Witherspoon Slickers

Remember the film City Slickers? It was filmed in part in Abiquiu, New Mexico on the site of Ghost Ranch, a Presbyterian Church (USA) conference center.

Here are some nice pics and some nice paintings by Georgia O'Keefe of Ghost Ranch.

At least 17 films were filmed at Ghost Ranch. How many can you name?

Jack Palance won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as Curly. Curly told the slickers that they needed to find "one thing." What is that "one thing?"


The Witherspoon Society has found one thing. Well, actually three things, but it could be one thing in three persons.



1) Peace
2) Global Justice
3) Creation

A nice trinity, eh? Here is the info:

A WEEK FOR PEACE, GLOBAL JUSTICE AND CREATION

July 30 - August 5, 2007
Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico

This summer the Witherspoon Society is joining with the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, Presbyterians for Restoring Creation and the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, along with Ghost Ranch, to provide Presbyterians with a rich selection of leaders and topics centering on just what the title says: peace, global justice, and the creation. The groups collaborating for this week together share concern for how we among the privileged can live as Jesus taught while much of the world suffers extreme poverty, disease, homelessness, violence and exploitation of God’s good earth. (Read More)

Then get on your pony and head up to Louisville and visit your neighbors:

BECOMING NEIGHBORS:
An Invitation to Global Discipleship

A Witherspoon conference
on global mission and justice

September 16 - 19, 2007
Louisville, Kentucky

Globalization, America’s new imperialism, terrorism, a widening rich-poor gap, immigration, health care, and so much more going on. Is this how we thought the 21st century would begin?

How are we to understand our calling as Christians in this challenging new world? And more than understanding our calling, how are we to live it out?

We will look at the world and our mission through three different lenses:

• "Covenanting for Justice in the Economy and the Earth," a project initiated by the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, in their Assembly in Accra, Ghana, in 2004, provides us with a truly global perspective on the changes going on in these early years of the 21st century.

• "A New Social Creed," which is being drafted by the Presbyterian Church (USA) along with other members of the National Council of Churches to commemorate a "Social Creed of the Churches" that was adopted in 1908, will lead us into rethinking our social mission today.

• Specific campaigns for justice will provide us with concrete examples to consider the ways that mission and justice can be combined in very powerful and effective ways.

Good stuff this summer and Fall!