The Re-Imagining Community records, 1988 -- 2016

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Publications, 1994 -- 2003

This series is open for research.

0.5 linear feet; 0.5 linear feet; 1 box

This series contains the Quarterly Newsletter from 1994 through 2000 and 2003, as well as other publications.

This series is arranged chronologically.



Box 1 Folder 1-3 Re-Imagining: Quarterly Newsletter, 1994 -- 2003, 3 folders


Box 1 Folder 4 "Re-Imagining God... Community... the Church" in Church and Society, 1994, 1 folder


Box 1 Folder 5 Re-Membering and Re-Imagining, edited by Nancy J. Berneking and Pamela Carter Joern, 1995, 1 folder


Box 1 Folder 6 Made in Her Image: Exploring New Perspectives in the Bible and Christian History Facilitator Guide and Participant Resource Book, 1997, 1 folder


Box 1 Folder 7 Bring the Feast: Songs from the Re-Imagining Community and Re-Imagining Journal, 1998 -- 2000, 1 folder


Box 1 Folder 8 Bless Sophia: Worship, ritual, and the litany of the Re-Imagining Community , 2003, 1 folder

This file contains Bless Sophia: Worship, ritual, and the litany of the Re-Imagining Community in book format and in MS Word file format on two diskettes.

Audio and video materials, 1993 -- 2016

This series is open for research.

0.75 linear feet; 0.75 linear feet; 2 boxes; 57 audiocassettes; 57 audio cassettes; 2 videocassettes (VHS); 2 video cassettes; 1 DVDs; 1 DVD

This series contains audio cassette recordings of the Re-Imagining Conference from 1993 through 2003 (no conference was held in 1997; audio files not available for the 2000 conference but can be found at the Minnesota Historical Society), responses to the 1993 Re-Imagining Conference on two video cassettes titled "General Assembly Report concerning Re-Imagining Conference" and "Ted Koppel (Nightline); MacNeil/Lehrer," and a DVD titled, "Interviews by Sherry Jordon."

This series is arranged chronologically.



Box 2 Re-Imagining Conference, 1993, 24 audiocassettes


Box 2 Re-Imagining Conference, 1994, 3 audiocassettes


Box 2 Re-Imagining Conference, 1995, 6 audiocassettes


Box 2 Re-Imagining Conference, 1996, 6 audiocassettes


Box 2 Re-Imagining Conference, 1998, 15 audiocassettes


Box 2 Re-Imagining Conference, 2003, 3 audiocassettes



Box 3 Responses to 1993 conference: "General Assembly Report concerning Re-Imagining Conference" , 1994, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 3 Responses to 1993 conference: "Ted Koppel (Nightline); MacNeil/Lehrer", 1994, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 3 Interviews by Sherry Jordon DVD, 2015 -- 2016, 1 DVDs

Copies of these files are stored on a preservation server. Please contact burke@library.columbia.edu for further information.

Re-Imagining Events, 1988 -- 2003

This series is open for research.

1.5 linear feet; 1.5 linear feet; 3 boxes

This series contains copies of organizational records pertaining to various aspects of the annual conference, including financial information, meeting minutes, correspondence, program material, registration information, publicity material, evaluations, and materials related to speakers, exhibitors, and volunteers, among other records.

This series is arranged chronologically by conference date.



Box 4 Folder 1-3 Ecumenical Decade: Churches in Solidarity with Women (1993 conference): Steering committee minutes, 1988 -- 1993, 3 folders


Box 4 Folder 4 Ecumenical Decade: Churches in Solidarity with Women (1993 conference): Arrangements, 1992 -- 1993, 1 folder


Box 4 Folder 5 Ecumenical Decade: Churches in Solidarity with Women (1993 conference): Daily conference newsletter, 1993, 1 folder


Box 4 Folder 6 Ecumenical Decade: Churches in Solidarity with Women (1993 conference): Evaluations and thank you letters, 1994, 1 folder


Box 4 Folder 7 Ecumenical Decade: Churches in Solidarity with Women (1993 conference): Name lists of participants, 1993, 1 folder


Box 4 Folder 8 Ecumenical Decade: Churches in Solidarity with Women (1993 conference): Program, 1993, 1 folder


Box 4 Folder 9 Ecumenical Decade: Churches in Solidarity with Women (1993 conference): Publicity, 1993 -- 1994, 1 folder


Box 4 Folder 10-12 Ecumenical Decade: Churches in Solidarity with Women (1993 conference): Speaker correspondence, 1991 -- 1993, 3 folders



Box 5 Folder 1 Re-Imagining: Jesus, Christ, and Us (1994 conference): Evaluations, 1994, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 2 Re-Imagining: Jesus, Christ, and Us (1994 conference): Program, 1994, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 3 Re-Imagining: Jesus, Christ, and Us (1994 conference): Publicity, 1994, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 4 Re-Imagining: Jesus, Christ, and Us (1994 conference): Registration, 1994, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 5 Soundings: Re-Imagining the World (1995 conference): Budget , 1994 -- 1995, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 6 Soundings: Re-Imagining the World (1995 conference): Correspondence, 1995, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 7-8 Soundings: Re-Imagining the World (1995 conference): Committees, 1994 -- 1995, 2 folders


