Vol. VI. No. 38
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Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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CANADA DAY
WEEKEND EDITION
In This Issue -
Special Item This Week:
Book Notice -
"Allah, Liberty and Love:
The Courage to Reconcile"
by Irshad Manji
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Colleague Contributions:
Miroslav Volf
Jim Taylor
Doug Koop
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Net Notes:
Pope Enters Twitter Age
When Our Best Efforts Fail
Ecumenical Rules for Evangelism
St. Paul Fresco Found in Catacomb
Woman Sues Opus Dei for Brainwashing
Interview with Sister Joan Chittister
Cardinal - No Obstacle to Female Priests
Matthew Fox - Speaking the Truth in Love
Truth and Reconciliation Website Launched
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Global Faith Potpourri:
Twelve ENI Geneva stories appear this week.
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Quotes of the Week:
Bernard of Clairvaux
Gloria Steinem
Ched Myers
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On This Day:
June 25, 1876 -
Custer wiped out by Natives
June 26, 1963 -
Kennedy: "Ich bin ein Berliner"
June 27, 1950 -
Truman brings US into Korean War
June 28, 1919 -
Treaty of Versailles ends WWI
June 30, 1997 -
British rule ends in Hong Kong
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Closing Thought - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dear Friends:
This is the last issue of Volume VI of
my religion and culture blog called
Colleagues List.
Thus far, I have produced 284 issues
in seven years. For the last four years
(new numbering system) my format has
remained much the same and I have averaged
a total of 41 issues per annum.
I am still going strong, mainly because
of the support and encouragement I get
from you my readers.
The next issue in my bi-weekly summer
schedule will be dated July 9th, and
Colleagues List will appear every two
weeks during July and August.
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My special item today is a book
notice on Irshad Manji's latest:
"Allah, Liberty and Love:
The Courage to Reconcile"
I had hoped to hear her speak in
Calgary Wednesday evening, but
she had to cancel her visit due
to illness.
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Colleague Contributions:
Miroslav Volf - writes a new book
on how people of faith can serve
the common good.
Jim Taylor - describes human values,
and how difficult they are to truly
isolate in ourselves and others.
Doug Koop - struggles with many things
as he encounters sexual and gender
issues in our time.
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Net Notes:
"Pope Enters Twitter Age" - while he
is a traditionalist in many ways,
Benedict demonstrates great interest
in modern methods of communication
(The Guardian, UK)
"When Our Best Efforts Fail" - I
recently reported on the Supreme
Court ruling against four dissident
congregations in the Anglican diocese
of New Westminster BC. Today, I
share a message from the website
of one of those congregations - in
the form of a sermon by its rector.
(St. Matthew's, Abbotsford, BC)
"Ecumenical Rules for Evangelism" -
Ecumenical history was made this week
after a joint announcement by Catholic,
Evangelical and Mainstream Protestant
churches of a common approach to
evangelism in an interfaith world
(ENI, Christianity Today)
"St. Paul Fresco Found in Catacomb" -
Long-lost works of art turn up often
in Rome. This one, is the latest
(The Telegraph, UK)
"Woman Sues Opus Dei for Brainwashing
- a French woman may be establishing
a precedent with her recent law suit
(AFP News Service)
"Interview with Sister Joan Chittister"
- a Catholic sister who knows how to
speak truth to power is interviewed
(Publishers Weekly)
"Cardinal - No Obstacle to Female Priests"
- a rather interesting statement by a
Catholic cardinal cautioning, nevertheless
against "undue haste" (Vatican Insider)
"Matthew Fox - Speaking the Truth in Love"
- more wisdom from the trenches from this
American Episcopalian and former Catholic
(Publishers Weekly)
"Truth and Reconciliation Website Launched"
- as this official inquiry continues to
evolve, it will be possible to follow
developments (Anglican Church of Canada)
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Global Faith Potpourri:
Through the services of Ecumenical
News International, Geneva, a total
of twelve stories appear this week.
