GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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SPECIAL ITEM
My Anglican Journal column for July, 2017 -
"Enlarging Our Faith Communities"
Ecumenical and Inter-faith Developments
http://tinyurl.com/ycwsceq3
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log
July 17th, 2017
"Forest Fires Affect More than Humans"
http://tinyurl.com/y77lru4v
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Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL
Sightings,
July 17th, 2017
"Ayn Rand Mugged"
http://tinyurl.com/y7j8n222
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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Web Site
July 27th, 2017
"The Gospel Challenge to Enjoy Our Lives"
http://tinyurl.com/y86r7zvu
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Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.
Blog Site
July 15th, 2017
"Thumbs Up!"
http://tinyurl.com/yc3flzsu
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NET NOTES
HUNDREDS OF BOYS ABUSED
AT GERMAN CHOIR SCHOOL
A Growing Catholic Tragedy
America Magazine,
July 18th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ybt39tug
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THE LEGALIZATION OF RECREATIONAL
DRUG USE IN CANADA AND FAITH
An Evangelical Canadian Perspective
on Marijuana and Related Drugs
Christian Week Online
July 18th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ya3kkc4q
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THE US CHRISTIAN LGBT DEBATE
IS FAR FROM OVER
More on the Eugene Peterson Story
Religion News Service,
July 14th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ybqmuxsa
"When the (American) Evangelical Establishment
Comes After You..."
Religion News Service,
July 17th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yagnsdkh
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JIMMY CARTER RESTING AFTER
RELEASE FROM WINNIPEG HOSPITAL
Habitat for Humanity Jaunt a Bit Too Much
CBC.ca
July 14th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y94wcnmp
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SALEM MEMORIALIZES THOSE KILLED
DURING THE INFAMOUS WITCH TRIALS
An Early American National Tragedy
The Two-Way, National Public Radio
July 19th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y8klfys2
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CATHOLICS AND LUTHERANS IN HONG KONG
MUTUALLY ENDORSE ECUMENICAL STUDY
"From Conflict to Communion" Expands to Asia
UCA News
July 20th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/ybrrgapb
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FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY CLOSING
SOME OF ITS REGIONAL CAMPUSES
Major Evangelical Seminary Shifting
to Electronic-Distance Education
Christianity Today,
July 19th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y9thheoh
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SAUDI WOMAN IN MINISKIRT ARRESTED
AFTER PUBLIC OUTCRY IN DUBAI, U.A.E.
Conservative Islamic Views Run Deep
Religion News Service
July 18th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yaz9hv82
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JEWISH-GENTILE INTERMARRIAGE IN AMERICA
AND THE INTERNAL CONFLICT WITHIN JUDAISM
Long-Standing Issue Now Confronts Modernism
The Atlantic Online
July, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yadfrs8q
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"EVEN IN DEATH WE FIND NO PEACE"
Conflict Erupts Over Muslim Cemetery in Quebec
Globe and Mail,
July 19th, 2017
“If I were a bigot, the only Muslim I’d love is a dead one. So supporting a Muslim cemetery should have been a no-brainer. But like all things associated with Islam these days, dead Muslims are as controversial as live ones. Residents of the tiny Quebec town of Saint-Apollinaire, population 6,000 (no Muslims), voted this week against allowing a new cemetery in a wooded area on the edge of town. … Some say this is a racist decision. Ironically, this started when six Muslim men were shot in Quebec City’s Islamic Cultural Centre in January, which forced the community to look for a cemetery close to home. And as usual, these days for Muslims, what is normally a non-issue became a lightning rod for controversy.”
- Zarqa Nawaz, creator of "Little Mosque on the Prairie" and author of "Laughing All the Way to the Mosque"
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SPECIAL ITEM
My Anglican Journal column for July, 2017 -
"Enlarging Our Faith Communities"
Ecumenical and Inter-faith Developments
http://tinyurl.com/ycwsceq3
COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log
July 17th, 2017
"Forest Fires Affect More than Humans"
http://tinyurl.com/y77lru4v
--
Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL
Sightings,
July 17th, 2017
"Ayn Rand Mugged"
http://tinyurl.com/y7j8n222
--
Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Web Site
July 27th, 2017
"The Gospel Challenge to Enjoy Our Lives"
http://tinyurl.com/y86r7zvu
--
Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.
