Ann and Joe Slicker

December 1, 1920 – February 10, 2016

Following are videos of Joe Slicker from the Life Journey Stations created by Michael May:

Approaching the Peak of Being – Turtles all the Way Down

Knowing the Unknowable – The Great Circle of One  (beginning 6:45)

Deep Talk – Repetitive Interior Recitation    (beginning 2:40 – 5:50)

GO Deep! – Living Beneath the Surface 

Joe Slicker Interview:  The Dazzling Darkness and Joe Slicker

It is with wonder, gratitude and sadness that I share with you the passing of my father, Joseph Allen Slicker, who left his body today, Ash Wednesday, after a brief bout with pneumonia. He was surrounded by family throughout this time. We grieve and celebrate his amazing and wondrous completed life. A memorial service will be held – date to be announced.

          ~~  John Slicker

Joe was the second teacher (Joe Mathews was first and Fred Buss the third) for my first RS-1. Over the years I got to know Joe, as well as he permitted, for he was not an easy-to-know man. He was a giant of the Spirit, fa’ shure.  Amen.

          ~~  M Landolphe D’Aquin-B MD ThD

The following reflections were sent to the memorial service for Joe:

• Aimee Hillard remembered that Joe and Anne brought their family from Texas to Evanston to be initial staff of the Ecumenical Institute. Joe Mathews would have Joe Slicker teach with him whenever they were working on a new course. When we launched the International Training Institutes, Slicker taught many of the early ones around the world, creating relationships and entrees that helped launch the Global Demonstration Projects ten years later. Later, Joe “stood as a global representative as he lived and worked with the ICA staff in Kawangware, Kenya and Maharashtra, India. Joe Slicker and Joe Mathews were pillars of the ICA’s work and supported each other to the be the best they could be.”

• Mary Warren Moffett shared, “Whatever the words, loyalty and commitment mean, those words describe this man who was a symbol of strength in whatever was asked of him. The Iron Man statue in 5th City, which still stands there, was about a community standing tall. Joe Slicker was one of the iron men who could always be counted on to stand tall and he did.”

• Jack Gilles recalls Joe Slicker with “his smile, his laugh and the ‘my, my, my’ embodied in his spirt and his passion for the mission.”