Friday, August 14, 2020

Colleagues List, August 16th, 2020

 Vol XVI. No. 7

Archive - Dec 2009 - Oct 2019                                                                                          http://colleagueslist.blogspot/.ca http://colleagueslistii.blogspot.com/

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:

The selection of Kamala Harris as the possible vice-
president of the USA, serving with presidential 
candidate Joe Biden, introduces - in a fresh way - 
the key theme of de-colonialism.

For decades, we have spoken of "post-colonialism"
but a development like this has new implications
for how the world is evolving into the future.

If elected, Harris would be the first woman of colour
to become an American VP - the first of Black and 
South Asian ancestry - and all that entails.

Over the next months I would like to consider this
advancement from a theological/missiological point
of view and am also writing an Anglican Journal column
on the theme as well

Today, I would like to share as my Special Item a
recent article by Adam Getachew in the New York Times.
This piece focuses on political and economical aspects
of de-colonialism, but there are many other considerations
and I hope you might make some discoveries right here 
on Colleagues List that you may not find elsewhere.

I also share other items under themes you are used
to finding here.

Wayne 

NOTE 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

"Colonialism Made the Modern World. Let's Remake It"
  by Adom Getachew, New York Times, July 27th, 2020 -


This article serves as a basis for future reflections
here, so please consider it carefully.

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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS

Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC

Personal Web Log
August 9th, 2020

"Horror Over Mass Atrocities"
  https://tinyurl.com/yyuv3rso

--

Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX

Personal Web Site
August 10th, 2020

"Suicide and Melancholy"
  https://tinyurl.com/yyej392w

--

Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.

Sermons and Blog
August 7th, 2020

"Sink or Swagger
  https://tinyurl.com/y6s8ksg6

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NET NOTES

LOOTED LANDMARKS
Stolen Models of Eastern Architecture

The Guardian,
August 13th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y5rzhdq6

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BLACK LIVES MATTER
We Have to Do More

Broadview,
August 6th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y3nt25c6

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KAMALA HARRIS MORE THAN GENDER AND RACE
She Reflects the Future of Religion in America

Religion News Service,
August 13th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y2ncoxtm

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FIVE FAITH FACTS ABOUT KAMALA HARRIS
Her Spiritual Background Reflects Emerging Society

Religion News Service,
August 13th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y44mrr9j

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WISDOM OF THE WEEK - 

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable.
It is disastrous to confuse them.

- Madeleine L'Engle

--

Every person needs to take one day away. 
A day in which one consciously separates 
the past from the future.

- Maya Angelou

--

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience
for the small ones; and then when you have laboriously
accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

God is awake.

- Victor Hugo

--

God does not desire suffering as an end in itself, I am
sure. But all suffering is so expensive he will not let it
be wasted. He will use it for his children’s growth. The
first purpose of our lives must be, “Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done.” This is never a passive statement of
endurance or of mere agreement to submit to whatever
happens. It is a positive statement of the will to reach
out for that which will bring glory to God. I am also sure
that the greatest prayer we can pray is, “Whatever brings
the greatest glory to God, I want it, even if it brings
suffering and loss to me.” 

- Anna Mow (traditional)

--

An empty heart God fills. Even Almighty God will not fill
a heart that is full – full of pride, bitterness, jealousy –
we must give these things up. As long as we are holding
these things, God cannot fill it. Silence of the heart, not
only of the mouth – that too is necessary – but more,
that silence of the mind, silence of the eyes, silence
of the touch. Then you can hear him everywhere: in
the closing of the door, in the person who needs you,
in the birds that sing, in the flowers, the animals – that
silence which is wonder and praise. Why? Because
God is everywhere and you can see and hear him.

- Mother Teresa

--

The most precious things of life are near at hand,
without money and without price. Each of you has
the whole wealth of the universe at your very door.…
So, on a large scale, the student and lover of nature
has this advantage over people who gad up and
down the world seeking some novelty or excitement:
he has only to stay at home and see the procession
pass. The great globe swings around to him like a
revolving showcase; the change of the seasons is
like the passage of strange and new countries; the
zones of the earth, with all their beauties and marvels,
pass one’s door and linger long in the passing.

- John Burroughs

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CLOSING THOUGHT - Angela Davis

Whenever you conceptualize social justice struggles,
you will always defeat your own purposes if you cannot
imagine the people around whom you are struggling
as equal partners.

(end)

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Friday, August 7, 2020

Colleagues List, August 9th, 2020

Vol XVI. No. 6
Archive - Dec 2009 - Oct 2019                                                                                          http://colleagueslist.blogspot/.ca http://colleagueslistii.blogspot.com/

GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE                                                      CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE

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

This email is sent only to a voluntary subscriber list.

