Saturday, January 16, 2021

Colleagues List, January 17th, 2021

 Vol XVI. No. 24

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
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Dear Friends:

Thanks for staying with me as I work to recover from cataract surgery. The good thing about my eyesight for this issue of Colleagues List is that I am functioning entirely on my own. The challenge part is that I can't see to write as well as I would like. My eyes are learning to "coordinate in community" as the book I present to you suggests.

I introduce the title "The Architecture of Hope" and  include my own new eyesight for the future  as part of that "hope". It keeps me trying!

My Thoughts - on the book are missing this time but will return soon.

Please enjoy what I have prepared for you this week, below.

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.

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SPECIAL ITEM

Book Notice -

THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOPE                                                                      by Douglas Macleod 

Wood Lake Publications,                                                                   Kelowna, BC 2020. 76 pages.                                                                     $10.36 Paper. $6.34 Kindle                                                                     ISBN #781773-431741

Publisher's Promo:

Architect and educator Douglas MacLeod offers a stark and immediately compelling glimpse into the future,15 years hence, in which we can live and work together to build better communities for tomorrow.

This insightful and intriguing book imagines the idea of cooperative communities where people can produce more energy than they use; purify more water than they pollute; grow more food than they consume; and recycle more waste than they produce, with technologies that already exist or that will be within our grasp in a few years.

Most important of all, the people of the community own and profit from these resources.

The Architecture of Hope depicts a way of living that is decentralized, re-localized, and regenerative. And possible.

“Our communities are overpriced, poisonous, overcrowded, unhealthy, wasteful energy pigs – not because they have to be but because it suits the vested interests that build, operate, and control them ...”

Strong words spoken by a character in The Architecture of Hope, Douglas MacLeod’s striking glimpse into the near future. And yet this is not, at its core, a work of fiction.

So often the future we imagine is bleak. The environment, the quality of social engagement and cross-cultural relations, food security, education, work ... so much seems in decline. And, in fact, the future will be bleak, if we don’t change our ways of thinking.

As one of the characters notes, “The big idea is that we could restore rather than destroy; we could produce rather than consume; and we could purify rather than pollute – not just the Earth but our bodies and minds as well.”

While this scenario describes how we can use new technologies to achieve these goals, it emphasizes that, most of all, we need to change our thinking. It’s not that our communities can give us hope directly, but they can provide a scaffolding so that we can create full, meaningful and hopeful lives for ourselves, our families, and our neighbours.                     

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Douglas MacLeod, Author

Over the last 30 years, Dr. Douglas MacLeod has been creating visionary projects that have trans- formed the arts, architecture, and education. From pioneering work in virtual reality at the Banff Centre to eduSourceCanada – the country’s largest e-learning initiative to date – MacLeod has led the work that defines our future. A registered architect, he is currently the Chair of the Centre for Architec- ture at Athabasca University, an online program that has quickly grown to be one of the largest and most innovative in the world. Now in his latest work he weaves together architecture, technology, and economics into a compelling vision of how we can live together in the future.




                                                                            ​​​​​                          Buy the book from WoodLake: https://tinyurl.com/y5kpvaoh      Buy the book from Amazn.ca https://tinyurl.com/y2c6
COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS                                          

Doug Koop, Winnipeg, MC

Winnipeg Free Press                                                                               January 7th, 2021


"Reflecting on the Demands of the Day"
  https://tinyurl.com/y2uc4t8f

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Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC

Personal Web Log
January  10th, 2021

"Putting Good and Bad Into Perspective"
  https://tinyurl.com/y2ds4966

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Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.

Sermons and Blog,
January 15th, 2021

"Wonderfully Made"
  https://tinyurl.com/y3pzzhh2

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Tom Ryan, CSB
Boston, MA

Koinonia,
January, 2021

"Key Players in the Prayer for Christian Unity"
  https://tinyurl.com/yy7h2tjp

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Ron Rolheiser,, OMI
San Antonio, TX.

