GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
HERITAGE WEEKEND EDITION
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:
Summer, for me, is passing quickly and soon autumn duties will need to be tended to. But until then, I will be enjoying a beautiful season.
My Special Item this week is an intriguing piece on the teaching ministry that Jimmy Carter continues at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. I hope you find this interesting.
All the regular Colleagues List features are noted below.
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEM
AT 92, JIMMY CARTER CONTINUES TO LEAD BIBLE STUDIES
He Draws Many to His Georgia Church to Join the Experience
Religion News Service,
July 31st, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y8tlsmmt
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Globe and Mail
Augut 9th, 2017
North Korea releases imprisoned Toronto pastor
North Korean state media has announced its release of imprisoned Toronto pastor Hyeon Soo Lim. Lim was a pastor with the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Mississauga. In December, 2015, he was sentences to hard labour for life by North Korea's Supreme Court for what it says was an attempt to overthrow the regime. According to his church, Lim has a "very serious health problem, very high blood pressure." His release comes after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's national security adviser travelled to North Korea as a special envoy to discuss Mr. Lim's case.
Lorna Dueck,
Toronto, ON.
Context,
August 10th, 2017
"Canadian Pastor Freed from N. Korea: Healthy"
https://tinyurl.com/yc4gvux2
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Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.
Personal Blog,
August 4th and 11th, 2017
"Wrestling in the Dark"
https://tinyurl.com/ycyabvyt
"Save Me"
https://tinyurl.com/yd4szehy
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Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log
August 7th, 2017
"A Tale of Two Tinpot Dictators"
https://tinyurl.com/ycza8rso
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Dear Friends:
Summer, for me, is passing quickly and soon autumn duties will need to be tended to. But until then, I will be enjoying a beautiful season.
My Special Item this week is an intriguing piece on the teaching ministry that Jimmy Carter continues at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. I hope you find this interesting.
All the regular Colleagues List features are noted below.
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEM
AT 92, JIMMY CARTER CONTINUES TO LEAD BIBLE STUDIES
He Draws Many to His Georgia Church to Join the Experience
Religion News Service,
July 31st, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y8tlsmmt
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Globe and Mail
Augut 9th, 2017
North Korea releases imprisoned Toronto pastor
North Korean state media has announced its release of imprisoned Toronto pastor Hyeon Soo Lim. Lim was a pastor with the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Mississauga. In December, 2015, he was sentences to hard labour for life by North Korea's Supreme Court for what it says was an attempt to overthrow the regime. According to his church, Lim has a "very serious health problem, very high blood pressure." His release comes after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's national security adviser travelled to North Korea as a special envoy to discuss Mr. Lim's case.
Lorna Dueck,
Toronto, ON.
Context,
August 10th, 2017
"Canadian Pastor Freed from N. Korea: Healthy"
https://tinyurl.com/yc4gvux2
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Mark Whittall,
Ottawa, ON.
Personal Blog,
August 4th and 11th, 2017
"Wrestling in the Dark"
https://tinyurl.com/ycyabvyt
"Save Me"
https://tinyurl.com/yd4szehy
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Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log
August 7th, 2017
"A Tale of Two Tinpot Dictators"
https://tinyurl.com/ycza8rso
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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Web Site,
NET NOTES
"TOTAL ECLIPSE"
A CLASSIC ESSAY BY ANNIE DILLARD
The Atlantic,
August 8th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ycrvwlu6
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DIALOGUE NEEDED ON KOREAN PENINSULA
United Church of Canada Endorses These Talks
UCC News
August 10th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yafzcrcy
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THE WONDER OF HOMEGROWN POTATOES
Experiencing the Joy of Your Own Mulching
The Christian Century,
August 3rd, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yb7379tt
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ATHEISTS PERCEIVED TO BE LESS MORAL
Study Suggests This View Held Even by Atheists
BBC News
August 7th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ya6hgh5o
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WHY ATTENDING CHURCH NO LONGER MAKES SENSE
A Canadian Evangelical Christian Perspective
Christian Week Online
August 9th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yc43klnc
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MANY CLERGY PREACH PEACE DURING KENYAN ELECTIONS
Church in Kenya Much Involved in Trying to Mediate Conflict
Religion News Service
August 8th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y6wgkunw
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FOR MANY FLEEING TRUMP'S AMERICA
A GATEWAY TO CANADA IS OPENING
Toronto Star,
August 9th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y7jnjcuh
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JACOB RABINOVICH,
FOUNDER OF GILLER PRIZE, DIES AT 87 -
Remembered for Changing Canada's Literary World
Globe and Mail
August 10th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yd43yrfx
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IS THIS UNEARTHED FISHING VILLAGE
THE BIRTHPLACE OF THREE OF JESUS DISCIPLES?
