Vol XVI. No. 42
GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:
Although a bit late, this issue of Colleagues List for June 6th offers some interesting material which I hope you enjoy.
In some ways, we look to the past. In others, the future.
Blessings to you.
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEM
Please read my May column appearing now in the Anglican Journal -
It is a response to an article by Canon Neil Elliot that appeared in AJ during May entitled:
"Our Response ... gives me huge hope"
Thanks to all colleagues submitting articles this week, including Susan Johnson, National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.
She appears on the AJ opinion pages re Anglican/Lutheran relations for the first time.
Enjoy the rest of this letter as well.
Wayne
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Susan Johnson,
Winnipeg, MB
Anglican Journal
June 1st, 2021
"Like Trees Planted by Streams of Water"
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Elfrieda Schroeder,
Winnipeg, MB.
In Transit,
May 29th, 2021
"Happy Birthday to Mom and Me"
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Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.
Sermons and Blog,
My 31st, 2021
"Spirit-Led"
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Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC.
Personal Web Log
May 30th, 2021
"When World-Wide Becomes Personal"
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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Web Site
May 31st, 2021
"Losing the Song in the Singer"
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NET NOTES
THINK AGAIN -
WHY RELIGION IS GOOD FOR US
Christian Week, Winnipeg, MB
Carey Nieuwhof Blog
May 29th, 2021
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KAMLOOPS RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL -
A TIME FOR MOURNING AND SUPPORT
Official UCC Statement on the Tragedy
United Church of Canada
May 31st, 2021
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IS THERE ANY HOPE FOR A JUST
PEACE IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE?
It Seems Far Off, But the Only Way
Christian Century,
June 1st, 2021
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IN GERMANY SSM FOR CATHOLIC COUPLES
EXACERBATES TENSION WITH VATICAN
Much Catholic Sentiment Supports This
Religion News Service
June 1st, 2021
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SOUTHERN BAPTISTS SUFFER
HISTORIC ONE-YEAR DECLINE
400,000 Loss in 2020
The Christian Post
May 24th, 2021
Two Million SBC Loss Since 2006
Religion News Service,
May 21st, 2021
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NORTH AMERICAN CHRISTIANS MUST
HUMBLY LOOK TO THE GLOBAL CHURCH
Seeking Solutions to Member Decline
Religion News Service,
June 3rd, 2021
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CATHOLIC FEARS INCREASE OVER GROWING
CHINESE CFACKDOWN OF CHRISTIANS
Recent Clergy Arrests Cause Worry
Catholic Register, Toronto
June 1st, 2021
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WHEATON COLLEGE CHANGES WORDING
ON PLAQUE FOR FAMOUS MISSIONARY
Jim Elliot No Longer Saving "Savages"
The Christian Post,
May 24th, 2021
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YOUNG, DIVERSE AMERICAN EVANGELICALS
DON'T SUPPORT ISRAEL LIKE THEIR PARENTS
This is a Marked Shift from Previous Years
Religion News Service,
May 26th, 2021
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BAD DAY IN CANADIAN HISTORY
May 23rd, 1633
French Protestant Huguenot People
Banned from Immigration to Quebec
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhoff online:
Avoid dividing the world into “us” and “them.” If you do, you will harden your heart. There are not two worlds, one in God’s hands and the other one not. There are not two species of people either, one totally under God’s rule and the other completely outside of it.
- Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
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Every moment of our human life is a moment of crisis; for at every moment we are called upon to make an all-important decision – to choose between the way that leads to death and spiritual darkness, and the way that leads towards light and life; between interests exclusively temporal, and the eternal order; between our personal will, and the will of God.
- Aldous Huxley
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Jesus had a way of talking soft and outside of a few bankers and higher-ups among the con men of Jerusalem everybody liked to have this Jesus around because he never made any fake passes and everything he said went and he helped the sick and gave the people hope.
- Carl Sandburg
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Some people, in order to find God, will read a book. But there is a great book, the book of created nature. Look carefully at it top and bottom, observe it, read it. God did not make letters of ink for you to recognize him in; he set before your eyes all these things he has made. Why look for a louder voice?
Where the Spirit of God is, there is divine desire not simply for God but for one another and not simply for one another but for those to whom we are sent by the Spirit, to those already being drawn into communion with God and sensing the desire of God for the expansion of their lives into the lives of others.
- Willie James Jennings
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Fling wide your doors; give your wealth free passage everywhere! As a great river flows by a thousand channels through fertile country, so let your wealth run through many conduits to the homes of the poor. Wells that are drawn from flow the better; left unused, they go foul.… Money kept standing idle is worthless; but moving and changing hands it benefits the community and brings increase.
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Your holiness makes you as conspicuous as the sun in the sky. You cannot hide your Christian character. Love cannot be hidden any more than can light. Least of all, it cannot be hidden when it shines forth in action. When you exercise yourself in a labor of love, in any kind of good work, you are observed. We may as well try to hide a city as to hide a Christian. It is the purpose of God that every Christian should be in open view. We are to give light to all that are in the house.
- John Wesley
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How often we children have been unwilling: unwilling to listen to each other, unwilling to hear words we do not expect. But on that first Pentecost the Holy Spirit truly called the people together in understanding and forgiveness and utter, wondrous joy. The early Christians, then, were known by how they loved one another. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if people could say that of us again? Not an exclusive love, shutting out the rest of the world, but love so powerful, so brilliant, so aflame that it lights the entire planet – nay, the entire universe!
- Madeleine L’Engle
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CLOSING THOUGHT - Edith Stein
To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one’s feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father’s right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly to sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels – this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth.
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