Bending History
Volume I (2005) and Volume II (2011)
These two volumes are selected talks of Joseph Wesley Mathews,
JWM Talks
John Wesley Dissertation, written by Joseph Mathews:
Dissertation Draft, including Table of Contents and Introduction; Chapter 1: The Human Constitution; Chapter 2: The Life of Love; Chapter 3: The Knowledge of Faith; Concluding Remarks
One story is that H. Richard Neibuhr rejected Joe’s dissertation;
and since Joe never rewrote it, he never received his PhD.
Joseph Mathews talks in order of presentation:
Joe Reflects on His Birthday – October, 1977
On Issues, Priors/Panchayat, September 22, 1977
On the Centrums, Priors/Panchayat, September 19, 1977
Joseph Meets with the Order, September 5, 1977
What God Hath Wrought, September 5, 1977 and Summary
Secular Religious Image, September 4, 1977
Christ in the Modern City (40 min.tape), August 1, 1977
Talk with the Centrums, August 1, 1977
Profound Awakenment, July 1977
Maneuvers, Global Priors Council, July 31, 1977
Priorities, July 24, 1977
What Hath Been Wrought? GRA, July 1977
The Barefoot Jesus, Global Priors Council, July 1977
The Human Development Training School, July 1977
Profound Awakenment, July 1977
New New Religious Mode, April 1, 1977
The Profound Function of Town Meeting
Three Campaigns: Global Maneuvers, April 1, 1977
Wedge Report: Our Status, Presence and Mission the World, December 1976
Wedge Report, Council, December 1976
Forging Social Philosophy, Guardians, October 17, 1976
Tao, October 13, 1976
Wedge Report, Chicago, October 3, 1976
The Coming Year: 1976-77, Council, July 28, 1976
Checkpoints, July 28, 1976
Priors Council Opening Address, July 26, 1976
The Future, GRA, July 18, 1976
24 Principles of Starting a Global Social Demonstration, June 10, 1976
Guardians, Collegium April 12, 1976
Social Demonstration: Toward Replication, April 11, 1976
Generalship, Global Council, March 9, 1976
Maliwada Consult: Methods Dynamics, January 1976
Six Speeches, January 26, 1976
The Xavier Principle, 1976
Advent Reflections – December, 1975
Kawangware Consult Spin (COnsult Methods), 1975?
Those Who Care, October 1, 1975
Hope, Sydney, August 23, 1975
On Being a Son of God, August 2, 1975
Considerations on the Coming Year, August 3, 1975
God Will Take Care of You, Council, August 1, 1975
Substance of Taking Care of Yourself, July 30, 1975
Experiencing Your Experience, July 29, 1975
The Future of the Order, Council, July 28, 1975
What is Town Meeting?, GRA, July 16, 1975
On Taking Care of Yourself, GRA Chicago, July 16, 1975
Meditation as Taking Care of Yourself, July 3, 1975
Serving Role of Intra-Global Movement, June 30, 1975
Social Demonstratn to Primal Communitay, June 12, 1975
Global Panchayat Trek, June 12, 1975
Hope, Paravocation, 8th Guardians Consult, April 13, 1975
Opening Address: Town Meeting, 8th Guardians, April 11, 1975
The Heavenly Vision, Prior’s Council, March 10 1975
Corporate Decision Making, 1975
Corporate Mission
Holy Year 1975, Research Centrum, February 18, 1975
Reflections on Meditation, 1975
The Adventure of Prayer, Council, Dec 9, 1974
Hope, 7th Guardian Consult, October 13, 1974
Hope, Guardians, October 12, 1974
Profound Love as Primal Community, 7th Guardians, Oct 11, 1974
Social Demonstration and Pressure Points, Council, Aug 26, 1974
The Long March, Closing Plenary, July 27, 1974
The Art My Beloved, July 14, 1974
Transparentizing Historical Religion, July 3, 1974
Profound Love for the World, June 30, 1974
Guild Context, June 26, 1974
Silence and Stillness, June 25, 1974
Elders Report: Economics, June 24, 1974
Profound Dimensions of Summer 1974, June 23, 1974
Elders Report: First Talk, June 20, 1974
Transpodane Christianity, March 10, 1974
Rite of Consecration (Yvonne/John Stringham), 1974
Reflection on Style, 1974
Problemlessness: the burdenless peace, Dec 12, 1973
Rational Joy, Strange Joy, December 12, 1973
Saints in This World, December 12, 1973
Joy Unspeakable, Full of Glory, Council, Dec 11, 1973
Human Motivity, India Businessmen, Winter Quarter 1973
Unspeakable Joy, Research, November 15, 1973
Human Motivity, India Visit, Winter Quarter, 1973
Parish Leadership Colloquy, Lecture 1, November 1973
Certitude: Experiencing the Other World, October 20, 1973
St. Teresa Interior Castle, October 14, 1973
The Religious Emerge, 5th Guardians, October 14, 1973
On This Side of Turn To the World, October 12, 1973
Serving Role of Those Who Care, Uptown, September 26, 1973
The Happening of Transparency, Order Council, 1973
On Caring for Oneself, Order Council, August 3, 1973
On Caring For Yourself, GRA, July 16, 1973
Two Faces of the Movement, Opening Plenary, July 1, 1973
The Happening of Transparency, Order Council, Summer 1973
Accomplishments of the Year, July 30, 1973
The Movement as the Revolutionary Religious, GRA, July 28, 1973
Sanctification and St. John, June 21, 1973
Song Purpose and Categories, June 19, 1973
Healing Today’s Paganism, June 22, 1973
Resurgence and the Religious, Guardians, April 15, 1973
Sophistication, March 21, 1973