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Quotes of the Week:
Bernard of Clairvaux, Gloria Steinem and
Ched Myers provide food for thought through
the services of Sojourners.online
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On This Day:
The following stories come to us from
the archives of the New York Times
and were written as events unfolded:
Custer wiped out by Natives (1876)
Kennedy: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (1963)
Truman brings US into Korean War (1950)
Treaty of Versailles ends WWI (1919)
British rule ends in Hong Kong (1997)
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Closing Thought - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
shares his view on taking responsibility
and Matthew Fox comments on the great
German theologian's words.
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To Canadians, I extend a Happy Canada Day
To Americans, Happy Fourth of July, and
To the rest of you - have a good summer!
(except, of course, you Southerners)
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEM
Book Notice:
ALLAH, LIBERTY AND LOVE
The Courage to Reconcile,
by Irshad Manji
Random House Canada, $29.95
June 11th, 2011. 293 pages.
ISBN #978-0-307-35808-0.
Publisher's Promo:
Among the most visible Muslim reformers
of our time, Irshad Manji reflects on
the journey she has taken since her
previous book catapulted her into the
public spotlight, drawing on her real-
life encounters with a world full of
seekers who are struggling, as she has,
to reconcile faith and freedom. Having
engaged with politicians, activists,
families, students, scholars and
ordinary people of various religions
and cultures, Manji tells stories that
are deeply poignant, frequently funny
and always revealing about the morally
confused era in which we live. In doing
so, she paves a path for Muslims and
non-Muslims to defend the values of
liberal democracy--and thus discover
the Allah of liberty and love. Above
all, Manji shows that by participating
in this signature cause of the 21st
century, individuals can embark on a
journey of their own towards moral
courage. Allah, Liberty & Love is
ultimately a book about how to become
a gutsy global citizen working for
both personal and world peace. Manji
has faith not just in Allah, but also
in her fellow human beings. Prepare
to be informed as well as inspired.
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Author's Words:
Allah is the name for God - the
universally shared God of liberty and love.
Not exactly the perception that many people
have of Allah, I realize.
But as I'll strive to show, God loves me
enough to give me choices and liberty to
make them. In turn, I am to love God's
other children enough to have faith in
their ability to make choices. Love,
then, obliges me to do two things at once;
champion freedom for more than just myself
and challenge power-mongers who steal
choices from you and me.
In these topsy-turvy times, the link
between liberty and love has to be
explored with clarity. As I'll show,
my ebullient relationship with Allah
helps me do that.
- from the Author's Note
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An agnostic friend introduced me to the
concept of "moral courage," a phrase I'd
never heard. Robert F. Kennedy described
moral courage as the willingness to speak
truth to power within your community for
the sake of the greater good.
Moral courage allows each of us to tap
our consciences, to replace conformity
with individuality and to draw closer
to the Source that created us by coming
to know ourselves. It dawned on me how
necessary moral courage is for anybody
who wants to live with wholeness -
integrity - whether within a religious
tradition or outside of religion
altogether...
I threw myself into research about how
previous movements for freedom had
succeeded. Martin Luther King Jr. came
alive for this Muslim girl, as did some
of his teachers: the philosopher
Socrates, the theologian Reinhold
Niebuhr, the novelist Lillian Smith,
who campaigned to reform a culture of
"honour" in the U.S. South - the source
of long-standing racial segregation. I
also learned from Islam's Gandhi -
Abdul Ghaffar Khan...
I've learned to ask these questions -
Why should I risk my reputation to
tell the truth? How do I deal with
community disapproval? What's God
got to do with any of it?
Muslims and non-Muslims need each
other to widen the circle of the free.
You too can live faithfully free -
whatever your faith.
Moral courage is urgently needed, and
it starts with love. But to be truly
courageous, love needs to be (joined)
by thinking.
I would like to share with you
seven lessons for living with moral
courage and hope that even more of
you will join me...
- from her Introduction
"From Anger to Aspiration"
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Youtube:
Irshad Manji at Berkeley (2005)
http://tinyurl.com/4xnoonv
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My Comments:
Irshad Manji is a Western Muslim. Her
educational, religious and political
values have been profoundly shaped in
a North American ethos.
