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GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
My E-Mail Address:
waholst@telus.net
Colleagues List Web Site:
http://colleagueslist.blogspot.com
"Quicklinks" are included with many items
at the beginning of this issue. To get a more
complete picture, however, scroll down to
find your special selection in the body of
the blog.
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Dear Friends:
We are deep into the Advent Season as
Christmas approaches.
Here is my Special Item for the week. It
is my Anglican Journal December column --
"From Darkness to Light" which I hope
you enjoy:
http://tinyurl.com/jfcfybs
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Colleague Contributions - this week:
Jim Taylor (Okanagan BC) offers -
"The Camel Takes Over the Tent"
http://tinyurl.com/gwzyw3v
Ron Rolheiser (San Antonio TX) shares -
"Sensitive to Community Beyond Ourselves"
http://tinyurl.com/gneaxu8 (and)
Martin Marty (Chicago IL) reflects on -
"Religious Freedom - After 50 Years?"
http://tinyurl.com/gnbtn2t
For more information on these, scroll down.
Thanks to the three of you.
--
Net Notes - that caught my attention recently -
"Francis as Bridge-Builder" - a helpful
article on how the pope operates
(America Magazine) http://tinyurl.com/heoqsk4
-
"Death Toll in Mecca Stampede" - official
stats on those killed in Saudi Arabia some
months ago keep rising dramatically. Why?
(New York Times) http://tinyurl.com/hpk8ndr
-
"Ten Best NYT Books of the Year" - each
year, the Times publishes special "best" lists,
and here is one of them. More will follow
(New York Times Review of Books)
http://tinyurl.com/jsflbng
--
"Franklin Graham Sides with Trump" -
zenophobia in the US is rampant these days
after the San Bernardino massacres, With
mixed feelings, I share the following
(Graham in The Christian Post)
http://tinyurl.com/jn335c4
(Mohammad Ali Responds to Trump)
(The Guardian, UK)
http://tinyurl.com/jnggdxe
--
"How to Overcome Hateful Rhetoric" -
Jim Wallis writes on American extremism
with his typical reason and compassion
(Sojourners Online) http://tinyurl.com/hkqdlbp
Canada's Warm Refugee Embrace is
an Example to Other Nations - praise from the US
(New York Times) http://tinyurl.com/gphhemm
(Calgary Herald) http://tinyurl.com/zkdbqdw
--
"Hanukah May be a Children's Festival"
Jews living in the West have connected
with some of the Christmas symbolism
but The Feast of Lights has other meanings
(Guardian UK) http://tinyurl.com/jkvzfvv
--
"Loving the Truth Without Losing Your Mind" -
here is a Canadian evangelical Christian piece
that counters some American material as it
advocates learning to live with the extremes
(Christian Week) http://tinyurl.com/jmm47sv
--
"Missing from the San Bernardino Conversation" -
a helpful piece from a respected American source
suggests that education is the way to cope with
extremism in an enlightened state (Sightings)
http://tinyurl.com/hev2lmq
--
"Stonehenge May Have First Been Erected in Wales" -
the first of two archeological articles this week, and
the first deals with primal spirituality in the UK and
an amazing new Stonhenge theory (The Guardian, UK)
http://tinyurl.com/zvreche
--
"Stone Block Upends Theories About Ancient Judaism"
the second article emerges from Israel and concerns a
new discovery from Second Temple Era
(New York Times) http://tinyurl.com/h6cmdvx
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Wisdom of the Week comes via Sojourners and
the Bruderhof online, and is provided by -
Desmond Tutu, Hildegard of Bingen, Oscar Romero
Helen Prejean, C.S.J., Walter Wink and Martin Luther.
Please scroll down to read them.
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On This Day -
From the archives of the New York Times
"UN OKs Universal Declaration of Human Rights"
http://tinyurl.com/b5chndc
"Charles and Diana Announce Their Separation"
http://tinyurl.com/zx2z5rv
"Japan Attacks US Base at Pearl Harbor"
http://tinyurl.com/atzkcnd
"Charles and Diana Announce Their Separation"
http://tinyurl.com/zx2z5rv
"Japan Attacks US Base at Pearl Harbor"
http://tinyurl.com/atzkcnd
--
Closing Thought - by Emmy Arnold appears
at the end of the blog, so scroll down.
