GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:
In some ways, these are lazy summer days in Calgary where I live. This has been the week of the famous Calgary Stampede, but Marlene and I chose to attend a concert at the Banff Summer Festival, instead.
The Special Items you see below centre on the Aga Khan, Eugene Peterson and climate change. I hope you find them interesting.
Net Notes, Wisdom of the Week, Moment in Time and On This Day - items follow as usual.
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, I hope that you too are finding the summer season good for you. Wherever you live, please enjoy this issue of Colleagues List!
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEMS
FIFTY YEARS AN IMAM
Interview With the Aga Khan
Poverty, Climate and Demystifying Islam
Quartz,
July 11th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/y9ujhu7f
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EUGENE PETERSON CHANGES HIS MIND ON GAY MARRIAGE
American Evangelical Leader Also Has Clear Views on Trump
Religion News Service,
July 12th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/y9qvqz89
Then After One Day, He Backtracks on SSM - But Why?
http://tinyurl.com/yap2sjxb
I suspect that this is not the end of the story, however...
- Wayne
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SIX REASONS TO FEAR AND TO HOPE RE CLIMATE CHANGE
We Face a Major Series of Problems, but We Can Do Something
New York Magazine,
July, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yb46tds4
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COLLEAGUE COMMENT
Jean Koning,
Peterborough, ON.
July 12th, 2017
Dear Wayne:
Just getting around to reading (recent issues of Colleagues List), I want to comment on the story re the “commemorative event” which took place following the tragic destruction of the McDougall Stoney Mission Church. and I also wish to comment on your Anglican Journal articles focusing on diversity and social justice in the Canadian churches.
Colleagues List, May 28th, 2017
- http://tinyurl.com/ybulv6vt
Anglican Journal Column, June, 2017
- http://tinyurl.com/y9aqvbeq
The background information re the Stoney Mission Church was fascinating as it recounted the arrival of those Methodist missionaries into that part of Alberta which was First Peoples homeland territory. As a “white” (Anglican Church, British heritage woman), I immediately notice how this history speaks of the acceptance between these peoples of two very different cultures, coming together to share their lives as fellow human beings, with the newcomers learning the host peoples’ language so they could understand one another. This made it possible for the host people to be willing to share with the newcomers so that all, it seems to me, were able to benefit from whatever gifts each side had brought with them.
That happened 142 years ago, and I wonder what has happened to us, as peoples seeking to share our humanity with one another, in those intervening years. Have we (white/newcomer/settler) people changed in some way? If so, how? Have the First Peoples changed in some way? If so, how? What happened to our ability to communicate effectively with one another?
For me, of course, asking these questions has meant looking for answers.
In that quest, I have been immeasurably helped by my good fortune in having the time and inclination to study the language of the Ojibwe (Anishinaabe, as they know themselves) within whose territory I have lived for most of my 94-year life.; and to listen to their Elders, story tellers and knowledge-carriers who shared their history with me, most which is recorded (from all First Peoples tribal affiliations) in the numerous conferences, commissions, documentaries, books, plays and art now available to any who care to explore that.
For other Canadians and/or church people, those opportunities may not have been available, so it’s possible the same kind of understanding has not been reached. Moreover, following the release of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Report two years ago, a new awareness has begun to show in media, and within other areas of our public life, which means that people who knew nothing of the true history of the country we call Canada (and First Peoples know as Turtle island) are beginning to realize that there are some things they should perhaps check out – but where to start? Where to listen?
I suspect this also results in outright denial, with the minds of some people remaining firmly closed.
It is good to see the churches’ realization of First Peoples’ abilities to give all of us sound leadership in eco-justice and preservation of the earth which sustains us all.
With my thanks for the excellent reading in your Colleagues List, and many blessings for the future,
Jean.
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Elfrieda 'Schroeder,
Winnipeg, MB
"In Transit" Blog
July, 2017
"Heaven's Portal"
http://ens-intransit.blogspot.ca/
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James Wall,
Chicago, IL
Wall Writings
July 13th, 2017
"The Long Fights Against TV and Movie "Bad Arabs"
https://tinyurl.com/y8hf3yg3
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Dear Friends:
In some ways, these are lazy summer days in Calgary where I live. This has been the week of the famous Calgary Stampede, but Marlene and I chose to attend a concert at the Banff Summer Festival, instead.
The Special Items you see below centre on the Aga Khan, Eugene Peterson and climate change. I hope you find them interesting.