She reads Socrates (of course medieval
Muslims did too), theologian Reinhold
Neibuhr, and civil rights leader Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Unlike many Muslims, for her the name
"God" and "Allah" are interchangeable.
Her Islamic faith shares many of the
same values as liberal Christians.
She is part of a new and growing
generation of Muslims who have been
raised in the West and are very much
at home here.
It was only a matter of time that people
like Manji would emerge, and we who are
spiritual but not Muslim can rejoice in
that. Western Muslims are bridge-persons
of sorts with those many millions of
Muslims who harbour a great suspicion of
the West and what it represents to them
in today's world.
The danger, of course, is that fellow-
Muslims will reject her and her ideas
as much as they may recoil at the rest
of us. Manji realizes this, yet she is
who she is. She continues to grow in
her ability to relate to people of
other faiths or no faith. She is quick
to assimilate into her Muslim worldview
much of what is advocated by western
democratic liberals.
Manji is passionate about her faith, but
she opposes exclusivism and bigotry in
all faiths. She stands as living proof -
against the views and arguments of some
new atheists and conservative Christians
alike that Islam is a violent religion
and that Muhammad was a terrorist.
Her faith is a kinder, gentler version -
and one that many of us would like to
believe exists in Islam generally.
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As I read this book, I remain somewhat
cautious about placing Manji and Islam on
precisely the same page. Sometimes, in our
efforts to reach out to others, we are not
always totally authentic representatives
of the faith we claim to represent.
But who is an "authentic representative?"
Perhaps she serves best as a kind of
"bridge-person" - leading to a global
future that will transcend East and West,
Islam and Christianity. I hope so.
I honour Irshad for her obvious bravery
and determination. Also, I see in her
the desire to grow and be continually
shaped by her experience. She calls
it the way she sees it, and you cannot
hold that against her.
I am proud that Irshad is a Canadian
and a Muslim shaped in a North American
ethos. My only reservation is that you
read her as a harbinger of a better
future, but not a full representative of
mainstream Islam today, even in the West.
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Read a review of her book:
"Just What is an Islamic Reformer?"
Globe and Mail, June 25th, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3sgn49e
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Visit the author's website:
https://www.irshadmanji.com/
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Buy the book from Amazon.ca:
http://tinyurl.com/3punb23
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
MIROSLAV VOLF
New Haven, CT
New Book Announcement
Publisher's Weekly Notice
June 29th, 2011
A PUBLIC FAITH:
How Followers of Christ Should
Serve the Common Good
Miroslav Volf. Brazos, $21.99
(192p) ISBN 978-1-58743-298-9
Religious perspectives properly belong
in the public sphere, Volf (Exclusion and
Embrace) argues, because religions often
foster healthy social environments. While
acknowledging that Christianity has been
historically complicit in coercive
conversion, Volf focuses on internal
religious “malfunctions” that have allowed
such unfaithfulness. When Christians lose
sight of their faith’s prophetic edge,
substitute idols for God, use faith as a
“crutch,” or resort to violence, they
corrupt their faith, Volf contends.
Although writing from an explicitly
Christian perspective, Volf cites
scholars such as Mohammad al-Ghazali
and Moses Maimonides to emphasize that
individual and communal flourishing
constitutes a defining concern of many
religious traditions. Volf also engages
antireligious arguments from thinkers
such as Marx and Nietzsche. With a
goal of generating hope for Christian
communities in today’s pluralistic world,
Volf encourages Christians to share and
receive gifts of spiritual wisdom, to
speak truth in their distinct religious
voice, and to live generously with
people of other faiths. This insightful
exploration of how Christians may
faithfully engage today’s political
and pluralistic culture provides
accessible, wise guidance for people
of all faiths. (Available in August)
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JIM TAYLOR
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log
June 29th, 2011
"Deeper and Deeper Roots"
Locating our true values
http://tinyurl.com/44khkdj
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DOUG KOOP
Winnipeg, MB.