--
I plan to send two more Colleagues List
mailings this year. Next week is our
Family Christmas Letter. The last issue,
between Christmas and New Years, is
my 2015 summary of book notices
and articles in case you missed some.
Warm greetings,
Wayne
(end)
For those interested, we are now -
Beginning Our Program Season for
Winter 2016 Adult Spiritual Development
ACTS Ministry at St. David's United Church,
Calgary
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Closing Thought - by Emmy Arnold appears
at the end of the blog, so scroll down.
--
I plan to send two more Colleagues List
mailings this year. Next week is our
Family Christmas Letter. The last issue,
between Christmas and New Years, is
my 2015 summary of book notices
and articles in case you missed some.
Warm greetings,
Wayne
(end)
For those interested, we are now -
Beginning Our Program Season for
Winter 2016 Adult Spiritual Development
ACTS Ministry at St. David's United Church,
Calgary
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SPECIAL ITEM
My Anglican Journal column for December:
"From Darkness to Light" at Advent
http://tinyurl.com/jfcfybs
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Jim Taylor
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log
December 9th, 2015
"The Camel Takes Over the Tent"
http://tinyurl.com/gwzyw3v
--
Ron Rolheiser
San Antonio, TV
Personal Web Site
December 6th, 2015
"Sensitive to Community Beyond Ourselves"
http://tinyurl.com/gneaxu8
--
Martin Marty
Chicago, IL
Sightings
December 7th, 2015
"Religious Freedom - After 50 Years?"
http://tinyurl.com/gnbtn2t
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NET NOTES
FRANCIS AS BRIDGE-BUILDER
Pope Works With His Strong Suit
America Magazine
December 21st, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/heoqsk4
--
Hajj Disaster Three Times Higher
New York Times
December 11th, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/hpk8ndr
--
THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
An Annual Assessment by the
New York Times Review of Books
December 3rd, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/jsflbng
--
Both Want Ban on Muslim Entries to US
The Christian Post
December 10th, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/jn335c4
"Mohammad Ali Responds to Trump"
The Guardian, UK
December 9th, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/jnggdxe
--
Jim Wallis on American Extremist Talk
Sojourners Online
December 0th, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/hkqdlbp
"Canada's Warm Refugee Embrace is
an Example to Other Nations"
New York Times
December 12th, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/gphhemm
Calgary Herald
December 4th, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/zkdbqdw
--
HANUKAH MAY BE A CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL
But it has Other Meanings Too
The Guardian UK
December 10th, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/jkvzfvv
--
LOVING THE TRUTH
WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND
Learning to Live With the Extremes
Christian Week
December 3rd, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/jmm47sv
--
MISSING FROM THE
SAN BERNARDINO CONVERSATION
Education in an Enlightened State
Sightings
December 10th, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/hev2lmq
--
STONHENGE MAY HAVE FIRST
BEEN ERECTED IN WALES
Amazing Archeological Theory
The Guardian, UK
December 7th, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/zvreche
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CARVED STONE BLOCK UPENDS
ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT ANCIENT JUDAISM
Discovery Comes from Second Temple Era
The New York Times
December 8th, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/h6cmdvx
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
From Sojourners and the Bruderhof Online
For goodness' sake, leave us alone to do
our own thing, even if it means making
mistakes. At least they will be our mistakes.
- Desmond Tutu
--
Even in a world that's being shipwrecked,
remain brave and strong.
- Hildegard of Bingen
--
This is the Christian’s joy:
I know that I am a thought in God,
no matter how insignificant I may be –
the most abandoned of beings,
one no one thinks of.
Today, when we think of Christmas gifts,
how many outcasts no one thinks of!
Think to yourselves, you that are outcasts,
you that feel you are nothing in history:
“I know that I am a thought in God.”
- Oscar Romero
--
No government is ever innocent enough
or wise enough or just enough to lay claim
to so absolute a power as death.
- Helen Prejean, C.S.J.
