tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45689946871280847912024-03-18T21:18:55.843-07:00Toronto Congregation at Centre PlaceWe are a welcoming, inclusive congregation that has been meeting in downtown Toronto since 1891. Weekly services are held each Sunday at our Centre Place church at 320 Richmond Street East #101: Sunday School 10:00am; Service 11:00am. Mindfulness meditation every Tuesday and Thursday 6:00pm. Philosophy, Theology, & History lectures Tuesdays 7:30pm. Contact us: info@toronto.communityofchrist.caJohn Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17386474993001347914noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-67894818345099749362020-10-27T11:04:00.003-07:002020-10-27T11:04:50.826-07:00Fifth Anniversary of Toronto Centre Place<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join us for a special Beyond the Walls this Sunday, November 1, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the dedication of Toronto Centre Place. Here is the order of service.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfIuB_U4qS08vJUPmdaa3Z8gBbTry24ROGXw2Uq5-dNI4oTjcnHGh0VVe6JtIXnGvj3EKCsJz5IyM_xsXm3NXnqSljHAa0poql5-OEk39d-xVjZW7d0ekhAiQfRGsbNmrmotywBN2V0lKK/s1224/bulletin_2020_11_01_A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="793" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfIuB_U4qS08vJUPmdaa3Z8gBbTry24ROGXw2Uq5-dNI4oTjcnHGh0VVe6JtIXnGvj3EKCsJz5IyM_xsXm3NXnqSljHAa0poql5-OEk39d-xVjZW7d0ekhAiQfRGsbNmrmotywBN2V0lKK/s320/bulletin_2020_11_01_A.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgafU3i8FBFWyXLL1UNjDfkhUMGp7lcnzcCZblaRxPNCLorQ8y97P4Rc3dHkUTUdjuOeON0jCic0M80YQbbWOjle9BfwaKAXrXYweIIGz3t6yUFb2MztnD5lXhvUp3H5_RFd4VUjWSpcbAs/s1224/bulletin_2020_11_01_B.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="803" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgafU3i8FBFWyXLL1UNjDfkhUMGp7lcnzcCZblaRxPNCLorQ8y97P4Rc3dHkUTUdjuOeON0jCic0M80YQbbWOjle9BfwaKAXrXYweIIGz3t6yUFb2MztnD5lXhvUp3H5_RFd4VUjWSpcbAs/s320/bulletin_2020_11_01_B.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggEuQjVlvHqL6WVXT6FgugFBaCdtcAnppzDgOJgeS4d7oZPpQzppxZeRNgWtVFvUItSPpptni9K94vCQQ3-fAFd3VgWZkSzp_UYO-ftg51JYeY7YaGjqdlEogkf2EJFZLzwuDyRJsm_NEP/s1224/bulletin_2020_11_01_C.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="811" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggEuQjVlvHqL6WVXT6FgugFBaCdtcAnppzDgOJgeS4d7oZPpQzppxZeRNgWtVFvUItSPpptni9K94vCQQ3-fAFd3VgWZkSzp_UYO-ftg51JYeY7YaGjqdlEogkf2EJFZLzwuDyRJsm_NEP/s320/bulletin_2020_11_01_C.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUgd8OgExhpFrbGrGx7qwUPqBuzA1bwtHGnwHdmOEaKJpnJeK00zwLTR5RZa8fq4p8I92OQgUQVgACzFXwcGKc8aPYkLIydNB3hr0T0eL1avpADBvbVuxQaYdUSQPSptvBTik1WunA2mNh/s1224/bulletin_2020_11_01_D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="803" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUgd8OgExhpFrbGrGx7qwUPqBuzA1bwtHGnwHdmOEaKJpnJeK00zwLTR5RZa8fq4p8I92OQgUQVgACzFXwcGKc8aPYkLIydNB3hr0T0eL1avpADBvbVuxQaYdUSQPSptvBTik1WunA2mNh/s320/bulletin_2020_11_01_D.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p>John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-5667239136360953862019-04-18T13:40:00.002-07:002019-04-19T10:10:53.304-07:00Lectures Spring and Summer 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-11125965518777515502019-02-28T12:17:00.001-08:002019-04-18T13:42:11.952-07:00Lectures Winter 2018-19<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Topics for the lectures during the Winter 2018-19 season in our Tuesday History, Theology, and Philosophy Meetup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-85366458649161127492018-08-29T08:12:00.001-07:002018-08-29T13:27:30.656-07:00September and October Lectures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The centuries following the renewed 1492 contact between the world's eastern and western hemispheres were devastating for the indigenous peoples of the Americas whose population was continually decimated by imported diseases for which they lacked immunity. By the early 19th century, so few indigenous people remained that European Americans doubted they could have ever built the massive number of earthworks that covered the North American landscape. Instead they created a myth that the mounds must have been built by a lost civilized race that was ultimately exterminated by the American Indians. The most successful telling of this myth is found in Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon. We will look at how the myth of the moundbuilders evolved and its continuing consequences.</span><br />
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<span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":4737,"3":[null,0],"10":2,"12":0,"15":"arial,sans,sans-serif"}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"In 10th century Germany, Hrotsvitha revived the dramatic arts, penning a series of remarkable plays."}" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The art of the theater died out in the West with the fall of the Roman Empire. But in the unlikely setting of Germany in the 10th century, a remarkable woman revived both comedy and drama. Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim was a secular canoness (a member of a religious community living a monastic life) who read the ancient Roman playwrights Plautus and Terrance and used them as models for her own plays. Produced for the edification and entertainment of her fellow sisters, Hrotsvitha's comedies featured the exploits of saintly heroines humiliating their lecherous pagan captors. We'll read from Hrotsvitha's work (some of the humor is still funny today!) and look at her context and legacy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus of Nazareth famously advised "if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also" and taught his followers to "love your enemies." In the first centuries AD, Christians frequently questioned whether the role of soldier was compatible with their faith. Although the Emperor Constantine converted after winning a battle under the symbol of the cross, he delayed his baptism until his deathbed to wipe away the sins incurred as head of the Roman army. By the Middle Ages, however, Popes called upon Christian knights to attack the enemies of the faith: Muslims, pagans, Cathars, and Christian heretics alike. In the modern era European Empires brutally conquered and colonized much of the world hand-in-hand with Christian missionaries. How did Christianity get from point A to B and C and where do we find ourselves today?