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GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
My E-Mail Address:
waholst@telus.net
Colleagues List Web Site
http//colleagueslist2.bogspot.com
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Dear Friends:
My Special Item this week is a reflection
on four major changes I have seen over
the past fifty years since my graduation
from Waterloo Lutheran Seminary in 1967.
I hope you enjoy my Anglican Journal
column for March entitled "Changes".
Thanks to colleagues for their contributions
this week.
Net Notes, Wisdom of the Week and On This Day
selections will hopefully stir you to look further.
You may be interested in our ministry programs
at St. David's Calgary. Find this at the blog's end.
Thanks for joining me as we enter Springtime
in Canada!
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEM
My March Anglican Journal column:
Four major developments in the Canadian
Church since I graduated from seminary
in 1967 - fifty years ago this Spring -
"Changes"
http://tinyurl.com/j7ehrj8
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Web Log,
March 15th, 2017
"If It Can Die, It Lives"
http://tinyurl.com/l3kwt24
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Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.
Mark Whittall Blog
March 10th, 2017
"The Nicodemus Dillemma"
http://tinyurl.com/lksooec
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Ron Rolheiser,
Personal Web Site
March 13th, 2017
"Nothing is Ever Really Our's"
http://tinyurl.com/mwjkj6p
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Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL
Sightings,
March 13th, 2017
"Transitioning Out Of Mediocrity"
http://tinyurl.com/k43uh5w
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NET NOTES
REMEMBERING ST. PATRICK
Re-enactment Selections
International Business Times
March 13th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/mqrv8p4
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FOR PEACE IN YEMEN
A Gallery of Pictures
UCA News (Visual)
March 15th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/l5spsem
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RACISM IN ROTTERDAM
How a Diverse City Became
Infected by Islamaphobia
The Guardian UK
March 14th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/h99g8qq
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MICHIGAN CHURCHES
AND A SYNAGOGUE
DECLARE THEMSELVES
IMMIGRANT SANCTUARIES
They Provide Protection
Against Trump Legislation
Christian Post
March 16th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/kx5z2ke
"Sanctuary in the USA
Has Legal Consequences"
Religion News Service
March 17th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/ke9ssby
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HAMILTON ONTARIO CHURCH GROUP
STOPPED AT THE US BORDER
Social Ministry Work Viewed
as 'Stealing American Jobs'
CBC.ca
March 14th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/j3shk5j
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IS THERE ANYTHING LEFT
IN WHICH WE CAN ALL BELIEVE?
America at a Crossroads
According to Joan Chittister
National Catholic Reporter
March 16th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/kmpyrlr
UNIVERSITY PROGRAM WINS
RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY ACCLAIM
Faith and Spirituality Centre Series
Promotes Interfaith Learning/Dialogue
UToday, University of Calgary
March 16th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/l2dqk7m
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ONE IN FIVE CANADIANS SAY
MUSLIMS SHOULD BE BANNED
Many Desire Canadian Values Test
National Post.
March 14thk, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/hflskxa
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JESUS DID NOT DIE FOR THE
GOOD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
Thoughts on Scorcese's Film "Silence"
Christian Week,
March 15th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/mhb67ks
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MORMON CHURCH CHALLENGES
LEGALITY OF LEAKED DOCUMENTS
Secretive Organization Meets Modernity
Religion News Service
March 16th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/mjvfcko
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TEN IMPORTANT WOMEN THEOLOGIANS
YOU SHOULD BE READING TODAY
Theology for Our Times
Englewood Review of Books
March 3rd, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/kz8vvbo
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
The [human] who renounces [their self],
comes to [their self].
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...There is nothing
a blessing
is better suited for
than an ending,
nothing that cries out more
for a blessing
than when a world
is falling apart.
- Jan Richardson
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The great writer Zora Neale Hurston said,
Fear was the greatest emotion on the planet Earth
and I said, No my dear sista
Fear will make us move to save our lives
To save our own skins
But love
Will make us save other people's skins and lives
So love is primary at this particular point in time.
- Sonia Sanchez
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In Jesus’ resurrected presence, the invisible kingdom of God
has become visible reality. The word has taken shape, love has
become real. Jesus showed what love meant. His word and life
proved that love knows no bounds. Love halts at no barrier. It
can never be silenced, no matter what circumstances make it
seem impossible to practice it. Nothing is impossible for the
faith that springs from the fire of love.
- Eberhard Arnold
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by
which what is broken is made whole again, and what is soiled
is made clean again. The dream explains why we need to be
forgiven, and why we must forgive. In the presence of God,
nothing stands between him and us – we are forgiven.
But we cannot feel his presence if anything is allowed to stand
between ourselves and others.
- Dag Hammarskjöld
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Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with
the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not
want to form a party, an interest group, or a mass movement,
but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the
single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve
the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art;
for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge
of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get
involved with the crowd.
-Søren Kierkegaard
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ON THIS DAY
From the New York Times
"US Troops Conduct My Lai Massacre in Vietnam"
https://tinyurl.com/n374kh5
"Truman Doctrine Helps Greece and Turkey
Avoid Communism in Wake of World War II"
http //tinyurl.com/mor9vn7
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CLOSING THOUGHT - Julian of Norwich
As truly as God is our Father, so truly is God our Mother.
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For Those Interested -
ST. DAVID'S ACTS MONDAY NIGHT WINTER STUDY
A Ten Week Series January 23rd - April 3rd, 2017
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.
Book only: $20.00
35 copies were secured for sale.
All copies have been sold.
Our Evolving Course Design:
http://tinyurl.com/j3nv7nd
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Here is the total course content from our
completed Monday Night Autumn 2016 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 books
studied since 2000:
http://tinyurl.com/q3bw6dh
During the 2016-2017 two session-term -
Total class registrations: 70
Total books sold: 75
Our best year ever, since 1998!
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ST. DAVID'S ACTS THURSDAY MORNING STUDY
Ten Sessions February 2nd - April 6th, 2017
"Joshua and Judges" - Formative Hebrew History
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
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ST.DAVID'S SPIRITUAL TRAVELERS PROJECT, 2017
South Africa has been chosen as our destination!
We plan a nineteen-day tour that combines a focus
on faith, social justice, culture, and nature, and it
will begin October 21st 2017.
A beautiful brochure with trip cost, itinerary, and
many helpful travel hints has been published.
http://tinyurl.com/hucsaf7
Our optimal group size for maximum trip meaning
and value is 28-29 persons.
Twenty-eight persons have either put down deposits
to claim a special saving (or intend to do so.)
WE ARE CLOSE TO REACHING OUR DEPARTURE GOAL.
YOU CAN STILL REGISTER. When we have 29 deposits
you will be added to a waiting list and still join us
in the event someone has to drop out.
Seven months from now we leave for South Africa!
Contact Rostad Tours: http://tinyurl.com/hucsaf7
Follow our notices for weekly updates.
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