Current Archeology in the Holy Land
America Magazine
August 8th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yang9vcq
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Globe and Mail,
August 9th, 2017
Will Trump make America white again?
“With his support numbers falling off the cliff elsewhere, his work on white nationalism has helped secure the support of his base, although indications are that his approval ratings among the less educated are also shrinking. A sophisticated, nuanced approach to a reform of the Democrats’ identity politics could have worked well for the Republicans.
Many Democrats themselves are suggesting they went overboard. But nuance and sophistication have no place in Mr. Trump’s approach. He won via the politics of polarization. The country will lose by it.”
– Lawrence Martin
"TOTAL ECLIPSE"
A CLASSIC ESSAY BY ANNIE DILLARD
The Atlantic,
August 8th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ycrvwlu6
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DIALOGUE NEEDED ON KOREAN PENINSULA
United Church of Canada Endorses These Talks
UCC News
August 10th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yafzcrcy
--
THE WONDER OF HOMEGROWN POTATOES
Experiencing the Joy of Your Own Mulching
The Christian Century,
August 3rd, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yb7379tt
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ATHEISTS PERCEIVED TO BE LESS MORAL
Study Suggests This View Held Even by Atheists
BBC News
August 7th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ya6hgh5o
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WHY ATTENDING CHURCH NO LONGER MAKES SENSE
A Canadian Evangelical Christian Perspective
Christian Week Online
August 9th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yc43klnc
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MANY CLERGY PREACH PEACE DURING KENYAN ELECTIONS
Church in Kenya Much Involved in Trying to Mediate Conflict
Religion News Service
August 8th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y6wgkunw
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FOR MANY FLEEING TRUMP'S AMERICA
A GATEWAY TO CANADA IS OPENING
Toronto Star,
August 9th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y7jnjcuh
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JACOB RABINOVICH,
FOUNDER OF GILLER PRIZE, DIES AT 87 -
Remembered for Changing Canada's Literary World
Globe and Mail
August 10th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yd43yrfx
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IS THIS UNEARTHED FISHING VILLAGE
THE BIRTHPLACE OF THREE OF JESUS DISCIPLES?
Current Archeology in the Holy Land
America Magazine
August 8th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/yang9vcq
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Globe and Mail,
August 9th, 2017
Will Trump make America white again?
“With his support numbers falling off the cliff elsewhere, his work on white nationalism has helped secure the support of his base, although indications are that his approval ratings among the less educated are also shrinking. A sophisticated, nuanced approach to a reform of the Democrats’ identity politics could have worked well for the Republicans.
Many Democrats themselves are suggesting they went overboard. But nuance and sophistication have no place in Mr. Trump’s approach. He won via the politics of polarization. The country will lose by it.”
– Lawrence Martin
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
From Sojourners and the Bruderhof online
WISDOM OF THE WEEK
From Sojourners and the Bruderhof online
War is the greatest plague that can affect humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
- Martin Luther
- Martin Luther
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I know there is a hope in religion; I know there is faith and I know there is prayer about religion and necessary to it, but God is most glorified when there is peace on earth and good will toward [all].
- Frederick Douglass
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If you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.
- Elizabeth Goudge
I know there is a hope in religion; I know there is faith and I know there is prayer about religion and necessary to it, but God is most glorified when there is peace on earth and good will toward [all].
