Vol. XII. No. 14
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GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
My E-Mail Address:
waholst@telus.net
Colleagues List Web Site:
http://colleagueslistII.blogspot.com
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Dear Friends:
This will be my last Colleagues List issue
created from Canada in 2016.
If I can do it, however, I hope to send you
an issue or two from Oman, in the Saudi
Arabian peninsula. We depart Canada on
December 14th and will spend almost three
weeks with family. After that, we will travel
in Egypt and Southern Spain - our trip will
have an Islamic focus.
Hopefully you will hear more from us. Our
annual family Christmas letter will appear
in time as a New Year greeting.
This issue contains my December column
for the Anglican Journal - a reflection on the
difference between worship and performance,
with Christmas as a case in point.
It is good to welcome back columnist Jim Taylor,
a perennial favourite who, like me, has recently
been aided by a re-built website for his work.
Thanks to those who respond to me on my
newly-fashioned blog-reply mechanism.
A blessed Festive Season to all of you, and I
will be back in touch with you when possible.
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEM
My December column for the Anglican Journal,
national magazine of the Anglican Church in Canada
"Worship or Performance?"
http://tinyurl.com/zjc8zvt
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COLLEAGUE COMMENT
December 4th, 2016
Dan Hagen,
Prince Albert, SK
Wayne,
Always interesting reading and broad in scope.
Have neglected reading your posts for some time . . .
life is full. The recent election in our neighbors lives
to the south has been most disturbing for me, not
because of the personalities, but because of the
reaction of the media and people in general.
The reactions are as poisonous as was the election.
"We the people" seem to have embodied the ugliness
on both sides of the election. Righteous indignation;
slander; self righteousness; hate mongering (and a
few other distasteful and twisted ways) have not by
any means ended with the due process of a democracy
(as flawed as that may have been).
Maybe this (US) election will help us see that for over a
generation we have been almost more enamored by the
dark side of life than the teaching of Jesus... and the
seed we planted is starting to bear fruit (not much love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness and self-
control)... more hatred, unhappiness, chaos, impatience,
harshness, manipulation of the truth, and out of control...
better describes what we see growing)... and if anyone
ties this to one particular character it just confirms...
it is the problem of us as people on a much broader scale.
The dark sides of life are flourishing... but not very
functional. Maybe we can get a better advent taste
of the Roman culture at the time God sent His son.
Still wondering about the many incomprehensible things
happening around us, and in our own nation that seem
to make no sense to these frail human eyes.
Thanks again for all you do to encourage thought and
conversation.
Dan
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Welcome back Jim!
Jim Taylor has a newly rebuilt website.
Click, below to read his latest column,
as well all articles you may have missed.
Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
December 5th, 2016
"Honouring the Tree of Life"
http://tinyurl.com/jfu4bg8
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Elfrieda Schroeder,
Winnipeg, MB
December 6th, 2016
"A Christmas Letter"
http://tinyurl.com/z9lpt4t
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Martin Marty
Chicago, IL
Sightings,
December 5th, 2016
"Infallibility and Heresy"
http://tinyurl.com/hpmszj6
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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio,TX
Personal Web Site
December 5th, 2016
"The Martyrdom of
Inadequate Self-Expression"
http://tinyurl.com/j8pxdfn
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NET NOTES
BELIEFS MATTER
More on Recent WLU Canada Religion Study
Growing Mainline Churches Focus on Beliefs
Christian Week Online
November 30th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/zg67wtr
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WERE NEANDERTHALS RELIGIOUS?
Early Human Form had Spiritual Sense
Cosmos & Culture
December 7th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/zn3zbge
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WHY DO WE HAVE CHRISTMAS TREES?