Christianweek.org
June 28th, 2011
"Confused, Conflicted and Christian"
Difficult Modern Issues in Sexuality
http://tinyurl.com/3zr6kz5
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NET NOTES
VATICAN LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE
Pope Joins Twitter Generation
The Guardian, UK
June 29th, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3wgqsf9
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WHEN OUR BEST EFFORTS FAIL
Dr. Trevor Walters, rector
St. Matthew's Anglican,
Abbotsford, BC
Sermon following the decision
of the Supreme Court of Canada -
His congregation must exit building
http://tinyurl.com/3p77daw
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ECUMENICAL RULES FOR EVANGELISM
Protestants and Catholics Cooperate
Ecumenical News International
Geneva, June 29th, 2011
Christian bodies agree on code of conduct
for evangelizing
Geneva (ENI news) - Three organizations,
representing about 90 percent of world
Christianity, launched on 28 June a
global code of conduct for proselytizing
in a bid to reduce tensions between
different religious convictions. "Today
represents an historic moment in our
shared Christian witness. This is the
first time that a document has been
issued by the World Council of Churches
(WCC) together with the World Evangelical
Alliance (WEA) and the Pontifical Council
for the Interreligious Dialogue of the
Holy See," said Cardinal Jean-Louis
Tauran.
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Cooperation in Mission from an
Evangelical Protestant Perspective
Christianity Today
June 29th, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/5s6wqyv
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ST. PAUL FRESCO FOUND
IN ANCIENT CATACOMB
The Telegraph
June 28th, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3zch2lo
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WOMAN SUES OPUS DEI
FOR BRAINWASHING
AFP
June 26th, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/66z75vo
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY INTERVIEW
WITH JOAN CHITTISTER
PublisherWeekly.Online
June 29th, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3mvqtzw
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NO THEOLOGICAL OBSTACLES
TO WOMEN PRIESTS SAYS CARDINAL
But take it slow. Don't rush it
Vatican Insider
June 25th, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3hq3439
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MATTHEW FOX:
SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE
"I don't need to look over my
shoulder any more...
Publishers Weekly
June 29th, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/6e7hs7z
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TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION
WEB SITE LAUNCHED
Follow a very significant process
of listening to the victims
Anglican Journal
June 28th, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/43gwl7e
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NEW BOOK BY SPECIALIST
IN CELTIC SPIRITUALITY
"A New Harmony: The Spirit, the Earth,
and the Human Soul," by John Philip Newell.
Jossey-Bass, $19.95 US 224 pages.
ISBN 978-0-470-55467-8.
Newell (Christ of the Celts) has become
the premier writer of Celtic spirituality
since the untimely 2008 death of John
O’Donohue. A poet, he has a natural lyric
voice as he ranges over his subject and
its main themes of creation and oneness.
This is not new--indeed, it’s very old in
Christianity, and it provides a sylvan
break from contemporary debates over
social issues, hell, and atheism.
Newell’s is a loving vision. It nonetheless
looks suffering "straight in the face," a
phrase he borrows from writer Etty Hillesum,
a Dutch Jew who perished in the Holocaust.
He recognizes both balm for suffering and
inevitable brokenness. His theology includes
a provocative understanding of sin as
“sundering,” a breaking apart of unity, citing
both the word’s etymological root and the
visionary priest Teilhard de Chardin. He is
deeply dependent on the great psychologist
Carl Jung and uses his own dreams as a means
of understanding what God is saying, an
approach that requires deep honesty.
Newell will not be everyone’s draught, but
those inclined to the unifying vision of
Celtic spirituality will want to drink
deeply of him. (Coming in July)
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GLOBAL FAITH POTPOURRI
Ecumenical News International
News Highlights
24 June 2011
Chinese house church leaders attend
rights defense seminar
Hong Kong (ENI). Chinese house church
leaders attended a training seminar
from 14-16 June in Zhejiang, an eastern
coastal province in China, to learn how
to safeguard their legal rights.
