'At 68...She Joined The Peace Corps': What Made Lillian Carter A Humanit...

'At 68...She Joined The Peace Corps': What Made Lillian Carter A Humanitarian


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'Miss Lillian,' a new documentary on the life of Lillian Carter, mother of former President Jimmy Carter, looks at how she passed her humanitarian values onto her children. Longtime ABC WH correspondent Sam Donaldson joins Morning Joe to discuss. »

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'At 68...She Joined The Peace Corps': What Made Lillian Carter A Humanitarian

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now to a new documentary about the

pioneering life of former president

jimmy carter's mother it's entitled miss

lillian here's a clip

after jimmy

had got my nomination for president

all three television networks had their

mobile units outside the train depot

here in plains that was campaign

headquarters

well she was a favorite of a news media

every morning on my way into

headquarters

i would stop by each trailer and have a

cup of coffee

let's say she knocked in my door first

knock on the door oh mr lynn come in oh

well i just thought i'd stop by and say

hello bye would you like some coffee

yeah yes i would i'd like a cup would

you like a little pick up in your coffee

don't mind if i do we take her bourbon

down for a little bit splash in the

coffee and sit and talk i go to the abc

trailer

have a cup of coffee a little pick me up

and she'd say goodbye and she'd go over

the cbs trailer

we'd see her knock on the door

15 minutes or so she'd come out she'd go

to the nbc trailer knock on the door i

think when she left the last trailer she

probably was in good shape a little pick

up every place by the time i got to

headquarters i was one happy gal

everyone needs to pick up in the morning

we appreciated that oh

fantastic joining us now the veteran

reporter and news anchor that you saw in

that clip sam donaldson he is featured

in the documentary having interviewed

lillian carter numerous times during his

long television career i love her i mean

you just can't stop watching her she is

such a character tell us about miss

lillian

well let's say mika i loved her i liked

her son jimmy but without going to that

administration

um it was the mother that really

captured our hearts in the press corps

and i'll tell you she was a liberal she

voted for john kennedy she taught her

children one thing about black people

and that is they were just as good as

white people and they deserve respect

and consideration so when her son became

governor in his inaugural regress and

said to the people of georgia the time

for racial discrimination has ended and

the clan marched around the capitol that

was lillian talking and making one more

thing that really stood out she was

blunt she was plain spoken she said what

she thought

she had you know four children uh ruth

was a faith healer christian faith

healer and billy who ran a gas station

drank a lot of beer

and gloria rode a motorcycle he was a

member of the harley club and miss leon

told everyone that gloria was the

smartest of her four children

and

the fourth one was the president of the

united states but

so what mom

what to me chop liver

you know

also looking at her life sam she trained

as a nurse she worked in a hospital

during the day and again to point to

what the point you just made

about race uh she cared for

african-american families in their homes

i mean she she was ahead of her time

at 68 years of age she joined the peace

corps she went to india for a year she

really cared about people and she taught

her children to care about people when

jimmy carter and his administration said

human rights are on the table with every

country we talked to he was talking miss

lillian said that's exactly right son i

mean she had taught him that

and one more story i'd like to tell you

about her spokenness

that uh

the press secretary told and i wasn't

there that was a woman reporter came in

they didn't like the woman very much she

was a good reporter but

finally gave her an interview with miss

lillian

and the woman sat down and said now miss

lillian your son the governor this is

1976 is going around the country saying

i'll never lie to you

did he ever tell the lie in his life

well miss lillian said according to jody

powell the press secretary uh no i don't

think he did really well maybe a little

white lie ah said the woman

what's the white lie mr lynn

well miss lillian said remember when you

came in i said how nice you looked and

how glad i was to see you

i mean lordy lordy

oh

bless your heart is what she was saying

uh elise jordan you have the next

question that's hysterical sam elise

jordan here i love you that you were

showcasing hello

such a strong southern woman who

obviously had great influence on her son

and i find her story fascinating because

it's one thing for president carter to

have held evolved views on race and

human rights given the decades he lived

in but miss lillian was born in the turn

of the century deep south georgia what

can you tell us about how her upbringing

and background influenced her beliefs

very little i i was on another

assignment in 1898 when she was born but

in just looking at her biography and all

of that

in a small town of archery new georgia

what caused her

to be a person who understood human

rights and the civil rights of everybody

in this country

i'm just not confident to tell you all i

know is that she did and i know she

