GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:
I continue to produce a weekly issue of Colleagues List through the summer this year as I will be missing a number of weeks this autumn due to our St. David's Spiritual Travelers tour of South Africa.
Two colleagues provide Special Items this week. John Stackhouse Jr. of Moncton NB writes a brief history of Evangelicalism in Canada to recognize Canada's 150th anniversary. Don Smith, emeritus history professor at the University of Calgary writes about Egerton Ryerson of Upper Canada (Ontario) who, he claims, was a strong advocate for Indigenous People in this country.
The rest of this issue contains notes from the net, some wisdom as well as special events worth noting.
Thanks for joining me again this week.
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEMS
The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of
EVANGELICALISM IN CANADA
From Confederation to Today
by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Moncton, NB.
Faith Today, July/August 2017
http://tinyurl.com/y74rpohn
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EGERTON RYERSON DOESN'T DESERVE
AN ANTI-INDIGENOUS LABEL
by Donald Smith,
Calgary, AB.
Globe and Mail,
July 5th, 2017
Dear Friends:
I continue to produce a weekly issue of Colleagues List through the summer this year as I will be missing a number of weeks this autumn due to our St. David's Spiritual Travelers tour of South Africa.
Two colleagues provide Special Items this week. John Stackhouse Jr. of Moncton NB writes a brief history of Evangelicalism in Canada to recognize Canada's 150th anniversary. Don Smith, emeritus history professor at the University of Calgary writes about Egerton Ryerson of Upper Canada (Ontario) who, he claims, was a strong advocate for Indigenous People in this country.
The rest of this issue contains notes from the net, some wisdom as well as special events worth noting.
Thanks for joining me again this week.
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEMS
The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of
EVANGELICALISM IN CANADA
From Confederation to Today
by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Moncton, NB.
Faith Today, July/August 2017
http://tinyurl.com/y74rpohn
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EGERTON RYERSON DOESN'T DESERVE
AN ANTI-INDIGENOUS LABEL
by Donald Smith,
Calgary, AB.
Globe and Mail,
July 5th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ybaqnqwv
“As a Canadian historian of nearly half a century’s standing,
I find the current controversy over Egerton Ryerson, the
namesake of Ryerson University, totally baffling. I wonder
how deeply his critics have probed into the past of the
founder of the modern Ontario public-school system. Their
portrayal of him as anti-Indigenous misrepresents the man
completely.” – Donald Smith
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL
Sightings,
July 3rd, 2017
"The Precarious Vision of Peter Berger"
https://tinyurl.com/ybhdc4w6
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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Website,
July 3rd, 2017
"Inchoate Desire"
https://tinyurl.com/yaxvyjmc
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Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log,
July 5th, 2017
"Colonial Mindset - The Question We Have Never Asked"
https://tinyurl.com/ycvcme5v
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NET NOTES
SELFIE GENERATION
(Cartoon)
Christianity Today,
July 4th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y8pxlefc
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PEOPLE FROM 16 COUNTRIES
BECOME CANADIANS
University Campus Provides
Venue for 150th Celebration
UToday,
University of Calgary Events
July 7th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yanb7xnl
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GENDER-NEUTRAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES
GENDER-NEUTRAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES
Most Canadians Opposed for Their Province
Angus Reid Institute
July 7th, 2017
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INDIAN PM'S VISIT TO ISRAEL OPENS DOORS
Jews in India See Hope for a New Era for Them
UCA News,
July 6th, 2017
INDIAN PM'S VISIT TO ISRAEL OPENS DOORS
Jews in India See Hope for a New Era for Them
UCA News,
July 6th, 2017
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UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA EMBRACES START-UPS
A New Approach to Mission Among Millennials
Globe and Mail
July 3rd, 2017
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA EMBRACES START-UPS
A New Approach to Mission Among Millennials
Globe and Mail
July 3rd, 2017
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SIX REASONS FOR SUPPORTING WOMEN
IN CHURCH LEADERSHIP
A Canadian Evangelical Perspective
Solid Tradition, Open to the Future
Christian Week Online
July 3rd, 2017
SIX REASONS FOR SUPPORTING WOMEN
IN CHURCH LEADERSHIP
A Canadian Evangelical Perspective
Solid Tradition, Open to the Future
Christian Week Online
July 3rd, 2017
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RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS PARANOIA
IN TRUMP'S WARSAW SPEECH
Skewed Definition of America
The Atlantic Online
July 6th, 2017
1,400 YEAR OLD CHURCH FOUND
AMONG RUINS OF HOLY ISLAND, UK
Lindisfarne Site, Ancient Mission to Pagans
Christian Post
June 5th, 2017
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REFORMED CHURCHES MOVE
TO RECONCILE WITH LUTHERANS
Another Result of Efforts Relating to
500th Anniversary of the Reformation
World Communion of Reformed Churches Website
July 6th, 2017
REFORMED CHURCHES MOVE
TO RECONCILE WITH LUTHERANS
Another Result of Efforts Relating to
500th Anniversary of the Reformation
World Communion of Reformed Churches Website
July 6th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ybja8o6h
"Reformed Churches Endorse
Lutheran-Catholic Accord -
Extending Impact of 50 Year Dialogue"
Religion News Service
July 6th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ycum9glh
"Reformed Churches Endorse
Lutheran-Catholic Accord -
Extending Impact of 50 Year Dialogue"
Religion News Service
July 6th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ycum9glh
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
From Sojourners and the Bruderhof Online:
From Sojourners and the Bruderhof Online:
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth
upon them.
