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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
Dear Colleagues:
Enhancing your reading experience is very
important to me. I am currently involved in
up-grading the layout and presentation of
Colleagues List, so please bear with me.
I am attempting to reduce the length, but
not the content and quality, of each issue.
Please let me know how I'm doing.
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As I prepare to send out this issue, it is
reported that Pope Francis has brought
12 Syrian refugees - a number of them
children - back to Rome with him, after
visiting the island of Lesbos with other
Christian leaders. By this symbolic
gesture he is drawing attention to the
gravity of the refugee question and his
objection to the violence in the Middle
East.
This man knows how to make good use
of the important office he holds today.
In my Special Item this week, I share
with you my Anglican Journal column
for April. It is entitled:
"Pope Francis Joins the Human Quest"
To read this, please scroll down through
my cover letter and read the rest of my
blog as you note articles of interest.
Martin Marty focuses on the pope as well.
He writes in "Colleague Communications"
on the theme of 'Conscience.'
Jim Taylor and Ron Rolheiser also make
helpful "Colleague Contributions."
"Net Notes" includes ten items I thought
would interest you this week.
Five contributors offer their wisdom
and I include two historic stories from
the New York Times - "On this Day."
"Closing Thought" is from J. R. R. Tolkien.
At the end of the blog, we begin to build a
new program year of Adult Spiritual
Development at St. David's United Calgary.
Perhaps this will interest you.
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Thanks for reading this issue. I am always
happy to hear your constructive comments.
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEM
My April Anglican Journal Column:
"Pope Francis Joins the Human Quest"
http://tinyurl.com/zoaapv7
COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL
Sightings,
April 11th, 2016
"Conscience"
http://tinyurl.com/gmb2uvd
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Jim Tayler,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log
April 13th, 2016
"Revisiting the Ten Commandments"
http://tinyurl.com/hy34gpr
--
Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio,TX
Personal Web Site
April 11th, 2016
"Love - A Projection and a Reality"
http://tinyurl.com/zn5qhoc
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NET NOTES
Francis Renegotiates
Liberal-Conservative Divide
New York Times,
April 10th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/jpwt8yb
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WOMEN AND THE WORSHIP GAP
Globally More Religious than Men
Pew Research Center
March 22nd, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/zatfwgl
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FAITH IS A RECEIVED TRADITION
Not 'Make It Up As You Go' Spirituality
Christian Week Online
April 10th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/h8gq6kx
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BIBLE OLDER THAN
ORIGINALLY THOUGHT
Hebrew Archeology
Reveals Earlier Dating
Jerusalem Post
April 12th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/jdelghp
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REACTION TO INDIA
FIREWORKS TRAGEDY
One Hundred Plus
Killed in Kerala Hindu Temple
UCA News
April 15th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/zyg9u4f
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THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY
OF UCC APOLOGY
First Canadian Church
to Issue Prophetic Call
United Church of Canada News
April 12th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/zw6qy82
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CANTERBURY DISCOVERS
BIOLOGICAL FATHER
Mother's Affair
Before Marriage a Shock
The Guardian, UK
April 10th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/zmtwmyy
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THE HIGHLY RELIGIOUS
SAY THEY'RE HAPPIER
US Survey Says
They are More Satisfied
Religion News Service
April 12th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/go3nbsk
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CANADA SETS LIMITS
TO ASSISTED DYING LAWS
Government Wants to Avoid
"Suicide Tourism"
Religion News Service
April 14th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/ztumy2n
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CANADIAN HIGH COURT GIVES
NATIVE STATUS TO METIS
600,000 Now Given
Equal Rights to First Nations
Global TV
April 14th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/zy7j9sb
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof
online:
All joy wants eternity — wants deep, deep
eternity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
--
The physical voice we use in prayer need not
be great nor startling; even should we not lift
up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
- Origen
--
The ends you serve that are selfish will take you
no further than yourself, but the ends you serve
that are for all, in common, will take you into
eternity.
- Marcus Garvey
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You can look everywhere for peace, but you may
not find it. Or you can forget yourself and get on
with whatever work is there in front of you. That’s
what brings peace – doing whatever needs to be
done in the house, showing love to your spouse,
or whatever else comes to mind. If you do it for
the sake of the kingdom, it will bring you peace.
- Ruth Land
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Inspection stickers used to have printed on the
back, “Drive carefully: the life you save may be
your own.” That is the wisdom of men in a
nutshell.
What God says, on the other hand, is, “The life you
save is the life you lose.” In other words, the life
you clutch, hoard, guard, and play safe with is in
the end a life worth little to anybody, including
yourself; and only a life given away for love’s sake
is a life worth living.
To bring this point home, God shows us a man who
gave his lifeaway to the extent of dying a national
disgrace without a penny in the bank or a friend to
his name. In terms of men’s wisdom, he was a
perfect fool, and anybody who thinks he can follow
him without making something like the same kind
of fool of himself is laboring not under a cross but
a delusion
- Frederick Buechner
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ON THIS DAY
From the Archives of the New York Times:
"Titanic Sinks in North Atlantic"
http://tinyurl.com/m7sh67b
"Lincoln Mortally Wounded in Washington
Theatre" http://tinyurl.com/dfzm5s
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CLOSING THOUGHT - J. R. R. Tolkien
For myself, I find I become less cynical rather
than more — remembering my own sins and
follies; and realize that men's hearts are not
often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as
bad as their words.
(end)
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Beginning a New Program Year -
2016 Adult Spiritual Development
ACTS Ministry at St. David's United
Church, Calgary
NEW SEASON,
NEW SPIRITUAL TRAVEL PROJECT
The Planning Cycle Begins With a Question:
"Where Would You Like to Travel Next?"
Beginning our process to find a destination
for a trip somewhere in the world in 2017.
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