Personal Web Site
January 11th, 2021

"What is Love Asking of Us Now?"
  https://tinyurl.com/yxeq56nq

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NET NOTES 

NOT MY JESUS
Canadian Evangelical Perspective

Christian Week,
January 8th, 2021

https://tinyurl.com/y5xgqcsd

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MY CHURCH AS SANCTUARY
Learning to Open Doors for Refugees

Christian Century,
January 8th, 2021

https://tinyurl.com/y46lspgx

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WHITE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS SOUGHT TO
ADVOCATE INSURRECTION AGAINST THE USA
On the Wrong Side of American  History

Religion News Service,
January 11th, 2021

https://tinyurl.com/y5tcugeq

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TRUMP IGNITES A WAR WITHIN THE CHURCH
American Christianity is Seriously Divided

New York Times,
January 14th, 2021

https://tinyurl.com/y36u7h9s

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HUMORING THE PRESIDENT WAS NOT HARMLESS
Conservative American Christians Discover the Results

Christianity Today,
January 11th, 2021

https://tinyurl.com/y58uyqbj

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A TIME OF CRISIS FOR POLAND'S CATHOLICS
Hierarchy Was Once Liberationiist, but No Longer

National Catholic Reporter
January 15th, 2021

https://tinyurl.com/y2dw996t


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IRELAND RELEASES REPORT OF APALING
ABUSE AT MOTHER AND BABY HOMES
Victim List Much Larger than Previously Thought

Globe and Mail,
January 12th, 2021

https://tinyurl.com/y2utbg93

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FRANCIS OPENS SMALL BUT SIGNIFICANT
DOOR TO WOMEN IN THE CHURCH
But Not to Ordination, He Makes Clear

Religion News Swrvice,
January 11th, 2021

https://tinyurl.com/yyn28sfn

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WISDOM OF THE WEEK -  January 14th

Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof

These tragedies have reminded us that words matter,
 that the power of life and death is in the tongue.

- Barry C. Black, Senate chaplain

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There is no moving on to healing and restoration
without giving full expression to the grief and the
trauma that we feel.

- Rev. Jason Coker

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White Christians should be leery of our own judgments;
we are primed by culture to oppress and primed by
religion to think God is on our side.

- Caroline McTeer

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If humans are to fully attain their destinies, so far as earthly
development permits this – if they are to become truly whole,
 unbroken units – they must feel and know themselves to be
one, not only with God and humanity, but also with nature.

- Friedrich Fröbel

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​​​​​Music is not the product of unintentional forces, but of souls.
When we hear it, we know that we hear it because someone
first felt, thought, wrote, and played it. In it, we recognize 
notonly the movement of another soul, but also the intention 
which devised the system and the ordering power that 
created the possibility of harmony. It suggests to us that the 
universe is not  – could not be – cold and indifferent, but is 
shot through with intention, feeling, and purpose.

 - Nathan Beacom

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CLOSING THOUGHT - Henri J.M. Nouwen

To be grateful for the good things that happen
in our lives is easy, but to be grateful for all of
our lives – the good as well as the bad, the
moments of joy as well as the moments of sorrow,
the successes as well as the failures, the rewards
as well as the rejections – that requires hard spiritual
work. Still, we are only truly grateful people when we
can say thank you to all that has brought us to the
present moment.…Let us not be afraid to look at
everything that has brought us to where we are
now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding
hand of a loving God.

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ACTS programs beginning soon at St. David's United, Calgary:

ACTS MINISTRY STUDIES BEGIN IN LATE JANUARY!

This Winter, Our Groups Meet on Zoom

 

Monday Night Study 7:00PM to 8:30PM (90 minutes)

Ten Online classes run from January 25th to March 29th.

Our Book - "Braving the Wilderness" by Brene Brown

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 meet January 28th to make our winter study Bible selection

Classes run until the end of March, 2021


We decide on our study agenda during our first class     

Invite new friends to join us via Zoom.

If you have questions, contact Wayne at waholst@telus.net


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