infused her children with the same view

and jimmy carter would say the same

thing if he were here today god bless

him he's 98 he's doing well

but she was the force in the life her

husband and jimmy's father

was a man of the south i'm not saying

he's a racist i'm not saying that at all

i'm simply saying that he was a

southerner and he didn't have the same

view as his wife

did about all of this but clearly she

ran the family at least from the

standpoint of making the children

hey sam it's richard haas good morning

long time no talk

uh a long time

when uh

here we are we're talking about russia

invading a country well that happened in

1979 with afghanistan we're talking

about inflation being really high we're

talking about a president who doesn't

seem to be bonding with the american

people

you covered the carter presidency you're

you're watching the biden presidency are

you struck by the similarities or the

differences more

what's your take on it

well more the differences i think both

people both men are decent men

both men you don't come to the

presidency as you know richard as well

as anyone saying i'm going to destroy it

well you don't do it consciously at

least i may know of one exception but

the point is

biden's the man of the senate he thought

conciliation let's work together that's

the way we used to do it they discovered

this first year no that's not the way

the republicans are going to do it

if you come to a knife fight richard in

the alley you better bring a bigger

knife

not

here's some saab for the wounds

in the case of

other presidents

they've learned this nixon knew how to

do it

and george herbert walker bush also knew

about washington and you got to know

something about washington i think one

of jimmy carter's problems was he

thought he could just do it because he's

president he meant well well that's not

that's not the way it works and today

richard i want to ask you the question

what's happening

in the donbass what's happening in the

so-called non-invasion which in fact

obviously is an invasion and how do we

react

nika do i have the right to answer that

you go right ahead what are we looking

ahead to today especially coming from

the white house

it's just very hard salmon to think that

it stabilizes there given what mr putin

has said publicly and his vision so we

say for ukraine's reintegration

it's very hard for me to see whether

there's diplomacy or not how this is the

end of it it seems to me it marches

forward and i can see a lot of

possibilities for getting uh things

deteriorating the white house is going

to introduce new new economic sanctions

but i i just don't think they're going

to be strong enough to fundamentally

alter mr putin's mr putin's calculus so

i think this is uh this could be a long

siege

and we better start thinking about how

we sustain it over time

all right richard thank you and

yeah uh sam donaldson will be watching

this play out we'll also be watching

miss lillian uh you can find miss

lillian available to buy or rent now on

apple tv

google play and amazon prime

and

sam donaldson thank you so much for

sharing this with us

thanks mika daughter of the greatest big

i liked him oh

thank you i loved him and really miss

him right now more than ever that's for

sure sam donaldson great to see you

thank you so much

hey thanks so much for watching our

youtube channel you can follow up on

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Excerpt: 'A Remarkable Mother' : NPR

Excerpt: 'A Remarkable Mother' : NPR



Excerpt: 'A Remarkable Mother'
May 1, 200812:16 PM ET




Bessie Lillian Gordy was born in Chattahoochee County, Georgia, the fi fteenth day of August, 1898, and was one of the most extraordinary people I've ever known. She was the fourth of nine children, two of them adopted "double first cousins," and was described in news reports as "third cousin of U.S. Senators Jesse Helms and Sam Nunn, fourth cousin of Elvis Presley, and mother of President Jimmy Carter." We children thought this diverse heritage partially explained her interest in politics and showmanship, but not some of her other idiosyncrasies.

My mother's great-grandfather Wilson Gordy was the fi rst of his family to be born in Georgia, in 1801. He was descended from Peter Gordy, who was born in Somerset County, Maryland, in 1710. We've never attempted to trace the genealogy further, but some of the older kinfolks always said that the Gordys came from France. Wilson moved to West Georgia near the Chattahoochee River in the 1830s, soon after the Lower Creek Indians were forced westward and land was opened to white settlers. All of his possessions were in a large hogshead, with an axle through the center, which rolled down the narrow openings through virgin timber, drawn by his only horse. He soon became known as the best carpenter of what would be Chattahoochee County. Lillian's grandfather James Th omas Gordy was a wagon master during the Civil War and later county tax collector, and he married Harriet Emily Helms, whose parents came from North Carolina.

Lillian's father was James Jackson Gordy, named after an early hero of Revolutionary War days, and he was always known as Jim Jack. A federal government revenue offi cer in Southwest Georgia and later postmaster in Richland, he became one of the most astute political analysts in his changing communities. Mama's mother was Mary Ida Nicholson, daughter of Nathaniel Nunn Nicholson and granddaughter of Frances Nunn, whose family moved from the Carolinas to Georgia soon after the Revolutionary War.