- Frederick Douglass
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If you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.
- Elizabeth Goudge
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Who is able to withstand evil? Only those whose final standard is not their own reason, principles, conscience, freedom, or virtue, but who are ready to sacrifice all this when called to obedient and responsible actions in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God – people who try to make their whole life an answer to the question and call of God.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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For me, the sign that there is no brotherliness is gossip. There may be various points of view and differences (this is normal and it is Christian), but these differences must be brought out by having the courage to speak directly to others. And when this is not possible, because at times it cannot be done, tell another person who can act as an intermediary. But you cannot speak against another person, because gossip is the terrorism… of religious communities.
- Pope Francis
Who is able to withstand evil? Only those whose final standard is not their own reason, principles, conscience, freedom, or virtue, but who are ready to sacrifice all this when called to obedient and responsible actions in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God – people who try to make their whole life an answer to the question and call of God.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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For me, the sign that there is no brotherliness is gossip. There may be various points of view and differences (this is normal and it is Christian), but these differences must be brought out by having the courage to speak directly to others. And when this is not possible, because at times it cannot be done, tell another person who can act as an intermediary. But you cannot speak against another person, because gossip is the terrorism… of religious communities.
- Pope Francis
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In all that happens, good or bad, Christ is present. So instead of resignation and worry, we should always trust that things will change, even if we have to go through hell first. For the purpose of life is Christ. God has promised to re-create heaven and earth and bring the whole world into the light of the Savior. “I am making everything new!” (Rev. 21:1–5). This is our hearts’ deepest longing, that Christ reconciles the whole cosmos. He is the ruler over all, and his light will fill the entire universe.
- Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
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They crucified him with the criminals. Do you know what this implies? Don't be too surprised if I tell you that this was the first Christian fellowship the first certain, indissoluble, and indestructible Christian community. Christian community is manifest wherever there is a group of people close to Jesus who are with him in such a way that they are directly and unambiguously affected by his promise and assurance. These may hear that everything he is, he is for them, and everything he does, he does for them. To live by this promise is to be a Christian community.
- Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
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They crucified him with the criminals. Do you know what this implies? Don't be too surprised if I tell you that this was the first Christian fellowship the first certain, indissoluble, and indestructible Christian community. Christian community is manifest wherever there is a group of people close to Jesus who are with him in such a way that they are directly and unambiguously affected by his promise and assurance. These may hear that everything he is, he is for them, and everything he does, he does for them. To live by this promise is to be a Christian community.
- Karl Barth
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MOMENT IN TIME
Globe and Mail,
August 11th, 2017
Total solar eclipse dazzles Europe, Middle East and India Aug. 11, 1999: The last total solar eclipse of the 20th century was also one of the most viewed in history. Following a track that began off the coast of Nova Scotia at dawn, the moon’s shadow swiftly raced across the Atlantic and clipped the southwestern tip of Cornwall before crossing the English Channel. Millions of Europeans found themselves along the path of the eclipse from Normandy to Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, though the weather did not always co-operate. In Turkey, a popular destination for eclipse chasers that year, cloudless skies made for a dazzling event. After sweeping over Iraq and Iran, the eclipse finished the day by crossing through Pakistan and the Indian subcontinent. In astronomical reckoning, the eclipse belonged to saros cycle 145. The next eclipse in that series comes in just 10 days’ time when a total eclipse will trace a remarkably similar path across the continental United States.
– Ivan Semeniuk
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CLOSING THOUGHT - Martin Luther King Jr.
It is no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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For Those Interested -
ST. DAVID'S ACTS MONDAY NIGHT FALL STUDY
A Ten Week Series September 18th -November 27th, 2017
Monday Evenings, TM Room 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
"CONVICTIONS - How I Learned What Matters Most"
http://tinyurl.com/ybyu3msx
Author: Marcus Borg
Registration/Hospitality and Book: $60.00.
Book only: $20.00
35 copies of the book have been secured for sale.
