Joseph Mathews
A glimpse of Joseph Wesley Mathews - the founding leader of the Institutes and Order: Ecumenical: His dissertation on John Wesley: One story is that H. Richard Neibuhr rejected the dissertation; and it was never rewritten: Chapter 1: The Human Constitution; Chapter 2: The Life...
Institutes Foundations
Town Meeting Intensified
The Town Meeting Campaign began with a goal of having one Town Meeting in every county of the United States. However, some states intensified that goal, such as Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas. In Chicago, Illinois Kitty Cole and Georgiana McBurney led the "Standing Tall in...
The Mission Continues…
MENUMENUInstitute Foundations CollectionFoundersChristian Faith and Life CommunityEIO:E Religious HousesOrder Polity ICA Early HistoryAreas and RegionsICA Current EventsGlobal CenterUptownThe Mission Continues… ICAI ICA GreenRise. In recent decades, the Kemper Building, the home of the ICA, has itself been a beacon of sorts of modern issues and...
Uptown
MENUMENUInstitute Foundations CollectionFoundersChristian Faith and Life CommunityEIO:E Religious HousesOrder Polity ICA Early HistoryAreas and RegionsICA Current EventsGlobal CenterUptownThe Mission Continues… ICAI The ICA began is community development in the 5th City pilot in East Garfield Park in 1964. After moving to Uptown in 1972, the...
Global Center
MENUMENUInstitute Foundations CollectionFoundersChristian Faith and Life CommunityEIO:E Religious HousesOrder Polity ICA Early HistoryAreas and RegionsICA Current EventsGlobal CenterUptownThe Mission Continues… ICAI These developments were well in line with a major shift in emphasis for the ICA, the Ecumenical Institute, and the Order: Ecumenical. It was...
Early History
MENUMENUInstitute Foundations CollectionFoundersChristian Faith and Life CommunityEIO:E Religious HousesOrder Polity ICA Early HistoryAreas and RegionsICA Current EventsGlobal CenterUptownThe Mission Continues… ICAI If the Ecumenical Institute constituted the spirit movement of revitalizing the church, the Institute of Cultural Affairs represents the engagement of the broader, secular...
Religious Houses
MENUMENUInstitute Foundations CollectionFoundersChristian Faith and Life CommunityEIO:E Religious HousesOrder Polity ICA Early HistoryAreas and RegionsICA Current EventsGlobal CenterUptownThe Mission Continues… ICAI Religious Houses played an important role in this experiment, as it sent out teams of priors, acting as the House leadership, to live and...
Order Polity
MENUMENUInstitute Foundations CollectionFoundersChristian Faith and Life CommunityEIO:E Religious HousesOrder Polity ICA Early HistoryAreas and RegionsICA Current EventsGlobal CenterUptownThe Mission Continues… ICAI Since its founding in 1968 and incorporation in 1973, the Order was driven by a mission of building “Primal Community” in an effort to...
What is the O:E?
MENUMENUInstitute Foundations CollectionFoundersChristian Faith and Life CommunityEIO:E Religious HousesOrder Polity ICA Early HistoryAreas and RegionsICA Current EventsGlobal CenterUptownThe Mission Continues… ICAI A bridge between the Church and the world. That was the founding purpose of the Order: Ecumenical, according to some of its documents of...
Spirit Conversations
MENUMENUInner Life CollectionParadigm The Approach Other WorldHumanness Intro to PH 12 TalksProfound Humaness TalksThe Courage to LeadSpirit ConversationsApplications Rituals WorshipSongs & DecorCommunity New Religious Mode ReligiousNRM TalksMethods & Exercises Journey Spirit Conversations “What goes on in a Spirit Conversation is a metamorphosis… by creating...