My grandfather Jim Jack was thirteen years old when the "Northern oppressors" finally relinquished political and economic control of the state in 1876, and it was inevitable that there was still a legacy of North-South bitterness among the older relatives in the earliest political discussions I ever heard. Slavery was never mentioned — only the unwarranted violation of states' rights and the intrusion of the federal government in the private lives of citizens. I remember that my mother was the only one in her family who ever spoke up to defend Abraham Lincoln.

I recorded some of my mother's comments about her family:

"Well, first of all let me tell you about Mama. She seemed to be real quiet, but she never let Papa push her around. For instance, Papa was quite a dandy when he was young. He was engaged to another woman in Cusseta before he even met my mother, and the wedding was all planned. I never did know if it was a forced wedding or not, but when the time came he got on the train and disappeared, leaving his bride standing at the altar. He stayed away about three months, then came back and started courting Mama. When they were engaged, he was twenty-fi ve and she was just seventeen, but Mama was really feisty. She told him she wasn't going to even dress for the ceremony until she knew he was standing by and ready. She sat in a chair in the preacher's house, with her wedding dress on the bed, until Papa arrived at the church next door and the preacher came over and certifi ed that he was there. Only then did she get up, put on her wedding dress, and join him for the ceremony.

"Th e newlyweds moved to a little settlement called Brooklyn, just a crossroad with about a dozen families, where Papa had his fi rst job as schoolmaster. Mama always told us about the fi rst meal she cooked. Papa brought home some oysters, and she said the more she boiled them the tougher they got.

"Mama took care of the house and all of us children, with not much help from Papa. She had three children one right after another, and then Papa's brother either was shot or killed himself, and Mama took his two boys, my double fi rst cousins. Th ey were Catholics, and we made fun of them when they knelt down to pray or said their catechism. So Mama had fi ve babies at once, none old enough to go to bed without help. Th en she skipped three years and I came along, followed by three more — all of us two or three years apart."

My grandmother Ida was calm, a homebody, and seemed to be perfectly satisfi ed with her way of life. She would spend all day in the house and garden, fi rst preparing food for a big family, getting the children off to school, and cleaning the house. Th en she would put on her sunbonnet and work in the large garden, bringing a basket full of seasonal vegetables back into the house.

She always cooked a big dinner at noon, including pies, cakes, or fruit puff s for a constant supply of dessert. After the dishes were washed, she would clean the kitchen, wash and iron the family's clothes, and take care of the kids coming home from school, being sure that they did their chores and completed their homework assignments. Th en she had to prepare supper, including leftovers plus a few fresh-cooked items. She was up each morning at 4:30 and would light up the woodstove while Grandpa, if he was home and it was winter, would make a fi re in the fireplace.

On Sundays, everyone went to Sunday School and church, so Grandma had to prepare most of the large dinner in advance, maybe cooking the biscuits and fried chicken after the services were over. For one afternoon a week, she joined some of the other ladies of the community in a quilting bee, all of them sewing while they discussed aff airs of their families and the community. I can see now that hers was a complete life, not much diff erent from that of most Southern women of the time. She was proud and grateful to serve the other members of her family, who more or less took her for granted, just helping with the chores when she asked them.

My mother told me, "At times when we were raised there were real hard times, but we got by. I can remember when Mama could send me to the store to get twenty-fi ve cents' worth of steak and it would feed all nine of us."

My grandfather was as wide-roving and flamboyant as my grandmother was home-loving and quiet. He was born in 1863 near Columbus, Georgia, and taught school for several years in Brooklyn before moving ten more miles to the larger town of Richland. Jim Jack was a man's man. He was tall, slender, handsome, and always well groomed and neatly dressed. Even on workdays, he preferred to wear a bow tie — never a pre-tied one.

Jim Jack was totally committed to mastering the prevailing political situation, as his daughter, my mother, described proudly: "My father could tell you pretty close to what vote any man would get, not only in the county but even in the whole state. All my life when I was a girl, until I left home to be a nurse, I saw him do this. For local elections, he would write out his predictions of the outcomes and seal them in an envelope. The county clerk would put them in his safe, and then compare the results after votes were counted. But it was just interesting to me to see the lengths he would go to keep up with politics.

They would come in droves to see him."

