GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
My E-Mail Address: wholst@telus.net
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Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:
I planned to use my May column about Gandhi
for this week's Special Item on Colleagues List,
but it is not yet available. I hope to share it here
when my next CL issue appears on June 10th.
Here are a number of items I hope you will find
interesting, and I look forward to including you
in my readership two plus weeks from now.
Wayne
*****
COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log,
May 20th, 2018
"US Embassy Move Misreads the Bible"
https://tinyurl.com/ybknnnjc
--
Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL
"Too Many Liberals in the Liberal Arts"
https://tinyurl.com/y9a2nrtv
--
Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Web Site
May 21st, 2018
"On Friendship"
https://tinyurl.com/ycgftfvd
*****
NET NOTES
A SERMON THAT SPOKE TO THE WORLD
Good News Proclaimed at Royal Marriage
Religion News Service (article and video)
May 22nd, 2018
https://tinyurl.com/yavcq2g2
--
Globe and Mail,
May 21st, 2018
RECAPPING THE ROYAL WEDDING
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wed at St. George’s Chapel
in Windsor Castle on Saturday, but it was an American bishop
who managed to steal much of the spotlight. The Most Rev.
Michael Curry, the head of the Episcopal Church in the United
States, used his sermon to make note of the power of love “in
any form or experience of it” – an apparent critique of the Church of England'sbban on gay marriage. That was just one part of the ceremony bvthat broke with tradition:
Markle was the first royal bride to walk partway down the aisle
on her own; she also didn’t vow to “obey” her husband in the
vows. The couple put off their honeymoon for now, and will
make their first public appearance as the Duke and Duchess
of Sussex tomorrow.
--
JIMMY CARTER AT LIBERTY
Surprising and Hopeful Speaker
Christianity Today,
May 18th, 2018
https://tinyurl.com/ybwhettv
--
SENIOR CATHOLIC CONVICTED
Aussie Prelate was Highest Ranking
BBC News,
May 22nd, 2018
https://tinyurl.com/ybvgnjxv
--
LGBT COMMUNITY CHEERS FRANCIS' REMARK
"God Made You Like This" - Pope Said
America Magazine,
May 21st, 2018
https://tinyurl.com/ybzcmzms
--
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION THE NEW NORMAL IN INDIA
Democracy of Gandhi No Longer a Model for the World
La Croix International
May 21st, 2018
https://tinyurl.com/y925rf72
*****
WISDOM OF THE WEEK
From Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
- Jane Addams
--
We have to cross the infinite thickness of time and space –
and God has to do it first, because he comes to us first.
Of the links between God and man, love is the greatest.
It is as great as the distance to be crossed. So that the
love may be as great as possible, the distance is as great
as possible. That is why evil can extend to the extreme
limit beyond which the very possibility of good disappears.
is permitted to touch this limit. It sometimes seems as
though it overpassed it.
- Simone Weil
--
There is often more wisdom to be found at the edges
of life than in its middle. Life-threatening illness may
shuffle our values like a deck of cards. Sometimes a
card that has been on the bottom of the deck for most
of our lives turns out to be the top card, the thing that
really matters. Having watched people sort their cards
and play their hands in the presence of death for many
years, I would say that rarely is the top card perfection,
or possessions, or even pride. Most often the top card
is love.
- Rachel Naomi Remen
--
This age needs to become more realistic. It needs to listen
again to the words of Jesus, who said, “I thirst.” He who is
the Son of Man, the Son of God, is our example. He is the
great pioneer in every realm of life. Surely if he thirsted, how
much more do we? Humanity needs to get away from the
world of “things as they are” into the world of “things as they
ought to be.” This means that men and women must learn
to live for others. It is only when we can live a life of self-
forgetfulness that we get our truest joy out of life
- Alexander Stuart Baillie
*****
CLOSING THOUGHT - Harvey Milk
Hope will never be silent.
(end)
*****
*****
Dear Friends:
I planned to use my May column about Gandhi
for this week's Special Item on Colleagues List,
but it is not yet available. I hope to share it here
when my next CL issue appears on June 10th.
Here are a number of items I hope you will find
interesting, and I look forward to including you
in my readership two plus weeks from now.
Wayne
*****
COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log,
May 20th, 2018
"US Embassy Move Misreads the Bible"
https://tinyurl.com/ybknnnjc
--
Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL
"Too Many Liberals in the Liberal Arts"
https://tinyurl.com/y9a2nrtv
--
Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Web Site
May 21st, 2018
"On Friendship"
https://tinyurl.com/ycgftfvd
*****
NET NOTES
A SERMON THAT SPOKE TO THE WORLD
Good News Proclaimed at Royal Marriage
Religion News Service (article and video)
May 22nd, 2018
https://tinyurl.com/yavcq2g2
--
Globe and Mail,
May 21st, 2018
RECAPPING THE ROYAL WEDDING
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wed at St. George’s Chapel
in Windsor Castle on Saturday, but it was an American bishop
who managed to steal much of the spotlight. The Most Rev.
Michael Curry, the head of the Episcopal Church in the United
States, used his sermon to make note of the power of love “in
any form or experience of it” – an apparent critique of the Church of England'sbban on gay marriage. That was just one part of the ceremony bvthat broke with tradition:
Markle was the first royal bride to walk partway down the aisle
on her own; she also didn’t vow to “obey” her husband in the
vows. The couple put off their honeymoon for now, and will
make their first public appearance as the Duke and Duchess
of Sussex tomorrow.
--
JIMMY CARTER AT LIBERTY
Surprising and Hopeful Speaker
Christianity Today,
May 18th, 2018
https://tinyurl.com/ybwhettv
--
SENIOR CATHOLIC CONVICTED
Aussie Prelate was Highest Ranking
BBC News,
May 22nd, 2018
https://tinyurl.com/ybvgnjxv
--
LGBT COMMUNITY CHEERS FRANCIS' REMARK
"God Made You Like This" - Pope Said
America Magazine,
May 21st, 2018
https://tinyurl.com/ybzcmzms
--
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION THE NEW NORMAL IN INDIA
Democracy of Gandhi No Longer a Model for the World
La Croix International
May 21st, 2018
https://tinyurl.com/y925rf72
*****
WISDOM OF THE WEEK
From Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
- Jane Addams
--
We have to cross the infinite thickness of time and space –
and God has to do it first, because he comes to us first.
Of the links between God and man, love is the greatest.
It is as great as the distance to be crossed. So that the
love may be as great as possible, the distance is as great
as possible. That is why evil can extend to the extreme
limit beyond which the very possibility of good disappears.
is permitted to touch this limit. It sometimes seems as
though it overpassed it.
- Simone Weil
--
There is often more wisdom to be found at the edges
of life than in its middle. Life-threatening illness may
shuffle our values like a deck of cards. Sometimes a
card that has been on the bottom of the deck for most
of our lives turns out to be the top card, the thing that
really matters. Having watched people sort their cards
and play their hands in the presence of death for many
years, I would say that rarely is the top card perfection,
or possessions, or even pride. Most often the top card
is love.
- Rachel Naomi Remen
--
This age needs to become more realistic. It needs to listen
again to the words of Jesus, who said, “I thirst.” He who is
the Son of Man, the Son of God, is our example. He is the
great pioneer in every realm of life. Surely if he thirsted, how
much more do we? Humanity needs to get away from the
world of “things as they are” into the world of “things as they
ought to be.” This means that men and women must learn
to live for others. It is only when we can live a life of self-
forgetfulness that we get our truest joy out of life
- Alexander Stuart Baillie
*****
CLOSING THOUGHT - Harvey Milk
Hope will never be silent.
(end)
*****
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