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!" is a hilarious Monty Python sketch that proves the adage that comedy = tragedy + time. In its time in early modern Spain, the Inquisition was infamous for its activities against Spanish Jews, Muslims, Christian converts from both groups, as well as heretics, Protestants, and other perceived enemies of the Spanish crown. There is no doubt the the persecution, expulsions, torture, trial and execution of members of these groups resulted in horrific tragedy and suffering. But we will also look at the extent to which some of the reported atrocities of the Inquisition may have been exaggerated by Protestants as part of a program of anti-Catholic polemics. </span><br />
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<br />John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-91627919708696065622018-05-03T10:05:00.002-07:002018-07-23T12:57:23.888-07:00Lecture Schedule for Later Summer<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Bkdi7whDNF65EH5uhaVw1DcXRTDU4unq0ugg1Za34NMlr6RZeBVBSTVRjJgasau61ontGtBQEOD3FEJ3n-1TQY-FpMBKv_y4-Wi4zQdsMgKi3Yb5FghhXRMRu3H1PyR7k3b0bchUUvPO/s1600/Tragic_comic_masks_-_roman_mosaic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Bkdi7whDNF65EH5uhaVw1DcXRTDU4unq0ugg1Za34NMlr6RZeBVBSTVRjJgasau61ontGtBQEOD3FEJ3n-1TQY-FpMBKv_y4-Wi4zQdsMgKi3Yb5FghhXRMRu3H1PyR7k3b0bchUUvPO/s200/Tragic_comic_masks_-_roman_mosaic.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">July 24, Tues (7:30 pm): </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Satirizing Socrates: Ancient Comedy's Take on Philosophy.</b></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> We will look at the portrait of Socrates and the critical stereotype of ancient philosophers presented in Aristophanes' comic masterpiece, <i>The Clouds</i>. First staged in 423 bc in Socrates' own lifetime, the play is regarded as the first extent "comedy of ideas." It's critique of philosophers is scathing and best of all, the play remains funny today.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September 4, Tues (7:30 pm): </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The Myth of the Mound Builders.</b></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The centuries following the renewed 1492 contact between the world's eastern and western hemispheres were devastating for the indigenous peoples of the Americas whose population was continually decimated by imported diseases for which they lacked immunity. By the early 19th century, so few indigenous people remained that European Americans doubted they could have ever built the massive number of earthworks that covered the North American landscape. Instead they created a myth that the mounds must have been built by a lost civilized race that was ultimately exterminated by the American Indians. The most successful telling of this myth is found in Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon. We will look at how the myth of the moundbuilders evolved and its continuing consequences.</span></span>John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-15867554310512113062018-02-19T16:26:00.001-08:002018-05-03T08:44:47.038-07:00Summer 2018 Lecture Topics<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVklj6YBRtti3Q6REmzZnYA-tKQW4RZU3OFPPZWJDFCcL2_gZ9lKgWSieZSUseUWr1TgnRO4z8vqXQQGCTdwU75T9nKHZ_W7DQ0iUMCChq2zXv-y5JapbHyc9ao0pmN_7MMfE0_Vpz4Kwm/s1600/319520_66d4_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVklj6YBRtti3Q6REmzZnYA-tKQW4RZU3OFPPZWJDFCcL2_gZ9lKgWSieZSUseUWr1TgnRO4z8vqXQQGCTdwU75T9nKHZ_W7DQ0iUMCChq2zXv-y5JapbHyc9ao0pmN_7MMfE0_Vpz4Kwm/s200/319520_66d4_2.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May 1, Tues (7:30 pm): </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Philosophy Before Socrates</b>. Socrates, his student Plato, and Plato's student Aristotle are often credited with founding Western philosophy. Nevertheless, even great thinkers do not emerge <i>ex nihilo, </i>but rather are born into an existing context and paradigm that the build from, respond to, and react against. We'll look at the Pre-Socratic philosophers and how their ideas created the ground from which Socrates' own thought emerged</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">July 3, Tues (7:30 pm): </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #4e2800; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Was </b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Machiavelli</b></span><b style="color: #4e2800; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Machiavellian</b></span><b style="color: #4e2800; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">?</b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Humanist politician and philosopher </span></span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">has been called the first modern man and the father of political science. His book <i>The Prince,</i> is among the most influential books in the Western canon and has given rise to our adjective "Machiavellian" to describe unscrupulous politicians. We'll look closely at <i>The Prince </i>and Machiavelli's other writings to consider his political philosophy and to ask whether the author himself was "Machiavellian". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">January 2, Tues (7:30 pm):</span><b style="background-color: white;">History of the Calendar</b><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><span style="background-color: white;">For New Year’s we’ll look at our eclectic calendar: divided into base-sixty minutes and seconds, 24-hour days (with AM and PM halves), weeks of 7 days (named for Anglo-Saxon and Roman gods), 12 months “moonths” (named for Roman gods or numerals) that don’t correspond with the actual lunar cycle. We’ll recount the history of our calendar and compare it to other historic and current calendars.