RE-IMAGINING COMMUNITY:
An Inventory of its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Re-imagining Community, creator. | |
| Title: | Re-imagining Community records. | |
| Dates: | 1988-2003. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Chronological files, conference programs and materials, audio recordings, minutes, articles and clippings, newsletters, and other records of a Minneapolis-based ecumenical Christian movement working to challenge patriarchy in the church and society. | |
| Quantity: | 1 cubic foot (1 box), 40 master audio files: WAV (21.5 GB) and 40 user audio files: MP3 (2.73 GB). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
HISTORICAL NOTE
Re-imagining Community was established in 1994, an outgrowth of a concern on the part of the World Council of Churches in the 1980s that women's concerns were not being addressed through the religious community. The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches designated the years 1988-1998 as an Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women. Re-imagining's mission was committed to living out and acting on the belief in the all-inclusive love of God and the worth and dignity of every person. The organization holds conferences and short courses called Faith Labs. They produce a quarterly publication called Re-Imagining, each issue dedicated to a theme such as healing, beauty, and forgiveness. The organization disbanded in 2003.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Re-Imagining Community. Re-Imagining Community records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 16,145
Location of Master Files:
Digital masters of audiocassettes are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
The original audiocassettes were disposed after they were digitally reformatted into digital WAV files.
Processing Information:
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Digital audio transferred from audiocassettes by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes, (March 2019).
Catalog ID number: 990073519930104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| 123.D.14.9B | Background and history, 1994. | ||||||||||
| Includes article of incorporation, constitution, and by-laws. | |||||||||||
| Chronological files, 1994-1998. 7 folders. | |||||||||||
| Contains correspondence, membership information, press releases, policies, advertisements, and miscellaneous ephemera. | |||||||||||
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| Files include conference planning, brochures, event listings, copies of speeches given, audio recordings, and advertisements. | |||||||||||
| 1993 conference, November 1993. 2 folders, 12 master audio files: WAV (9.2 GB) and 12 user audio files: MP3 (1.2 GB). | |||||||||||
| The Spirit of RE-IMAGINING, November 4, 1993. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 53 minutes): WAV (1.7 GB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (214 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Mary Bedarowski, Bernice Johnson Reagon and Hyun-Kyung Chung. | |||||||||||
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| RE-IMAGINING GOD, November 5, 1993. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 58 minutes): WAV (751 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (95 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Hyun-Kyung Chung, Rita Nakishma Brock. | |||||||||||
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| RE-IMAGINING Jesus, November 5, 1993. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 18 minutes): WAV (699 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (90 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Delores Williams, Kwok Pui Lan, Barbara Lundblad. | |||||||||||
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| RE-IMAGINING Creation, November 5, 1993. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 13 minutes): WAV (671 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (86.8 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Anne Primavesi, Sr Jose Hobday, and Elizabeth Bettenhausen. | |||||||||||
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| RE-IMAGINING Church as Spiritual Institution, November 5, 1993. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 7 minutes): WAV (645 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (82.3 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Joan Martin, and Violet Al Raheb. | |||||||||||
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| RE-IMAGINING Sexuality-Family, November 5, 1993. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 11 minutes): WAV (664 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (84.9 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Frances Wood, Mary Hunt, and Susan Thistlethwaite. | |||||||||||
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| RE-IMAGINING Women-Arts-Church, November 6, 1993. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 13 seconds): WAV (606 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (77.4 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Nancy Chinn, Nalini Jayusuria, and Ingeline Nielsen. | |||||||||||
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| RE-IMAGINING Community, November 6, 1993. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 58 seconds): WAV (898 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (113 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Lois Wilson, and Mercy Oduyoye. | |||||||||||
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| RE-IMAGINING Language-Word, November 6, 1993. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 8 minutes): WAV (649 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (83.8 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Johanna Bos, Rosario Batlle, and Jacqueline Grant. Additionally, the recording ends abruptly. | |||||||||||
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| RE-IMAGINING Ethics-Work-Ministry, November 6, 1993. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 50 minutes): WAV (558 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (71.4 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Beverly Harrison, Aruna Gnanadason, and Toinette Eugene. | |||||||||||
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| RE-IMAGINING Church as Worshipping, November 6, 1993. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 1 minute): WAV (611 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (87.5 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Virginia Mollenkott, Christine Smith, Ofelia Ortega. | |||||||||||
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| RE-IMAGINING The Ritual of Sunday Proclamation, November 7, 1993. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 55 minutes): WAV (885 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (113 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speaker: Christine Smith. | |||||||||||
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| 1994: Jesus, Christ, and Us, October 29, 1994. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| 1995: Soundings: Re-Imagining the Word, November 3-4, 1995. 2 folders and 5 master audio files: WAV (2.1 GB) and 5 user audio files: MP3 (240 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Miriam Therese Winter, Maren Hinderlie's, Carmen L. Valenzuela, Sister Holy Spirit DeSouza RGS, Marilyn Habermas-Scher, Joy Mincey Powell, Pamela Carter Joern, Donna Kasbohm, Patricia Schuckert MPS, Jeanne M. Wiger, Theresa Cotter, Mary Kay Sauter, and Jo Ringgenberg. | |||||||||||
| Gathering the Word; Sounding the Word, November, 1995. 1 master audio file (48 minutes, 46 seconds): WAV (246 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (32.5 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Being The Word; Filled with the Word, November, 1995. 1 master audio file (47 minutes, 37 seconds): WAV (240 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (30.7 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Walking with Sophia; Listening to Sophia's Word, November, 1995. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 28 minutes): WAV (750 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (96.1 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Giving Voice to Sophia's Word, November, 1995. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 7 minutes): WAV (341 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (43.5 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Rebirthed by ReImagining, November, 1995. 1 master audio file (57 minutes, 37 seconds): WAV (581 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (37.5 MB). | |||||||||||
