scholars from the Orient came to Atlanta and inquired, "Where
is the one who was born to be governor of Georgia? We saw his star in the
Orient, and we came to honor him." This news put Governor Herod and all his
cronies in a tizzy."

Jesus gets lynched in the end. 


Jordon died before completing the entire translation but the parts he
finished were originally passed out as pamphlets and later printed in book
form. You can see them here: http://rockhay.tripod.com/cottonpatch/index.htm
Harry Chapin wrote songs for a stage version of the Cotton Patch Gospel.

Jordan believed the gospel should speak to people in their own language. He
and his wife started in interracial community in the 50's where blacks and
whites farmed together and shared in the bounty. This was not popular with
the locals. The community survived boycotts, bullets and burning.

By the late 60's civil rights issues where calming down and Jordon was
approached by Millard Fuller a former resident at Koinonia. Fuller had been
a successful business man, who gave away his wealth to serve the Lord.
Jordan and Fuller worked out a plan to build houses for poor people. Jordan
died in 1969 but between 1969 and 1992 using volunteer labor and donation
the Koinonians built 194 homes for the poor, 64 on the Koinonia Farm and the
rest in nearby Plains and Americus, Georgia.

This was the beginning of Habitat for Humanity.