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgeFbeK4n3XpiZGxn8X8ye-5a_CiZsMifVMuPPDSt2Az-VosD4dX1TNiUpqL0AOed5FFIz-rMsxBJhBrJhpgMUGCLpa0QwNGwhwaQi0ETKfAtAmpKtArF1NRP0kPRtJwlG-CUYQZMLoEAR/s1600/Lectures_2018_06_Ethiopia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1000" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgeFbeK4n3XpiZGxn8X8ye-5a_CiZsMifVMuPPDSt2Az-VosD4dX1TNiUpqL0AOed5FFIz-rMsxBJhBrJhpgMUGCLpa0QwNGwhwaQi0ETKfAtAmpKtArF1NRP0kPRtJwlG-CUYQZMLoEAR/s200/Lectures_2018_06_Ethiopia.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">February 6, Tues (7:30 pm): <b>The Ethiopic Book of Enoch</b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. The Bible of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church includes a number of books not found in the Catholic or Protestant canons. The Book of Enoch was considered scripture to many early Christians and Jews, including the author of the New Testament Book of Jude. We'll look at this interesting apocalypse with its vision of angels and devils and consider its context within the apocalyptic tradition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">February 20, Tues (7:30 pm): <b>Constructing Ancient Israelite Identity</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. How did the "Twelve Tribes" of Israel emerge from their ethnically related Canaanite neighbors? In a follow-up to his lecture on the emergence of Israelite monotheism from Canaanite polytheism, Leandro Palacios will look at the legendary narratives recorded in the Bible and tease out the underlying pre-history of Israelite identity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">February 27, Tues (7:30 pm): <b>Plato's Cave</b></span><span style="background-color: white;">. The famous Allegory of the Cave is central to understanding Plato's argument that the perfect world of ideas is more real than the mutable physical world of our senses. We'll dig into the allegory in depth and consider Pre-Socratic philosophical questions that led Plato to propose this radical solution, and also the legacy of Platonism to the present day.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">April 17, Tues (7:30 pm): <b>Mysticism of the Sufis</b></span><span style="background-color: white;">. From the famous whirling dervishes to poets and ascetics, Sufism cuts across Muslim sectarian divides and provides an important, inward dimension for the religion, which receives little notice outside the movement. This presentation will be given by Brian Carwana, director of the Encounter World Religions Centre. Later in the fall, we will have a followup presentation by </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shaheen Bagha.</span><br />
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To that end, I would love to enlist the talents of lyricists and poets across the church to update hymns in Community of Christ Sings so that they better convey the identity, mission, message, and beliefs of the church's path forward.<br />
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One that I'd love to have new lyrics for is CCS #350, "We Are a Family of Faith." This is a very fun song, sort of an anthem of the church and its name, that we've enjoyed singing, especially in intergenerational contexts. However, its theology seems pretty literal and does not convey the kind of message we'd like to teach children. I love the line "we have a mission that's clear" --- I'd like to see that immediately pull into a focus on the Mission Initiatives. Instead, it implies that our clear mission is "to praise our Savior's name," which is something Evangelical Christians might sing. I would also prefer to avoid the primary definition of the church as being a family "of faith." Faith is an important component of the church, but I'd rather have something else missional up front, if possible.<br />
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I'm marking up the lyrics I'd like to see changed, and will appreciate any help creating new lyrics that are more missional. (Obviously, as many more lyrics as are necessary can be changed, but these are the ones that I'd like to see eliminated.)<br />
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We are a family <strike>of faith</strike>;<br />
<strike>we have a Savior who’s kind</strike>.<br />
We lift each other up.<br />
We leave no one behind,<br />
and if the least of us should stumble,<br />
we all feel the pain:<br />
Community of Christ is our name.<br />
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We are a family <strike>of faith</strike>;<br />
we have a mission that’s clear:<br />
<strike>to praise our Savior’s name</strike>.<br />
We help build Zion here.<br />
And we seek peace between the nations,<br />
love between us all;<br />
Community of Christ is our call.<br />
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We are a family <strike>of faith</strike><br />
and we look forward to the day<br />
<strike>we see our Savior’s face, </strike><br />
<strike>he wipes our tears away, </strike><br />
and all the saints of every nation<br />
<strike>rise to die no more: </strike><br />
Community of Christ evermore!<br />
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We are a family of faith;<br />
<strike>we have a Savior who’s kind.</strike><br />
We lift each other up.<br />
We leave no one behind,<br />
and if the least of us should stumble,<br />
we all feel the pain:<br />
Community of Christ is our name.<br />
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I do like the fact that we have a number of modern songs in the hymnal, but unfortunately, the content of these hymns tends to be pop Evangelical "praise" which, I think, at best can be described as meaningless/contentless, but more realistically borders on idolatry. An example is #252 "Blessed Be Your Name." This praise song has an interesting melody, but no content. It would be wonderful again if the lyrics were replaced with something that had meaning, so that the hymn could actually be used and sung. I'm marking the lyrics that should be replaced:<br />
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<strike>Blessed be your name</strike><br />
<strike>in the land that is plentiful,</strike><br />
<strike>where your streams of abundance flow;</strike><br />
<strike>blessed be your name.</strike><br />