- Ida B. Wells
- Ida B. Wells
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We can say "Peace on Earth." We can sing about it, preach
about it, or pray about it, but if we have not Internalized the
mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
- Betty Shabazz
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Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable
visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone,
keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some
meaning in all that happens – these things, too, are the works
of peace.
- Dorothy Day
visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone,
keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some
meaning in all that happens – these things, too, are the works
of peace.
- Dorothy Day
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We live in a time when the good faith of peoples is doubted
more than ever before. Expressions throwing doubt on the
trustworthiness of each other are bandied back and forth.…
We cannot continue in this paralyzing mistrust. If we want
to work our way out of the desperate situation in which we
find ourselves, another spirit must enter into the people.…
We must approach them in the spirit that we are human
beings, all of us, and that we feel ourselves fitted to feel
with each other; to think and will together in the same way.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he
knows not, though he sometimes thinks he feels it. But from
the view point of daily life – without going deeper – we exist
for each other; in the first place,for those on whose smiles
and welfare all our happiness depends, and next, for all those
unknown to us personally, with whose destinies we are bound
up by the tie of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind
myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of
others, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order
to give in the same measure as I have received and am still
receiving.
- Albert Einstein
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People ask me what advice I have for a married couple
struggling in their relationship. I always answer, “Pray
and forgive”; and to young people who come from violent
homes, “Pray and forgive”; and to the single mother with
no family support, “Pray and forgive.” You can say, “My
Lord, I love You. My God, I am sorry. My God, I believe
in You. My God, I trust You. Help us to love one another
as You love us.”
- Mother Teresa
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MOMENT IN TIME
Globe and Mail,
July 5th, 2017
Newton’s Principia published July 5, 1687: “I have in this treatise cultivated mathematics as far as it regards philosophy,” Isaac Newton wrote in the preface to his epoch-making description of the laws of motion and gravity. What that meant in practice was a revolutionary way of thinking, replacing rhetoric with a set of elegant mathematical
rules that reveal why physical objects behave as they do. Newton had laid the intellectual groundwork more than two decades earlier, when he was still in his 20s, but he did not start writing Principia until 1684, when it became clear that rivals were beginning to make headway on problems he had already solved.
Today, students still brush up against Newton’s famous laws, but Principia’s real impact was in demonstrating that the universe has a rational order that can be discerned by the human mind. It would become civilization’s best defence against superstition and magical thinking. - Ivan Semeniuk
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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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People ask me what advice I have for a married couple
struggling in their relationship. I always answer, “Pray
and forgive”; and to young people who come from violent
homes, “Pray and forgive”; and to the single mother with
no family support, “Pray and forgive.” You can say, “My
Lord, I love You. My God, I am sorry. My God, I believe
in You. My God, I trust You. Help us to love one another
as You love us.”
- Mother Teresa
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MOMENT IN TIME
Globe and Mail,
July 5th, 2017
Newton’s Principia published July 5, 1687: “I have in this treatise cultivated mathematics as far as it regards philosophy,” Isaac Newton wrote in the preface to his epoch-making description of the laws of motion and gravity. What that meant in practice was a revolutionary way of thinking, replacing rhetoric with a set of elegant mathematical
rules that reveal why physical objects behave as they do. Newton had laid the intellectual groundwork more than two decades earlier, when he was still in his 20s, but he did not start writing Principia until 1684, when it became clear that rivals were beginning to make headway on problems he had already solved.
Today, students still brush up against Newton’s famous laws, but Principia’s real impact was in demonstrating that the universe has a rational order that can be discerned by the human mind. It would become civilization’s best defence against superstition and magical thinking. - Ivan Semeniuk
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CLOSING THOUGHT - - Arthur Ashe
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not
the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge
to serve others at whatever cost.
(end)
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not
the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge
to serve others at whatever cost.
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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 classat 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!
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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 classat 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 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-five 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.
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-five 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
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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