Colleagues List, April 26th, 2020

Vol XV. No. 38

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GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE                                          CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE

Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:

This week my Special Item takes the form of a

presentation of my Easter column for the Anglican
Journal, previously shared with you, and a response
from an Anglican bishop from Iqaluit in Canada's Arctic.

Please consider reading (rereading) the two different
interpretations of the meaning of Jesus' resurrection.

You might call this an exchange between evangelical
and progressive Christian perspectives.

Most of the other articles I have collected for this issue
relate in various ways to the pandemic.

Blessings!

Wayne

PS A REMINDER - If a link, below seems to be dead, cut and
paste it into the address bar at the top of your web page
and it should work

*****

SPECIAL ITEM

Two weeks ago, at Easter, I shared with you my
Anglican Journal column for the season -

"Easter was Unexpected in the Beginning... and it Still Is"
   https://tinyurl.com/yx2tm9zd

Joey Royal, the Anglican Suffragan Bishop of the Arctic,
took exception to some of what I wrote, as follows -

"The Resurrection is not all in your Head"
  https://tinyurl.com/y95fbhw4

I plan to write a response and the hoped for debate
will continue through the moderation of the AJ editor,
Matthew Townsend.

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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS

Doug Koop,
Winnipeg, MB

Winnipeg Free Press,
April 9th, 2020

"Headgear and Heartache"
  https://tinyurl.com/y8b9expq

--

Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC.

Personal Web Log
April 19th, 2020

"Failed Myths"
  https://tinyurl.com/ybtkqznu

--

Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.

Sermons and Blog
April 21st, 2020

"7 Ways Covid-19 Will Transform the Church"
  https://tinyurl.com/y7c3jpha

--

John Stackhouse Jr.
Moncton, NB

Personal Website
April 23rd, 2020

"How Can We Stop Evil from Happening?"
  https://tinyurl.com/y7a7524q

--

Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX

Personal Web Site,
April 20th, 2020

"Churches as Field Hospitals"
  https://tinyurl.com/ycbowfgf

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NET NOTES - April 26th, 2020

UCC MODERATOR LIGHTS CANDLE
FOR THE PEOPLE OF NOVA SCOTIA
Tragedy Continues to Unfold (video)

United Church of Canada
April 21st, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/yd4t4mxl

--

IN THIS EASTER SEASON, WORDS FAIL
The First Disciples Had Similar Problems

The Christian Century,
April 21st, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y7fgnm82

--

THE EASTER BUNNY IN CHURCH
An Appropriate Christian Practice?
(an Evangelical Perspective)

Christianity Today,
March 17th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y8wallcl

--

WE NEED GREAT LEADERSHIP NOW
And Here's What it Looks Like

New York Times,
April 21st, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/yd6ubnaw

--

THE DALAI LAMA SPEAKS ON EARTH DAY
COVID -19 a Lesson in Universal Responsibility

Religion News Service,
April 22nd, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/ycwxchvl

--

LET'S STOP JUDGING OTHERS DURING COVID-19
Compassion is Needed at a Time Like This

Broadview,
April 16th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/ybhngfya

--

CHRISTIANS IN INDIA SEE GROWING PERSECUTION
Modi Government Continues to be Supported by Trump

The Christian Post
April 21st, 2010

https://tinyurl.com/ycqpth6a

--

CANADIANS EMBRACING FAITH AT TIME OF CRISIS
More are Saying That Prayer is Important to Them

BC Catholic,
April 14th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y77rskoc

--

SAMARITAN'S PURSE FINDS UNLIKELY SUPPORTER
New York Jewish Investor Impressed with the Ministry

Religion News Service,
April 21st, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y95medjb

*****

WORD OF THE DAY

The Frederick Buechner Center
April 24th, 2020

"Gay"

https://tinyurl.com/yafxzoyp

*****

WISDOM OF THE WEEK 

Provided by sojourners and the Bruderhof online:

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

- The Lorax, Dr. Seuss

--

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day
is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the
turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

- Etty Hillesum

--

For Christians, knowledge of the past does not just put
the present into proper perspective, it orients us to God’s
metanarrative. All of our holy days are remembrances
of the past that emphasize our hope for the future.