<strike>Blessed be your name</strike><br />
<strike>when I’m found in the desert place.</strike><br />
<strike>Though I walk through the wilderness,</strike><br />
<strike>blessed be your name.</strike><br />
<strike>Every blessing you pour out </strike><br />
<strike>I’ll turn back to praise. </strike><br />
<strike>When the darkness closes in, </strike><br />
<strike>Lord, still I will say, </strike><br />
<strike>“Blessed be the name of the Lord, </strike><br />
<strike>blessed be your name. </strike><br />
<strike>Blessed be the name of the Lord, </strike><br />
<strike>blessed be your glorious name.”</strike><br />
<strike>Blessed be your name</strike><br />
<strike>when the sun’s shining down on me,</strike><br />
<strike>when the world’s “all as it should be.”</strike><br />
<strike>Blessed be your name.</strike><br />
<strike>Blessed be your name</strike><br />
<strike>on the road marked with suffering;</strike><br />
<strike>though there’s pain in the offering,</strike><br />
<strike>blessed be your name.</strike><br />
<strike>Every blessing you pour out </strike><br />
<strike>I’ll turn back to praise. </strike><br />
<strike>When the darkness closes in, </strike><br />
<strike>Lord, still I will say, </strike><br />
<strike>“Blessed be the name of the Lord, </strike><br />
<strike>blessed be your name. </strike><br />
<strike>Blessed be the name of the Lord, </strike><br />
<strike>blessed be your glorious name.” </strike><br />
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This is something that isn't in my immediate wheelhouse of talents. If you are a poet or lyricist, your work on improving our hymns will be very appreciated. We'll use updated hymns in Toronto congregation and create online and other resources crediting lyricists. We very much appreciate your help!<br />
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<br />John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-36559081961138279992017-10-05T15:49:00.001-07:002017-10-05T15:49:11.102-07:00Fall and Winter 2017 Lecture Topics<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Our <b>History, Philosophy, & Theology Group</b> met on selected Tuesday evenings September, October, November, and December.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">September 19, Tues (7 pm): </span><b style="background-color: white;">Life Atop a Pillar</b><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Simeon Stylites spent 37 years of his life on top of a pillar near the city of Aleppo, Syria, during the 5th century AD. We'll look at why anyone would do such a thing in context, consider the appeal of the extreme ascetic life, and how it resulted in impressive "spiritual power" that allowed Simon and his fellow ascetics to overturn and destroy reverence for the old pagan gods, whose traditions and shrines had existed for centuries and millennia.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">October 3, Tues (7 pm): </span><b style="background-color: white;">Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor an Empire</b><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><span style="background-color: white;">By the time it was unceremoniously extinguished by Napoleon in 1806, the Holy Roman Empire was a curious relic. Decried as "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire" the entity's very existence seemed self-contradictory in the modern world. We'll look at the entity's history to see how it once had legitimately been the Empire, Roman, and holy in the Middle Ages, only to outlive the Medieval definition of these words when the idea of universals was abandoned in the wake of nationalism.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">October 10, Tues (7:30 pm): <b>Movie Night: "The Name of the Rose" (1986)</b>.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">No formal presentation, but we’ll take a break and watch the film, “The Name of the Rose,” which is a mystery set against a transformational time in the Middle Ages, as the West begins to recover the works of Aristotle and has to reconcile his philosophy with Christian theology.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">October 17</span><span style="background-color: white;">, Tues (</span><span style="background-color: white;">7:30 pm</span><span style="background-color: white;">): </span><b style="background-color: white;">Mapping Christian Schism</b><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Christianity may be the world’s largest religion, but it’s anything but unified. How did we get from a tiny Jewish reform movement in the hinterland of the Roman Empire to the present diversity of thousands of denominations and sects? The presentation will attempt to map out connections and divisions using original diagrams.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">October 24</span><span style="background-color: white;">, Tues (</span><span style="background-color: white;">7:30 pm</span><span style="background-color: white;">): <b>World's Apart: Comparing Medieval World Maps from Norman Sicily and England</b>. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The Normans conquered two great island kingdoms in the Middle Ages: England and Sicily. Their courts produced two great mapping traditions, represented by the Hereford Mappamundi in England and the maps accompanying Idrisi's "Book of Roger" in Sicily. We will use these two different traditions to paint contrasting pictures of the worldviews each represents. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">November 7</span><span style="background-color: white;">, Tues (</span><span style="background-color: white;">7:30 pm</span><span style="background-color: white;">): </span><b style="background-color: white;">Plato, Aristotle, and Christianity.</b><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">As its history is often told, Christianity is an offshoot of ancient Judaism, which spread through the Roman Empire alongside other Eastern mystery religions prior to its great success with the conversion of Constantine. We'll look at the surprising degree of continuity between pagan Roman philosophy and Christian Roman theology and ask the degree to which Plato and Aristotle should be listed among Christianity's founders.