By Mary Fairchild Reichstag Building. LINK TO FERGEN FAMILY PHOTOS HERE The term Reichstag dates back to the Holy Roman Empire. The building was built for the Diet of the German Empire, which was succeeded by the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. The latter would become the Reichstag of Nazi Germany, which left the building (and ceased to act as a parliament) after…
Human Potential Movement and Willow Creek
By Mary Fairchild Updated 7/10/22. See the latest Willow Creek Report: Summer Notes: Dave Dummitt Picks Up Bill Hybels’ Mantle at Willow Creek Community Church to Promote Peter Drucker’s “Next Society” There is abundant evidence that in many forms of modern thought – especially the so-called “prosperity” psychology, “willpower-building” metaphysics, and systems of “high-pressure” salesmanship –…
If I Could Turn Back Time: ESCONI Rock Club
By Mary Fairchild “The Mazon Creek flora is renowned for being almost completely collected by amateurs. Since 1858, in an area covering approximately 100 square miles, untold numbers of collectors have gathered fossils in quantities unprecedented in North America.” Jack Wittry In the mid-1990s when our family first became interested in collecting fossils our electric bill…
Settlers of Cupheag: Fairchild Genealogy
Mac’s Harbor, Stratford, CT. Pictures at Mfairlady Flickr “Early Stratford and Fairfield society seems to have been more free than Puritan communities elsewhere.” “The earliest shelters of the settlers at Cupheag (Stratford) were “cellars” dug into the banks at Stratford (Mac’s) Harbor, or “English wigwams,” a cross between the Indian wigwam made of thatch, bark…
Bill Hybels’ Willow Creek: The Volunteer Revolution
By Mary Fairchild Vision Night 2003, Bill Hybels said, “Our values are our rock solid convictions—who we are at Willow. We are going to try to understand the culture.” On “Vision Night 2005,” after Gene Appel read from Acts, “As the apostle Peter preached… and 3,000 people were added to their number…,” Bill Hybels pointed out…
Fuller Graduate Rob Bell at Willow Creek
By Mary Fairchild Rob Bell’s Reframing of Mars Hill Doubting Bell and Despairing Kierkegaard Subversive Fuller Seminary The Culture: A Christain Review? Cultural Creatives Spiritual Formation: Esoteric Contemplation Ancient Babylonian Mysticism Soren Kierkegaard was a nineteenth century philosophical theologian who’s writings are a denial of the basic tenets of the Christian faith and show disdain…