Participants included pastors and
leaders from Beijing; six provinces,
including Hebei and Shangdong; and the
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,
according to a news release from the
Texas-based organization ChinaAid,
which sponsored the seminar. Attendees
studied Article 36 of the Constitution
of the People's Republic of China,
which relates to freedom of religion.
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Racism a topic of concern for church
leaders at conference in Nicaragua
Managua, Nicaragua (ENI). Church
leaders from across the Americas and
the Caribbean met yesterday on the
first day of a conference to discuss
the violence of racism and the
challenges it poses for churches
and ecumenical organizations,
according to a news release from
the Latin America and Caribbean
Communication Agency. The conference
is sponsored by the World Council of
Churches (WCC) in partnership with
the Latin America Council of Churches
(CLAI), and brings together people
working with Afro-descendent and
indigenous communities across the
region.
_____
China vows to ordain bishops
without Vatican's OK
Beijing (ENI). In a move likely to
aggravate tensions with the Vatican,
China's state-run Catholic church
announced on 23 June that it may soon
ordain more than 40 bishops without
the approval of Pope Benedict XVI.
According to the official Xinhua
news agency, a spokesman for the
Chinese Patriotic Catholic Assoc.
(CPCA) said the church "faces an
urgent task" of choosing bishops
for more than 40 dioceses, and
planned to do so "without delay."
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28 June 2011
Orthodox churches still support ecumenism,
theologian says
Warsaw (ENI news) - Orthodox churches remain
"fully committed" to ecumenical cooperation,
despite recent disagreements with Protestants,
according to a senior Orthodox theologian. "It
may appear that some Orthodox churches aren't
satisfied over moral and ethical issues, and
this may bring them closer as a family of
churches. But we shouldn't necessarily see
this as a form of competition. Although we
should argue for cohesion within the
ecumenical movement, we shouldn't see our
disagreements as a danger to unity. The
Orthodox churches are more fully committed
than ever to CEC and will be working to
strengthen the Orthodox presence," said
Viorel Ionita, interim general secretary
of the Conference of European Churches
(CEC).
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Anglican-Lutheran dialogue examines
service and witness
New York (ENI news) - The third phase
of the Anglican-Lutheran International
Commission wrapped up its sixth and
final meeting on 25 June in Jerusalem
by discussing how greater theological
agreement can lead to concerted action
in ministry. "We are no longer putting
the same emphasis on reconciling forms
of ministry. We are now sufficiently
akin; we need to do actual ministry,
living and proclaiming Jesus Christ
in the world," said Canon Alyson
Barnett-Cowan, Anglican co-secretary
of the meeting, in an interview.
*****
28 June 2011
Zimbabwe police bar Anglican pilgrims
at shrine
Harare, Zimbabwe (ENI news)- Thousands
of Anglicans resorted to gathering at
a trade exhibition arena in eastern
Zimbabwe on 26 June to mark the memorial
of martyr Bernard Mizeki after riot
police supporting renegade former bishop
Nolbert Kunonga set up barricades on the
road to the official shrine. This is the
second year that worshippers were banned
from holding the annual pilgrimage at
the mission school in Marondera, 80
kilometres east of the capital where
Mizeki, a lay catechist, was murdered in
1896 by villagers who accused him of
collaborating with colonial rulers.
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Leaders examine religion's place
in Israeli democracy
Jerusalem (ENI news) - Representatives of
the three Abrahamic faiths, speaking on
27 June at the Interreligious Coordinating
Council in Israel's (ICCI) annual lecture,
considered the highly sensitive subject of
religion's role in Israel's 63-year-old
democracy. Religious leaders can and should
play an important role in supporting
democratic values in Israel, said Yair
Sheleg, a newspaper columnist, senior
researcher at The Israel Democracy
Institute and a religious Jew. "We also
need the collaboration of the religious
leaders," he said. "They should tell
their believers to obey democratic
decisions as a religious principle."
