Colleagues List, June 23rd, 2019

Vol. XIV No. 47

GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE

Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:

I am happy to include my current Anglican Journal column
for June of 2019. Canada can claim at least two important
Protestant/Ecumenical accomplishments. The first is the
formation of the United Church of Canada (1925) and then
the Full Communion Agreement (or Waterloo Declaration
of 2001).

The first drew Congregational, Presbyterian and Methodist
(plus some independent) churches into a merger. The
second drew Canadian Anglicans and Lutherans into a
partnership.

These examples, though imperfect, provide the world and
the church with two important models of Christian unity.
In this column I honour Lutheran National Bishop Susan
Johnson and Anglican Primate Fred Hiltz for the significant
modeling that their relationship has achieved over the past
twelve years. A personal thanks to both of you.

My remaining letter to all of you includes links to interesting
articles and news items which I hope prove to be helpful.

Wayne

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SPECIAL ITEM

My Anglican Journal column for June, 2019

"A Grateful Moment for Ecumenical Leadership"
 

https://tinyurl.com/y2qe2xcy

 

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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS

Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX.

Personal Web Site
June 17th, 2019

"What Makes for Christian Communion?"
  https://tinyurl.com/y37vv4yc

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Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC

Personal Web Log
June 16th, 2019

"Canada's Hands are Not Clean"
  https://tinyurl.com/yyzmjea5

 

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NET NOTES

TRANSMOUNTAIN SEEMS
THE RIGHT DECISION
Most Canadians Agree

Angus Reid Institute
June 21st, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/y65tpkzz

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WHAT WE SAY AND HOW
WE SAY IT DEFINES US
Column by Joan Chittister

National Catholic Reporter
June 19th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/yxhz526p

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DONALD TRUMP'S SINISTER
ASSAULT ON THE TRUTH
He is Committed to Destroying Facts

The Atlantic,
June 18th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/yxtu4ttg

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NOTRE DAME IS MORE
THAN A TOURIST ATTRACTION
"It is a Church" Says Paris Bishop

Religion News Service,
June 17th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/yx8jx6mz

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WHY I AM NOT PUSHING FOR
CHURCH GROWTH ANYMORE
There are Other Reasons for
Being in Ministry Today

Christianity Today,
June 17th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/y283b5cx

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LAM SAYS SORRY FOR HONG KONG
EXTRADITION CONFLICT
Religious Leaders Would Accept the Apology
Many Protesters, However, Will Not

UCA News,
June 19th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/yyhcghoz

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QUEBEC BANS RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS
IN SOME PUBLIC SECTOR JOBS
Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and Catholics Affected
Considerable Public Outcry Results

New York Times,
June 17th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/y25ou39x

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A STUDY OF SOCIAL ISOLATION AND
LONLIENESS IN CANADA TODAY

Detailed Analysis from Angus Reid Institute
June 17th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/y63v8qzd

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CANADA RESETTLED MORE REFUGEES IN 2018
THAN AN OTHER NATION, U.N. SAYS
Something to Celebrate

CTV News
June 19th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/yxr63kls

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ROBERT ALTER'S HEBREW BIBLE TRANSLATION
IS AT ONCE ACCURATE AND ELOQUENT
The Hebrew Bible With Commentary

The Christian Century,
June 11th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/y6y33b3e
 

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WISDOM OF THE WEEK

Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:
The order is rapidly fading. And the first one now will
later be last, for the times they are a-changin'.

- Bob Dylan - "The Times They Are A-Changin'"

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better
in prayer to have a heart without words than words
without a heart.

 

- Mahatma Gandhi 

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The importance of detachment from things, the importance
of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things
that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become
more important than people, we are in trouble.

That is the crux of the whole matter.

- Thomas Merton

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Most people are worth knowing, if you will take time
to understand them. Unfamiliarity with other people,
ignorance of other people, is what makes war possible
and violence possible, and it drives all the social divisions
in a school or in a town, nation, or world. When you
understand people well enough, you can’t help but love
them, even if you hate them too. If you think those are
incompatible emotions, I remind you to think about your
relationship with almost any close family member.
Understanding people is indeed loving them.

- Doris “Granny D” Haddock

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The poet Stifter once said, “Pain is a holy angel, who shows
treasures to people which would otherwise remain forever
hidden; through him people have become greater than
through all the joys of the world.” It must be so and I tell
myself this in my present situation over and over again.

The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt
even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not
talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus
there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is,
the one of joy in God.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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CLOSING THOUGHT - Traci Blackmon

Activism is part of discipleship, but the difference is that
our goal can never be the annihilation of other people.

As followers of The Way, our goal is the redemption
of all people... even those who stand against us.

 

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