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Greetings From George Walters
RESURGENCE PUBLISHING CORP.
Greeting to those gathered for the We at Resurgence Publishing Corp. convey our warmest greetings to you as you gather to ponder the past of future legacy of the ICA-USA. As a publishing company we were founded to focus on putting into society original thinking and works from Dr. Joseph Wesley Mathews whose personal archives are rich with the thinking that led to the berth and formation of the Order:Ecumenical. As many of you know, under Joe’s leadership, the Order provided staff and shaped the direction of the Ecumenical Institute and the founding of the Institute of Cultural Affairs. Our two publications, “Bending History” edited by Dr. John Epps, and “Brother Joe”, written by Bishop James K. Mathews, have fulfilled our first focus. Our secondary focus has been to support the effort to find an established academic institution to provide a permanent home and care for those archives and make them available to the world for continuing research by those seeking to care for the church and the world as Joe admonished all who would listen to do. Since Joe’s death in 1977, as many of you know, Evelyn Mathews Edwards, Joe’s wife who passed away in 2002, Betty Pesek, the continuing guardian of the archives, and many others have organized, catalogued and cared for the archives for the past 30 years, making copies of materials available upon request. Many approaches to various institutions have been made during that time without success. The economy of God’s time, Joe’s profound roots in Methodism and the great respect many in United Methodist Church circles continue to hold for him have led to an opportunity for his archives to be located at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC as part of its charter for a greater urban and globally focused mission of service to the world. A meeting June 6, 2007 with principals at the seminary including Dean Bruce C. Birch and D. William Fauple the Director of the Library with Joseph Wesley Mathews Jr., to discuss this opportunity has led to a “decision in principle” to proceed pending a visit to Chicago by the Director of the Library scheduled November 15th, 2007. Joseph Wesley Mathews Jr. and James J. Mathews, Joe and Lyn’s two surviving sons, and Betty Pesek, will join with Dr. Fauple and be hosted by the ICA-USA for that visit. Further, the Ecumenical Institute and Institute of Cultural Affairs Board of Directors have issued a resolution to jointly support the effort to care for the archives and their relocation. We wish you well in your gathering to explore understand and make useful the legacy that is given us from the foundations of creation and that emanate through the oral traditions and the paper and ink we wisely preserve. As Secretary with the authority vested in me by the Officers and Board I symbolically seal with my signature this greeting on behalf of the officers, editors, sponsors, and advisers of Resurgence Publishing Corporation Grace and Peace be to you all M. George Walters The Resurgence Publishing Team The Officers: The Editorial Team: The Advisory Board:
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