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Clergy Leadership Network |
Clergy Leadership Network seeks to encourage more
progressive religious leaders to join with others in "working for national
leadership change."
We have received this letter, with the request that we
share it with members and friends of the Witherspoon Society. We encourage
you to consider it seriously. [3-11-04]
NOTE added on 7-14-2010 --- A visitor to this page has
just sent a note that the link below (
www.clnnlc.org ) leads to
a web page in Japanese. And my knowledge of Japanese is not quite
up to telling you any more than that. I have not been able to find
references to this group any more recent that 2004 or so.
Thanks to
Terry Rothermich for this correction.
Dear Friends
of Peace and Justice.
I am writing to
you to solicit your help in making people aware of a new organization,
"Clergy Leadership Network."
Let me first
introduce myself. I am Ed Weisheimer, a minister in the Christian Church
Disciples of Christ. I am a past president of the Disciples Peace
Fellowship, a congregational pastor for twenty years, an associate regional
minister and the regional minister for the Disciples in Indiana for
seventeen years. I am retired now (mostly) and I am doing some volunteer
work for the Clergy Leadership Network. In that capacity I am writing to you
and other Peace Fellowships seeking to find ways that you can help publicize
CLN and its major national gathering of clergy they are planning in
Cleveland , May 16th-18th.
First let me
invite you to find our more about CLN by visiting their web site. CLN's web
site address is
www.clnnlc.org.
There you will learn who is their Board of Directors and what are their
purposes. It is a 527 non governmental organization working for national
leadership change. It is a voice and a channel for persons wanting to
respond to the crisis in our country's leadership.
A marvelous array of
leaders will make presentations at the national gathering in Cleveland. And
ways will be explored as to how clergy and laity can help in the urgent
effort to bring about a leadership change.
Could/Would you send
our publicity materials to your members? Could/Would you supply CLN with
your address list so it could do mailings? Could/Would you link us on your
web site, or vice versa. CLN is prepared to pay the cost of the publicity
efforts. I hope that you will give this request your utmost attention.
Let me close by giving
you my e-mail address and the address of CLN's Executive Director.
CLN Executive Director,
Rev. Brenda Bartella Peterson,
bbpeterson@Verizon.net
Rev. Ed Weisheimer, a
regional coordinator,
e.weisheimer@worldnet.att.net
Thank you for your
consideration of these matters.
Peace,
Ed Weisheimer
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GA actions
ratified (or not) by the presbyteries
A number of the most important actions of the 219th
General Assembly have now been acted upon by the presbyteries,
confirming most of them as amendments to the PC(USA) Book of Order.
We provided resources to help inform the
reflection and debate, along with updates on the voting.
Our three areas of primary interest have been:
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Amendment 10-A,
which removes the current ban on
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender persons being considered as
possible candidates for ordination as elder or ministers.
Approved! |
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Amendment 10-2,
which would add the Belhar Confession to our Book of
Confessions. Disapproved, because as an amendment
to the Book of Confessions it needed a 2/3 vote, and did not
receive that. |
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Amendment
10-1, which adopts the new Form of Government
that was approved by the Assembly. Approved. |
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Some blogs worth visiting |
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PVJ's
Facebook page
Mitch Trigger, PVJ's
Secretary/Communicator, has created a Facebook page where
Witherspoon members and others can gather to exchange news and
views. Mitch and a few others have posted bits of news, both
personal and organizational. But there’s room for more!
You can post your own news and views,
or initiate a conversation about a topic of interest to you. |
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Voices of Sophia blog
Heather Reichgott, who has created
this new blog for Voices of Sophia, introduces it:
After fifteen years of scholarship
and activism, Voices of Sophia presents a blog. Here, we present the
voices of feminist theologians of all stripes: scholars, clergy,
students, exiles, missionaries, workers, thinkers, artists, lovers
and devotees, from many parts of the world, all children of the God
in whose image women are made. .... This blog seeks to glorify God
through prayer, work, art, and intellectual reflection. Through
articles and ensuing discussion we hope to become an active and
thoughtful community. |
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John Harris’ Summit to
Shore blogspot
Theological and philosophical
reflections on everything between summit to shore, including
kayaking, climbing, religion, spirituality, philosophy, theology,
politics, culture, travel, The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), New
York City and the Queens neighborhood of Ridgewood by a progressive
New York City Presbyterian Pastor. John is a former member of the
Witherspoon board, and is designated pastor of North Presbyterian
Church in Flushing, NY. |
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John Shuck’s Shuck and Jive
A Presbyterian minister, currently
serving as pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethton,
Tenn., blogs about spirituality, culture, religion (both organized
and disorganized), life, evolution, literature, Jesus, and
lightening up. |
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