Blog Site
July 15th, 2017
"Thumbs Up!"
http://tinyurl.com/yc3flzsu
NET NOTES
HUNDREDS OF BOYS ABUSED
AT GERMAN CHOIR SCHOOL
A Growing Catholic Tragedy
America Magazine,
July 18th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ybt39tug
--
THE LEGALIZATION OF RECREATIONAL
DRUG USE IN CANADA AND FAITH
An Evangelical Canadian Perspective
on Marijuana and Related Drugs
Christian Week Online
July 18th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ya3kkc4q
--
THE US CHRISTIAN LGBT DEBATE
IS FAR FROM OVER
More on the Eugene Peterson Story
Religion News Service,
July 14th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ybqmuxsa
"When the (American) Evangelical Establishment
Comes After You..."
Religion News Service,
July 17th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yagnsdkh
--
JIMMY CARTER RESTING AFTER
RELEASE FROM WINNIPEG HOSPITAL
Habitat for Humanity Jaunt a Bit Too Much
CBC.ca
July 14th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y94wcnmp
--
SALEM MEMORIALIZES THOSE KILLED
DURING THE INFAMOUS WITCH TRIALS
An Early American National Tragedy
The Two-Way, National Public Radio
July 19th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y8klfys2
--
CATHOLICS AND LUTHERANS IN HONG KONG
MUTUALLY ENDORSE ECUMENICAL STUDY
"From Conflict to Communion" Expands to Asia
UCA News
July 20th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/ybrrgapb
--
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY CLOSING
SOME OF ITS REGIONAL CAMPUSES
Major Evangelical Seminary Shifting
to Electronic-Distance Education
Christianity Today,
July 19th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y9thheoh
--
SAUDI WOMAN IN MINISKIRT ARRESTED
AFTER PUBLIC OUTCRY IN DUBAI, U.A.E.
Conservative Islamic Views Run Deep
Religion News Service
July 18th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yaz9hv82
--
JEWISH-GENTILE INTERMARRIAGE IN AMERICA
AND THE INTERNAL CONFLICT WITHIN JUDAISM
Long-Standing Issue Now Confronts Modernism
The Atlantic Online
July, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yadfrs8q
--
"EVEN IN DEATH WE FIND NO PEACE"
Conflict Erupts Over Muslim Cemetery in Quebec
Globe and Mail,
July 19th, 2017
“If I were a bigot, the only Muslim I’d love is a dead one. So supporting a Muslim cemetery should have been a no-brainer. But like all things associated with Islam these days, dead Muslims are as controversial as live ones. Residents of the tiny Quebec town of Saint-Apollinaire, population 6,000 (no Muslims), voted this week against allowing a new cemetery in a wooded area on the edge of town. … Some say this is a racist decision. Ironically, this started when six Muslim men were shot in Quebec City’s Islamic Cultural Centre in January, which forced the community to look for a cemetery close to home. And as usual, these days for Muslims, what is normally a non-issue became a lightning rod for controversy.”
- Zarqa Nawaz, creator of "Little Mosque on the Prairie" and author of "Laughing All the Way to the Mosque"
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
- Louisa May Alcott
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We must ignore our pains and preference, our own longing for sympathy and peace, our times of weakness, anguish, desolation, and fatigue; we must go on giving, up to the limit and beyond. Christ himself groaned in spirit at the effort demanded of him. He knew what virtue had gone out; he gave a costly, not an easy restoration to the fallen and weak. He bore our burdens and carried our sorrows.
- Evelyn Underhill
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To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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If you are searching for God and do not know where to begin, learn to pray. Take the trouble to pray every day. You can pray anytime, anywhere. You can pray at work – work doesn’t have to stop prayer and prayer doesn’t have to stop work. Tell him everything; talk to him. He is our father; he is father to us all, whatever religion we are. We are all created by God, we are his children. We have to put our trust in him and love him, believe in him, and work for him. If we pray, we will get all the answers we need.