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Fidelity to the gospel lies not in repeating
its slogans but in plunging the prevailing
idolatries into its corrosive acids.
- Walter Wink
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The Gospel does not merely teach about
the history of Christ. No, it enables all who
believe it to receive it as their own, which
is the way the Gospel operates. Of what
benefit would it be to me if Christ had been
born a thousand times, and it would daily be
sung into my ears in a most lovely manner,
if I were never to hear that he was born for
me and was to be my very own? If the voice
gives forth this pleasant sound, even if it be
in homely phrase, my heart listens with joy,
for it is a lovely sound which penetrates
the soul.
- Martin Luther
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ON THIS DAY
From the archives of the New York Times
"UN OKs Universal Declaration of Human Rights"
http://tinyurl.com/b5chndc
"Charles and Diana Announce Their Separation"
http://tinyurl.com/zx2z5rv
"Japan Attacks US Base at Pearl Harbor"
http://tinyurl.com/atzkcnd
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"Charles and Diana Announce Their Separation"
http://tinyurl.com/zx2z5rv
"Japan Attacks US Base at Pearl Harbor"
http://tinyurl.com/atzkcnd
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CLOSING THOUGHT - - Emmy Arnold
The Christmas Star in the night sky, the
shining of the Christmas light in the night –
all this is the sign that light breaks into the
darkness. Though we see about us the
darkness of unrest, of family discord, of
class struggle, of competitive jealousy
and of national hatred, the light shall
shine and drive it out.…
Wherever the Christmas Child is born in
a heart, wherever Jesus begins his earthly
life anew – that is where the life of God’s
love and of God’s peace dawns again.
The Christmas Star in the night sky, the
shining of the Christmas light in the night –
all this is the sign that light breaks into the
darkness. Though we see about us the
darkness of unrest, of family discord, of
class struggle, of competitive jealousy
and of national hatred, the light shall
shine and drive it out.…
Wherever the Christmas Child is born in
a heart, wherever Jesus begins his earthly
life anew – that is where the life of God’s
love and of God’s peace dawns again.
(end)
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Beginning Our Program Season -
Winter 2016 Adult Spiritual Development
ACTS Ministry at St. David's United Church,
Calgary
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Beginning Our Program Season -
Winter 2016 Adult Spiritual Development
ACTS Ministry at St. David's United Church,
Calgary
WINTER 2016 MONDAY NIGHT STUDY
Theme: "The Other Two Religions of Jerusalem"
Judaism and Islam
Books: "Chosen? Reading the Bible
Amid the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"
by Walter Brueggemann
"Islam: A Short History"
by Karen Armstrong
http://tinyurl.com/jzbybmj
http://tinyurl.com/hr4ohvd
sources of modern global unrest centered
in the Mid-East:
Ten Monday evenings, 7-9PM
In the St. David's TM Room
January 18th - March 21st, 2015
Including Monday of Family Weekend
Books and Registration/Hospitality - $60.00
Books only - $35.00
Book Sets Available for Sale: 30.
Now beginning seventeen years of Monday Night Studies
Our thirty-second series of (usually) ten week sessions!
Course design to appear here soon.
Check our complete archives for all 46 book studies:
http://tinyurl.com/q3bw6dh
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THURSDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY
Theme: Winter Study Series to
be determined in January
Ten sessions 10-11 AM
Gathering at 9:30AM
In the St. David's TM Room
January 21st - March 24th.
No charge.
Preparation Session,
Thursday, January 14th, 2016
Study resource -
The DK Complete Bible Handbook
http://tinyurl.com/odxlv7q
(copy available in our church library)
The Bible Study Group will provide the
service reflection Sunday, Jan. 17th, 2016
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ACTS LENTEN RETREAT, 2016
SOMETHING TO ANTICIPATE
IN THE NEW YEAR
Mount St. Francis Retreat Centre
Cochrane, Alberta
http://www.mountstfrancis.ca/
Mark your calendars!
Sunday February 28th
11:30 AM - 4:00 PM
John Griffith is on sabbatical this year.
Reflections will be led by a Franciscan on staff.
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