- Elizabeth Stice

--

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all
spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We
are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends
on the day.

- Brad Metzer

--

There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of
weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently
than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of
overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.  

- Washington Irving

--

It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work.
Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing
a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything
gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as
your duty. To go to communion worthily gives God great
glory, but to take food in thankfulness and temperance
gives him glory too. To lift up the hands in prayer gives
God glory, but a man with a dung fork in his hand, a
woman with a slop pail, give him glory too. He is so
great that all things give him glory if you mean they
should. So then, my brethren, live.

 - Gerard Manley Hopkins

--

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer
is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it,
which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand
that prayer is an education. Remember, too, every day and
whenever you can, to repeat to yourself, “Lord, have mercy
on all who appear before you today.” For every hour and
every moment thousands of people leave life on this earth,
and their souls appear before God.…

How touching it must be to a soul standing in dread before
the Lord to feel at that instant that for him too there is one
to pray, that there is a fellow creature left on earth to love
him. And God will look on you both more graciously, for if
you have had so much pity on him, how much more will
He have pity who is infinitely more loving and merciful
than you. And He will forgive him for your sake.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(end)

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Colleagues List, April 19th, 2020

Vol XV. No. 37

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GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE                                          CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE

Wayne A. Holst, Editor
My E-Mail Address: waholst@telus.net 

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*****

Dear Friends:

For my Special Item this week, I am pleased to share
the current, spiritual health reflections of colleague
Doug Koop whom I have known and appreciated as a
friend for almost thirty years.

Again, in this issue, I have tried to include selections 
that will be of help to you now, and appreciate your 
faithfulness as readers.

Wayne

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*****

SPECIAL ITEM

My Special Item this time was written two weeks ago by 
Doug Koop, former editor of Christian Week and now a
spiritual  health practitioner in Winnipeg. 

This reflection first appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press 
on April 7th.

In "Weathering a Gathering Storm" Doug writes of his 
experience with health professionals, patients and
others who were anticipating the pandemic in a health
care setting and were attempting to come to terms 
with it.

We need to hear more people on the front lines of
service to pandemic victims right now. I hope to
publish a follow-up piece to this one next week.

https://tinyurl.com/yccjrt6k

*****

COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS

Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC

Personal Web Log,
April 12th, 2020

"After the Pandemic"
  https://tinyurl.com/y9ot3ts3

--

Michael Higgins,
Fairfield, CT

Globe and Mail,
April 10th, 2020

"A Page from St. Corona" (prayers)
  https://tinyurl.com/yaqkupew

--

Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.

Sermons and Blog
April 12th, 2020

"The Easter Experience"
  https://tinyurl.com/ya38pwc3

--

Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL

Sightings,
April 13th, 2020

"Hope in the Midst of Apocalypse"
  https://tinyurl.com/y7rgmj8q

--

Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX

Personal Web Site,
April 13th, 2020

"Huge Stones and Locked Doors"
  https://tinyurl.com/ycq26oe9

  

*****

NET NOTES

A CRUCIBLE TO CALL OUR OWN
Bonhoeffer's Witness in Our Times

Christian Week (Winnipeg)
April 9th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/yazdnc3e

--

THE PANDEMIC AND THE WILL OF GOD
Searching for Meaning in Suffering

New York Times,
April 12th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/uveffnu

--

THE BEST RESPONSE TO
DISASTER IS RESILIENCE
Times are hard, but we have seen worse
by Madeleine Albright

New York Times,
April 12th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/unedqvl

--

THE PANDEMIC BILLY SUNDAY
COULD NOT SHUT DOWN
American Evangelists have a
History of Fighting Viruses