Grandpa — of necessity — also demonstrated a remarkable understanding of national elections. During years that long preceded a civil service system in the U.S. government, he was nimble enough on his political feet to guess right in several presidential elections, shifting party allegiance to retain his appointment as postmaster in Richland. Earlier, when Warren Harding was elected in 1920, Grandpa went to make arrangements for the position in the small town of Rhine, the only rural Republican stronghold, where federal appointments were dispensed because of political support — or bribes. Th ey had already allotted the postmaster's position but promised Jim Jack the next appointment and gave him an interim job as chief revenue agent for our region. As a former schoolmaster, he kept meticulous records, and I still have one of his notebooks covering two months in 1922, showing that he destroyed thirty-six stills during that time.

Later, I heard my father say that this was one job for which Grandpa and his sons were especially qualifi ed, having done business with most of the moonshiners in the area. Grandpa would take a "sociable" drink on frequent occasions, but I never knew him to be tipsy enough to lose his composure or bring ridicule on himself. He had two sons, though, who had serious problems with whiskey.

Jim Jack's only unswerving political allegiance was to Tom Watson, who was a Democratic congressman in North Georgia but was disavowed by his party when he advocated equal economic treatment for black and white workers and small farmers. Watson joined the Populist Party and in 1896 was nominated as vice president on William Jennings Bryan's Populist ticket. He was elected by Georgians to the U.S. Senate after he changed his political philosophy almost completely and ran on a racist platform.

My grandfather considered his own greatest achievement to be suggesting the concept of rural delivery of mail to Tom Watson, who got the proposal passed into law. Among mementos we inherited from Grandpa were letters between him and Watson on this subject, as well as Watson's biography of Thomas Jeff erson, which, for some reason, was dedicated to the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.

A couple of times each year, my mother would get word that "Papa has gone again." Grandpa would pack a small suitcase, get a supply of fl our, meal, sugar, coff ee, side meat, some liquid refreshments — and a good supply of books — and tell his wife, "Ida, I'm going out to the farm for a while." She had learned that protests were fruitless, so she would tell him goodbye and expect to see him again in two or three weeks. They owned a small, remote farm in Webster County near Kinchafoonee Creek with a tenant shack on it, mostly woodland with not enough open land to farm. It was a haven for Grandpa, away from the hurly-burly of home life. When he would finally tire of the solitude or feel that his offi cial duties couldn't spare him longer, he would return home as though he had just been down at the drugstore, with no thought of apologies or explanations for his absence.

It was an accepted fact within our family that the Gordys couldn't get along with each other long enough to enjoy a full meal together. Sometimes on the way to Sunday dinner in Richland after church in Plains, Daddy and Mama would try to guess what would precipitate the main argument of the day. Although my father teased Mother about the Gordys' arguments, I don't remember his family ever having a Sunday meal together.

Grandpa Gordy was a restless man, always preferring to be somewhere else than with his own family or with boring companions. The only exception was my mother, whom he invited to serve as his assistant in the post offi ce until she moved from Richland to Plains. Jim Jack fi nally lost his government job in 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected, and had to become a dirt farmer, trying to support his family on a hardscrabble farm that he rented not too far from where we lived near Plains. I remember him, tall and slender, wearing overalls with a buttoned shirt and a bow tie, walking behind a muledrawn plow in a futile attempt to control Bermuda grass in a scraggly cotton fi eld.

Recently I found a small homemade diary book that Grandma Gordy kept from March 1932 until August 1936, during the depths of the Great Depression. The occasional entries concentrate on the status of her children, especially Tom, who was traveling all over the Pacifi c Ocean in the navy. During the time they were farming near Plains, one entry was extraordinarily personal: "Papa is somewhat peeved tonight about his mule, afraid he is sick. He said if the mule died I would have to look out for myself. I said I hope he dies then. He knew I did not mean that, but seems like I just can't say a word lately but what he takes it for the worst. Such is life." Th en she wrote, "I should not have written the above, but have no rubber on my pencil to spoil it out."

Later, she wrote, "Th e old mule died Friday. Th is is two mules to die since we've been here. We will get along some way. God will not forsake us." Another entry, in February 1935, describes a notable characteristic of her husband: "J.J. has gone to Richland. Seems it would make him sick to not be going all the time. He loves to be on the go."

