GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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waholst@telus.net
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Dear Friends:
My Special Item this week focuses on the
the devastating fire, the morning of May 22nd,
that left in ruins the McDougall Stoney Mission
Church just west of Calgary.
Thanks to colleague contributors in this issue.
Please enjoy my collection of net notes, wisdom
of the week and historical items.
Thanks for joining me again this week.
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEM
Early Monday morning of this past week, fire
destroyed an ancient landmark in Southern
Alberta, west of Calgary and near the town of
Morley (originally named Morleyville) on the
Stoney First Nation reserve.
Long considered a sacred place by Indigenous
and Non-Indigenous people alike, the McDougall
Stoney Mission Church was first constructed, then
utilized 142 years ago from 1875, by Canadian
Methodist missionaries George and John McDougall.
The current structure, now destroyed, was the result
of a rebuilding campaign 50-60 years ago by McDougal
descendants and Native/Non-Native supporters. Stoney
chief Tatanga Mani (Walking Buffalo) was a strong
and visible participant in the project.
Here is a current newspaper story, with pictures:
142 YEAR OLD HISTORIC ALBERTA CHURCH
DESTROYED IN WEEKEND BLAZE
"A Devastating Loss" - Some Staff Suspect Arson
But Officials Question This
Official Report is Pending
National Post, May 23rd, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/y9ntadya
My Thoughts:
I have been a member of the McDougall Stoney
Mission Society Board for several decades. The news
came as a blow to all board members and the hundreds
of on-lookers who have visited the devastation over
the past days. The general public is now quite aware
of the disaster and it is an important time for us.
Several years ago, the story of the mission since
its founding was posted on our web site:
The McDougall Morleyville Mission Story:
https://tinyurl.com/y86tglpm
For more information about our society -
McDougall Stoney Mission Society Website:
http://tinyurl.com/yaz6ohtn
During the past days our board has been making
special plans for our annual commemorative services
(always held on the second Sundays of June and
September - this year, the 11th and 10th respectively,
at 3:00PM).
Stoney Elder JR Twoyoungman will give the main
presentation in June but others will be invited to
share their thoughts. The service will be held on site
and special facilities are being constructed.
COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log
May 21st and 24th, 2017
"The Two-Edged Sword
of Cultural Appropriation"
http://tinyurl.com/yd4uctta
http://tinyurl.com/ybptbhx2
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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Web Site
May 22nd, 2017
"When Does Faith Disappear?"
http://tinyurl.com/y7s933dw
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Philip Yancey,
Colorado
Personal Blog
May 23rd, 2017
"A View from Abroad"
http://tinyurl.com/y7jopg22
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NET NOTES
LUTHER - FATHER OF PROTEST SONGS
He Continues to Influence Modern Times
BBC News
May 24th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/k6ewhcq
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TRUMP RECONSEPTUALIZES ISLAM
"That Was Then, This Is Now"
Religion News Service
May 22nd, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/mnpxe65
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"GOD NO WARLORD CLAIMING VICTORY"
SAYS POPE TO TRUMP
Truth Spoken to Power
UCA News,
May 25th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/k4fhhvn
"I Won't Forget What You Said," says the President
America Magazine,
May 24th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/km8bo64
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THE SECOND COMING OF U.S.
TELEVANGELIST JIM BAKKER
Back from Past Scandals
Buzzfeed,
May 19th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/kxtff6a
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SOME AMERICAN CATHOLICS RESPECT POPE
BUT ALSO LOVE TRUMP - How So?
The Atlantic,
May 23rd, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/kuhjbr3
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SIX QUESTIONS ON RAMADAN ANSWERED
Islamic Holy Days Begin this Weekend
Religion News Service,
May 23rd, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/mu385l6
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ANOTHER ATTACK ON CHRISTIANS IN EGYPT
Gunmen Kill 26 Copts North of Cairo
Religion News Service,
May 26th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/yb7jscoq
"Egypt's Persecuted Christians Persevere"
A Canadian Evangelical Christian Perspective
Christian Week Online
May 22nd, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/kc7h6ej
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UNDERSTANDING THE WHITE AMERICAN
EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT
Millennials are Changing It's Face
Publishers Weekly,
May 18th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/mu4ctka
"Franklin Graham is the Evangelical Id - as He
Embodies all the Contradictions of Trump's America"
The Atlantic Online
May 21st, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/l3dqdro
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AUSTRALIA ABORIGINAL LEADERS
MEET FOR HISTORIC SUMMIT
Recognition Demanded
BBC News
May 24th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/mjfquzt
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JUSTICE ABELLA USES U.S. SPEECH
TO TAKE AIM AT "NARCISSISTIC POPULISM"
She Draws from Her Family's Experience as European Jews
Globe and Mail,
May 23rd, 2017
Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella was in the U.S. this past
weekend and publicly denounced “narcissistic populism.” Justice Abella drew on her own family’s experiences surviving the Holocaust in a commencement speech to graduates at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, in which she targeted what she sees as dangerous trends across the world. Although she did not mention any world leaders by name or any countries in particular, many observers thought that her comments were a veiled critique of U.S. President Trump.