Religion News Service,
April 16th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y9ov6h42

--

CANADIANS EAGER TO RECONNECT
WITH FRIENDS WHEN THREAT RECEDES
Major Challenges Remain Amid Hope

Angus Reid Institute,
April 13th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y8ddopaw

--

FINDING TANGIBLE WAYS OF
SUPPORTING EACH OTHER
Working With Partner Churches

United Church of Canada,
April 14th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y8l925tj

--

VIRUS HITS CONSERVATIVE
JEWISH COMMUNITIES HARD
Video of a New York Experience

New York Times,
April 16th, 2020


https://tinyurl.com/ycya2dmy

--

MODERN CANADIAN MORALITY
Stealing Streaming a Bigger Issue
than Assisted Dying

Angus Reid Institute,
April 15th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y84atkmw

--

WILLOW CREEK MEGACHURCH
FINALLY GETS NEW LEADER
Two Year Search Ends

Religion News Service,
April 15th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y9uf9jwb

--

OPPOSITION TO SAMARITAN'S PURSE
FIELD HOSPITAL GROWS IN CENTRAL PARK
Graham's Ethical/Political Stance Challenged

Religion News Service,
April 14th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y8r9dplm

*****

WISDOM OF THE WEEK - April 19th, 2020

Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:

Resurrection is everywhere and all around us.

- Timothy McMahan King

--

The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability
to retain compassion in times of crisis.

- Thurgood Marshall

--

The earthly-minded person thinks and imagines
that when he prays, the important thing – the thing
he must concentrate upon – is that God should
hear what he is praying for. And yet in the true,
eternal sense it is just the reverse: the true relation
in prayer is not when God hears what is prayed for,
but when the person praying continues to pray
until he is the one who hears – who hears what
God is asking for.

- Søren Kierkegaard

--

There is a legend about a woman who prayed to
God for patience. In answer, she received nothing
but trouble. She then said to the Lord, “I did not
pray for trouble, I prayed for patience.”

The Lord answered her, “How else will you learn
patience, or even know you have it?” Growing in
the love of God with its concomitant joy and peace
is possible only as we let that love be tested by the
hard things of life, and so the love bears the fruit of
even-tempered patience, kindness, and gentleness

- Anna Mow

--.

A certain brother came to Abbot Silvanus at Mount
Sinai, and seeing the hermits at work, he exclaimed,
“Why do you work for the bread that perishes? We
read that Mary chose the better part – namely, to sit
at the feet of her Lord.” Then the abbot said to his
disciple Zachary, “Give the brother a book, and put
him in an empty cell, and let him read.” At the ninth
hour the brother who was reading began to wonder
why the abbot had not called him to eat. Sometime
later he went directly to the abbot and said, “Did the
brethren not eat today, father?” “Oh yes,” said the
abbot. “They have just finished their meal.” “Well,”
said the brother, “Why did you not call me?”

“Because you are a spiritual man,” answered the abbot.
“You do not need the food that perishes. The rest of us
have to work. But you have chosen the better part; you
have read all day and can surely get along without food.”

- The Desert Fathers

--

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 life
away 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

*****

MOMENT IN TIME

April 17th, 2020

Museum Buys Europe's Oldest Book

April 17, 2012: If you’re handling an old book about
the size of a new paperback book, and it’s worth
£9-million (almost $16-million), you’d best be careful.

On this day in 2012, that’s how much the British Library
paid to the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) for the oldest
intact European book. The early eighth-century
manuscript, a copy of the Gospel of St. John, was
slipped into the oak coffin of St. Cuthbert sometime
after his death in 698 AD at a monastery in northeast
England.