Registration and Book Sale Begins - August 27th
Read my background information on the study book:
http://cep.anglican.ca/convictions/
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Here is some course content from our
completed Monday Night Winter 2017 Study:
"How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a
Jewish Preacher from Galilee" by Bart D. Ehrman
https://tinyurl.com/j3nv7nd
Check our entire archives for all 49 books
studied since 2000:
http://tinyurl.com/q3bw6dh
During the 2016-2017 two session-term -
Total class registrations: 70
Total books sold: 75
Our best year ever, since 1998!
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ST. DAVID'S ACTS THURSDAY MORNING STUDY
Ten Sessions September 21st- November 30th, 2017
Biblical book(s) to be studied this autumn to be determined
by the class at the first session of the term, Thursday, Sept. 21st.
Ten sessions 10-11 AM
Gathering at 9:30 AM in the St. David's TM Room.
No charge
Study resource -
"The DK Complete Bible Handbook"
Edited by John Bowker
http://tinyurl.com/odxlv7q
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ST. DAVID'S ACTS MONDAY NIGHT FALL STUDY
A Ten Week Series September 18th -November 27th, 2017
Monday Evenings, TM Room 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
"CONVICTIONS - How I Learned What Matters Most"
http://tinyurl.com/ybyu3msx
Author: Marcus Borg
Registration/Hospitality and Book: $60.00.
Book only: $20.00
35 copies of the book have been secured for sale.
Registration and Book Sale Begins - August 27th
Read my background information on the study book:
http://cep.anglican.ca/convictions/
--
Here is some course content from our
completed Monday Night Winter 2017 Study:
"How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a
Jewish Preacher from Galilee" by Bart D. Ehrman
https://tinyurl.com/j3nv7nd
studied since 2000:
During the 2016-2017 two session-term -
Total class registrations: 70
Total books sold: 75
Our best year ever, since 1998!
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ST. DAVID'S ACTS THURSDAY MORNING STUDY
Ten Sessions September 21st- November 30th, 2017
Biblical book(s) to be studied this autumn to be determined
by the class at the first session of the term, Thursday, Sept. 21st.
Ten sessions 10-11 AM
Gathering at 9:30 AM in the St. David's TM Room.
No charge
Study resource -
"The DK Complete Bible Handbook"
Edited by John Bowker
http://tinyurl.com/odxlv7q
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ST.DAVID'S SPIRITUAL TRAVELERS EVENT, 2017
South Africa has been chosen as our destination!
We plan a nineteen-day tour that combines a focus
on spirituality, social justice, culture, and nature,
and it will run October 21st thru November 8th.
A beautiful brochure with trip cost, itinerary, and
many helpful travel hints has been published.http://tinyurl.com/hucsaf7
Our optimal group size for maximum trip meaning
and value is 28-29 persons. To date, thirty persons
have put down deposits to claim a special saving,
but some have had to withdraw.
WE ARE CLOSE TO REACHING OUR DEPARTURE GOAL.
YOU CAN STILL REGISTER. If we reach 29 deposits
you will be added to a waiting list and can still join
us in the event someone has to drop out.
A beautiful brochure with trip cost, itinerary, and
many helpful travel hints has been published.http://tinyurl.com/hucsaf7
Our optimal group size for maximum trip meaning
and value is 28-29 persons. To date, thirty persons
have put down deposits to claim a special saving,
but some have had to withdraw.
WE ARE CLOSE TO REACHING OUR DEPARTURE GOAL.
YOU CAN STILL REGISTER. If we reach 29 deposits
you will be added to a waiting list and can still join
us in the event someone has to drop out.
We have activated a South Africa Spiritual Travelers
discussion list group to begin building community
amongst the participants, and to share news and
resources.
We hope to name a tour reporter who will report
back home each day's activities so everyone can
enjoy the experience, if not directly, then indirectly.
Three months from now we leave for South Africa!
Contact Rostad Tours: http://tinyurl.com/hucsaf7
Three months from now we leave for South Africa!
Contact Rostad Tours: http://tinyurl.com/hucsaf7
Follow these notices for weekly updates.
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