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">November 14</span><span style="background-color: white;">, Tues (</span><span style="background-color: white;">7:30 pm</span><span style="background-color: white;">): </span><b style="background-color: white;">Examining the </b><b style="background-color: white;">Ontological Argument for God</b><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Anselm of Canterbury was one of the greatest thinkers of the Middle Ages whose work was crucial in the revival of logic and philosophy in the Medieval West. Using logical argument, Anselm created a proof for the existence of God called the "</span><span style="background-color: white;">ontological argument." We'll consider his argument and also ask what Anselm's work can tell us about the Medieval Christian conception of the Divine. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">December 5</span><span style="background-color: white;">, Tues (</span><span style="background-color: white;">7:30 pm</span><span style="background-color: white;">): </span><b style="background-color: white;">Jesus' Jewish Roots.</b><span style="background-color: white;"> Jesus and his original followers were Jews, but because the first Christians quickly went into schism with their former co-religionists, Jesus' Jewish roots have often been obscured. We will look at the historical Jesus and the earliest Christian groups within the context of Second Temple Judaism and contemporary Jewish religion and sects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">December 12</span><span style="background-color: white;">, Tues (</span><span style="background-color: white;">7:30 pm</span><span style="background-color: white;">): </span><b style="background-color: white;">The Diverse Expressions of Islam.</b><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Islam is not monolithic, but includes a wide diversity of ideas and traditions that have evolved in the fourteen centuries since the death of the prophet Muhammad. Guest lecturer Shaheen Bagha will present a brief introduction and historical overview of these rich and diverse traditions. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">December 19</span><span style="background-color: white;">, Tues (</span><span style="background-color: white;">7:30 pm</span><span style="background-color: white;">): <b>Yahweh and the Canaanite Pantheon</b></span><b style="background-color: white;">.</b><span style="background-color: white;"> Before the God of Israel was understood to be the sole omnipotent God of the universe, Yahweh (or "Jehovah") was worshiped as part of a pantheon of gods that included Ba'al, El, and Asherah. Guest lecturer Leandro Palacios will present an introduction to ancient Canaanite mythology and its relationship to Israelite religion of the first temple period. </span></span>John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-80722652444719078102017-09-02T10:12:00.001-07:002017-09-02T10:12:27.488-07:00September 10 Services at ScarboroughOn Sunday September 10, Toronto Congregation will have services with our sister congregation in Scarborough in their church at 10 Eppleworth Road. There will be no services at Toronto Centre Place on that Sunday.<br />
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Adult class will begin at 10:00 am, followed by the worship service at 11:00 am. Following the services, all are welcome to join a salad pot luck. Please bring salads!<br />
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Remember to bring shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child, which Scarborough Congregation is coordinating this year.<br />
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<img alt="Journey of a Shoebox" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.samaritanspurse.org/occ/2016-HOME/journey-start.jpg" />John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-74096714128574659732017-09-02T09:44:00.003-07:002017-09-02T09:44:43.617-07:00Summer Lectures<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our <b>History, Philosophy, & Theology Group</b> met on selected Tuesday evenings this July and August.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">July 4, Tues (7 pm): </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The King of Beaver Island</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">After the assassination of church founder Joseph Smith, most Mormons followed Brigham Young to Utah. However, a new prophet James Strang emerged as Young’s leading rival. Strang led his Mormons to Beaver Island in Lake Michigan where he was crowned king and practiced polygamy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">July 18, Tues (7 pm): </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lost Gospel Q</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">It’s long been speculated that the authors of Matthew and Luke used a lost collection of Jesus’ sayings (called “Q” by scholars) in order to construct their own gospels. If correct, it’s possible that this lost gospel is among the earliest known writings about Jesus. What can it tell us about Jesus and the first Christians?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">July 25, Tues (7 pm): <b>The Inquisition: Medieval Heresy and Identity</b>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The word Inquisition is popularly associated with scenes of persecution, torture, and brutal executions that portray the medieval Church in an extremely negative light. These reprehensible and inexcusable events represent one of the darkest chapters in the history of the Church, but the facts have been distorted and exaggerated by anti-Catholic sentiments during the 19th and 20th centuries. We'll take a look at the origins and evolution of these processes of investigation and punishment in the context of law and religious developments in medieval Europe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">August 1, Tues (7 pm): </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Echoes of Gilgamesh</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The epic poems about the semi-legendary King of Uruk were well known across the ancient Near East more than a millennium before the oldest parts of the Hebrew Bible were composed. Some themes, elements, and characters from the Epic of Gilgamesh have counterparts in the Book of Genesis' most iconic stories: the creation, fall, and flood narratives. We will consider the academic perspective that suggests a direct Babylonian influence on the Biblical authors and the development of Israelite religion, and we will discuss how these themes continue to resonate with us 4,000 years later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">August 8, Tues (7 pm): <b>Paganism in the Bible</b>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Although in its present form the Old Testament professes monotheism, the text contains many footprints that illustrate the original pagan religion of ancient Canaan. We’ll see how the Biblical narrative of “monotheists tempted by idolatry” is precisely the opposite of the actual history: “pagans who became monotheists.”</span><br />