The Gospel was rediscovered in 1104 when the saint’s
coffin, moved originally to elude Viking raiders, was
relocated to a shrine at Durham Cathedral. It is exquisitely
beautiful with its original red-leather binding, pages and
sewing structure perfectly intact. (It predated the printing
press by about 750 years.) But it is the manuscript’s
1,300-year-old link to the Anglo-Saxon period of its origin
that makes it one of the world’s most important books. It
was described by the British Library as "a landmark in the
cultural history of Europe.” The Jesuits used the proceeds
for education and restoration work. And the manuscript,
in public hands for the first time in its history, is now fully
digitized and available free online. - Philip King

(end)

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Colleagues List, April 12th, 2020

Vol XV. No. 36

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EASTER EDITION

GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE                                            CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
My E-Mail Address: waholst@telus.net 

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Dear Friends:

Here is my Easter edition of Colleagues List!

I include two Special Item selections. The first 
is my Anglican Journal column for Easter, which
was posted today.

The second is a personal exercise for the season -
provided thru me by Spirituality and Practice.

All the other selections this time relate to Holy Week 
and Easter commemorations, including current issues
from the world of religion and culture.

May you have a blessed season of meaning and growth,
perhaps because our times are strange and unprecedented.

Wayne

PS A REMINDER - If a link, below seems to be dead, cut and
paste it into the address bar at the top of your web page
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*****

MY SPECIAL ITEMS FOR EASTER

Click the link to my current Anglican Journal Easter column:

"Easter was unexpected in the beginning, and it still is"

https://tinyurl.com/yx2tm9zd

--

Repeated reflection from last year:

RESURRECTION AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
Making Easter Renewal Your Own

Spirituality and Practice
April 21st, 2019

https://tinyurl.com/y445fnyt

After reading this article from Spirituality and Practice

this week, I decided to turn this personal reflection at

Easter into verbs. I selected seven of the points offered 
by Meghan McKenna and pass on to you a bit of where
I am coming from.

--

GIVE your full attention to whatever you are doing and

you'll realize the constant renewal of life all around you.

Wayne - I now know that for much of my life I busied
myself with so many activities that I failed to see a lot
of what was really going on. Now, I am slowing down
naturally, but that is not a bad thing in many ways. I
tend to focus and notice a great deal more.

--

WHEN you cultivate the art of making connections, the
walls of separation come crashing down and new life
can spring up out of the rubble.

Wayne - I am more aware of broken relationships and

other break-ups within and around me. One of the

benefits of this stage of my life is that I can use my

experience to try to do some real healing ministry inside

and beyond myself. I don't expect great things to happen,

but then again, who knows? I really am making more
connections.

--

EVERY time you forgive someone, another resurrection

is in the making.

Wayne - There are some people I am not yet ready to

forgive, but the prospect of a true resurrection where

one does not currently exist certainly nudges me. I
need to let forgiveness be more part of my life as I
know was part of earlier times in my life.

--

YOUR little acts of kindness tenderize the world, add to

the fund of good will, and set the table for resurrection.

Wayne - it always surprises me when, out of the blue,

people call me aside and tell me about how I may have

been of some help to them. This gives me encouragement

to "continue doing what I'm doing" and then some.

--

NURTURE yourself — eat right, exercise, get plenty of rest
- and you are helping God resurrect your body.

Wayne - I have been more focused on what I eat, when

I exercise, and how much sleep I get each day. I am

learning that these activities can enhance and prolong
my life, and for that reason alone, I tend to them faithfully.

--

PRACTICING resurrection also means having confidence

that God can make something out of your selfishness,

anger, greed, hatred, and any of your other shadow

qualities.

Wayne - It was an important learning for me, at mid-

life, to discover that, by nature I am not bad, but both

good and bad together. It was an additional learning

for me that my failings were even more helpful to others

observing me than were my successes.

--

BY respecting the mystery of God, human nature, and

the natural world, you bear witness to the ineffable

nature of renewal and rebirth.

Wayne - when I looked over this list of seven, and of

my comments, most of them still focused on "doing". 

That, I think is true to my nature. Contemplation is

still very hard for me, but I am getting better at it.

