Colleagues List, October 8th, 2017

Vol. XIII No. 16

CANADIAN THANKSGIVING EDITION
 
GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
 
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
My E-Mail Address:waholst@telus.net
 
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SPECIAL ITEM

My Anglican Journal column for September, 2017

“An Amazing Witness to Gospel Values“

https://tinyurl.com/yd5cz5py

 

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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS

Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC

Personal Web Log
October 4th, 2017

“Taking Casual Pleasantries Seriously“
  https://tinyurl.com/y7s2j5qo

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Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL.

Sightings,
October 2nd, 2017

“Freud and Other God-Killers are Here To Stay“
  https://tinyurl.com/y8eww4sp

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Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.

Sermon Blog
October 3rd, 2017

“Change Your Mind“
  https://tinyurl.com/y7x45yzc

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John Stackhouse, Jr.
Moncton, NB

Personal Blog,
October 3rd, 2017

“The New Atheists Should Get Out More“
  https://tinyurl.com/ych77fg5

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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX.

Personal Web Site
October 2nd, 2017

“Healthy and Unhealthy Fear of God“
  https://tinyurl.com/y8r9o6cp

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NET NOTES

WHAT LUTHER'S IDEALS MEAN TODAY
Why We Should Care After 500 Years

UToday, University of Calgary
October 6th, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/ycl4zx5j

United Church Observer,
October, 2017

“A Complicated Icon“

 

https://tinyurl.com/yaqdt9vp

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THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS DISCOVERY
Still Riveting After 70 Years

Religion News Service,
October 5th, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/y9c6y8vc

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POPE HIGHLIGHTS DANGERS OF FAKE NEWS
He Endorses Values of Professional Journalism

The Tablet, UK
September 29th, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/yb7d2fvx

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CANTERBURY IN TIGHT SPOT OVER GAY SEX ISSUE
Anglican Communion Deeply Divided on the Matter

The Guardian,
October 2nd, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/y8bttk59

 

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SOME THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT LUTHER
The Man Who Sparked the Protestant Reformation
A Evangelical Protestant Perspective on the Reformer

 

Christian Week,
October 4th, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/y7s66b6f

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UCC MODERATOR SPEAKS AFTER EDMONTON ATTACK
Advises Against Hate and Xenophobic Rhetoric

UCC Web Site
October 2nd, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/ybu2ngm7

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TAIZE BROTHERS HELP TROUBLED EGYPTIAN CHRISTIANS
Their Visit Attempts to Boost Moral There

La Croix International
October 3rd, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/y84a2lw2

 

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THE BETRAYAL OF VIETNAM'S FORGOTTEN CHRISTIANS
Montagnard Christians to be deported from Cambodia
despite UN refugee agency arguing they are refugees

UCA News
October 2nd, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/ya3dqzub
 

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AFTER THE LAS VEGAS MASSACRE, A CHURCH
SEIZES THE CHANCE TO SERVE
Opportunity in the Midst of Crisis

Religion News Service
October 2th, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/y839bb32

 

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SIGNIFICANT ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES
MADE RECENTLY IN TURKEY AND EGYPT
Church of St.  Nicholas and Statue of Ramses II
Found in Antalya and Heliopolis Respectively
(Father Christmas and Possible Pharaoh of the Exodus)

Newsweek,
October 3rd, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/y8hx4b9u

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MOMENT IN TIME

Sinead O’Connor tears into the Pope

Oct. 3, 1992: The 1990 hit Nothing Compares 2 U made Sinead O’Connor a star. But two years later, a Saturday Night Live performance nearly ended her career. On a live broadcast, O’Connor sang an a cappella rendition of Bob Marley’s War, changing some of the lyrics to draw attention to child abuse in the Catholic Church. “We have confidence in the victory of good over evil,” she sang, then held up a photo of Pope John Paul II, and tore it into pieces. “Fight the real enemy,” she said before exiting the stage. In 1992, most people were not aware of the Catholic Church’s role in covering up sex abuse and O’Connor was shunned by many fans and fellow musicians. A Catholic herself, O’Connor became a priest in a breakaway of the church in 1999 and remains a vocal critic of organized religion.

– Sherrill Sutherland

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WISDOM OF THE WEEK

In violence, we forget who we are.

- Mary McCarthy

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I object to violence because when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it, and responsible for changing it.

- Grace Lee Boggs

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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Alva Edison

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God does not condemn us to hell; God wishes all humans to be saved. He will love us to all eternity, but there will exist the possibility that we do not accept the love and do not respond to it. And the refusal to accept love, the refusal to respond to it, that precisely is the meaning of hell. Hell is not a place where God puts us; it is a place where we put ourselves. The doors of hell, insofar as they have locks, have locks on the inside.

- Kallistos Ware

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There is no such thing as the right place, the right job, the right calling or ministry. I can be happy or unhappy in all situations. I am sure of it, because I have been. I have felt distraught and joyful in situations of abundance as well as poverty, in situations of popularity and anonymity, in situations of success and failure. The difference was never based on the situation itself, but always on my state of mind
and heart. When I knew I was walking with God, I always felt happy and at peace. When I was entangled in my own complaints and emotional needs, I always felt restless and divided.

- Henri J. M. Nouwen

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Everyone who struggles for justice, everyone who makes just claims in unjust surroundings, is working for God’s reign, even if not a Christian. The church does not comprise all of God’s reign; that goes beyond the church’s boundaries. The church values everything that is in tune with its struggle to set up God’s reign. A church that tries to keep itself pure and uncontaminated would not be a church of God’s service to people. The authentic church is one that does not mind conversing with prostitutes and publicans and sinners, as Christ did – and with Marxists and those of various political movements – in order to bring them salvation’s true message.

- Oscar Romero

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So, in beholding the glory of the Trinity in creation, we must contemplate, sing, and rediscover wonder. In contemporary society people become indifferent “not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder” (G. K. Chesterton).…Nature thus becomes a gospel which speaks to us of God: “from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator” (Wis 13: 5)

.… But this capacity for contemplation and knowledge, this discovery of a transcendent presence in created things must lead us also to rediscover our kinship with the earth, to which we have been linked since our own creation (Gen. 2:7). This is precisely the goal which the Old Testament wished for the  Hebrew Jubilee, when the land was at rest and man ate what the fields spontaneously gave him (Lev. 25:11-12). If nature is not violated and degraded, it once again becomes man’s sister.

- Pope John Paul II

 

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CLOSING THOUGHT - Mahatma Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

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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

40 copies of the book have been sold.
Classes have now begun with strong attendences.
 Read my background information on the study book:

http://cep.anglican.ca/convictions/

Check our entire archives for all 49 books studied since 2000: http://tinyurl.com/q3bw6dh 

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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 were determined
by the class at the first session of the term, Thursday, Sept. 21st.

 

THE GOSPEL OF JOHN - THE LETTERS OF JOHN

A Study of Similarities and Differences

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

Twenty-five persons have registered and paid
in full to take the trip. This will be our tour group.
All together,  thirty-two persons made deposits
but some had to withdraw for health or other
reasons.
 

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 notify

back home each day's activities so everyone can

enjoy the experience, at least indirectly.

In about three weeks from now we leave for South Africa!

Contact Rostad Tours: http://tinyurl.com/hucsaf7

Follow these notices for weekly updates.

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