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John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-56123672662491760692017-05-13T09:37:00.002-07:002017-05-13T09:37:26.807-07:00Next Beyond the Walls: June 22<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">We'll have our second Beyond the Walls service Thursday evening June 22 as a kick-off for the congregation's Pride Toronto events. The theme will be "All Are Called."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Toronto Congregation is launching our first online service tonight (Thursday May 11) at 8:00 PM Eastern. It should about an hour long and will make use of Zoom (free teleconferencing software you can download on your computer or smart phone). Feel free to join us via this link: </span><a href="https://zoom.us/j/819204162" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://zoom.us/j/819204162</a>John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-28661067224208700682017-04-13T14:19:00.005-07:002017-05-09T18:25:26.894-07:00May and June Lecture Topics<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our <b>History, Philosophy, & Theology Group</b> will continue to meet on selected Tuesday evenings this May and June.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May 16, Tues (7 pm): </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The History of the End of the World</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. We'll look at the long history of failed predictions that the Apocalypse was imminent, from the many precursors to the Book of Revelation to its readers who continue to misinterpret the text to the present day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May 23, Tues (7 pm): </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Wheel of Fortune: Philosophy after Rome Fell</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. After the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, the great Latin politician and scholar Boethius was sentenced to be executed by the king of the Ostrogoths. We'll take a look his outstanding work, "The Consolation of Philosophy," and see how one the great Western thinkers reconciled himself to the downturn of Fortune's Wheel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May 30, Tues (7 pm): <b>The History of Mormon Polygamy</b>. Why did Mormons redefine the Western idea of the family in the 19th century? We'll look at the origin of the practice, why and when the mainline LDS Church abandoned polygamy, and where and how it continues among fundamentalist Mormons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">June 6, Tues (7 pm): </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Myths of David and Solomon</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. The Bible insists that David and his son Solomon ruled a unified kingdom of Israel from their capital Jerusalem, which only afterwards split into a northern kingdom (Israel) and a southern kingdom (Judah). This was taken to be accurate history until it was disproved in recent decades by archaeologists. We'll explore the what we can know about the actual history of ancient Israel and the historic David.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">June 13, Tues (7 pm): <b>Revisiting the Galileo Myth</b>. The story of Galileo's trial and the banning of his work by the Pope has become a staple of the "History of Science" narrative. We'll look at the actual history and trace the way a Protestant polemic against Catholicism came to be repurposed as a secular myth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">June 27, Tues (7 pm): </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Was the Apostle Paul Gay?</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In honour of Toronto Pride week, we'll consider evidence concerning the sexual orientation of the Apostle Paul, the second founder of Christianity. We'll also look at what Paul has to say about the subject and how this has been misread by some Christian fundamentalists..</span>John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-59050204546161778252017-04-01T10:30:00.002-07:002017-04-01T10:30:52.402-07:00Sunstone Toronto (Saturday April 8)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Plan to attend the first Sunstone Symposium in Canada, Sunstone Toronto, this April 8th. Learn more about the program and register at the <a href="https://www.sunstonetoronto.com/">Sunstone Toronto website</a>. Our congregation will also be having a special service on Sunday morning, April 9, (10 am class, 11 am service, noon snacks) for any Sunstone attendees who want to experience what our congregation is like. All are welcome!John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-842598995771750952017-02-09T12:41:00.002-08:002017-02-09T12:41:17.505-08:00March and April Lecture Topics<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our <b>History, Philosophy, & Theology Group</b> will continue to meet on selected Tuesday evenings this March and April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mar 14, Tues (7 pm): <b>Maps of the Medieval Mind</b>. “Here there be dragons” fills the void of the world unknown to Europeans in the so-called Dark Ages. We’ll explore and translate dozens of historic maps to chart the Medieval worldview.