When I encounter mystery at this stage of my life -

and I do so often - I am much more inclined to stop

and reflect, rather than to immediately shift into action.

Often in the past, activity was a defense-mechanism

that did not help me or others very much.

--

I hope I am learning that joining with Christ in his

resurrection is the way to live and to be resurrection

for others also. St. Paul writes frequently about this -

(see Romans 6:4, for example).

*****

COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS

Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.

Sermons and Blog
April 10th, 2020

"Atonement (Good Friday)"
  https://tinyurl.com/s3ex2ye

--

Elfrieda Schroeder,
Winnipeg, MB.

In Transit - Blog
April 7th, 2020

"Be Not Afraid"
  https://tinyurl.com/r5d86y2

--

Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC

Personal Web Log
April 9th, 2020

"Hand-washing for Beginners"
  https://tinyurl.com/wpogzya

--

John Stackhouse Jr.
Moncton, NB

Context
April 6th, 2020

A Canadian Evangelical Perspective:

"Why are They Still Going to Church?"
  https://tinyurl.com/va3uf32

--

Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX

Personal WebSite,
April 6th, 2020

"The Meaning of Jesus' Death"
  https://tinyurl.com/wramd7f

*****

NET NOTES - April 12th, 2020

EASTER
by Frederick Buechner

MyBuechner Blog
https://tinyurl.com/quatgwf

-

I MISS SINGING AT CHURCH
Something I  have Discovered

The New York Times,
April 5th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/uz5eaf2

--

LAMENTATION AS A GIFT
ACC Primate Linda Nicholls

Anglican Journal,
March 30th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/trjjhlq

--

MARY MAGDALENE  - EASTER STORY
Unraveling the Myth of an Early Church Leader

Broadview,
March 16th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/w7tnctq

--

IN OHIO, THE AMISH
TAKE ON CORONAVIRUS
Balancing Community and Outreach

New York Times,
April 9th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/soklozn

--

EPIDEMIC A PRIME TIME
FOR CONVERSION SAYS POPE

Catholic Register, Toronto
April 8th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/uy2l59q

--

FEELING ANTSY, MOROSE?
ADVICE FROM KATHLEEN NORRIS
What She Learned from the Monks

National Catholic Reporter,
April 7th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/umr7hda

--

THE PANDEMIC IS EXPOSING
THE MYTH OF SELF-RELIANCE
We Much Need Our Unsung Heroes

The Christian Century,
April  6th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/svxpzxo

--

JEWS AROUND THE WORLD
TO CELEBRATE PASSOVER
Different from Any Other

Religion News Service,
April 8th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/v4ovseq

--

THIS YEAR, EASTER MAY
FEEL MORE LIKE PASSOVER
Reading Exodus 20 Could Help

Religion News Service
April 8th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/v8dzy5z

*****

WISDOM OF THE WEEK 

Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:

This Holy Week, like Mary, let us bring our tears
and grief to the garden, pouring out our hearts,
explaining all the ways it shouldn’t have to be like
this. And like Mary, in the intimacy of our
disappointment, may we hear Jesus call our name.

- Rebekah Bled

-

And if the message of Easter is about [new life],
then for us to fast from gathering for worship is our
following the path of new life, new life for those who
we might be hurt by gathering together and new life
for us by learning to live — not for self alone, but
for others and for God – that's resurrection.

- Presiding Bishop Michael Curry

--

Oscar Romero -

To be a Christian now means
to have the courage
to preach the true teaching of Christ
and not be afraid of it, not be silent out of fear
and preach something easy
that won’t cause problems.
To be a Christian in this hour means
to have the courage that the Holy Spirit gives...
to be valiant soldiers of Christ the King,
to make his teaching prevail,
to reach hearts and proclaim to them
the courage
that one must have to defend God’s law.

