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Colleagues List, June 18th, 2017

Vol. XII No. 37

GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE


Wayne A. Holst, Editor

My E-Mail Address:
 
Colleagues List Web Site
http//colleagueslistii.blogspot.com


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Dear Friends:

It is with sadness that I report the death, this past week, of a long-standing mentor/friend - Marjorie Gibson - of Vancouver.

She and her previously deceased husband Sheldon, were great persons to know. They cared much for others and for their church, St. David's United, Calgary.

Her obituary appeared this past week in the Calgary Herald https://tinyurl.com/ybex922p

Marjorie will be known to many of you, either personally, or through her blog, written as a widow during her 90's - which appeared often on Colleagues List. It was entitled "Marjorie Remembers" and was aided in both its composition and production by daughter Isabel of Ottawa.

Marjorie was a leader of women and men alike. She graduated from the University of Alberta at the end of World War II.

Here is her last blog article "Night Has Fallen" (April 7/17)
http://tinyurl.com/y8xdfq3u

Our thoughts and prayers accompany Marjorie and her family

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This past weekend, a commemorative event was held at the McDougall Stoney Mission Church, Morleyville, AB. less than two weeks after a fire destroyed the oldest standing 142 year-old Protestant church in Southern Alberta. (see Colleagues List May 24th, 2017) https://tinyurl.com/ybulv6vt

On June 11th, 140 people gathered to remember, grieve, thank, and begin planning for the future. The local newspaper, the Cochrane Times reported:

"Future of McDougall Church Requires Collaborative Effort"
  https://tinyurl.com/y74hsvjl
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My special Item this week is my Anglican Journal column for June, 2017.
 
I hope you also find many of the other items of interest as we move toward the season of summer here in the northern hemisphere.
 
Wayne
 
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SPECIAL ITEM

My Anglican Journal column for June:

"Canada's Churches: A Conscience for Social and Eco-Justice"


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COLLEAGUE COMMENTS

Roger Epp,
Edmonton, AB.

Re: Book Notice for "Only Leave a Trace" appearing in Colleagues List, June 11th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y8yr95sh

June 12th, 2017

Dear Wayne,

I received your email with the link to your blog post about "Only Leave a Trace" -

Thanks so much for such a thoughtful post. I appreciate that it will be read by some who have a long history with Lutheran higher education in Canada, in Waterloo and in Camrose; and I agree that the changes in each case, on balance, have been beneficial -- and almost
unbelievable  In the latter case -- even allowing for the fact that change itself is hard on people at the time. I'll be interested in what kind of response you get.

Thanks again for writing.

Roger


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John Griffith,
Calgary, AB

June 9th, 2017
 
Hi Wayne,
 
I received the internet link (below) from a minister friend of mine in the United States.  It seems to fit with the information you link to in your blog and I thought you might be interested.  It's about the influence of the theology of Richard Niebuhr on many people in the current political arena in the United States. Blessings,
 
John

Christianity Today,
May 19th, 2017

"The Theology Beneath the Trump-Comey Conflict
  https://tinyurl.com/lncgg43

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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
 
Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.

Personal Blog
June 9th, 2017

"Creator, Wisdom, Shekinah -
  What's Your Experience?"
   http://tinyurl.com/yaqs3so8

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Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC

 
Personal Web Log
June 14th, 2017

"Learning Lessons from Evolution"
  http://tinyurl.com/ydywz7h7

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Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL
 
Sightings
June 12th, 2017

"Our Abyss"
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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX

 
Personal Web Site
June 12th, 2017

"Christianity and Noon-Day Fatique"

  http://tinyurl.com/y8z6atea

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NET NOTES

SEEING THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
Retrospective on the Great Discoveries

United Church Observer,
June, 2017


http://tinyurl.com/y76ekwrl

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TEN MOST INFLUENTIAL CANADIANS
A Special Selection at Year 150

CTV.ca
June 14th, 2017


http://tinyurl.com/y9yh97h3

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MARRIED, GAY AND MORMON (Parts I and II)
Traditional Hardline Faith Confronts Modernity

Religion News Service
June 13th/14th, 2017


http://tinyurl.com/ycd9xqnc

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ERDOGAN AND TURKEY'S NEW MOSQUES
Economic Investment or Places of Prayer?

New York Times,
June 14th, 2017


http://tinyurl.com/yb57m4nn

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LUTHERANS OPEN "HEAVEN'S TENT"
IN WITTENBERG, GERMANY
Celebrating Witness Around the World

LWI, Geneva,
June 8th, 2017


http://tinyurl.com/ybpe8ool

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NORWAY TO BAN ISLAMIC VEIL
IN CERTAIN LOCATIONS
"A Barrier to Authentic Communication
  in Nurseries, Schools, etc."

BBC News
June 12th, 2017


http://tinyurl.com/ycqfov5e

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STANDING WITH MUSLIMS IS
AN ACT OF CHRISTIAN WITNESS
Protecting Religious Rights in Canada

Christian Week Online
June 13th, 2017


http://tinyurl.com/y9ac7xcd

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U.S. PREPARES TO DEPORT HUNDREDS
OF IRAQI CHRISTIANS
Do Chaldeans Look Too Much Like Muslims?

Christianity Today
June 12th, 2017


http://tinyurl.com/y8uarhmd

"Why Aren't More Christians Speaking Out?"
 
Religion News Service,
June 15th, 2017
 

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WHAT FRANCIS' APOLOGY WOULD MEAN FOR
CANADA'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
An Important Step in Learning First Nations' History

America Magazine,
June 15th, 2017
 
http://tinyurl.com/ydz4uqhj

"It's Time to Recognize First Nations as Founders of Canada"

Toronto Star,
June 13th, 2017
 
https://tinyurl.com/y8v32uun

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PICK YOUR TRUTH

Trump and Comey - "Pick your truth"

Globe and Mail
June 13th, 2017

“[In the U.S. today,] people don’t just disagree on their i
nterpretation of events. They disagree on the events themselves. There are at least two parallel tracks of ‘truth,’ running on and on to the horizon, destined never to meet. To an extent that’s new in history, the people who hold these opposing views are destined never to meet either. The United States is becoming increasingly segregated, not just by race or class but also by ideology. People have always clashed over politics, of course. What’s changed is that each side regards the other with far more hatred and contempt.” – Margaret Wente

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WISDOM OF THE WEEK

From Sojourners and the Bruderhof:

Resistance to tyranny is [humankind]'s highest ideal.

- Emma Goldman

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Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are. -

 Hafsat Abiola

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Where you have absolute solutions, you have no need of faith. Faith is what you have in the absence of knowledge. The reason this clash doesn’t bother me any longer is because I have got, over the years, a sense of the immense sweep of creation, of the evolutionary process in everything, of how incomprehensible God must necessarily be to be the God of heaven and earth. You can’t fit the Almighty into your intellectual categories.
 
- Flannery O’Connor

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The poet Stifter once said, “Pain is a holy angel, who shows treasures to people which would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him people have become greater than through all the joys of the world.” It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But
it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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We must dissent, because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

- US Justice Thurgood Marshall

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Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate all desire is still itself a desire. How can we find release and peace by replacing one desire with another? Surely we shall find peace not by eliminating desire, but by finding its fulfillment and satisfaction in the One who created it.

- Sadhu Sundar Singh

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We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only the wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits
transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

- Henry David Thoreau

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CLOSING THOUGHT - Henri J. M. Nouwen

I am with people who are poor in spirit. They teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and doing things together is more important than doing things alone.

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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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