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

[ian glendinning]

Hmm, not sure about that Case, the motives behind the parody ...

(Anyway on Lao Tzu ... I think you're bing picky in this context, of
the literal translation of "Tao Te Ching" - but I was only alluding to
the subject rhetorically, to give me an excuse to mention Sun Tzu in
an MoQ context.)

Ian

On 8/8/06, Case <Case at ispots.com> wrote:
> [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.
>
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