Vol XVI. No. 14
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:
My Special Item this week is a book on the writing of proposals by a colleague who has spent twenty-five years as a professional consultant in the work of proposal-writing.
Isabel Gibson, who lives in Ottawa, is an old friend as well as a colleagues. Several years ago, I had the honour of leading the committal service for her mother, Marjorie in Calgary and I have been a friend of the Gibson family for longer than a quarter century myself.
I have asked Isabel to introduce her own book and I include her video, below. I also share her information on how to purchase a copy.
Thanks, Isabel, for providing this material, and - whether you need help with proposal-writing now, or down the way - I hope you'll consider it.
Isabel is a faithful reader of Colleagues List and I am happy to support her with this project. I try to support you when you have a book to offer as well.
Please find other familiar aspects of my weekly letter, as well.
Wayne
PLEASE NOTE- 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
- As an e-book online (Amazon and Smashwords) – for $5 US (~ $7 CDN as of this writing)
- As a print book through Amazon – for $11 US plus shipping (~ $15 CDN, ditto)
- As a PDF by emailing me or contacting me through the blog – for $5 CDN
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Elfrieda Schroeder,
Winnipeg, MB
In Transit - Blog
October 14th, 2020
"Life Sentences"
https://tinyurl.com/y8ngz8l5
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Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log,
October 15th, 2020
"Counting My Unexpected Blessings"
https://tinyurl.com/yyzd3j99
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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Web Site
October 13th, 2020
"Pope Francis' New Encyclical"
https://tinyurl.com/y6ab7o59
Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.
Sermons and Blog,
October 9th, 2020
"More Good Advice - Thanksgiving"
https://tinyurl.com/yy9a6nh6
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POPE SIDES WITH SCIENCE
ON CLIMATE CHANGE
"A Few Years Left" He Says
Religion News Service,
October 12th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y6nwyf3o
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DISHONOURED TREATIES
ARE THE "GHOST OF OUR HISTORY"
Advice from an Indigenous Elder
Canadian Mennonite,
October 5th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y2tw8olk
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HOW WILL THE POST-PANDEMIC
CHURCH PAY THE BILLS?
New Funding Sources may be Required
Religion News Service,
October 13th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y3qo6uon
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I NEED TO FORGIVE DONALD TRUMP
Not That He Needs It. I Need It.
National Catholic Reporter
October 16th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/yxta6ram
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TRUMP'S VIRUS RESPONSE
A CASE STUDY IN TOXIC MASCULINITY
It is a Counter-Cultural Misfortune
National Catholic Reporter,
October 14th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y496nmdr
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Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof:
Remember the wind. Remember her voice.
She knows the origin of this universe.
- Joy Harjo
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer
until I prayed with my legs.
- Frederick Douglass
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Change culture and you change lives.
You can also change the course of history.
- Resmaa Menakem
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We must develop our capacities and commitments
to learn from each other and to affirm the human
dignity we each are entitled to as God's creation.
- Shively T. J. Smith
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I have learned that our pain softens the shell that
insulates us from the suffering of others. Our grief
allows us to absorb their grief, making us a part of
the collective suffering of the world, a suffering
known and borne by God himself. In this deepest
and most profound connection with others, I have
found joy.
- Emma Meier
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I heard an old man speak once, someone who had
been sober for fifty years, a very prominent doctor.
He said that he’d finally figured out a few years ago
that his profound sense of control, in the world and
over his life, is another addiction and a total illusion.
He said that when he sees little kids sitting in the
back seat of cars, in those car seats that have steering
wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their
faces, clearly convinced that their efforts are causing
the car to do whatever it is doing, he thinks of himself
and his relationship with God: God who drives along
silently, gently amused, in the real driver’s seat.
- Anne Lamott
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CLOSING THOUGHT - Martin Luther King Jr
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word in reality.
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ACTS MINISTRY STUDIES BEGAN IN SEPTEMBER!!
This Autumn, Our Groups Meet on Zoom
Monday Night Study 7:00PM to 8:30PM (90 minutes)
Online classes run from September 14th to November 23rd.
Our Book - "The Universal Christ" by Richard Rohr
You buy it from Amazon.ca or Indigo
It will be your only cost for the series.
Thursday Morning Bible Study 10:00AM to 11:00AM (60 min.)
We met September 17th to make our fall study Bible selection
Classes run until the end of November
"Women of the Bible (Hebrew and Christian)"
Invite new friends to join us via Zoom.
If you have questions, contact Wayne at waholst@telus.net
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