- Mother Teresa
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A Small Needful Fact
Is that Eric Garner worked
for some time for the Parks and Rec.
Horticultural Department, which means,
perhaps, that with his very large hands,
perhaps, in all likelihood,
he put gently into the earth
some plants which, most likely,
some of them, in all likelihood,
continue to grow, continue
to do what such plants do, like house
and feed small and necessary creatures,
like being pleasant to touch and smell,
like converting sunlight
into food, like making it easier
for us to breathe.
- Ross Gay
If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
- Louisa May Alcott
--
We must ignore our pains and preference, our own longing for sympathy and peace, our times of weakness, anguish, desolation, and fatigue; we must go on giving, up to the limit and beyond. Christ himself groaned in spirit at the effort demanded of him. He knew what virtue had gone out; he gave a costly, not an easy restoration to the fallen and weak. He bore our burdens and carried our sorrows.
- Evelyn Underhill
--
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
--
If you are searching for God and do not know where to begin, learn to pray. Take the trouble to pray every day. You can pray anytime, anywhere. You can pray at work – work doesn’t have to stop prayer and prayer doesn’t have to stop work. Tell him everything; talk to him. He is our father; he is father to us all, whatever religion we are. We are all created by God, we are his children. We have to put our trust in him and love him, believe in him, and work for him. If we pray, we will get all the answers we need.
- Mother Teresa
--
A Small Needful Fact
Is that Eric Garner worked
for some time for the Parks and Rec.
Horticultural Department, which means,
perhaps, that with his very large hands,
perhaps, in all likelihood,
he put gently into the earth
some plants which, most likely,
some of them, in all likelihood,
continue to grow, continue
to do what such plants do, like house
and feed small and necessary creatures,
like being pleasant to touch and smell,
like converting sunlight
into food, like making it easier
for us to breathe.
- Ross Gay
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MOMENT IN TIME
MOMENT IN TIME
Globe and Mail,
July 20th, 2017
July 20th, 2017
Chinese head tax begins
July 20, 1885: Canada may be known for welcoming immigrants today, but it wasn’t always that way. One of the country’s darkest policies was a head tax on Chinese immigrants, enacted on this day in 1885. Chinese workers first arrived in 1858 to sift for gold and then to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. By the mid-1880s, up to 17,000 Chinese people had settled in Canada, largely in British Columbia. The head tax was the first piece of Canadian legislation that discriminated against immigrants based on ethnicity. It lasted for 38 years, rising from $50 to $500 a person (equivalent to more than $10,000 today), which was two years’ wages for the average labourer at the time. In 1923, the head tax ended, but Chinese immigration was all but banned until 1947, leaving many families separated. It wasn’t until 2006 that the Canadian government officially apologized for the policy. – Iain Boekhoff
July 20, 1885: Canada may be known for welcoming immigrants today, but it wasn’t always that way. One of the country’s darkest policies was a head tax on Chinese immigrants, enacted on this day in 1885. Chinese workers first arrived in 1858 to sift for gold and then to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. By the mid-1880s, up to 17,000 Chinese people had settled in Canada, largely in British Columbia. The head tax was the first piece of Canadian legislation that discriminated against immigrants based on ethnicity. It lasted for 38 years, rising from $50 to $500 a person (equivalent to more than $10,000 today), which was two years’ wages for the average labourer at the time. In 1923, the head tax ended, but Chinese immigration was all but banned until 1947, leaving many families separated. It wasn’t until 2006 that the Canadian government officially apologized for the policy. – Iain Boekhoff
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CLOSING THOUGHT - Thornton Wilder
Soon we shall die and all memory of those we have known will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them.
Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Soon we shall die and all memory of those we have known will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them.
Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
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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. If we reach 29 deposits
you will be added to a waiting list and can 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. If we reach 29 deposits
you will be added to a waiting list and can still join
us in the event someone has to drop out.
We have activated 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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