Colleagues List, July 7th, 2019

Vol. XV No. 1

GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE

CANADA WEEK EDITION, 2019

Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:

 

With this issue, I begin my 15th year of sending out

this free blog on religion and culture called Colleagues

List in this basic format. Thanks for faithful readership!

A fitting notice for this Canada Week Colleagues List
retrospective is the recent honour - "Writer of the
Year"  - awarded our Catholic Register colleague -
Michael Swan by the Catholic Press Association
of the United States and Canada at their meeting
June 21st in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Michael was awarded this honour for an "exemplary
body of work over the course of the past year" and
we want to congratulate him too.

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Think about Joni Mitchell's song on the Magdalene
Laundries of Ireland - our Special Item for the week.
The story is old now, but the message remains true.

Many other selections in this issue should stir your
interest as well.

Wayne

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SPECIAL ITEM

Canadian Joni Mitchell Sings
About the Irish Magdalene Laundries (1994)
Lest We Forget

This Short Youtube Piece was suggested to me
by colleague Jock McTavish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATaFyIbd5hY

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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS

Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC

Personal Web Log,
July 3rd, 2019

"Does God Control Natural Disasters?"
  https://tinyurl.com/y662xovk

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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX

Personal Web Site
July 1st, 2019

"An Important New Book"
  https://tinyurl.com/yxkvyhkx

(The author is colleague Robert Ellsberg)

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NET NOTES

SOME NEW CANADIAN CITIZENS
Sworn In on Canada Day, 2019

CBC.ca
July 2nd, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/yxp3kfm4

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TEN CANADIAN SPIRITUAL ROAD TRIPS
Feed Your Soul This Summer

Broadview,
June 24th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/y2xxnaf7

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SONS DESIRED BUT OFTEN DISAPPOINT
Vietnamese Mothers Abort Female Fetuses

UCA News,
July 4th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/y5gsfot4

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AN AFTERNOON OF ISRAEL HATRED
Meet the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)

Religion News Service,
July 1st, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/yxmtpufx

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NEW CHURCHES TO BE
BUILT IN THE EMIRATES
A Sign of Religious Tolerance
for 80% Non-Muslim Population

La Croix International
July 3rd, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/y5cg69lk
(Register to read this article)

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LETTING GO OF GOD'S PLAN
AND EMBRACING THE DREAM
An Exercise in Spiritual Growth

Christian Century,
July 3rd, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/y4lwg8hn

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THE DEEPENING CRISIS IN AMERICAN
EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY
Support for Trump Comes
at High Cost for Christian Witness

The Atlantic Online,
July 5th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/yyolqa52

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PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLIES OF CANADA
TURNS 100 THIS YEAR - EFC Podcast
Interview with David Wells

Faith Today
June, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/y69rp57a

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CHURCH OF ENGLAND APPOINTS
FIRST BLACK FEMALE BISHOP
To Be Consecrated in November

The Guardian,
June 28th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/y6brsf2x

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"NOTHING IN PARTICULAR" PEOPLE
ARE LONELY AND DISCONNECTED -
A Growing Sector of the US Population

Religion News Service,
July 5th, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/y4zkakhx

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WISDOM OF THE WEEK - July 7th, 2019

Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change.
I am changing the things I cannot accept.

- Angela Y. Davis

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The Christian gospel is more than a transcendent reality,
more than 'going to heaven when I die, to shout salvation
as I fly.'

It is also an immanent reality—a powerful liberating
presence among the poor right now in their midst.

- James Cone

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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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There is something about deepest humility which makes
us bold. For utter obedience is self-forgetful obedience.
No longer do we hesitate and shuffle and apologize because,
say we, we are weak, lowly creatures and the world is a
pack of snarling wolves among whom we are sent as sheep
by the Shepherd (Matt. 10:16).

I must confess that, on human judgment, the world tasks we
face are appalling – well-nigh hopeless. Only the inner vision
of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated
souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the
raging pride of a power-mad world.

- Thomas R. Kelly

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MOMENT IN TIME

Globe and Mail,
July 5th, 2019

Amazon Founded
July 5th, 1994

What started as an online bookseller but would expand
to become a global retailer for every product imaginable –
including Spandex bodysuits in every hue and packs of
bacon-shaped bandages – was founded 25 years ago.

With a US$10,000 investment of his own money, ex-Wall
Street executive Jeff Bezos launched his company in the
garage of his Seattle home. He initially called it “Cadabra,"
but changed his tune when a lawyer misheard it as “cadaver."
Bezos settled on a name to match his ambition:

Amazon, the world’s largest river; and his aspiration, to be
the largest bookseller on the planet. In its first month,
Amazon sold books in all 50 states, and 45 countries.
An early company slogan, “Get big fast,” mimicked the
pace of early growth. In two months, sales topped
US$20,000 a week. In May, 1997 – the company went
public on the Nasdaq, and an initial offering that raised
US$54-million. By 2002, the site listed music, videos,
electronics, video games and clothing.

By 2007, it launched the Kindle e-reader. In 2015,
Amazon beat out Walmart as the world’s most valuable
retailer, with Bezos – the world’s richest man – worth a
reported US$150-billion.

- Jessie Willms

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