Roland Brown traces his discovery of the movement to a booklet a friend gave him and his wife in place of a Christmas card. He retold the story at the Arizona CFO in 1966, alongside an account of an open-air cathedral service in Ceylon.
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Roland Brown traces his discovery of the movement to a booklet a friend gave him and his wife in place of a Christmas card. He retold the story at the Arizona CFO in 1966, alongside an account of an open-air cathedral service in Ceylon.
Distraction is the great enemy of prayer. At the Arizona CFO in 1966, Starr Daily gives campers a pattern to trace with a finger: adoration at the top of the cross, confession on one arm, meditation at the center, intercession on the other, petition at the foot. He recalls an old cellmate’s counsel to “get love in your eyes and let them look at it.”
A stranger at his desert door sent Starr Daily off to write a ballad. In it, Jesus arrives on Easter Eve as a tramp, is refused all through the town, and is fed at last by a hobo beside the railroad track. Speaking at the Arizona CFO in 1966, he also credits four women whose unasked prayers brought him love, relief in his legs, and joy.
Peter went to the empty tomb as faith and John as love, Starr Daily says, but Mary stayed, because women are intuition, and the risen Jesus spoke her name. His talk to the Arizona CFO in 1966 gathers the women Jesus made immortal: the harlot he refused to condemn, the Syro-Phoenician mother content with crumbs, and the widow who gave her only penny.
A prison chaplain preached for eight years on sin, and then lost his daughter to a Chicago gang killing. He came back to the chapel able only to say “I have nothing to say,” and he had himself helped down to stand on the floor with the men. Starr Daily tells the story to the Arizona CFO in 1966 and asks for a baptism of redemptive love before any baptism of power.