--

Being patient is difficult. It is not just waiting until
something happens over which we have no control:
the arrival of the bus, the end of the rain, the return
of a friend, the resolution of a conflict. Patience is not
waiting passively until someone else does something.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest,
to be completely present to the moment, to taste
the here and now, to be where we are. When we
are impatient, we try to get away from where we
are. We behave as if the real thing will happen
tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Be patient
and trust that the treasure you are looking for is
hidden in the ground on which you stand.

- Henri J.M. Nouwen

--

The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation.
A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are
in a constant process of adjusting our public image. We
fear so deeply what we think other people see in us that
we talk in order to straighten out their understanding. If I
have done some wrong thing (or even some right thing
that I think you may misunderstand) and discover that
you know about it, I will be very tempted to help you
understand my action.

Silence is one of the deepest disciplines of the spirit
simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification.
One of the fruits of silence is the freedom to let God be
our justifier. We don’t need to straighten others out.

- Richard J. Foster

*****

MOMENT IN TIME

Globe and Mail,
April 7th, 2020

April 7th, 1970
The turn of the sixties into the seventies was a
time of thoughtfulness and patchouli-scented
spirituality, reflected by charting hits that included,
in the spring of 1970, Simon & Garfunkel’s
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" and the Beatles’
"Let it Be - Speaking words of wisdom,” then; it
was something of a genre unto itself.

It was in this era that on April 7, 1970, the young
Ottawan Bruce Cockburn released a spare,
acoustic, introspective self-titled debut album
that was at turns gentle and jaunty, marked by
flowery lyricism and the lucid, seeking outlook
of a self-aware artist on the cusp of something
yet unclear.

“It’s my turn, but where’s the guide?” the nascent
troubadour wondered on Man of a Thousand Faces.
The political activism of 1984′s If I Had a Rocket
Launcher would come later, as would 13 Juno
Awards. In 1970, though, with songs such as
"Thoughts on a Rainy Afternoon" the gifted
musician sought connections behind the things
he observed. As for what lay ahead, he was
characteristically clear-eyed, singing “Jesus,
don’t let tomorrow take my love away.”

Cockburn would win that fight. 

– Brad Wheeler

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CLOSING THOUGHT - Stephanie Lobdell

When COVID-19 is but a strange, traumatic memory
to pass on to our grandchildren, will we be able to say
with humility and honesty that we learned to love as
Jesus loved us?

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For those interested:

ST. DAVID'S ACTS  WINTER MONDAY NIGHT BOOK STUDY

A Ten Week Series January 13th - March 23rd, 2020

(Family Weekend Session, February 17th, exempted)
Monday Evenings, TM Room 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

"FUTURE FAITH - Ten Challenges Reshaping 

                              Christianity in the 21st Century"

Author: Wesley Granberg-Michaelson

Registration/Hospitality and Book: $60.00.
Book only: $25.00

37 copies of the book were made available for sale.

All are now sold. 

Total on-site registrations: 32

(plus 3 on-line participants). Grand Total: 35 to date.

A SUMMARY OF OUR STUDY SESSIONS WILL BE HELD
ONLINE AS ZOOM FORMAT CHALLENGES AWAIT

Book Description - https://tinyurl.com/tybpxvd

PLEASE READ THE STUDY NOTES FOR ALL TEN CHAPTERS

https://tinyurl.com/qpx7l8n

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ST. DAVID'S ACTS THURSDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY

Our theme this winter: 

"Jesus' Parables and Miracles" 

  (a total of 10 examples)

As recorded in the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark 
and Luke and the Gospel of John

Ten Sessions - January 23rd-April 2nd, 2020

Gathering at 9:30 AM in the St. David's TM Room

and meeting 10:00 - 11:00 AM. 

THE FINAL STUDY SESSIONS WILL BE HELD ONLINE

Study resource -

"The DK Complete Bible Handbook"
  Edited by John Bowker

http://tinyurl.com/odxlv7q 

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