Vol. XII No. 29
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POST-EASTER EDITION
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 Colleagues:
My Special Item this week is my column
just now appearing in the Anglican Journal.
It focuses on the expansive role women have
played in the Canadian churches during the
last half-century and is entitled:
"Canadian Churches moving from uniformity
to diversity."
I hope you find it a helpful reflection-piece.
Many of the themes and links I point you to
are "post-Easter" in nature, as a focus on
the world of religion and culture.
Please continue to suggest names of those
who might appreciate receiving Colleagues
List - and mail to: waholst@telus.net
Good wishes to all of you.
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEM
My April Anglican Journal column:
"Canadian Churches Moving
from Uniformity to Diversity"
http://tinyurl.com/k7c3r4m
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Philip Yancey,
Colorado
Philipyancey.com
April 14th, 2017
"Now You See Him"
https://tinyurl.com/kp2kss4
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Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Weblog
April 17th, 2017
"Turning Shame into Celebration"
http://tinyurl.com/mcoz3hv
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Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL.
Sightings,
April 17th, 2017
"Generosity Revisited"
http://tinyurl.com/l9w7hbu
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John Stackhouse Jr.
Moncton, NB
Personal Blog
April 15th, 2017
"Evangelicals. Elites and Alternative Facts"
http://tinyurl.com/km652tb
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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Website
April 17th, 2017
"Five Hundred Years of Misunderstanding"
http://tinyurl.com/lm3jpar
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NET NOTES
MALALA'S MUM
Out of the Shadows
BBC News
April 18th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/n6nxtfv
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POLITENESS IS A FORGOTTEN VIRTUE
An Important Form of Societal Charity
America Magazine,
April 19th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/mfplwby
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TRUMP MORE RELIGIOUS AS PRESIDENT
At Least in Terms of His Rhetoric
Politico.com
April 16th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/mxcb5xd
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USING FEAR TO SELF-PROMOTE
The Fox News O'Reilly Phenomenon
Washington Post,
April 20th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/l5oxcv2
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FRANCIS' GOALS FOR HIS EGYPT TRIP
Helping Weary Christians, Reaching Out to All
America Magazine
April 20th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/n74x5ox
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RADICAL SPIRIT - BY JOAN CHITTISTER
"Twelve Ways to Live a Free, Authentic Life"
Religion News Service
April 19th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/kgof9ml
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TENNESSEE AMISH ROBBED AT GUNPOINT
But Their Neighbours Want to Protect Them
WSMV TV Nashville (video)
April 19th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/kb7yk8s
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THE HARD-EDGED HOPE OF WENDELL BERRY
His Vision for the World is What We Need Now
Christianity Today,
April 17th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/k2vmr7z
Biographical Info on Wendell Berry
http://tinyurl.com/mrbvkgw
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TURKEY VOTES FOR A VIRTUAL DICTATORSHIP
Nation Now Less Likely to be Admitted to the EU
New York Times
April 17th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/mgwt4ae
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PEACE CAN BE REALIZED IN THE HOLY LAND
But Only if Israel and Palestine Work Together
Religion News Service
April 19th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/ldaaz5z
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MORE CANADIANS ARE VIEWING
DIFFERENT RELIGIONS POSITIVELY
A Healthy Societal Trend in Canada
Anglican Journal Online
April 18th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/mhuychs
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
From the Bruderhof and Sojourners Online:
God, give us true words to pray for one another.
Let genuine love provoke in us words of blessing.
- adapted from Common Prayer
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God’s love tears down walls. No longer religion against
religion, Christians against non-Christians, but justice
against sin, life against death. Therefore, every person
you encounter should be your concern. Do not settle f
or less.
- Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
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I have experienced many human weaknesses, many
human frailties, and I still experience them. But we
need to use them. We need to work for Christ with a
humble heart, with the humility of Christ. He comes
and uses us to be his love and compassion in the world
in spite of our weaknesses and frailties.
- Mother Teresa
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We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without
paying due attention to both the consequences of such
interference in other areas and to the well-being of
future generations.
- Pope John Paul II
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Easter comes out ringing in terms that we all hear if we seek
to hear it, that the soul of man is immortal.
Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ we have fit testimony
that this earthly life is not the end, that death is just something
of a turn in the road, that life moves down a continual moving
river, and that death is just a little turn in the river, that this
earthly life is merely an embryonic prelude to a new awakening,
that death is not a period which ends this great sentence of life
but a comma that punctuates it to more loftier significance.
That is what it says. That is the meaning of Easter.
That is the question that Easter answers –
that death is not the end.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not
for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated.
Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their
deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for
those who are willing to persistin doing something that is
both childish and crucial.
- Frederick Buechner
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But now the power of Easter has burst upon us with the
resurrection of Christ. Now we find in ourselves a strength
which is not our own, and which is freely given to us
whenever we need it, raising us above the Law, giving
us a new law which is hidden in Christ: the law of his
merciful love for us. Now we no longer strive to be good
because we have to, because it is a duty, but because our
joy is to please him who has given all his love to us!
Now our life is full of meaning!
- Thomas Merton
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MOMENTS IN TIME
From the Globe and Mail
Stirrings of dissent in the Red River Colony
April 17, 1867:
It would be two years before the Red River Rebellion broke out in
what is now Manitoba, but in the spring of 1867 there were already
stirrings of dissent in the colony. The Globe, in a reprint of an article
from the Nor’Wester newspaper, noted that citizens were considering
taking over the local government from the Hudson’s Bay Co., which
was still in charge and heartily disliked. Indeed, the report said “that
a fur-trading monopoly can have any interest in common with a farming, grazing and mining community is felt to be impossible.
… The political condition of the country is simply this: 10,000 people
are ruled by the committee of a fur-trading company; they are allowed no voice whatever in the government.” The situation boiled over in 1869, when the Métis under Louis Riel declared a provisional government to negotiate Manitoba’s entry into Confederation.
– Richard Blackwell
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Queen Elizabeth II is born
April 21st, 1926
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary – "Lilibet", as she was known as a child – would have been just another lesser royal if fate hadn’t intervened. How she rose to the solemn duty imposed upon her by circumstance will always be the central narrative of her life. Her father, Prince Albert, was the spare to the heir.
For the first 10 years of her life, she had the perks of being a royal
but not the pressure of a certain future. It was her uncle who would
become monarch when her grandfather, King George V, died in 1936.
But then, the shock. King Edward VIII abdicated so he could marry
Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee. Princess Elizabeth’s father
became King George VI, putting her next in line to the throne that she
has occupied for 65 years, the longest-reigning monarch in British history.
– Sarah Hampson
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ON THIS DAY
From the New York Times
"Historic San Francisco Earthquake Does Major Damage"
http://tinyurl.com/67ormh
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CLOSING THOUGHT - Frederick Buechner
All Is Well
Anxiety and fear are what we know best in this fantastic
century of ours. Wars and rumors of wars. From civilization
itself to what seemed the most unalterable values of the past,
everything is threatened or already in ruins. We have heard
so much tragic news that when the news is good we cannot
hear it. But the proclamation of Easter Day is that all is well.
And as a Christian, I say this not with the easy optimism of
one who has never known a time when all was not well but
as one who has faced the Cross in all its obscenity as well as
in all its glory, who has known one way or another what it is
like to live separated from God. In the end, his will, not ours,
is done. Love is the victor.
Death is not the end. The end is life. His life and our lives
through him, in him. Existence has greater depths of beauty,
mystery, and benediction than the wildest visionary has ever
dared to dream. Christ our Lord has risen.
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For Those Interested -
ST. DAVID'S ACTS MONDAY NIGHT WINTER STUDY
A Ten Week Series January 23rd - March 27th, 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.
THIS COURSE HAS BEEN COMPLETED
JOIN US AGAIN MID-SEPTEMBER, 2017
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
THIS COURSE HAS BEEN COMPLETED
JOIN US AGAIN MID-SEPTEMBER, 2017
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-Six 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.
We have installed a South Africa Spiritual Travelers
discussion list group to being building community
amongst the participants, and to share news and
resources.
We hope to name a tour reporter who will report
each day's activities so everyone can enjoy the
experience, if not directly, then indirectly.
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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