My mother always remained very proud of her special relationship with Grandpa. She told me, "There was no doubt that I was Papa's favorite. Everyone in the family knew it. I guess one reason was that I didn't always accept what he said as the gospel truth, and would argue with some of his opinions. Looking back, I see that I was always careful not to go too far with it, and to back off if it looked like he was getting too aggravated. In a lot of cases, though, particularly when he and I were alone at the post offi ce, I think he liked for me to speak up so we could have something of a debate.

"I read more than anyone else in the family — except him, of course — and I tried to learn about things that interested him. Sometimes he would give me a book he had just read, and we both looked forward to a fi erce discussion about the subject. One thing I liked about working at the post offi ce was that both of us could fi nd time to read on the job. Another thing was that we probably knew more than anybody else about what was going on around Richland. Papa handled a lot of telegraph messages, and taught telegraphy to two of his sons. He had a way of absorbing the news, but always cautioned me about not repeating gossip we heard if it would hurt anyone. I loved Mama and Papa, but I have to admit that I was ready to leave home and go in nurses' training, and when I got to Plains I didn't go back very often."

I remember that after I graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, in 1946, I borrowed my daddy's automobile and drove the eighteen miles from Plains to Richland. I stopped by my grandparents' home and enjoyed some sweet milk and blackberry pie while telling Grandma about my new career. She then told me that Jim Jack was downtown in Richland, "probably at the drugstore." I walked there and, sure enough, found my grandfather with some other loafers assembled around one of the glass-topped tables, drinking Cokes and engaged in a heated discussion of some local issue. I stood behind him for a few minutes, until one of the men noticed my uniform and indicated my presence to Grandpa.

When he turned around, I could tell that he didn't recognize me, and I blurted out, "Grandpa, I'm Jimmy, Lillian's son." He shook my hand and said, "Boy, I'm real glad to see you again." Then he turned back and continued his conversation. I stood there a few minutes, then went back home and off to my first ship. That was the last time I saw him before he died a few months later.

Th e temperaments of the younger Gordys mirrored the stark differences in the characters of their parents. Th e girls had professional careers, married well, and raised fairly stable families, in some ways like their mother, but the boys were more like Grandpa — without his reading habits, interest in politics, or self-restraint regarding alcohol.

Copyright © 2008 by Jimmy Carter

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A Remarkable Mother


Jimmy Carter

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"A Remarkable Mother" is President Carter's loving, admiring, wry homage to Miss Lillian Carter, who championed the underdog always, even when her son was president. A registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother, Peace Corps volunteer, public speaker, and renowned raconteur, Miss Lillian ignored the mores and prejudices of the racially segregated South of the Great Depression years. She was an avid supporter of the Brooklyn Dodgers (because she happened to attend the first major league baseball game in which Jackie Robinson, from Cairo, Georgia, played), was a favored guest on television talk shows (usually able to "steal the microphone" from hosts such as Johnny Carson and Walter Cronkite), and an important role model for the nation. Jimmy Carter's mother emerges from this portrait as redoubtable, generous, and forward-looking. He ascribes to her the inspiration for his own life's work of commitment and faith.

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James Earl Carter, Junior, known as Jimmy, the thirty-ninth president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, creditably established energy-conservation measures, concluded the treaties of Panama Canal in 1978, negotiated the accords of Camp David between Egypt and Israel in 1979, and won the Nobel Prize of 2002 for peace.

Ronald Wilson Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, the incumbent, in the presidential election of 1980.

He served and received. Carter served two terms in the senate of Georgia and as the 76th governor from 1971 to 1975.

Carter created new Cabinet-level Department of education. A national policy included price decontrol and new technology. From 1977, people reduced foreign oil imports one-half to 1982. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the second round of strategic arms limitation talks (SALT). Carter sought to put a stronger emphasis on human rights in 1979. People saw his return of the zone as a major concession of influence in Latin America, and Carter came under heavy criticism.

Iranian students in 1979 took over the American embassy and held hostages, and an attempt to rescue them failed; several additional major crises, including serious fuel shortages and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, marked the final year of his tenure. Edward Moore Kennedy challenged significantly higher disapproval ratings of Carter for nomination of the Democratic Party before the election of 1980. Carter defeated Kennedy for the nomination lost the election to Ronald Wilson Reagan, a Republican.

Carter left office and with Rosalynn Smith Carter, his wife, afterward founded the nongovernmental center and organization that works to advance human rights. He traveled extensively to conduct, to observe elections, and to advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations. He, a key, also figured in the project of habitat for humanity. Carter particularly vocalized on the Palestinian conflict.

