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EDIBLE
THOUGHTS &
INTO THE WORD:
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Rikk Watts: The
Gospel of Judas
Okay,
perhaps enough has already been said about the spurious Gospel of
Judas - but we thought we needed to put things to rest in the right
way, once and for all. We give the last word on this bizarre ancient
text to NT scholar Rikk Watts. Let’s call it: A plea for sanity.
What the West
Coast is reading
Since summer
comes early to British Columbia, we’ve asked five people there what
they would recommend for summer reading.
 John
Wright: The Feast of Pentecost
The Feast of Pentecost, is that day on
which Christians celebrate the birthday of the Church. It was on
this day almost 2000 years ago that a small group of people were
given the tools to take over the world.
Edith Humphrey:
Icons of Love
Exploring the mystery of our communion
with God, and with each other, in Friendship, Family, Marriage and
the Church.
 Ron
Dart: Two men for all seasons
Canada's great
literary wit, Stephen Leacock (1869-1944), and Canada's greatest
philosopher, George Grant (1918-
1988). Two Anglicans you should know.
Stephen Andrews:
The Gullibility factor
Surely informed Christians can tell
the difference between a theological thriller (such as The
DaVinci Code) and a theological treatise. The latter can be
attacked or defended; the former should simply be enjoyed.
ON THE FRONTLINE:
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Homelessness
evaluated in TO
By DION OXFORD
Photo: Sue Careless
 There
has never in the history of Toronto been a scientific approach to
try and accurately identify the number of individuals who sleep
outside. In the winter of 2005, Toronto City Council voted to change
that, establishing a ‘Street Needs Assessment’ with the twofold
purpose of counting the number of people in shelters and on the
streets, as well as identifying their needs.
JUNE
EDITORIAL TAP:
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Gnosticism out of sync
with the Gospel
If
we distill Gnosticism to its first principles we might be alarmed at
how this ancient heresy has crept back even into the mainstream of
the Church’s life -- and even into our own thinking about God and
the world. Gnosticism, for the contemporary Church, isn’t just
something “out there,” it’s something “in here” as well.
TAP
INTERVIEW:
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Josiah Idowu-Fearon
By SUE CARELESS
Josiah
Idowu-Fearon, Bishop of Kaduna in northern Nigeria, holds a
doctorate in Islamic Studies and is co-founder of the Centre for the
Study of Islam and Christianity.
Photo:
Sue Careless
This May, Bishop
Josiah
addressed the Wycliffe College Refresh! Conference.
By GAVIN DUNBAR
Paraclete: Derives from a
Greek word
meaning “someone called to one’s side”
– that is, a helper, adviser, counsellor, ally,
strengthener, encourager, consoler, intercessor, or advocate. In the
Book of Common Prayer and the King James Bible, it is often
translated “Comforter”, a word of Latin derivation, meaning “one who
strengthens or encourages” (comfort from the Latin fortis,
‘strong’). Jesus himself is the Paraclete (1 John 2.1), who helps
and comforts men by his saving work. Properly speaking, therefore,
the Holy Spirit is “another Paraclete” (John 14.16), because it is
the saving grace of Jesus Christ that he ministers to human beings.
Nonetheless, “Paraclete” or “Comforter” usually refers to the Holy
Spirit (John 14.26; 16.7), and his ministry of “holy comfort.”
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS:
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Photo:Kyla
Smith
 Meeting
Christ in the children of Uganda
By KYLA SMITH
I recently returned from Rukunyu, a
small village in southwestern Uganda, where I was an intern with the
Samaritan’s Purse Water for Life program which is offered through a
partnership with CIDA.
Panel of
Reference Communiqué
(ACNS) The Archbishop of Canterbury’s
Panel of Reference held its second plenary meeting in London, May
9-12. Since the Panel’s
first meeting ten months ago, it has
received three references from the
Archbishop of Canterbury.
International TAP
Briefs
Kenyan Anglicans
face AIDS crisis By
DEBRA FIEGUTH
Anglicans from the Diocese of Ontario spent time on
the ground in Kenya learning first-hand about how
the Church is facing the HIV/AIDS crisis.
CANADIAN NEWS:
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Photo: Sue Careless
 Bishops
from UK,
Africa refresh
Canadians
By
SUE CARELESS
Tom Wright,
Bishop of Durham, and Josiah Idowu-Fearon,
Bishop of Kaduna, in northern Nigeria spoke at “Refresh!
Ministry in the Power of the Holy Spirit,” a conference at Wycliffe
College in May.
Good
news for Christianity
in Canada
By
SHARON DEWEY HETKE
Recent poll reveals 62% of Canadians
believe that through the death & resurrection of Jesus Christ,
God provided “the way for the forgiveness of sins.”
Photo: Sue Careless
Counsellors key to camp
success
By ALEX NEWMAN
The
pay is bad. Usually really bad. And the campers are sometimes worse.
Yet everything about a successful camping program hinges on these
often under-appreciated yeomens of the church summer camp world.
National indigenous bishop proposed
(and other news from HOBs and COGs)
By
SUE CARELESS
Native prelate eventually to have
trans-diocesan jurisdiction, independent of local bishops.
Court decides:
Bible not hate literature
By
SHARON DEWEY HETKE
The
Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has overturned a ruling that had
branded the Bible “hate literature” when used in certain contexts.
Rare pamphlet
collection comes to Canada
(Staff) A large collection of rare,
nineteenth-century pamphlets has
been acquired by the Anglican Studies Program at Regent College,
Vancouver.
Canadian TAP
Briefs
BOOKREVIEW:
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 Earthly
politics meets the kingdom of heaven
Reviewed by JONATHAN
CHAPLIN
The Ways of Judgement,
by Oliver O'Donovan. At the start of the book the author
announces a strikingly audacious
objective. Claiming that citizens
of modern liberal democracies no
longer understand the meaning of
their political institutions, the author
writes: “Christian theology in
these circumstances resumes its
ancient role of educating a people
in the practical reasonableness required for their political tasks.”
Christians wrestling with such a question cannot afford to miss
the challenging wisdom contained
within its pages.
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JESUS said unto his disciples, If ye love me,
keep
my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you
another Comforter, that
he may abide with you
for ever; even the Spirit
of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because
it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he
dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John
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