| the family is asking..... And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Galatians 6:9 Rambling is back from a vacation what was vacated? the writings...pressure of work...this is the peak time in my industry ..but it is JULY the beginning of the NEW YEAR for some of us.... David, Dale Lennon and yours truly.... anyway here's a little something to start the ball rolling ___________________________
___________________________ Current predictions about the future of the world run from the utopian to the cataclysmic. Is the world headed for a bright or dismal future, or both?? Will humanity overcome its legacy of centuries of conflict and short-sighted exploitation and build a unified society of peace and harmony? Or will the earth descend into chaos and become an environmental wasteland? MORE HERE___________________________ Uncle Lincoln is "holding the fort" in TEXAS....says cousin Pauline he "is just fine and quite the social butterfly in the nursing home. His eyes and his chatter tell us that he loves our long visits." Texas is hot, but very enjoyable and exciting ....always something to do with all the family around. Our cousin "Danny is doing his jewelry business in Jamaica and working on a juice bar at the airport in Kingston......sounds exciting but it's a rough time all around." Cousin Valerie's last boy,Omar just graduated from UT,Austin. CONGRATS FROM THE FAMILY...we must keep him in our prayers Our Cousin. Talia is due on July 20th, God willing. Pray for us all, as we continue to pray for you. In Jesus' name. excerpted from a note from Cousin Joy our TEXAS Correspondent ___________________________ who is Doug Coe? The Family was founded in April 1935 by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant who made his living as a traveling preacher. One night, while lying in bed fretting about socialists, Wobblies, and a Swedish Communist who, he was sure, planned to bring Seattle under the control of Moscow, Vereide received a visitation: a voice, and a light in the dark, bright and blinding. The next day he met a friend, a wealthy businessman and former major, and the two men agreed upon a spiritual plan. They enlisted nineteen business executives in a weekly breakfast meeting and together they prayed, convinced that Jesus alone could redeem Seattle and crush the radical unions. They wanted to give Jesus a vessel, and so they asked God to raise up a leader. One of their number, a city councilman named Arthur Langlie, stood and said, "I am ready to let God use me." Langlie was made first mayor and later governor, backed in both campaigns by money and muscle from his prayer-breakfast friends, whose number had rapidly multiplied. MORE HERE___________________________ In 1932, James A. Farrell, president of US Steel, tried to persuade then Governor Franklin Roosevelt that economic depression was "caused by disobedience to divine law," and that the only cure was a mix of spiritual revival and unprecedented powers for corporate leaders. In 1936, Frank Buchman, the founder of the Moral Re-Armament movement—a network of upper crust Christian clubs—announced, "Human problems aren't economic. They're moral, and they can't be solved by immoral measures." He suggested instead "God-controlled democracy, or perhaps I should say a theocracy." Bruce Barton, a founder of advertising giant BBDO and the author of one of the 20th century's bestsellers, The Man Nobody Knows (it was Jesus, whom Barton proposed as the greatest CEO in history), won a seat in Congress in 1938 by proposing to a nation battered by unfettered capitalism that it "Repeal a Law a Day." The most influential of these businessmen for God was a Norwegian immigrant named Abraham Vereide, founder of an annual ritual of piety and politics that survives to this day, the National Prayer Breakfast. In 1935, Vereide created a "fellowship" of Christian businessmen bound together by the idea that God hates government regulation because it interferes with a believer's ability to choose right or wrong. He found receptive audiences in private meetings with Henry Ford and the president of Chevrolet, Thomas Watson of IBM and representatives from J.C. Penney. By 1942, he'd moved to the capital, where the National Association of Manufacturers staked him to a meeting of congressmen who would become students of his spiritual politics, among them Virginia senator Absalom Willis Robertson—Pat Robertson's father. Vereide returned the manufacturers' favor by telling his new congressional followers that God wanted them to break the spine of organized labor. They did. Vereide died in 1969, but his organization—known in his day as International Christian Leadership, in ours as the Fellowship Foundation or the Family—still prospers. In a recent survey of 360 evangelical leaders—not preachers but politicians and businesspeople—Rice University sociologist D. Michael Lindsay found that a plurality named the Fellowship one of the most influential religious groups in Washington. "There is no other organization like the Fellowship, especially among religious groups, in terms of its access or clout among the country's leadership," wrote Lindsay. "The most powerful group in Washington that nobody knows," as David Kuo, a special assistant to Bush in his first term, put it, praising the publicity-shy network of piety-brokers. The Fellowship's core creed is Christian fundamentalism filtered through the free market. In lieu of regulation, the Fellowship preaches reconciliation, a process they put into practice by bringing politicians and business leaders together to declare to one another their earnest desires to do right by God, and each other. "Self-interest by proxy" is how Will Wilkinson of the conservative Cato Institute describes the Fellowship's brand of biblical capitalism. "We are entering the age of minority control," Vereide predicted back in 1942, prophesying the corporate consolidation that would come to be known as globalization. He welcomed it. "It is to a righteous 'remnant'"—leaders whose economic success indicated God's anointing—"that God has entrusted the salvation of nations in all ages of history." That perspective allows the Fellowship's biblical capitalism a certain flexibility. As Doug Coe, Vereide's successor, puts it, "We work with power where we can, build new power where we can't." more |
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