Vol. XVII. No. 32
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GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
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Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:
My book introduction this week is focused on a youthful
audience, but that includes the young at heart. Please enjoy
"Saving the Future" which suggests strongly the involvement
of gifted young people.
Thanks for Donna Sinclair and Wood Lake books for sharing
this with us. Enjoy my colleague contributions and net note
selections as well.
My last Anglican Journal column "Thoughts on Fallen Church
Leaders" has been the most read article on the AJ website
every day for the last week.
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paste it into the address bar at the top of your web page
and it should work.
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEM
Book Notice -
SAVING THE FUTURE
Lessons in Resistance
From Young Activists
by Donna Sinclair
Wood Lake Publishing
Kelowna, BC.
May, 2022. 124 pp.
$15.96 paper CAD, e-book $9.98 CAD
Amazon.ca Kindle edition $9.99 CAD.
ISBN #978-1-77343-293-9
Publisher's Promo
A powerful and inspiring portrait of a hope-filled movement trying to change the world for the better.
This book provides ideas and tools young activists can use as they work to save what they care about most. It also contains lots of expert tips and advice from young and old activists who are showing the way, such as: Nahira Gerster-Sim, Hannah Bywater, Simon Jackson, Greta Thunberg, Shannen Koostachin, Kile George, Kaiden Peldjak, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Sophia Mathur.
"Saving the Future" contains lessons on how to save the future – get as much political power as you can, defend your rights, choose solidarity, defend the sacred, care for the vulnerable, speak only truthful words, equip yourself to lead, and more – as told by young activists who are busy trying to do these things. It tells the stories of their efforts without attempting to place the weight of saving the world on the shoulders of young people today. For example, Nahira Gerster-Sim is working to help make it so that 16-year-olds will be able to vote. Hannah Bywater and Simon Jackson are fighting for vulnerable and endangered animals. Kaiden Peldjak and Kile George are denouncing racism.
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Author's Words:
Love for the world and all her creatures brings courage, and courage brings hope. We all know that success is not guaranteed. But no future is ever guaranteed. It can always change when people get together, kids and adults, to try to find the way. Many of us have been taught that a little child shall lead them.
I love trees and rocks, lakes and rivers, oceans and beaches, grasslands and mountains. I love cities and big green parks, and leafy neighbourhoods and great schools. And I want these things to be healthy and strong - and safe and beautiful - the forests, the water, the plains, the cities and all the creatures that inhabit them.
Many children and teens are already standing up for these things. That's because children have powers grownups have sometimes lost - a complete inability to keep quiet when something is very wrong, for instance. Maybe you will decide to join these kids. If you do, I hope the adults you love will join you. And I hope these ten lessons from a twentieth century kid (and twenty-first century Nana) will help save the future.
- from the Prologue
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Author's Bio:
Donna Sinclair
A journalist for more than 30 years, Donna Sinclair is an award-winning writer who has traveled widely in Canada, Africa, Central America, Britain, and Eastern Europe. She is the author of The Spirituality of Bread, The Spirituality of Gardening, A Woman's Book of Days, A Woman's Book of Days 2, The Long View and numerous other titles. Donna lives with her husband Jim in North Bay, Ontario.
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My Thoughts:
It is good to see Donna Sinclair in print once more. For many years, she was a regular columnist and contributor who appeared in United Church of Canada publications. Like me, she is slowing down a bit in retirement.
I like the fact that this book reaches out to young people because they are often a missing audience these days from members of my age group.
Young people have gifts and natural propensities that older people have much to benefit from.
Many of the contributors here are new to me and I thank Donna for doing the research and bringing them to life. I like the way this book is divided into ten helpful steps. Thanks, Donna, and thanks Wood Lake.
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Buy the book from Wood Lake Publishing:
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
John Griffith, Calgary, AB.
"What Was I Thinking?" Blog
June 20th, 2022
"Evolutionary Christian Thinking"
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Jim Taylor, Okanagan, BC.
Personal Web Log,
June 16th, 2022
"A Difference that Makes a Difference"
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Ron Rolheiser, San Antonio, TX
Personal Web Site,
June 20th, 2022
"Suicide and Our Misunderstandings"
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Philip Yancey, Colorado
Philipyancey.com
June 23rd, 2022
"No Man is an Island"
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Mark Whittall, Ottawa, ON.
