Category: Chronological History

Summer 1976 Third Summer Research Program   [Summer ’67] was the 3rd summer program for college and university students, lay clergy groups, and teachers (Doris Hahn, March 2014).   Imaginal Education Six weeks of movement training was conducted and a basic curriculum was created. The...

July 1966 The second summer Research Program The six week program included RS-I and Imaginal Education Pedagogy and creation of the 5th City Preschool curriculum. Participants were primarily college students, teachers, and church leaders. A teachers’ group met during the summer and a Teacher Training...

Between 1965 and 1969/70 the three basic tasks of the Ecumenical Institute were Contextual Re-education, Community Re-formulation, and Spirit Re-motivation (Dolores Morrill, 1979. “The History of the Global Morement’s Assemble-ing,” New York Region). (See » page 101.) The Summer Programs—whether training or research—were times when...

5th City Grid The 5th City grid was created in 1964. These two versions of the grid appeared in the summer 1967 and fall 1981 issues of Image, respectively.* The grid determined boundaries within which work could be done effectively. Sixteen square blocks, with 5,000...

In early 1963, this group began looking for a suitable place in the City of Chicago to live and experiment with a local community development project. They found that the Church of the Brethren was moving out of their seminary on the west all their...

Austin to Evanston.  Joseph Wesley Mathews ( JWM) was a graduate of Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and, from 1952–1956, a professor of Sociology of Religion at Perkins. In 1956 he and his wife Lyn, joined the Christian Faith...

Austin. In January, the last RS-I was taught in Texas before the move to Chicago. Chicago Tribune (1961, February 5) Scholar Plans Address for Church Group. Part 8, p.1. [Dr. Theodore Wedel, former canon at the Washington Episcopal Cathedral and a resident scholar at the...

Austin. The three master strategies developed at the CFLC during 1958–1962 became the three key tasks of the Order Ecumenical and the Ecumenical Institute. 1. Contextual Reeducation Methods and programs that allow each individual to respond creatively to the complex demands of living in the...

Austin. Research done on the concept of mission in the local church within the Christian Faith and Life Community. The phrase “The Church is Mission” was coined and the CFLC work began to focus outside the community. The Parish Ministers’ Colloquy (PMC) was created and...

Austin. At the CFLC research and development was done on the practice of discipline and how to create comprehensive operating structures for an intentional community. Continuing theology courses for clergy and RS-1 for lay church members, were taught across Texas. The community began to turn...