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GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:
I apologize for being several days late in mailing my
Colleagues List for July 12th. Only today did I receive
the link for my Special Item this week - my June column
for the Anglican Journal. It is written in support of many
hopeful New Canadians living in Quebec who have served
us well and whose status in our country has been tenuous.
I include other items in this mailing as usual, and plan
to provide a regular CL mailing for July 19th.
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEM
My Special Item this week picks up on a column written
in the Globe and Mail by Andre Picard. It is entitled"
"Will We Support Our Guardian Angels?"
https://tinyurl.com/ydgtdwct
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Elfrieda Schroeder,
Winnipeg, MB.
"In Transit" Blog
July 9th, 2020
"Beyond the Face of Fear"
https://tinyurl.com/yb2q5rru
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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Web Site,
July 6th, 2020
"Deeper Things Under the Surface"
https://tinyurl.com/y9z2dzzz
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Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log,
July 5th, 2020
"Plague of Locusts ..."
https://tinyurl.com/y6vhdvcz
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NET NOTES - July 12th, 2020
THE DALAI LAMA TURNS 85
Uncertain Future, Like Tibet's
Religion News Service,
July 6th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y9l75th8
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VATICAN MUSEUMS ONCE OVERCROWDED
The Virus Seems to be Changing That
Religion News Service,
July 9th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/ya6qabv2
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WHY IT WOULD BE TERRIFYING
TO OPEN THE CANADA/US BORDER
Canadian Cases Going Down, US Going Up
CTV.ca
July 6th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/yde4zcjg
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THE SPIRITUAL DANGER OF DONALD TRUMP
30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth and
Moral Integrity, edited by Canadian Ron Sider
Englewood Review of Books
July 9th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y7h2wge8
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AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM NEEDS A RETOOL
We're Like the Crazy Uncle Living in the Attic
National Catholic Reporter,
July 7th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y9nglwcf
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BECOMING LESS DEFENSIVE OF WHITE PRIVILEGE
Some Tools for Dealing With Our Guilt and Fear
The Christian Century,
July 6th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/yatteqkw
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A MUSLIM APPEALS ON BEHALF OF HAGIA SOPHIA
"Preserve it as a Museum" is the Plea
Religion News Service,
July 8th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y7nmyvue
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DOES SYSTEMIC RACISM EXIST
IN THE CANADIAN CHURCH?
Often, We Fail to Recognize It
Faith Today
Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
July/August, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/ydyz2zgs
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"IT'S LIKE NIGHT AND DAY"
TRUDEAU AND TRUMP CONTEND WITH THE VIRUS
Stoking Division Vs. Cultivating a Sense of Duty
The Guardian, UK
July 9th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y97lh85t
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MANY U.S. CHURCHES WANTED A QUICK RE-OPENING
THE RESULT IS A SECOND WAVE VIRUS SURGE
A Lesson? Churches are Responsible for the
Health of Their Members and Others
New York Times,
July 8th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/ybas48le
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK - July 12th, 2020
Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof online -
In making a choice it is not so much a question of
choosing the right as of the energy, the earnestness,
the passion with which one chooses. This is how
personality is consolidated. Even if a person chooses
the wrong, he will nevertheless discover precisely by
reason of the energy with which he chose, that he has
chosen the wrong.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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It is not how much we are doing but how much love,
how much honesty, how much faith is put into doing it.
It makes no difference what we are doing. What you are
doing, I cannot do, and what I am doing, you cannot do.
Only sometimes we forget and we spend more time
looking at somebody else and wishing we were doing
something else. We waste our time thinking of tomorrow,
and today we let the day pass, and yesterday is gone.
- Mother Teresa
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Hope is subversive precisely because it dares to admit
that all is not as it should be. And so we are holding out
for, working for, creating, prophesying, and living into
something better — for the kingdom to come, for oaks
of righteousness to tower, for leaves to blossom for the
healing of the nations, for swords to be beaten into
plowshares, for joy to come in the morning, and for
redemption and justice.
- Sarah Bessey
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You were created to do good work. Work that empowers
and inspires, liberates and transforms, restores and softens.
Yes, work can be hard – as it was meant to be. The verb
itself calls us into action, rejecting passivity and demanding
sustained effort. It provokes, agitates, and disturbs. But,
this work – the call for justice – is good work. It defends the
oppressed and frees the captive. It tears down walls and
destroys barriers. It is changing things. So, when you feel
weary, or hopeless, or spent, remind yourself that the
darkness is being flooded by marvelous light. Yes, this
is work. And it is good.
- Danielle Coke
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Here is a letter we received today: “I took a gentleman
seemingly in need of spiritual and temporal guidance
into my home on a Sunday afternoon. I let him have a
nap on my bed, went through the want ads with him,
made coffee and sandwiches for him, and when he left,
I found my wallet had gone also.” I can only say that
the saints would only bow their heads, and not try to
understand or judge.…These things happened for our
testing. We are sowing the seed of love, and we are not
living in the harvest time. We must love to the point of
folly, and we are indeed fools, as our Lord himself was
who died for such a one as this
- Dorothy Day
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The healthy body is being constantly renewed. This is
just as true mentally and spiritually. There is so much in
God’s Word about renewal of life that it is strange that
any conscientious Christian would be afraid of change
in his outlook on life or even in his religious ideas.
Of course, the fear is that change would mean loss of faith,
but this is never true if the faith is in the living God and not
in one’s ideas of God. God never changes, but our minds
must be open to new knowledge or grow stagnant. When
we quit growing we begin to die. Renewal can come to
anyone at any time by turning to God in faith
- Anna Mow
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I ask all of you, dear brothers and sisters, to view these
things that are happening in our historical moment with a
spirit of hope, generosity, and sacrifice. And let us do what
we can.
We can all do something and be more understanding.If
we illuminate with Christian hope our intense longings for
justice and peace and all that is good, then we can be sure
that no one dies forever. If we have imbued our work with a
sense of great faith, love of God, and hope for humanity,
then all our endeavors will lead to the splendid crown that
is the sure reward for the work of sowing truth, justice, love,
and goodness on earth. Our work does not remain here; it
is gathered and purified by the Spirit of God and returned to
us as a reward.
- Oscar Romero
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CLOSING THOUGHT - Rabbi Yaakov Yitzhak of Lublin
The person who is coldly hostile will always find the
way closed. But one who can burn with enmity can
also burn with love for God.
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