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| 1996: Naming, Claiming, and Re-Imagining Power, November 1-2, 1996. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| 1998: Re-Imagining Revival, April 16-19, 1998. 1 folder and 13 master audio files: WAV (5.4 GB) and 13 user audio files: MP3 (726 MB). | |||||||||||
| Voice Gather, Lighting the Lamp & The Table Blessing, April 16, 1998. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 22 minutes): WAV (417 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (55.4 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Welcome & Blessing, Trimming Our Lamps, April 16, 1998. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 56 minutes): WAV (589 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (77.5 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Mary Bedarowski and Rita Nakashima Brock. | |||||||||||
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| Gathering Our Voices, Blessing Litany, April 17, 1998. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 27 minutes): WAV (439 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (57.7 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speaker: Brigalia Bam. | |||||||||||
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| Beverly Harrison - Presentation Invitation, April 17, 1998. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 9 minutes): WAV (349 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (44.9 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Mary Ann Lundy - Presentation, April 17, 1998. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 9 minutes): WAV (353 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (46.3 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Delores Williams - Presentation, April 17, 1998. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 12 minutes): WAV (367 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (47.3 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Gathering Our Spices, Cooking Up our Way, Anne Patrick - Presentation, April 18, 1998. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 23 minutes): WAV (420 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (55.5 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Carter Heyward - Presentation, April 18, 1998. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 3 minutes): WAV (318 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (41.5 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Mari Castellanos - Presentation, April 18, 1998. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 20 minutes): WAV (408 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (51.4 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Blessing, One Voice One Body, Church Supper, More Music From '98, April 18, 1998. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 12 minutes): WAV (364 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (48 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Musimbi Kanyoro - Presentation, April 18, 1998. 1 master audio file (50 minutes, 19 seconds): WAV (254 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (32.9 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Barbara Lundblad - Revival Worship, April 18, 1998. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 52 minutes): WAV (868 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (112 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Music From Re-Imagining '98, April 18, 1998. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 23 minutes): WAV (423 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (55.2 MB). | |||||||||||
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| 2000: Millennial Gathering of the Re-Imagining Community, October 26-28, 2000. 7 master audio files: WAV (3.5 GB) and 7 user audio files: MP3 (465 MB). | |||||||||||
| Welcome/Opening Celebration, October 2000. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 6 minutes): WAV (639 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (82.8 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speaker: Kathy Black. | |||||||||||
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| Gathering Music/Rebecca Walker, October 2000. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 2 minutes): WAV (617 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (81.2 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Gathering Music/Mary Daly, October 2000. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 6 minutes): WAV (637 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (81.4 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Kelly Connole & Evening Prayer, October 2000. 1 master audio file (59 minutes): WAV (297 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (38.6 MB). | |||||||||||
| Music by Bread for the Journey. | |||||||||||
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| Gathering Music, Thandeka, October 2000. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 6 minutes): WAV (638 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (83.9 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Community Presentations, October 2000. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 1 minute): WAV (312 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (40.9 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speakers: Chris Smith and Amy Blumenshine. Additionally, the recording ends abruptly. | |||||||||||
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| Closing Celebration, October 2000. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 25 minutes): WAV (431 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (56.3 MB). | |||||||||||
| Includes the following speaker: Delores Williams. | |||||||||||
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| 2003: Generations of Wisdom-One Body of Water, June 19-21, 2003. 1 folder and 3 master audio files: WAV (1.3 GB) and 3 user audio files: MP3 (172 MB). | |||||||||||
| Conversation One, Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Parker, June 20, 2003. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 43 minutes): WAV (519 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (68 MB). | |||||||||||
| Container note: a conversation about Feminist Theology. | |||||||||||
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| Conversation Two, Mary Bednarowski, Claire Bishoff, and Rachel Gaffron, June 20, 2003. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 38 minutes): WAV (474 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (61.6 MB). | |||||||||||
| Container note: a conversation about Women and Feminism. | |||||||||||
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| Conversation Three, Sara Evans, Sherry Jordan, and Eily Marlow, June 21, 2003. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 5 minutes): WAV (330 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (42. MB). | |||||||||||
| Container note: a conversation about the future of feminism. | |||||||||||
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| Minutes, 1988-August 2003. 5 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes Steering Committee minutes chronicling the planning and growth from a 1993 conference, Ecumenical Decade: Churches in Solidarity with Women, to an annual conference and community organization. | |||||||||||
| Articles and clippings, 1993-1995. 5 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes articles and clippings from several religious publications, such as Faith & Freedom, Monday Morning, Good News, and Presbyterian Outlook, relating to women in theology, the Re-Imagining Community and/or their conferences. | |||||||||||
RELATED MATERIALS
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Congresses and conventions -- Minnesota.
- Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
- Feminist theology.
- Women and religion.
- Document Types:
- Sound recordings.
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