Net Notes, Wisdom of the Week, Moment in Time and On This Day - items follow as usual.
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, I hope that you too are finding the summer season good for you. Wherever you live, please enjoy this issue of Colleagues List!
Wayne
*****
SPECIAL ITEMS
FIFTY YEARS AN IMAM
Interview With the Aga Khan
Poverty, Climate and Demystifying Islam
Quartz,
July 11th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/y9ujhu7f
--
EUGENE PETERSON CHANGES HIS MIND ON GAY MARRIAGE
American Evangelical Leader Also Has Clear Views on Trump
Religion News Service,
July 12th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/y9qvqz89
Then After One Day, He Backtracks on SSM - But Why?
http://tinyurl.com/yap2sjxb
I suspect that this is not the end of the story, however...
- Wayne
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SIX REASONS TO FEAR AND TO HOPE RE CLIMATE CHANGE
We Face a Major Series of Problems, but We Can Do Something
New York Magazine,
July, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yb46tds4
*****
COLLEAGUE COMMENT
Jean Koning,
Peterborough, ON.
July 12th, 2017
Dear Wayne:
Just getting around to reading (recent issues of Colleagues List), I want to comment on the story re the “commemorative event” which took place following the tragic destruction of the McDougall Stoney Mission Church. and I also wish to comment on your Anglican Journal articles focusing on diversity and social justice in the Canadian churches.
Colleagues List, May 28th, 2017
- http://tinyurl.com/ybulv6vt
Anglican Journal Column, June, 2017
- http://tinyurl.com/y9aqvbeq
The background information re the Stoney Mission Church was fascinating as it recounted the arrival of those Methodist missionaries into that part of Alberta which was First Peoples homeland territory. As a “white” (Anglican Church, British heritage woman), I immediately notice how this history speaks of the acceptance between these peoples of two very different cultures, coming together to share their lives as fellow human beings, with the newcomers learning the host peoples’ language so they could understand one another. This made it possible for the host people to be willing to share with the newcomers so that all, it seems to me, were able to benefit from whatever gifts each side had brought with them.
That happened 142 years ago, and I wonder what has happened to us, as peoples seeking to share our humanity with one another, in those intervening years. Have we (white/newcomer/settler) people changed in some way? If so, how? Have the First Peoples changed in some way? If so, how? What happened to our ability to communicate effectively with one another?
For me, of course, asking these questions has meant looking for answers.
In that quest, I have been immeasurably helped by my good fortune in having the time and inclination to study the language of the Ojibwe (Anishinaabe, as they know themselves) within whose territory I have lived for most of my 94-year life.; and to listen to their Elders, story tellers and knowledge-carriers who shared their history with me, most which is recorded (from all First Peoples tribal affiliations) in the numerous conferences, commissions, documentaries, books, plays and art now available to any who care to explore that.
For other Canadians and/or church people, those opportunities may not have been available, so it’s possible the same kind of understanding has not been reached. Moreover, following the release of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Report two years ago, a new awareness has begun to show in media, and within other areas of our public life, which means that people who knew nothing of the true history of the country we call Canada (and First Peoples know as Turtle island) are beginning to realize that there are some things they should perhaps check out – but where to start? Where to listen?
I suspect this also results in outright denial, with the minds of some people remaining firmly closed.
It is good to see the churches’ realization of First Peoples’ abilities to give all of us sound leadership in eco-justice and preservation of the earth which sustains us all.
With my thanks for the excellent reading in your Colleagues List, and many blessings for the future,
Jean.
