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This weekend residential program combines theological basics with methods and savvy for new forms of Christian community. This program includes a thoroughly updated version of an older program entitled, The Twentieth Century Theological Revolution. And it includes materials on solitary practice and giving leadership to small group nurture and mission. The course is normally scheduled to begin with dinner on a Friday night and end after lunch on Sunday.

Contact us for more information on this program or for setting up this program in your area:

3578 N. State Highway 78
Bonham, Texas 75418
Phone: 903.583.8252
E-mail: jgmarshall@cableone.org

This course can be taught by anyone willing to master and teach it. The entire construct is available free for your use. This one-day program consists of four presentations, each followed by a group process using the skills of pristine listening, honest sharing, and constructive dialogue.

Here are the titles of those four sessions plus the major subtopics covered in each:

1. Master Pictures of the Ecological Era
Thinking for Ourselves about Reality
Society out of Balance with Person and Planet
From the Cenozoic to the Ecozoic Era
Telling the Universe Story

2. The Ecological Crisis, Facts and Prospects
The Sixth Extinction and the Importance of Ecological Diversity
Global Warming and the Importance of Stabilizing the Climate
The Population Explosion and the Importance of Stabilizing Population
Planetary Exhaustion and the Need for a New Mode of Society

3. Core Blocks to Progressive Change
Obsolete Economics Corporations Rule our Lives
The Demise of Democracy
The Public Relations War on Truth
Whence Comes our Hope?

4. Strategies for Planetary Transformation
Is There a Winning Strategy?
Democratic Governance rather than Corporation Rulership
Global Cooperation rather than Corporate Globalization
Local Innovation rather than Monopolistic Uniformity
Concluding Words on Doing Our Part

This course is designed to be taught by one or two teachers in one day, two sessions before lunch and two after. It can also be taught on four evenings, condensed to some shorter period or expanded.

For further content on this program, go to DEY and you will see a list of seven files: the overview and workshops, four talk scripts, and two files containing handout sheets.

The aim of this course is to assist people:

1. To overcome the belief that it is too difficult to think through fresh master overviews of the world in which we live.

2. To work through reluctance to give up comforting misinformation and to experience the tragic yet glorious truth of the actual challenges of our times.

3. To work through doubts that anything significant can be done about challenges of this magnitude.

4. To embrace the glory of being overwhelmed by tasks that are clearly too big for us and for which we all are woefully unprepared.

A New Resource for teaching Democracy, The Earth and You

Video tapes and DVDs are now available for the four presentations of our four-session course on the ecological crisis and social transformation. These recordings makes holding this course very easy. Just invite a dozen people to see these presentations on a television screen. Then following each presentation, lead the recommended group process that will be sent to you with your videos or DVDs.  Click here for more information and ordering instructions.

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