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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:
Please let me know how I'm doing.
If you have friends who would like to
receive Colleagues List notices, just send
me their email addresses.
Your recommendation is all I would need
to include them.
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For my Special Items this week, I include
the links to my September Anglican Journal
column: "The Mystery of the Child".
I add a link to all the AJ columns I have
written during the past two years.
Colleague Contributions came from four
of you during the past week.
My Net Notes include items I thought
might interest you from my web search
during the past week.
Eight wise people share their insights
under the theme - Wisdom of the Week.
The New York Times archives offer three
stories from history as the newspaper
interpreted them at the time.
I conclude with an updated and complete
design of the adult spiritual development
program at my church, St. David's, Calgary
where I serve on staff.
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEMS
My September Anglican Journal Column:
"The Mystery of the Child"
http://tinyurl.com/h5qrn45
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Link to all my Anglican Journal columns
from the past two years:
http://tinyurl.com/gkopvrs
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
September, 2016
Dear Wayne
Unfortunately, my webpage,
http://edges.Canadahomepage.net
has been hijacked, and I haven’t been
able to get it back yet.
For the time being, then, there is no
online archive of columns. If there’s
a special column you want, I can send
it to you from my own records.
If you want to comment on something,
send a message directly to me,
jimt@quixotic.ca
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Two colleagues, relating to my book
notice last week for "No Greater Love,"
the Mother Teresa commemorative
edition, sent the following articles -
See http://tinyurl.com/zv2f3w6
--
Lorna Dueck,
Toronto, ON.
Context With Lorna
September 6th, 2016
"Leadership Lessons from Mother Teresa"
http://tinyurl.com/jtdshzf
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Ed Schroeder,
St. Louis, MO.
September 12th, 2016
Wayne:
Please click this link to read
my support information and
an in-depth review of a book
about Mother Teresa:
"Come Be My Light"
http://tinyurl.com/zfq93y3
Thanks,
Ed
--
Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX.
Personal Web Log
September 14th, 2016
"From Paranoia to Metanoia"
http://tinyurl.com/j2tpbf6
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NET NOTES
GRETTA VOSPER UPDATE
The Story Isn't Over Yet
The Christian Post
September 12th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/h36ajpr
Colleagues:
I have signed a petition in
support of Gretta, and perhaps
you might do so too.
Wayne
http://tinyurl.com/zbt98u2
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MORMONS LESS REPUBLICAN
Not Just Because of Trump
Religion News Service
September 16th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/hts3hdw
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A CRISIS OF FAITH IN Laïcité
Religion Police in France
and Saudi Arabia
Sightings,
September 15th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/hc3scy2
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TEACHING CALVIN IN CALIFORNIA
Classic Church Theology for Moderns
New York Times
September 14th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/hbgywq4
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REMEMBERING 9/11
AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS
A NYC Catholic Perspective
America Magazine
September 8th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/zobfy24
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CHINA TIGHTENING CONTROL
OVER RELIGIONS
UCA News
September 16th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/z2qlyrc
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FRANCIS DECLARES ASSASSINATED
FRENCH PRIEST A MARTYR
His Response to Normandy Tragedy
America Magazine,
September 14th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/gvk3u9u
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FOLLOWUP TO "TEN REASONS FOR
AMERICAN CHRISTIAN DECLINE"
Seven Points of Clarification
Following Last Week's Article
Religion News Service
September 12th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/za2lctf
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WORLD VISION SHUTS DOWN GAZA
OFFICE AFTER FUNDS GO TO HAMAS
Misdirection of Funding to Terrorism
The Christian Post
September 14th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/jg3scvu
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"THE END OF WHITE CHRISIAN AMERICA"
EXPLAINS END OF PROTESTANT DOMINANCE
(Book Review)
National Catholic Reporter
September 14th, 2016
http://tinyurl.com/j4clkt2
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
From Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:
In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
- Octavia Butler
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I read in a book that a man called Christ went
about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me
that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.