*****
COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Elfrieda 'Schroeder,
Winnipeg, MB
"In Transit" Blog
July, 2017
"Heaven's Portal"
http://ens-intransit.blogspot.ca/
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James Wall,
Chicago, IL
Wall Writings
July 13th, 2017
"The Long Fights Against TV and Movie "Bad Arabs"
https://tinyurl.com/y8hf3yg3
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Ron Rolheiser,
July 10th, 2017
"Understanding Grace More Deeply"
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Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL
Sightings
July 10th, 2017
"Euthanasia, Dignity and Spirituality Lite"
(An American Perspective)
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Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log
July 10th, 2017
"Too Much and Too Little at Once"
Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log
July 10th, 2017
"Too Much and Too Little at Once"
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NET NOTES
LUTHER'S REVOLUTION
He Changed a Lot of Things
The Nation,
July/August, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/yd9xgf73
NET NOTES
LUTHER'S REVOLUTION
He Changed a Lot of Things
The Nation,
July/August, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/yd9xgf73
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FRANCIS APPROVES
A NEW PATH TO SAINTHOOD
Modern Martyrdom is a Way
to Point People to God
UCA News
July 11th, 2017
FRANCIS APPROVES
A NEW PATH TO SAINTHOOD
Modern Martyrdom is a Way
to Point People to God
UCA News
July 11th, 2017
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JANE AUSTEN'S STUFF
What We Can Learn From It
Two Hundred Years Later
New York Times Review of Books
July 16th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yd9ulpm7
JANE AUSTEN'S STUFF
What We Can Learn From It
Two Hundred Years Later
New York Times Review of Books
July 16th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yd9ulpm7
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INFLUENTIAL JESUIT EDITOR CONDEMNS
AMERICAN RELIGIOUS RIGHT
Italian Catholic Journalist
Influential in Vatican Circles
Religious News Service,
July 13th, 2017
INFLUENTIAL JESUIT EDITOR CONDEMNS
AMERICAN RELIGIOUS RIGHT
Italian Catholic Journalist
Influential in Vatican Circles
Religious News Service,
July 13th, 2017
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WHEN CHRISTIANITY TURNS YOU
INTO A WORSE PERSON
Recognizing Our Blind Spots
Christian Week,
July 11th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yacfqsw4
WHEN CHRISTIANITY TURNS YOU
INTO A WORSE PERSON
Recognizing Our Blind Spots
Christian Week,
July 11th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yacfqsw4
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CANADIAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS STRUGGLE
WITH EUTHANASIA, FUNERALS
Conservative Catholic Views Face
Hard Challenge in Modern Canada
America Magazine,
July 14th, 2017
CANADIAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS STRUGGLE
WITH EUTHANASIA, FUNERALS
Conservative Catholic Views Face
Hard Challenge in Modern Canada
America Magazine,
July 14th, 2017
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CANADIAN MUSLIM MULTI-FAITH CONFERENCE
IS OPEN TO ALL - A Gesture of Hospitality
CBC.ca News
July 9th, 2017
CANADIAN MUSLIM MULTI-FAITH CONFERENCE
IS OPEN TO ALL - A Gesture of Hospitality
CBC.ca News
July 9th, 2017
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
From Sojourners and the Bruderhof Online:
Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
From Sojourners and the Bruderhof Online:
Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
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The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the
circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and
how it is said.
- Václav Havel
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Hatred can rot away at a person's intelligence and conscience.
Enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a nation, incite cruel
mortal struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity,
and hinder a nation's progress toward freedom and democracy.
- Liu Xiaobo
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Hatred can rot away at a person's intelligence and conscience.
Enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a nation, incite cruel
mortal struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity,
and hinder a nation's progress toward freedom and democracy.
- Liu Xiaobo
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When we get our spiritual houses in order, we’ll be dead.
This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to
make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don’t expect
faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty.
- Flannery O’Connor
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Yes, it is time to examine the past with courage, to assign
responsibility where it is due in a review of the long history
of humanity. Women have contributed to that history as much
as men and, more often than not, they did so in much more
difficult conditions.
- Pope John Paul II
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Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it be a brief, single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is only this. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Has it ever struck you that those who most fear to die are the ones who most fear to live? Life is flexible and free, and you are rigid and frozen. Life carries all things away, and you crave stability and permanence. You fear life and death because you cling. You cannot bear the thought of losing a relative or friend; you dread losing a pet theory or ideology or belief. When you cling to nothing, when you have no fear of losing anything, then you are free to flow like a mountain stream that is always fresh and sparkling and alive.
Has it ever struck you that those who most fear to die are the ones who most fear to live? Life is flexible and free, and you are rigid and frozen. Life carries all things away, and you crave stability and permanence. You fear life and death because you cling. You cannot bear the thought of losing a relative or friend; you dread losing a pet theory or ideology or belief. When you cling to nothing, when you have no fear of losing anything, then you are free to flow like a mountain stream that is always fresh and sparkling and alive.
- Anthony de Mello
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MOMENT IN TIME
Globe and Mail
July 10th, 2017
American Expansionism:
Globe and Mail
July 10th, 2017
American Expansionism:
Globe adamantly opposes U.S.’s northern ambitions, July 10, 1867:
William Seward, the expansionist U.S. secretary of state, negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, and had further hopes for American hegemony. He proposed that the United States buy Iceland, Greenland, Hawaii and parts of the Caribbean, and thought all of North America should join the U.S. The Globe rejected this idea in a July editorial declaring the North Pole would never belong to the Americans “and still less the intervening country between that delectable spot and the present Northern border of the United States.”