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I throughly enjoyed reading this book about Mrs. Lillian. What a fascinating woman she was. It amazes me how much energy and spunk she had in her later years. There is one part of the book that I will share with you that I felt was very amusing:

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Press Secretary Jody Powell shouted, "Let's stay close together, and don't any of you talk to the press." Mama stopped and said, "Jody, you can go to hell. I'll talk to whom I please." she was immediately surrounded by television and radio microphones, and the first question was, "Miss Lillian, aren't you proud of your son?" I leaned forward to hear her answer: "Which one?"

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After reading several of President Carter's books, I recognize a few of the stories mentioned between these pages, but he includes lots of 'new' stories as well. The devotion he had for his mother did not cloud his perspective and the author is honest while being discreet about some of the adventures of 'Miss Lillian.' I hope I am half the woman she was if I am fortunate enough to live a long life.

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Despite the Political realm of the Carter family Lillian Carter has been depicted as a whimsical, open-minded woman, who knows how to be herself in all kinds of situations and whose son, Jimmy Carter, greatly benefited from her presence during his presidency. It's the kind of American tale you rarely hear of and the kind that gives you hope as you remember the family that you have and came from....overall, I'd read this once a year at least, to recreate that spark of inspiration within.
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I have started driving on a regular basis (2 days per week) and I am behind on my reading goals, so I wanted an audiobook. This is the only one I had on my shelf and I was a little worried, because the last audiobook read by President Carter was about policy and was hard to listen to for any length of time because he cited numbers and such which are harder for me to follow in audio format. Luckily, Miss Lillian was a character and Jimmy Carter loved his Mama, so this made for a livelier experience.

I was very young in the Carter years and I only knew that Miss Lillian had a feisty reputation but very little of the details of her personality. I was so impressed by her work in the Peace Corps in her later years and her views on racial equality, women's rights, and general decency. This gave me a real sense of where Jimmy Carter got much of his outlook on life, including the lack of snobbery and political sophistication which gave him so much trouble once he got into office. Miss Lillian and Rosalyn were clearly very influential in shaping his approach as a grassroots campaigner and were effective in helping humanize him to the voters.

I was impressed by the friendships Miss Lillian made, even before Jimmy became President and some before he was governor of Georgia, including Johnny Carson and Muhammad Ali. She followed sports more avidly than politics and was a champion of integration in all aspects of life despite being from a rural town in southern Georgia where popular opinion would make it unlikely. Her career as a nurse was important to her and played a big role in her service in India, which gave her experience that made her valuable to the Carter Administration as a second-level personal ambassador. And she was never afraid to speak her mind, with a lot of the quotes in the book being good for a chuckle or even the occasional guffaw. I was glad to have the chance to get to know her through this book and I think the title is an accurate portrayal of who she was -- or a part of who she was, because she was remarkable in many ways.
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“I want to ask you a question,” the reporter said. “Your son ran for the presidency on the premise that he would always tell the truth. Has he ever lied?”

Mrs. Carter said, “I think he’s truthful. I think you can depend on his word.”

The reporter again asked if he had ever lied in his entire life.

His mother said, “Well, I guess maybe he’s told a little white lie.”

“Ah, see there!” the reporter exclaimed. “He’s lied! If he told a white lie, he has lied.”

The reporter was still not satisfied and asked her, “What is a white lie?”

And then Lillian Carter said, “It’s like a moment ago when you knocked on the door and I went to the door and said you looked nice and I was glad to see you.”

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알라딘: 동학과 서학 - 이해와 관점의 전위와 변신 이은선,최대광,김정숙,정경일,김응교,이찬수,이찬석,이정배

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동학과 서학 - 이해와 관점의 전위와 변신  | 동학연구총서 2
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2024년, 동학을 창도한 수운 최제우 탄신 200주년을 맞아 서학(기독교)인들이 동학과의 대화를 시도하는 공동 저술이다. 차이와 반목이 아닌 공동과 공통의 접점에 서서 그 사이-너머로의 새로운 도약을 시도한다.

제1부에서 동학의 독창적 차원과 역사적인 응전에 대한 유학과 서학 관점에서의 이해를 통해 신학(神學) 이후의 신학(信學)을 모색한다. 제2부에서 내재적 초월주의로서의 동학과 서학의 종교적 신비주의 전통을 비교-탐색한다.

