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Video Tapes and DVD's for teaching the course:
Democracy, The Earth, and You

These recordings makes holding this course easy. Just invite a dozen people to see these four 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.

A New Essay:
Nine Players on the Planet Team

How can we envision in a simple but whole way the vast transitions that are challenging us? And what role does Spirit resurgence and religious renewal play in this picture? In this essay, Gene Marshall claims that nine social transformations are the primary challenges of our era. Like nine players on a baseball team, each of these transformations is needed to win the game. Religious transformation is one of the nine. Click here to download a pdf file of this two-page essay.

Articles on our religious and social perspectives

To read one of these brief articles, click the title:

Cruminess and Authenticity - Chapter 1 of To Be or Not to Be a Christian, Copyright 1994: Gene W. Marshall

A Virgin Birth for Everyone - Chapter 9 of To Be or Not to Be a Christian, Copyright 1994: Gene W. Marshall

Surrounded by Infinite Silence - from the Introduction to Listening to the Infinite Silence, Copyright 1999: Gene W. Marshall

Straw Bale Construction - A pictorial overview: Joyce and Gene Marshall

True Bliss - a poem by Gene W. Marshall, Copyright 2000

The Queen's Quest - from The Queen's Quest and other Tales, Stories to Live By, Copyright 1994: Joyce Marshall

The Biblical View of Evil - a theological reflection on terrorism and prophetic vision, Copyright 2001: Gene W. Marshall

Remembering Those Who Died - from the Realistic Living Journal, November 2002. Copyright 2002 Gene W. Marshall

What then Does it Mean to Pray? - from the Realistic Living Journal, November 1999, Copyright 1999: Gene W. Marshall

The Authority of Authentiticity - from the Realistic Living Journal, June 1999, Copyright 1999: Gene W. Marshall

To Be or Not To Be A Christian? - Chapter 26 of To Be or Not to Be a Christian, Copyright 1994: Gene W. Marshall

Nine Players on the Planet Team - from the book, When Awed Ones Gather. Copyright 2003 Gene W. Marshall (2 pages PDF file)

Twelve Stategies of Social Transformation - Part of chapter 8 of Fresh Wineskins for the Christian Breakthough, Second edition, Copyright 2000: Gene W. Marshall (5 pages, PDF file)

Scientific Rationality and Spirit Experience - Chapter 5 of Stages of Consciousness and the Experience of Spirit, Copyright 2000: Gene W. Marshall (9 pages, PDF file)

 

Twentieth Anniversary Report - November 2004

Twenty years ago on December 6, 1984, the Realistic Living application for nonprofit status was signed and notarized.  The signees were Gene Marshall, Joyce Marshall, and Marilyn McCord.  We had worked toward this throughout 1984, and in November of that year we published our first Realistic Living Journal. 

With this report we celebrate with you our twentieth anniversary, sharing highlights from the story of these two decades.

Click on the sections of this report you want to read:

Table of Contents for the 20-Year Report

1. The Antecedents and Beginnings of Realistic Living

2. Our Christian Resurgence Focus

3. Bioregionalism and the Endangered Planet

4. EcoTheater and Community Awakenment

5. Interreligious Research and Christian Theology

6. Written, Recorded, and Electronic Resources

7. A House for our Home, Offices, and Meeting Place

Inserts:

Joyce's Reflections

Roger Alexander’s Report of a New CRC

John Stowell’s Report of the Sojourn

 

 

 

 

 
   

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