Box 5 Folder 9 Soundings: Re-Imagining the World (1995 conference): Evaluations and thank you letters, 1995, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 10 Soundings: Re-Imagining the World (1995 conference): Program, 1995, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 11 Soundings: Re-Imagining the World (1995 conference): Publicity, 1995, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 12 Soundings: Re-Imagining the World (1995 conference): Registration, 1995, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 13 Soundings: Re-Imagining the World (1995 conference): Volunteers, 1995, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 14 Soundings: Re-Imagining the World (1995 conference): Worship, 1995, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 15 Naming, Claiming, and Re-Imagining Power (1996 conference): Arrangements committee , 1996, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 16 Naming, Claiming, and Re-Imagining Power (1996 conference): Membership/publicity committee , 1996, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 17 Naming, Claiming, and Re-Imagining Power (1996 conference): Program committee , 1996, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 18 Naming, Claiming, and Re-Imagining Power (1996 conference): Public relations committee , 1996, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 19 Naming, Claiming, and Re-Imagining Power (1996 conference): Quest committee , 1995 -- 1996, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 20 Naming, Claiming, and Re-Imagining Power (1996 conference): Ritual committee , 1996, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 21 Naming, Claiming, and Re-Imagining Power (1996 conference): Evaluations, 1996, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 22 Naming, Claiming, and Re-Imagining Power (1996 conference): Program, 1996, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 23 Naming, Claiming, and Re-Imagining Power (1996 conference): Publicity, 1996, 1 folder


Box 5 Folder 24 Naming, Claiming, and Re-Imagining Power (1996 conference): Registration R-Z, 1996, 1 folder



Box 6 Folder 1 Re-Imagining Revival (1998 conference): Arrangements committee, 1996 -- 1998, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 2 Re-Imagining Revival (1998 conference): Fundraising committee, 1998, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 3 Re-Imagining Revival (1998 conference): Planning ("Flow Committee"), 1997 -- 1998, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 4 Re-Imagining Revival (1998 conference): Evaluations, 1998, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 5 Re-Imagining Revival (1998 conference): Exhibitors, 1998, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 6 Re-Imagining Revival (1998 conference): Program, 1998, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 7-8 Re-Imagining Revival (1998 conference): Publicity, 1997 -- 1998, 2 folders


Box 6 Folder 9 Re-Imagining Revival (1998 conference): Registration, 1998, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 10 Re-Imagining Revival (1998 conference): Scholarships, 1998, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 11 Re-Imagining Revival (1998 conference): Speakers, 1997 -- 1998, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 12 Re-Imagining Revival (1998 conference): Volunteers, 1998, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 13 From Vision to Vessel (2000 conference): Evaluations, 2000, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 14 From Vision to Vessel (2000 conference): Program , 2000, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 15 From Vision to Vessel (2000 conference): Speakers, 1999 -- 2000, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 16 Generations of Wisdom: One body of water (2003 conference): Arrangements, 2003, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 17 Generations of Wisdom: One body of water (2003 conference): Program, 2003, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 18 Generations of Wisdom: One body of water (2003 conference): Publicity, 2003, 1 folder


Box 6 Folder 19 Generations of Wisdom: One body of water (2003 conference): Honeycomb conference session, 2003, 1 folder

Administrative records, 1993 -- 2003

This series is open for research.

2 linear feet; 2 linear feet; 5 boxes

This series contains administrative records of the Re-Imagining Community, including a Certificate of Incorporation, an Article of Dissolution, correspondence, minutes, publicity materials, and other records. The majority of records concern the Coordinating Council, the governing body of the Community, including press, personal, and denominational responses to the 1993 conference.

This series is arranged by format, and then alphabetically and/or chronologically.



Box 7 Folder 1 Certificate of Incorporation, 1994, 1 folder


Box 7 Folder 2 Article of Dissolution, 2003, 1 folder


Box 7 Folder 3 Coordinating Council - Post 1993 conference controversy press response list, circa 1993 -- 1994, 1 folder


Box 7 Folder 4-13 Coordinating Council - Post 1993 conference controversy press response: ALA Journal through Presbyterian News, circa 1993 -- 1997, 10 folders



Box 8 Folder 1-6 Coordinating Council - Post 1993 conference controversy press response: Presbyterian Outlook through Worship Arts, circa 1993 -- 1997, 6 folders


Box 8 Folder 7-12 Coordinating Council - Post 1993 conference controversy participant correspondence, 1993 -- 1994, 6 folders



Box 9 Folder 1-5 Coordinating Council - Post 1993 conference controversy other responses: circulars, reports, resolutions, circa 1993 -- 1997, 5 folders



Box 10 Folder 1-5 Coordinating Council correspondence, 1994 -- 2000, 5 folders


Box 10 Folder 6-15 Coordinating Council minutes, 1994 -- 2003, 10 folders



Box 11 Folder 1 Speakers' lists, 1988 -- 2003, 1 folder


Box 11 Folder 2 Small Groups, 1995 -- 1999, 1 folder


Box 11 Folder 3-4 Membership, 1995 -- 1997, 2 folders


Box 11 Folder 5 Faith Labs, 1997 -- 2000, 1 folder


Box 11 Folder 6-8 Publicity and Public Relations, 1995 -- 2000, 3 folders


Box 11 Folder 9-10 E-Newsmail, 1998 -- 2003, 2 folders


Box 11 Folder 11 Worship, 1998, 1 folder


Box 11 Quarterly Worship, 1999 -- 2000, 1 folder