The people of British America, the paper said, will “stand by the old flag to the last man and to the last cartridge.” Fortunately, British Columbia was planning to join Confederation, and that would help Canada“absorb and open up” the prairies, thus creating “a new nationality on this continent, superior, we hope, to that which exists south of the Province line.”
– Richard Blackwell
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MOMENT IN TIME
Globe and Mail,
July 11th, 2017
The Oka Crisis:
Globe and Mail,
July 11th, 2017
The Oka Crisis:
The Oka crisis peaks July 11, 1990: When the mayor of Oka, Que., announced the expansion of a golf course and condo development on land the Mohawk of the Kanesatake had claimed for generations, tensions rose. To stop the construction, Mohawk protesters built a barricade and ignored official calls to remove it. On July 11, 1990, provincial police attacked the barricade with tear gas and concussion grenades, and a short gunfight killed Sûreté du Québec officer Marcel Lemay. It was the start of a 78-day standoff. After a month of
retaliation, the RCMP and the army got involved and the protest dragged on for almost three months before the standoff ended.
The Oka crisis brought increased attention to Indigenous land rights and began a new era of activism. The land title remains unresolved, but in July, 2015, Oka Mayor Pascal Quevillon and Kanesatake Grand Chief Serge Simon agreed to restrict development.
- Kabrena Robinson
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ON THIS DAY
From the Archives of the New York Times
"The Battle of Britain Begins"
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CLOSING THOUGHT - - J. Heinrich Arnold
Be straightforward and honest about your true feelings. Rather be too rude than too smooth, too blunt than too kind. Rather say an unkind word that is true than one that is “nice” but un-genuine.
You can always be sorry for an unkind word, but hypocrisy causes permanent harm.
(end)
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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,
Follow these notices for weekly updates.
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For Those Interested -
ST. DAVID'S ACTS MONDAY NIGHT FALL STUDY
A Ten Week Series September 18th -November 27th, 2017
Monday Evenings, TM Room 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
"CONVICTIONS - How I Learned What Matters Most"
http://tinyurl.com/ybyu3msx
Author: Marcus Borg
Registration/Hospitality and Book: $60.00.
Book only: $20.00
35 copies of the book have been secured for sale.
Registration and Book Sale Begins - August 27th
Read my background information on the study book:
http://cep.anglican.ca/convictions/
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Here is some course content from our
completed Monday Night Winter 2017 Study:
"How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a
Jewish Preacher from Galilee" by Bart D. Ehrman
https://tinyurl.com/j3nv7nd
Check our entire archives for all 49 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 September 21st- November 30th, 2017
Biblical book(s) to be studied this autumn to be determined
by the class at the first session of the term, Thursday, Sept. 21st.
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 ACTS MONDAY NIGHT FALL STUDY
A Ten Week Series September 18th -November 27th, 2017
Monday Evenings, TM Room 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
"CONVICTIONS - How I Learned What Matters Most"
http://tinyurl.com/ybyu3msx
Author: Marcus Borg
Registration/Hospitality and Book: $60.00.
Book only: $20.00
35 copies of the book have been secured for sale.
Registration and Book Sale Begins - August 27th
Read my background information on the study book:
http://cep.anglican.ca/convictions/
--
Here is some course content from our
completed Monday Night Winter 2017 Study:
"How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a
Jewish Preacher from Galilee" by Bart D. Ehrman
https://tinyurl.com/j3nv7nd
studied since 2000:
During the 2016-2017 two session-term -
Total class registrations: 70
Total books sold: 75
Our best year ever, since 1998!
***
ST. DAVID'S ACTS THURSDAY MORNING STUDY
Ten Sessions September 21st- November 30th, 2017
Biblical book(s) to be studied this autumn to be determined
by the class at the first session of the term, Thursday, Sept. 21st.
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
***
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, thirty persons
have put down deposits to claim a special saving.,
but some have had to withdraw.
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.
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, thirty persons
have put down deposits to claim a special saving.,
but some have had to withdraw.
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.
Three months from now we leave for South Africa!
Contact Rostad Tours: http://tinyurl.com/hucsaf7
Three 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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