Sermons and Blog,
June 10th, 2022
"Creator, Wisdom, Shekinah (Trinity Sunday)
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NET NOTES
PILLAY ELECTED AS NEW
WCC GENERAL SECRETARY
South African Named to
Important Ecumenical Role
WCC News
June 17th, 2022
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MOURNING AND HONOURING ALBERTA BILLY
A Pioneer in Canadian Aboriginal Justice Work
United Church of Canada Website
June 13th, 2022
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SOUTHERN BAPTISTS CHANGE DIRECTION
On Sexual Abuse After Years of Delay
Religion News Service,
June 17th, 2022
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WHY CHRISTIANS NEED TO WATCH
THE JANUARY 6TH HEARINGS
Listening to the Committee Findings is Important
And Not Just for Americans
Sojourners,
June 9th, 2022
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NO - FRANCIS IS NOT GOING TO RESIGN
With a Clear Mind He Can Still Do His Job
Religion News Service,
June 22nd, 2022
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POPE BLASTS RUSSIA, PRAISES UKRAINE
His Stance is Clearly Against the War
Religion News Service,
June 14th, 2022
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INDIA FROM MODEL OF RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
TO CAUTIONARY TALE
It Can Happen Here Too
Religion News Service,
June 10th, 2022
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THE ENDING OF SEMINARIES AS WE'VE KNOWN THEM
The Changing Structures of Theological Education
Christian Week,
June 17th, 2022
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A RE-IMAGINED ROLE FOR CHURCHES
Post-Coved Possibilities
Broadview,
June 17th, 2022
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POPE PIUS XII - WWII HERO OR VILLAIN?
A Continuing Search to Find the Truth
Catholic Register, Toronto
June 15th, 2022
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
From Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
- Desmond Tutu
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Sometimes what people perceive to be darkness is actually where you find the voice of God and where you find the voice of truth.
- Joy Oladokun |
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Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all a part of one another.
- Yuri Kochiyama
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When you are scared, reach out your hand / Talk to the Lord, talk to the Lord / If you are sad, He’ll dry your tears / Talk to the Lord, talk to the Lord.
- Natalie Bergman
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If everybody owns something, then nobody owns it, and things are not always cared for. But individual ownership has also produced bad fruits: as soon as you own something, you have to protect it, then you have inequality, envy, theft, and war. One of the legitimate criticisms leveled at socialism is that when you remove private ownership, people are not motivated to work. Why should I put my best effort in if everyone gets paid the same in the end anyway? But in reality, money is a surprisingly poor motivator. A much stronger motivator is purpose.
- John Rhodes
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We all have a vocation: to be the “light of the world” and the “salt of the earth”; to be contributing members of our communities and of the Body of Christ. God gives us gifts so that we can use them as the faithful stewards did in the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel when they came and presented their Lord with the profits of what they had been given. To faithfully follow God is a vocation.
-- Archbishop Angaelos
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Not only did God create us and crown us, he made us his image-bearers. It is this that gives human beings their unique place in nature. After he created the earth, God did not become a passive viewer. He maintained connection with his creation and in particular with humankind, loving and cherishing each human being. He gave humanity the task to nurture his creation, to create new life by being fruitful but also to care for and protect his masterpiece so it would remain a place where all creatures could thrive.
- Randall Gauger
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Most of us are not compelled to linger with the knowledge of our aloneness, for it is a knowledge that can paralyze all action in this world. There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed. None of these things can be done alone. But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.
- James Baldwin
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Our culture of consumption and accomplishment is built on self-protection and defensiveness, on buying what we want and selling what we have to in order to prove ourselves. Love is built on the vulnerability of giving and receiving freely. Much of our busyness, distraction, purchasing, and entertainment protects us from admitting our vulnerability, our dependence. Much of our modern culture protects us from love. But if we are willing to move at a slower pace, if we are willing to shed the trappings of achievement and accumulation, we will find a way of being in the world that is vulnerable and open, willing to receive whatever gifts might come our way, without making demands, without needing to possess or achieve.
- Amy Julia Becker
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