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.
Doug Koop, Winnipeg, MC
Winnipeg Free Press January 7th, 2021
"Reflecting on the Demands of the Day"
https://tinyurl.com/y2uc4t8f
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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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
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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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.
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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