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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
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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

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.


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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

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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS

Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC

Personal Web Log,
April 12th, 2020

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


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Michael Higgins,
Fairfield, CT

Globe and Mail,
April 10th, 2020

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


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Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.

Sermons and Blog
April 12th, 2020

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


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Martin Marty,
Chicago, IL

Sightings,
April 13th, 2020

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


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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX

Personal
 Web Site,

April 13th, 2020

"Huge Stones and Locked Doors"

  https://tinyurl.com/ycq26oe9
  
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NET NOTES

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

Christian Week (Winnipeg)
April 9th, 2020


https://tinyurl.com/yazdnc3e

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

New York Times,
April 12th, 2020


https://tinyurl.com/uveffnu

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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

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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

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

Angus Reid Institute,
April 13th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y8ddopaw


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FINDING TANGIBLE WAYS OF
SUPPORTING EACH OTHER
Working With Partner Churches

United Church of Canada,
April 14th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y8l925tj


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

New York Times,
April 16th, 2020



https://tinyurl.com/ycya2dmy

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MODERN CANADIAN MORALITY
Stealing Streaming a Bigger Issue
than Assisted Dying

Angus Reid Institute,
April 15th, 2020


https://tinyurl.com/y84atkmw


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WILLOW CREEK MEGACHURCH
FINALLY GETS NEW LEADER
Two Year Search Ends

Religion News Service,
April 15th, 2020


https://tinyurl.com/y9uf9jwb

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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

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WISDOM OF THE WEEK - April 19th, 2020

Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:

Resurrection is everywhere and all around us.

- Timothy McMahan King

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

- Thurgood Marshall

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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

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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

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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 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


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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

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I have spent the first half of my career as a pastor of the church, and the second half as a teacher in the university and the church. I experience much satisfaction working in both worlds. As I engage in ongoing research to support my third activity which is writing, I am constantly finding many interesting items on the net and from friends which I edit and share on my Colleagues List. That way, you too might enjoy information from the worlds of religion and culture. As of December 2019, this profile has received almost 2,500 hits. Thanks for your interest! .

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