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IN A DARKENING WORLD, IT'S TIME
FOR CANADA TO MOVE BEYOND FEAR
Globe and Mail Editorial
May 24th, 2017
“How should our country position itself in this anxious age?
The world has changed fundamentally since Canada’s internationalist heyday under Lester B. Pearson. Much of it is a mess: the Middle East, obviously, but also Europe, as it struggles with mass migration and right-wing extremism. …
Meanwhile, globalization has prompted economic changes that eliminate or downgrade the jobs of many workers. … If we build sets of alliances among a wider group of states and other global actors to promote carefully considered and well-targeted objectives, Canada can be one of a handful of countries that helps to steer the world through a deeply troubling period. To do so, we must take current anxieties seriously, and open up our political and economic deliberations to those who have rightly felt excluded from the benefits of globalization.”
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
Charity is the live wire along which the power of God, indwelling
our finite spirits, can and does act on other souls and other things,
rescuing, healing, giving support and light.
- Evelyn Underhill
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The goal of fasting is inner unity. This means hearing, but not with
the ear; hearing, but not with the understanding; it is hearing with
the spirit, with your whole being.
- Thomas Merton
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Christianity is a life, not a doctrine ... I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own.
- Marilynne Robinson
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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor,
either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are,
or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor
and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just
don't want to do it.
- Stephen Colbert
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Fling wide your doors; give your wealth free passage everywhere!
As a great river flows by a thousand channels through fertile country,
so let your wealth run through many conduits to the homes of the poor.
Wells that are drawn from flow the better; left unused, they go foul.… Money kept standing idle is worthless; but moving and changing
hands it benefits the community and brings increase.
- Basil of Caesarea
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How often we children have been unwilling: unwilling to listen to each other,unwilling to hear words we do not expect. But on that first Pentecost the Holy Spirit truly called people together in understanding and forgiveness and utter, wondrous joy. The early Christians, then, were known by how they loved one another. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if people could say that of us again? Not an exclusive love, shutting out the rest of the world, but love so powerful, so brilliant, so aflame that it lights the entire planet – nay, the entire universe!
- Madeleine L’Engle
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It is striking how the earliest Christians, like mainstream rabbis of the period, clung to the twin doctrines of creation and judgment:
God made the world and made it good, and one day he will come and sort it all out. Take away the goodness of creation, and you have a judgment where the world is thrown away as so much garbage, leaving us sitting on a disembodied cloud playing disembodied harps. Take away judgment, and you have this world rumbling on with no hope except the pantheist one of endless cycles of being and history.
Put creation and judgment together, and you get new heavens and new earth, created not ex nihilo but ex vetere, not out of nothing but out of the old one, the existing one.
- N. T. Wright
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We should be as our Lord told us: “You should be like those who at all
times watch and wait for their Lord” (Luke 12:36). Truly, such vigilant
people are alert and on the watch for the Lord for whom they wait; they
look to see if he is not by chance concealed in what befalls them,
however strange it may be to them. So we too should consciously look
out for our Lord in all things. This demands much effort, and must cost
us all that our senses and faculties are capable of. But this is the right
thing for us to do, so that we grasp God in the same way in all things
and find him equally everywhere.
- Meister Eckhart
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MOMENT IN TIME
Globe and Mail
May 26th, 2017
Oil discovered in the Middle East
May 26, 1908: London mining magnate William Knox D’Arcy was running out of money and patience, and had sent a telegram to halt the seven-year search for crude in the Persian desert. But at the 11th hour, a gusher from the wooden derrick at Masjid-i-Suleiman spurted oil 15 metres high – setting off the oil age in the Middle East and later establishing Iran as a global petroleum power. Right away, the find created the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., a precursor to BP, and powered the Royal Navy’s transition to oil from coal as Europe descended into war. The battle for control of the resource would eventually motivate U.K. and U.S. meddling in Iran, helping to sow the seeds of the 1979 Revolution. But that May morning, after enduring disease outbreaks, clashes with bandits and warlords, and temperatures that soared above 50 C, workers took off their hats and rubbed oil over their faces to revel in their fossil-fuel prize. – Kelly Cryderman
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ON THIS DAY
From the Archives of the New York Times:
"Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of Modern India, Dies"
http://tinyurl.com/lrqs6h3
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CLOSING THOUGHT - Jane Bowdler
Some good we all can do; and if we do all that is in our power,
however little that power may be, we have performed our part, and
may be as near perfection as those whose influences extends over
kingdoms, and whose good actions are felt and applauded by thousands.
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For Those Interested -
ST.DAVID'S SPIRITUAL TRAVELERS EVENT, 2017
South Africa has been chosen as our destination!
We plan a nineteen-day tour that combines a focus
on spirituality, social justice, culture, and nature,
and it will run October 21st thru November 8th.
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.
To date, twenty-six persons have put down deposits
to claim a special saving.
WE ARE CLOSE TO REACHING OUR DEPARTURE GOAL.
YOU CAN STILL REGISTER. After 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 begin building community
amongst the participants, and to share news and
resources.
We hope to name a tour reporter who will report
back home each day's activities so everyone can
enjoy the experience, if not directly, then indirectly.
Six months from now we leave for South Africa!
Contact Rostad Tours: http://tinyurl.com/hucsaf7
Follow these notices for weekly updates.
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