- Toyohiko Kagawa
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Most [people] pursue pleasure with such
breathless haste that they hurry past it.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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What we do is very little.
But it is like the little boy with a few loaves
and fishes.Christ tookthat little and increased it.
- Dorothy Day
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Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work
to banish them with illumination and forgiveness.
Your willingness to wrestle with your demons
will cause your angels to sing.
- August Wilson
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If you always try to be heavenly and spiritually
minded, you won’t understand the everyday
work God has for you to do. But if you embrace
what is to come from God, if you live for Christ’s
coming in practical life, you will learn that divine
things can be experienced here and now, things
quite different from what our human brains can
ever imagine.…
Make yourselves free for God’s will and God’s
ways on earth.
- Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
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Try saying this silently to everyone and
everything you see for thirty days: “I wish
you happiness now and whatever will bring
happiness to you in the future.”
If we said it to the sky, we would have to
stop polluting; if we said it when we see
ponds and lakes and streams, we would
have to stop using them as garbage dumps
and sewers; if we said it to small children,
we would have to stop abusing them…if we
said it to people, we would have to stop s
toking the fires of enmity around us.
Beauty and human warmth would take root
in us like a clear, hot June day.
We would change.
- Joan Chittister
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ON THIS DAY
From the archives of the New York Times:
"Bill Clinton Watches as Rabin and Arafat
Shake Hands on White House Lawn"
http://tinyurl.com/on68fsy
"Two Airliners Crash into World Trade Centre"
http://tinyurl.com/4wtdsn
"Steven Biko Dies in South African Custody"
http://tinyurl.com/hbfkblc
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CLOSING THOUGHT- Henri J. M. Nouwen
When we honestly ask ourselves which persons
in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice,
solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share
our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and
tender hand. The friend who can be silent with
us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can
stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement,
who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not
healing and face with us the reality of our
powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
(end)
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For Those Interested -
Beginning Our Program Planning Season -
Autumn 2016 Adult Spiritual Development
ACTS Ministry at St. David's United Church,
Calgary
FALL 2016 MONDAY NIGHT STUDY
This series starts in September
Theme: "Rediscovering the Bible for Today"
Book: "Reclaiming the Bible
for a Non-Religious World"
by Bishop John Spong
http://tinyurl.com/jfanqdp
A ten-week introduction to the entire Bible
with help to engage it meaningfully, today.Ten Monday evenings, 7-9PM
In the St. David's TM Room
September 19th - November 28th, 2016
Excluding Monday of Thanksgiving Weekend
Books and Registration/Hospitality - $60.00
Books only - $20.00
Total book sets made available for sale: 40.
BOOKS SOLD OUT, but more to come if needed.
Now beginning eighteen years
of Monday Night Studies
Our thirty-seventh series of
(usually) ten week sessions!
Course design:
http://rtb.stdavidscalgary.net/
Check our complete archives
for all 48 book studies since 2000:
http://tinyurl.com/q3bw6dh
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THURSDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY
Theme: "Mark - the Earliest Gospel"
Ten sessions 10-11 AM
Gathering at 9:30 AM
In the St. David's TM Room
September 22nd - November 24th.
No charge.
Study resources -
"The DK Complete Bible Handbook"
Edited by John Bowker
http://tinyurl.com/odxlv7q
"Reclaiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World"
by Bishop John Spong
http://tinyurl.com/jfanqdp
by Bishop John Spong
http://tinyurl.com/jfanqdp
(reserve copies available in our church library)
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NEW SEASON,
NEW ST.DAVID'S SPIRITUAL TRAVEL PROJECT
The Planning Cycle for a 2017 Tour Continues.
The Travel Destination has been researched with
Rostad Tours of Calgary.
We have selected South Africa as our location!
We plan a seventeen-day trip that combines a
focus on faith, culture, and nature, and it will
happen the second half of October next year.
Follow these notices for weekly updates.
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