Old Pagan Tradition Transformed
Christian History/Christianity Today
December, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/jhkhjml
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VATICAN REAFFIRMS BAN ON GAY PRIESTS
Francis Earlier Comment Notwithstanding
America Magazine,
December 7th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/hja447a
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GERMANY GEARS UP FOR REFORMATION 500
"Luther Country" has Major Sites to Celebrate
Religion News Service
December 5th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/gltgqde
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RELIGION SHAPES CUBA IN SPITE OF CASTRO
What the Dictator Could Not Control
Religion News Service,
December 4th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/zwbqt6d
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CHRISTIANS FACE EXTINCTION IN MIDDLE EAST
Syria in Particular Looks Most Destroyed
America Magazine,
December 7th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/h5eaf55
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VATICAN EXHIBITS REMBRANDT PAINTING
IN GESTURE OF CHRISTIAN UNITY
The Dutch Artist Never Previously Displayed
Religion News Serivce
December 8th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/j8c8jfm
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AMERICAN EVANGELICAL MEDIA ATTACKS
BECOMING DANGEROUS
Many Believe Fake News Sources
Over Established Media (Opinion)
Washington Post,
December 8th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/zl9dwmk
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WHY THE DAKOTA PIPELINE DECISION
IS A SPIRITUAL ISSUE
A Backgrounder on the Decision
in Favor of Indigenous Americans
The Splainer/RNS
September 25th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/j75556c
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
The world would be better off if people tried
to become better.
And people would become better if they
stopped trying to become better off.
- Peter Maurin
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
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I think having land and not ruining it is the most
beautiful art that anybody could ever want.
- Andy Warhol
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No one can celebrate a genuine Christmas without
being truly poor. The self-sufficient, the proud, those
who, because they have everything, look down on others,
those who have no need even of God – for them there
will be no Christmas. Only the poor, the hungry, those
who need someone to come on their behalf, will have
that someone. That someone is God, Emmanuel,
God-with-us.
Without poverty of spirit there can be no abundance of God.
- Oscar Romero
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Often we stumble along, not knowing where we’re going,
but understanding that the journey is worth it because
Jesus took it for us, shared it with us. Because the immortal
God became mortal, we all share in the immortality as well
as the mortality.…To believe that the universe was created
by a purposeful, benign Creator is one thing.
To believe that this Creator took on human vesture, accepted
death and mortality, was tempted, betrayed, broken, and all for
love of us, defies reason
- Madeleine L’Engle.
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ON THIS DAY
From the archives of the New York Times:
"Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor"
http://tinyurl.com/atzkcnd
"Charles and Diana Separate 'Amicably'"
http://tinyurl.com/hb74m73
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For Those Interested -
ST. DAVID'S ACTS MONDAY NIGHT WINTER STUDY
A Ten Week Series January 23rd - April 3rd, 2017
Family Day session exempted, February 20th
Monday Evenings, TM Room 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
"How Jesus Became God -
The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee"
http://tinyurl.com/gqzkcbx
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Registration/Hospitality and Book: $60.00.
Purchase the book only: $20.00
Sale begins Sunday, December 11th, 2016
35 copies have been secured for sale.
We have already presold more than 10 copies!
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Here is the entire course content from our just-
completed Monday Night Autumn Study:
"Reclaiming the Bible for a Non-Religious
World" by Bishop John S. Spong
http://rtb.stdavidscalgary.net/
Check our entire archives for all 48 book studies
since 2000: http://tinyurl.com/q3bw6dh
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ST. DAVID'S ACTS THURSDAY MORNING STUDY
Eleven Sessions January 26th - April 6th, 2017
Theme: To be announced, early 2017
Ten sessions 10-11 AM
Gathering at 9:30 AM
In the St. David's TM Room.
No charge.
Study resource -
"The DK Complete Bible Handbook"
Edited by John Bowker
http://tinyurl.com/odxlv7q
The class will select the biblical theme for the new term at the first session, Jan. 26th.
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ST.DAVID'S SPIRITUAL TRAVEL PROJECT, 2017
We have selected South Africa as our location!
We plan a nineteen-day tour that combines a
focus on faith, social justice culture, and nature,
and it will happen the month of October 2017.
many helpful travel hints is being published.
Follow our notices for weekly updates.
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