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mar 21, Tues (7 pm): <b>Pagan Vikings vs. the Christians</b>. Beginning in the 8th century AD, pagan Norsemen plundered the monasteries of the Frankish and Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. How could Thor and Odin lose out to Jesus?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mar 28, Tues (7 pm): <b>The Bible’s Powerful Matriarchs</b>. In the Age of the Patriarchs, it turns out that most of the Bible’s most powerful figures were women. How and why did these matriarchal narratives challenge the patriarchy?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Apr 11, Tues (7 pm): <b>Easter: Comparing Resurrection Myths</b>. Jesus Christ is hardly the only god in Antiquity who was said to return to the world of the living after death. We’ll compare these many ancient resurrection myths. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Apr 18, Tues (7 pm): <b>The Crusades and Jihad</b>. We’ll look at the original holy wars fought between Medieval Christianity and Islam. Can we draw lessons from these past conflicts for the 21st century world?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Apr 25, Tues (7 pm): </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Why Job Fails to Solve Evil</b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">. The authors of the Book of Job were troubled by the question: Why do the righteous suffer when the wicked prosper? We’ll consider and evaluate their proposed answers.</span><br />
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John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-50657280002982802672016-12-31T16:59:00.002-08:002016-12-31T17:29:53.334-08:00All Together Now January 8th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our next "All Together Now" intergenerational church experience will start at 10 am on Sunday, January 8th. Bring the whole family to learn, share, and enjoy!John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-19954862479710718922016-12-31T15:02:00.000-08:002016-12-31T15:02:02.470-08:00Meditation Group Special Events, Winter/Spring 2017<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have after-work meditation most Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:00 pm. In addition to our regular meditation sessions this year, we will host a number of special meditation events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tues and Thu, Jan 3 and 5: <b>New Year's Resolution Meditation</b></span></div>
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John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-74555667777324804572016-12-31T10:59:00.002-08:002017-01-02T10:16:17.685-08:00January and February Lecture and Discussion Schedule<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our <b>History, Philosophy, & Theology Group</b> will meet irregularly on Tuesday evenings this January and February.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jan 10, Tues (7 pm): </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Jesus the Jewish Cynic. </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Academics in search of the historical Jesus have proposed many models from apocalyptic prophet to social reformer to religious zealot and revolutionary. We’ll look at the case for seeing the historical Jesus as a teacher and philosopher analogous to the Hellenistic school of cynicism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jan 17, Tues (7 pm): <b>Manichaeism: The World Religion that Lost. </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the first millennium AD, Manichees were spread from Britain to China and the dualistic religion was briefly a credible rival to Christianity in the later Roman Empire. We’ll look at the religion’s origin, cosmology, its structure, its rise, its extinction, as well as surviving echoes of its thought in the East and in the West.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feb 7, Tues (7 pm): <b>The Gospel According to Her: Luke. </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the New Testament gospels are anonymous texts whose customary names Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, were assigned by later Christians. We’ll examine the argument that the author of Luke was a woman. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feb 14, Tues (7 pm): <b>Pagan Origins of Christian Holidays. </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Roman, Germanic, Celtic, and Norse paganism was deeply rooted in European customs, including holiday festivals. We’ll spend this Valentine’s Day evening looking for possible pagan roots of our present-day traditions. Bring a date!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feb 21, Tues (7 pm): <b>To See, To Be, To Do: The Landscape of World Religions</b>. Brian Carwana, director of the Encounter World Religions Centre and our guest lecturer for the evening, will take us on an overview tour of the variety of religious traditions around the world and here in Toronto.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feb 28, Tues (7 pm): <b>Myth in 19th Century America: The Book of Mormon. </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the popular Broadway musical, the Book of Mormon has received renewed attention, but to 21st century ears, its central claim that the indigenous inhabitants of North America are descendants of Israelite refugees seems ever more outrageous. We’ll put the Book of Mormon story into the context of America in the 1830s. </span>John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-57867910404148334702016-12-22T17:52:00.003-08:002016-12-22T17:53:11.150-08:00Special Collection at the Toronto Congregation Library<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In addition to antique published books, our congregation library includes a number of manuscript records dating back to our reorganization in 1891. These are logged as follows:</span><br />
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<li>Branch Membership/Sacramental Register 01, “Record of the
Toronto Branch of the London District” (Filled) 1890s – 1916</li>
<li>Branch Membership/Sacramental Register 02, “Branch Record”
(Filled, 10 pages blank) 17 September 1891 – 5 November 1916</li>
<li>Marriage Register MS 01, “Marriage Register” furnished to