제3부에서 내재적 신비주의가 오늘의 삶에서 전복적이고 사회 해방적인 실천과 수행의 원리가 되는 과정을 살핀다. 제4부에서는 동학과 서학의 만남을 “개벽 신학”이란 언어로 재구성하고 현재의 동학-기독교 이해를 넘어서는 새로운 ‘空-公-共’의 신학을 제시한다. 이처럼 동학과 서학의 대화를 통해 한편으로 동학을 재조명하고, 그 반대편에서 한국적 신학의 새 지평을 모색하며, 인류의 새 비전을 제시하면서, 지구 생명공동체의 희망찬 미래를 염원한다.

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Philo Kalia - John Boswell Cobb Jr

Philo Kalia - John Boswell Cobb Jr




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미국 Greensboro College Professor인 나의 제자 양희준 박사의 페북에서 과정 신학자 존 캅(John Boswell Cobb Jr)의 사망 소식을 처음 접했다. 슬프지 않을 수 없다. 2024년 12월 27일, 어제 귀천하셨다. 1925년 생이시니 100세를 사신 것이다.
나는 신학교 2년 그를 종로 5가 NCC회관 강의에서 처음 본 것 같다. 그는 독일의 위르겐 몰트만과 함께 한국을 자주 방문한 신학자로 기억한다. 그의 강연과 모습이 그렇게 인상적으로 남은 것은 거의 없다. 난 당시 신학자로선 폴 틸리히와 루돌프 불트만, 그리고 철학자 마르틴 하이데거를 읽고 있었다. 70년대 중후반 나의 관심은 ‘역사’와 ‘실존’이었지 ‘자연’과 ‘우주’는 아니었다.
그에 대한 나의 관심은 종교간의 대화에 관한 그의 사상이었다. 그는 일본 선교사였던 아버지로 인해 일본 고베에서 태어났고 15세까지 일본에서 자랐다. 과정신학과 불교는 궁합이 잘 맞는다는 인상을 받았다.
그는 일찍이 생태신학에 관심을 가졌다. 생태신학을 알게 된 것은 그를 통해서이다. Is it Too Late?_A Theology of Ecology를 1971년에 출간했으니, 경제개발과 성장에 총력을 쏟았던 당시 우리 한국 감각으로는 정말 너무 빠른 시기였다. 캅은 성장지향적 경제에도 비판적이다. For the Common Good의 공동저서가 대표적이다. 그는 생물학자 Charles Birch와 함께 『생명의 해방』이란 책도 냈다. 이 책은 우리말로 번역되었다.

 
그의 신학에서 받은 가장 인상적인 것은 그의 신관이다.
화이트헤드의 사상을 신학적으로 수용한 캅과 그리핀은 『과정신학』의 서문에서 지배자의 교회의 하느님 상과 다른 성서적 하느님 상을 5가지로 제시하면서 시작한다.
①하느님은 우주적 도덕가가 아니다(God as cosmic Moralist)
②하느님은 변화하지도 않고 열정도 갖지 않는 절대자가 아니다(God as the unchanging and passionless Absolute)
③하느님은 통제하는 힘을 발휘하시는 분이 아니다(God as controlling Power)
④하느님은 현상의 유지자가 아니다(God as sanctioner of Status Quo)
⑤하느님은 가부장적 남성이 아니다(God as Male)

양희준 박사는 개인적으로 만난 존 캅을 정말 자상하고 인자한 분으로 이렇게 기억한다.
“I remember John Cobb not only as my teachers' teacher at Claremont but also as a gentleman. When I visited Claremont Methodist Church for few weeks, nobody cared my presence or asked my name. One day, an old man was sitting behind me and said hello and asked my name for the first time. And I thought the gentleman looked so old to attend the church regularly but he was so serious. And he looked so familiar to me. And I shouted out to him: "Oh, you are John Cobb!" He was the one who invited me to his Bible study group at the church and asked about my new settled life at Claremont for the first time in Claremont...”
캅이 쓴 책의 목록을 봤다. 그는 2023년 그러니까 98세까지 책을 냈다. 경이로운 일이다. 그가 지은 책은 38권이며 편집한 책은 14권이다. 모두 놀라운 업적이다. 나는 과정신학, 생태신학 그리고 신학과 경제학의 대화에서, 무엇보다 종교간 대화의 신학에서 그에게 많은 것을 배웠다.