If you no longer wish to receive these weekly columns,
write to me personally - waholst@telus.net

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Dear Friends:

My Special Item this week focuses on Emancipation
Day, August 1st, which - if declared a national holiday 
- could help Canadians celebrate Black and Indigenous 
lives in a special way. What do you think?

Please enjoy the other items I have collected here as well.

Wayne

NOTE 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

SO MUCH TO LEARN
THE UNTOLD STORY
OF SLAVERY IN CANADA

CTV.ca
August 1st, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y33xhnfj

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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS

Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC

Personal Web Log,
August 2nd, 2020

"Making Statistics More Real"
  https://tinyurl.com/y2hs9lq9

--

Elfrieda Schroeder,
Winnipeg, MB

In Transit Blog
August 4th, 2020

"Are We Listening?"
  https://tinyurl.com/y442f8wf

--

Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX

Personal Web Site
August 3rd, 2020

"Letting Go of False Fear"
  https://tinyurl.com/yxmf9ha7

--

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Moncton, NB

Personal Website -
August 5th, 2020

"Franklin Graham, John McArthur,
  and Church-and-State"
  https://tinyurl.com/y57o6zpr

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NET NOTES

FIVE THINGS TO READ
FOR EMANCIPATION DAY
Recognizing Abolition of
                                                                        Slavery in Britain and the Empire                                                                  

Broadview,                                                                                            August 1st, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y3v2v4mj

--

THE PANDEMIC SHOULD MAKE
US HUMBLE AND PRACTICAL
Advice from N.T. Wright

Christianity Today,
August 5th, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y64urhdf


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WISDOM OF THE WEEK

Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:

Each of us must decide whether it is more                                      important to be proved right or to provoke                            righteousness.

- Bernice King

--

Our anger is moral. Our rage is sacred.
Our anxiety contains wisdom. Our hearts
are telling us the truth. If the truth makes
others uncomfortable -- good.

Show me an alarm clock that makes a
sweet sound and I’ll show you an alarm
clock I can sleep through.

- Ralph De La Rosa

-

Don’t say “It doesn’t matter” about anything
(except your own feelings), for everything matters.

Everything is important, even the tiniest thing.
If you do everything, whether great or small,
for the sake of your Savior and Lord, then you
will be ready for whatever work he has chosen
for you to do later.

 - Amy Carmichael

--

God will help us, even if it’s in an unexpected
and shocking way, by swooping down on us to
wrestle with us. And in the midst of the wrestling
we, too, will be able to cry out, “Bless me!” I am
certain that God will bless me, but I don’t need to
know how. When we think we know exactly how
the one who made us is going to take care of us,
we’re apt to ignore the angel messengers sent us
along the way.

- Madeleine L’Engle

--

Self-love is the root and cause of all evil;
it snatches away all that is good and all that
is perfect. Therefore if the soul is to know God,
it must also forget itself and lose itself. For as
long as it sees itself, it will not see and know
God. But when it loses itself for God’s sake
and leaves all things, then it finds itself again
in God because God dawns upon it – and
only then does the soul know itself and all
things in God.

- Meister Eckhart

--

For a long time, I sought safety and security among
the wise and clever, hardly aware that the things of
the kingdom were revealed to “little children”; that God
has chosen “those who by human standards are fool
to shame the wise.” But when I experienced the warm,
unpretentious reception of those who have nothing to
boast about, and experienced a loving embrace from
people who didn’t ask any questions, I began to
discover that a true spiritual homecoming means a
return to the poor in spirit to whom the kingdom of
heaven belongs.

- Henri J. M. Nouwen

--

When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds,
sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else
 in the cosmos in it. Without clouds, there could be no
rain, and there would be no flower. Without time, the
flower could not bloom. In fact, the flower is made of
entirely non-flower elements; it has no independent,
individual existence. When we see the nature of
inter-being, barriers between ourselves and others
are dissolved, and peace, love, and understanding
are possible.

Whenever there is understanding, compassion is born

- Thich Nhat Hanh

--

The needs of the world are too great, the suffering
and pain too extensive, the lures of the world too
seductive for us to begin to change the world unless
we are changed, unless conversion of life and morals
becomes our pattern. The status quo is too alluring.
It is the air we breathe, the food we eat, the six-thirty
news, our institutions, theologies, and politics.

The only way we shall break its hold on us is to be
transferred to another dominion, to be cut loose from
our old certainties, to be thrust under the flood and
then pulled forth fresh and newborn. Baptism takes
us there.

- William Willimon

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CLOSING THOUGHT - Vivienne de Watteville

The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can
never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time
to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in
enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment.

For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by
marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it,
nor by seeking to be understood, but by learning to
understand.

(end)

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