_____
Sudanese clergy seek to give aid
in South Kordofan
Nairobi, Kenya (ENI news) - The government
must allow humanitarian access to civilians
who have been displaced by the fighting in
Sudan's South Kordofan state, Sudanese
clergy said, amid reports of continued
bombardment in the Nuba Mountains. They
warned that civilians were violently being
removed from camps and forced to return to
their homes without any assistance.
_____
Abortion fight taken up by Russian
Orthodox and American evangelicals
Moscow (ENI news) - The Russian Orthodox
Church and American evangelicals have
allied to defend a traditional definition
of family and fight abortion inRussia,
which has one of the highest abortion
rates in the world. On 29-30 June, the
World Congress of Families, a Rockford,
Illinois-based organization that defends
heterosexual marriage and advocates
against abortion, will be holding a
conference called the "Moscow Demographic
Summit: Family and the Future of
Humankind," organized together with
the Moscow Patriarchate and other
Russian supporters of traditional
concepts of family life.
*****
29 June 2011
Dalai Lama to host 11-day peace festival
in U.S. capital
Washington, D.C. (ENI news) - The Dalai Lama
will visit Washington, D.C. next month for
an 11-day rally that is being billed as "the
largest gathering for world peace in history."
The 6-16 July "Kalachakra for World Peace"
aims to "amplify the profound, unshakable
commitment of (the Dalai Lama) to values
such as love, compassion, wisdom and
interfaith harmony," according to publicity
materials, Religion News Service reports.
_____
Churches fear financial ruin
in Liechtenstein
Warsaw (ENI news) - Churches in one of
the world's smallest countries could
face financial disaster under government
plans to withdraw state subsidies under
new legislation, according to a Protestant
leader. "This will be a drastic change -
we depend on financial support, and
there'll be no chance of obtaining it
if the new law goes ahead," said Markus
Meidert, president of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Liechtenstein, a 62
square-mile Alpine principality that
joined the United Nations only in 1990.
*****
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Provided by Sojourners.online
June 25th, 2011
"Zeal without knowledge is always
less effective, less useful. Often
it is found to be very harmful.
Wherever zeal is most fervent and
the spirit most vehement, there
the need for knowledge's oversight
is all the greater. Knowledge
restrains zeal, tempers the spirit,
orders charity."
- Bernard of Clairvaux,
"On the Song of Songs"
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June 27th, 2011
"The first problem for all of us,
men and women, is not to learn
but to unlearn."
- Gloria Steinem
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June 29th
"Mark's story of Jesus' last days …
is an intensely political drama,
filled with conspiratorial backroom
deals and covert action, judicial
manipulation and prisoner exchange,
torture and summary execution …And
we do well not to forget that this
very narrative of arrest, trial,
and torture is still lived out by
countless political prisoners
around the world today."
- Ched Myers, writing in
"Binding the Strong Man"
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ON THIS DAY
Provided from the archives
of the New York Times
June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer
and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by
Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle
of Little Big Horn in Montana.
http://tinyurl.com/5rrmgn9
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June 26, 1963, President Kennedy visited
West Berlin, where he made his famous
declaration: "Ich bin ein Berliner"
(I ama Berliner).
http://tinyurl.com/3smjt4o
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June 27, 1950, President Truman ordered
the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War
following a call from the United Nations
Security Council for member nations to
help South Korea repel an invasion from
the North.
http://tinyurl.com/3dp25rm
_____
June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles
was signed in France, ending World War I.
http://tinyurl.com/3fz9xqq
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June 30, 1997, in Hong Kong, the Union
Jack was lowered for the last time over
Government House as Britain prepared to
hand the colony back to China after
ruling it for 156 years.
http://tinyurl.com/3jg36f3
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CLOSING THOUGHT
We have learned a bit too late in the day
that action springs not from thought but
from a readiness for responsibility...
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil:
God will not hold us guiltless...
Not to speak is to speak
Not to act is to act
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Good intentions, understanding and
sympathy become meaningless without
expression in deed.
- Matthew Fox
(end)
Thursday, June 30, 2011
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