Bibliography:

1. Books written

• Varieties of Protestantism, 1960
• Living Options in Protestant Theology, 1962 (online edition)
• A Christian Natural Theology, 1965 (online edition)
• The Structure of Christian Existence, 1967 (online edition)
• God and the World, 1969
• Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology, 1971 (revised edition, 1995)
• Liberal Christianity at the Crossroads, 1973 (online edition)
• Christ in a Pluralistic Age, 1975
• with David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition, 1976, ISBN 0-664-24743-1
• Theology and Pastoral Care, 1977
• with Charles Birch, The Liberation of Life: from the Cell to the Community, 1981
• Process Theology as Political Theology, 1982 (online edition)
• Beyond Dialogue: Toward a Mutual Transformation of Christianity and Buddhism, 1982
• with David Tracy, Talking About God, 1983 (online edition)
• Praying for Jennifer, 1985
• with Joseph Hough, Christian Identity and Theological Education, 1985
• with Beardslee, Lull, Pregeant, Weeden, and Woodbridge, Biblical Preaching on the Death of Jesus, 1989
• with Herman Daly, For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, Environment, and a Sustainable Future, 1989 (revised edition, 1994) which won the 1992 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.[87]
• Doubting Thomas, 1990, ISBN 0-8245-1033-X (online edition)
• with Leonard Swidler, Paul Knitter, and Monika Helwig, Death or Dialogue, 1990
• Matters of Life and Death, 1991
• Can Christ Become Good News Again?, 1991
• Sustainability, 1992
• Becoming a Thinking Christian, 1993
• Lay Theology, 1994, ISBN 0-8272-2122-3
• Sustaining the Common Good, 1994, ISBN 0-8298-1010-2
• Grace and Responsibility, 1995
• Reclaiming the Church, 1997, ISBN 0-664-25720-8
• The Earthist Challenge to Economism: A Theological Critique of the World Bank, 1999, ISBN 0-312-21838-9
• Transforming Christianity and the World: A Way Beyond Absolutism and Relativism, 1999, ISBN 1-57075-271-0
• Postmodernism and Public Policy: Reframing Religion, Culture, Education, Sexuality, Class, Race, Politics, and the Economy, 2002, ISBN 0-7914-5166-6
• The Process Perspective: Frequently Asked Questions About Process Theology (edited by Jeanyne B. Slettom), 2003, ISBN 0-8272-2999-2
• Romans (with David J. Lull), 2005
• with Bruce Epperly and Paul Nancarrow, The Call of the Spirit: Process Spirituality in a Relational World, 2005
• A Christian Natural Theology, Second Edition, 2007
• Whitehead Word Book: A Glossary with Alphabetical Index to Technical Terms in Process and Reality, 2008 ISBN 978-0-9742459-6-6
• Spiritual Bankruptcy: A Prophetic Call to Action, 2010
• The Process Perspective II (edited by Jeanyne B. Slettom), 2011
• Theological Reminiscences, 2014
• Jesus' Abba – The God Who Has Not Failed, 2015
• China and Ecological Civilization: John B. Cobb, Jr. in conversation with Andre Vltchek, 2019, ISBN 978-6025095450
• Confessions, John B. Cobb, Jr. 2023

2.Books edited

• with James Robinson, The Later Heidegger and Theology, 1963
• with James Robinson, The New Hermeneutic, 1964
• with James Robinson, Theology as History, 1967
• The Theology of Altizer: Critique and Response, 1971
• with David Ray Griffin, Mind in Nature, 1977 (online edition)
• with Widick Schroeder, Process Philosophy and Social Thought, 1981
• with Franklin Gamwell, Existence and Actuality: Conversations with Charles Hartshorne, 1984 (online edition)
• Christian Faith and Religious Diversity: Mobilization for the Human Family, 2002, ISBN 0-8006-3483-7
• with Christopher Ives, The Emptying God: A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation, Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2005, ISBN 1-59752-421-2
• with Kevin Barrett and Sandra Lubarsky, 9/11 & American Empire: Christians, Jews, and Muslims Speak Out, 2006, ISBN 1-56656-660-6
• Resistance: The New Role of Progressive Christians. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-664-23287-0
• Back to Darwin, 2008
• Dialogue Comes of Age, 2010
• Religions in the Making: Whitehead and the Wisdom Traditions of the World, 2012
• with Ignacio Castuera, For Our Common Home: Process-Relational Responses to Laudato Si', 2015
• with Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Putting Philosophy to Work: Toward an Ecological Civilization, 2018

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