Vol XVII. No. 18
Archive - Dec 2009 - Oct 2019
GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
YEAR END ISSUE FOR 2021
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:
Here is my final Colleagues List mailing for the year.
It takes the form of a collation of all CL Special Items
that I assembled through the past 12 months.
If you have missed some articles that interest you now,
or if you would like to return to a favourite one once more,
please check out the material below.
A blessed New Year to you all.
Wayne
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and it should work.
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SPECIAL ITEM
END OF YEAR 2021
COLLEAGUES LIST SUMMARY
Total Colleagues List issues for 2021: 39
These selections appeared as:
Book notices - 13
Anglican Journal columns - 5
Personal reflections - 15
Colleague contributions - 6
You can reach all CL postings for 2021 if you so choose.
They appear under each week's dateline.
During the past 14 years I have created 591 CL issues
using this format. That works out to 42.2 issues on average
per year.
All articles focus on contemporary religion and culture themes,
observed mostly from a Canadian perspective.
I hope we will continue learning together through 2022.
Wayne
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A LISTING OF MY SPECIAL ITEM SELECTIONS FOR 2021
January 10th, 2021
"Braving the Wilderness -
The Quest for True Belonging
and the Courage to Stand Alone"
- book by Brene Brown
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January 17th, 2021
"The Architecture of Hope"
- book by Douglas MacLeod
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January 24th, 2021
January 31st, 2021
"Upstream Living in a Downstream World"
- book by Dan Haugen
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February 7th, 2021
Personal Reflection -
"Some Thoughts on Zoom"
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February 14th, 2021
Personal Reflection -
"Canadian/American Relations
from a Canadian Perspective"
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March 7th, 2021
Personal Reflection -
"More of My Thinking on Fallen Leaders"
This reflection will be continued
below on September 5th, 2021
"Losing Our Public Heroes"
https://tinyurl.com/2p97yr25
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March 14th, 2021
"We Carry the Fire -
Family and Citizenship as Spiritual Calling"
- book by Richard A Hoehn
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March 21st, 2021
My Anglican Journal column for March, 2021
"Lessons in Hope from a Year Like No Other"
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April 4th, 2021
Personal Reflection -
"My Thoughts for Easter, 2021"
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April 11th, 2021
"Starship Citizens -
Indigenous Principles for 100 Year
Interstellar Voyages"
- book by Dawn Marsden
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April 18th, 2021
Personal Reflection -
"Zoom - Pro and Con"
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April 25th, 2021
My Anglican Journal column for April, 2021
"Resurrection Now"
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May 2nd, 2021
"Celebrating the Labyrinth -
A Journey of the Spirit"
- book by Gailand MacQueen
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May 9th, 2021
"I Will Arise and Go Now -
Reflections on the Meaning of
People and Places"
- book by Herbert O'Driscoll
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May 16th, 2021
Personal Reflection -
"A Note on Seasonal Transition"
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May 23rd, 2021
Personal Reflection -
"A Few Thoughts on Victoria Day"
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June 6th, 2021
My Anglican Journal column for June, 2021
"Living Creatively in a Hybrid Church"
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June 13th, 2021
"Here With Us - A Parish Guide
to Serving People With Dementia"
- book by Michael Swan
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June 20th, 2021
"Women in the Bible for Progressive Christians -
From the Hebrew Scriptures
A Seven Session Study Guide"
- book by Donald Schmidt
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July 4th, 2021
"Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God I"
- book by Joseph Campbell
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July 18th, 2021
Personal Reflection -
"A Short Reflection on New Beginnings"
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August 1st, 2021
Personal Reflection -
"Virus Fatigue"
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August 16th, 2021
"Colonialism Made the Modern World"
- based on a New York Times article
by Adom Getachew
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August 30th, 2021
Personal Reflection -
"Showing Compassion at
an Opportune Point in Time"
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September 5th, 2021
Personal Reflection
"Losing Our Public Heroes -
a good and a bad thing"
Continued from CL issue March 7th, 2021 (above)
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September 12th, 2021
Further discussion on "Losing our Public Heroes"
posted last week, with a special contribution
from John Horman of Waterloo Ontario:
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September 19th,2021
HOW THE LIGHT SHINES
Stories, Strategies and Spiritual Practices
For Caregivers of People With Dementia
- book by Trisha Elliott
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October 3rd, 2021
My Anglican Journal Column for October
"Why I Still Love the Church"
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October 10th, 2021
WHERE THE LIGHT FELL
A Memoir by Philip Yancey
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October 17th, 2021
WELL AGED
Making the Most of Your Platinum Years
- book by Colleague Ralph Milton
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October 24th, 2021
A JOURNEY OF FAITH
Across a Turbulent Century;
Memoirs of a Refugee Pastor
- book translated and edited
by Erich Weingartner & Family
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October 31st, 2021
Personal Reflection -
"Why Should Francis Visit Canada?"
A Brief Comment
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November 7th, 2021
Personal Reflection -
"Why We Can't Go Back
to the Way Things Were at Church"
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November 21st, 2021
Personal Reflection -
"Bossey at 75:
A Brief Commemoration"
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December 12th, 2021
Holst Family Christmas Letter for 2021
Personal Reflection -
" Moving Spiritually Through
A Life Season of 'Second Naivete'"
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December 31st, 2021
COLLEAGUES LIST SPECIAL SUMMARY FOR 2021
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CLOSING THOUGHT - Valerie Bridgeman
When I find myself rendered distraught by the world around me, as I imagine Mary must have been, I remind myself that God works in and through chaos.
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NET NOTE
DESMOND TUTU DIES
Archbishop, Activist, Apartheid Foe
Religion News Service,
December 26th, 2021
"Even in Retirement, Desmond Tutu
Remained South Africa's Moral Compass"
New York Times,
December 26th, 2021
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
From Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:
Let our hearts be open like a cradle so that Christ can be born in each soul tonight and from there flood every heart with light.
- St. Oscar Romero
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It’s tempting to turn Christmas into a safe holiday that asks little of us. But that would ignore the prophetic, subversive life of Jesus.
- John Gehring
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The Christian challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can establish peace on earth.
- John Dominic Crossan
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The Christian social witness is achieved only insofar as Christians are deeply implicated in the real life of society — in unions and political clubs and citizen groups and the like; it is not made by Christian people gathering off by themselves in a parish house to study and discuss social issues.
- William Stringfellow
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This is all I have known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken about this or that point, God is nevertheless love. If I have made a mistake it will be plain enough; so I repent – and God is love. He is love – not he was love, nor he will be love, oh no, even that future is too slow for me – he is love.
Oh, how wonderful! Sometimes, perhaps, my repentance does not come at once, and so there is a future. But God keeps no person waiting, for he is love. Like spring water which keeps the same temperature summer and winter – so is God’s love. His love is a spring that never runs dry.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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It is no use saying that we are born two thousand years too late to give room to Christ. Nor will those who live at the end of the world have been born too late. Christ is always with us, always asking for room in our hearts. But now it is with the voice of our contemporaries that he speaks; with the eyes of store clerks, factory workers, and children that he gazes; with the hands of office workers, slum dwellers, and suburban housewives that he gives. It is with the feet of soldiers and tramps that he walks, and with the heart of anyone in need that he longs for shelter. And giving shelter or food to anyone who asks for it, or needs it, is giving it to Christ.
- Dorothy Day
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