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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...

MENUMENUInstitute FoundationsFoundersCFLCEIO: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 concerns. From the past few...

MENUMENUInstitute FoundationsFoundersCFLCEIO: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 Uptown community became a test...

MENUMENUInstitute FoundationsFoundersCFLCEIO: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 decided at this time that...

MENUMENUInstitute FoundationsFoundersCFLCEIO: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 society: that is, the “human...

MENUMENUInstitute FoundationsFoundersCFLCEIO: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 conduct programs in communities around...

MENUMENUInstitute FoundationsFoundersCFLCEIO: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 “awaken every human being across...

MENUMENUInstitute FoundationsFoundersCFLCEIO: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 record. In another sense, the...