Tag: Our Many Selves

Dethroning The Power Within

.Reading time 6 minutes.

“The real establishment that needed to be overthrown was not the Welfare Department or the complacent affluent or the slum landlords, but the establishment in each of us that had its own dole system, that did not want to be denied its little comforts and had condemned the real self to a dim and dingy […]

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My Name Is Legion

.Reading time 5 minutes.

“They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.  And when he had stepped out of th boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him.  He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him anymore, even with a chain; for he […]

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Our Many Selves

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Our Many Selves is the title of Elizabeth O’Connor’s 1971 publication.  A member of The Church of the Savior in Washington, D.C., she originally wrote it for the missions groups that staffed the Potter’s House, a coffee house belonging to The Church of the Savior.  Inspired by the words, “radically committed minority,” found in Erich Fromm’s […]

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