Elder Geo. Virgin, February 16, 1897, (Filled, 40 pages blank), 20 January 1897
– 26 June 1918</li>
<li>Marriage Register MS 02, “Reg #5244” (Filled, 17 pages
blank) 24 May 1905 – 31 October 1942</li>
<li>Marriage Register MS 03, “Marriage Register” (Active
Register, 20 pages blank) 7 September 1951 – 17 August 2013</li>
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<li>Financial Register MS 01, Receipts and Expenditures (Filled,
50 pages blank) 20 July 1896 – 29 May 1909</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 02, “Toronto Branch L.D.S”
(approximately one third filled) 11 February 1901 – 9 February 1904</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 03, “Temple Café” (19 pages filled) 26
July 1903 – 3 January 1906</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 04, “Soho St Church Building Day Book”
(only 10 pages filled) 29 September 1906 – 29 March 1907</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 05, “Ledger Soho St Church”
(three-quarters filled) 1906 – 1907</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 06, (only 15 pages filled) 12 June
1909 – 10 January 1918</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 07, “Cash Book” (only 39 pages filled)
31 May 1909 – 3 June 1918</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 08, “Toronto Agency” (only 49 pages
filled) 11 June 1909 – 4 June 1918</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 09, “Toronto District Treasurer’s
Book” (only 19 pages filled) 25 October 1909 – 4 June 1918</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 10, “Toronto Agency R. C. Evans” (154
pages filled) 1 October 1910 – 4 June 1918</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 11, “To Chief Bishop” (only 5 pages
filled) 28 November 1910 – 5 June 1918</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 12, “No. 782 Dominion Columnar Book”
(Filled) 1 January 1929 – 20 August 1961</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 13, (Filled), 1 September 1947 – 30
August 1967</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 14 (About three-quarters filled), 1
September 1970 – 30 August 1988</li>
<li>Financial Register MS 15 (Empty)</li>
<li>Owen Sound Financial Register MS 01, “Owen Sound January 1<sup style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">st</sup><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
1893” (Filled) 1 January 1893 – 15 March 1905</span></li>
<li>Owen Sound Financial Register MS 02, “Owen Sound Sept 1<sup style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">st</sup><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
1893” (Filled) 1 September 1893 – 11 March 1906</span></li>
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<li>Guest Book MS 01, “Our Church Guests” (Filled) 13 January
1955 – 15 January 1956</li>
<li>Guest Book MS 02, “Our Church Guests” (Filled) 8 December
1955 – 26 January 1958</li>
<li>Guest Book MS 03, “Our Guests” (Filled) 2 Febrary 1958 – 27 January
1963</li>
<li>Guest Book MS 04, “Guests” (Filled) 3 March 1963 – 29 March
1964</li>
<li>Guest Book MS 05, “Guests of the Reorganized Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints Toronto Branch” (Filled, 6 pages blank) 19 April
1964 – 3 August 1969</li>
<li>Guest Book MS 06, “Guests” (Filled) 17 August 1969 – 21
January 1979 *Note: Guest registers from February 1979 through December 1999
lost</li>
<li>Guest Book MS 07, “Guests” (Filled, 9 pages blank) 16
January 2000 – 6 October 2013 *Note: no guest register was kept November 2016
through December 2016</li>
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<li>Semi-Annual Business Meeting Minutes Book, 8 November 1909 –
10 July 1918, 131 pages typed, 2 manuscript pages</li>
<li>“In the Supreme Court of Ontario, Benjamin R. McGuire et al.
vs. R. C. Evans et al.” 26 May 1919, typed manuscript 761 pages</li>
<li>“Addition to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of the
Latter-Day Saints” Pentland & Baker, Architects, 30 July 1962, typescript
manuscript</li>
<li>Women’s Department Record MS 1, (Filled) 13 September 1949 –
7 March 1967</li>
<li>Women’s Department Record MS 2, (Only 46 pages filled) 3
April – 3 November 1970</li>
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Our Christmas church service at Centre Place will take place 11:00 am Sunday, December 18, immediately following our 10:00 am business meeting. We will not hold a service on Christmas Sunday itself. Sunday services will resume on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2017.</div>
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There is no Tuesday night lecture or meditation hour today (Tuesday the 13th). Meditation will occur as normal at 6:00 pm Thursday the 15th, Tuesday the 20th, and Thursday the 22nd. There will be no meditation the week between Christmas and New Year's.</div>
John Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02141267538712984717noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568994687128084791.post-24119363460136032192016-10-27T15:54:00.003-07:002016-10-27T15:54:16.981-07:00November Lectures<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our History, Theology, and Philosophy Lecture Series will meet Tuesdays evenings on November 1st, 8th, 15th, and 29th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">We'll explore the Norman Kingdom of Sicily where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Did the Roman Empire Really Fall?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The fall of Rome is central to our historical narrative, we'll look at alternative perspectives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Lives of Religious Innovators</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We'll compare the lives of innovators including Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad, and Joseph Smith.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>First Nations Spirituality</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>November 29</i><i> (Tues, 7 pm)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We'll attempt to deconstruct Western lenses to consider can be learned about indigenous spirituality.</span><br />
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