Assignments, March 21, 1973
Cruciality of the Religious House, March 20, 1973
Local Autonomy, March 17, 1973
Revolutionary Strategy, March 1, 1973
Religionless Christianity, February 28, 1973
Surgery, Pain, Suffering, 1973
Man of LaMancha Commentary, December 30, 1972
A Call to Sociological Love, December 8, 1972
A Friend of God, Priors Council, December 4, 1972
Time of Sanctification, December 4, 1972
Local Church, November 13, 1972
Indicative Ethics, November 5, 1972
Notes on the Guild, October 1972
Historical Order, August 24, 1972
Grief and Endlessness, August 21, 1972
New Morality, August 20, 1972
On Endlessness, John Mathews Funeral, August 11, 1972
Struggle with Satan, August 4, 1972
Changing History: Knowing, Doing and Being of a Religious Order, August 4, 1972
The Turn Into the 20 Year March, Closing, Summer 1972
Posture of Historical Order, to North Shore Cadre, August 4, 1972
OW Visit Context and Method, 1972
OW Theological Reflections, August 3, 1972
Ethical Direction, August 1, 1972
The Global Historical Order, Council, July 31, 1972
OW: Mountain of Care, Summer 1972
The Struggle with the Devil, August 4, 1972
Other World Theological Reflections, August 3, 1972
Turn into the 20 Year March, Closing, July 29, 1972
20 Year March as Agape, 3rd Plenary, July 23, 1972
Practical Designs of the Movement, July 16, 1972
35 Years of Church Renewal, First Plenary, July 9, 1972
Other World Visits and Context, July. 4, 1972
Recovery of the Other World, July 3, 1972
Intro to the Other World, GRA, July 3, 1972
Fasting, GRA,1972
Opening Plenary Address, Summer 1972, July 2, 1972
Other World Lectures, June 20, 1972
Church Renewal, New York City, May 12, 1972 and here
Guardians of the Movement, May 6, 1972
Discipline, April 28, 1972
Global Movement Report, March 30, 1972
On Symbolic Accountabiity, March 23, 1972
Consensus Method, 1971
Convoy Course Lecture #1, December 12, 1971
Movement Tactics for the Next Twenty Years, December 11 1971
Male/Female Ontology, December 7, 1971
Evangelism to the World, Convoy Course, Nov 16, 1971
Ontology – NSV Course, October 3, 1971
Myth Workshop Introduction, October , 1971
Comprehensive Implications for Summer 1971, Fall 1971
The Fall Mission, August 30, 1971
On Choosing Songs, Priors Council, August 27, 1971
The Other Way: Responsible to God for World, August 27, 1971
The Life Phases, August 20, 1971
Youth Council Address, August 16, 1971
Transparent Being, August 2, 1971
Concluding Plenary Address, July 31, 1971
Plenary Address, July 27, 1971
Plenary Address, GRA, July 18, 1971
First Plenary, GRA, July 11, 1971
Little Big Man Conversations, July 8, 1971
The Cultural Triangles, Summer 1971
Opening Convocation, Summer 1971, July 4, 1971
Social Process: Cultural Triangles, June 27, 1971
Social Theoretics: 0 Level Dynamics, PSU, June 20, 1971
Social Theoretics, Summer 71 Planning, June 17, 1971
Little Big Man, Academy, June 6, 1971
Transparent Style of the Pedagogue Spring 1971
Psalm Methodology, May 26, 1971
Reflections on the NRM and NSV, May 26,1971
Order Polity: The Ecclesiola – An Experiment, April 16, 1971
Order Training and Journey of the Spirit, March 28, 1971
Report from SEAPAC, March 13, 1971
NSV/Permeatiopn Context, December 21, 1970
Resurrectional Man, December 13, 1970
Ordination of Don Steinle, Sermon, Nov, 1970
Corporateness, October 1, 1970
Service, September 30, 1970
Overseas Strategies, September 27, 1970
Prayer, Summer 1970
Poverty, July 15, 1970 and from Bending History
Solitary Offices, July 8, 1970
Role of the Auxiliary, Research Assembly, Summer 1970
Spirit Movement, Summer 1970
4 Principles Local Church Strategy, GRA, June 30, 1970
On Becoming an Historical Order, April 16, 1970
Prayer, Order Council Plenary, March 8, 1970
Transparent Being, 1970
Spirit Context for Local Congregation, March 1970
Permeation Address, January 2, 1970
Obedience Discourse of the NRM, 1970
Meditation, 1970
Reflections on Divorce, 1970
Role of Order in History, 1970
Southeast Asian Trip, 1969
NSV: Basic Principles, Council, Dec 28, 1969
The Church Year and Christmastide, Dec 14, 1969
Report on the Region, PSU, Dec 1, 1969
Absolution for the Church, October 21, 1969
Thanatos and Eros – Life and Death Urge, Sept 29, 1969
Necessity of Style
Dynamics of the Social Revolution, June 23, 1969
NRM: The Journeys and The Corporates, June 23, 1969
New Secular Religious Mode Commentary, Council, March 1969
The Order and the Word, Collegium, March 12, 1969
Charting, November 29, 1968
Fifth City/EI Before the US Senate: Subcommittee on Government Research, April 17, 1968
Essay on Style, 1968
Local Churches Must Offer Their Lives, Great Plains Observer, October 1967
Fifth City Model, Fall 1966
Church Renewal, March 1, 1966
Common Worship in the Life of the Church, 1965
Just What Do You Do at the Ecumenical Institute
The Time My Father Died, 1963
Resignations from the CFLC, April 13, 1962
Art and Conversation, 1962
Christ of History, 1960
God and Time (The Church Year), ca 1954
How My Theology has Changed, Dec 19, 1946