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James Mutchmor was also, all things considered a very powerful influence and he, like Woodsworth was on hand at the Winnipeg General Strike.

Mutchmoor would serve on the Board of Evangelism and Social service from 1932 to 1963 and as Moderator from 1962 to 1964.

I am not sure when The United Church of Canada shuttered the Board of Evangelism and Social Service or what it's successor agencies might have been. Sometime in the early 70's I believe. The Church has not been the better because of it. I cannot speak from much first hand experience because I didn't come aboard until 1979. But the volumes of study documents put out by the Board of Evangelism and Social Service was quite copious.

And then there was Bob McClure.

A very different generation for the Church.
 
"Got arrested for preaching scripture. Not many clergy get to wear that badge." revjohn

Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann notices Woodsworth's arrest exemplifying sound deployment of scripture in the public square.
 
Trump ditched the Paris Accord, predictably. Now he says he represents the people of Pittsburgh not Paris. The Pittsburgh mayor wasn't too pleased. 80% of residents there voted for Clinton, apparently, anyway. And isn't there a city in U.S. called Paris? ...Paris, Texas. I suppose he probably does (pretend to) represent several people there.
 
Jae said:
Yet he was in the United Church?? Oh wait, I know, let me guess - he promised free sandwiches but then charged $8 for a lousy sandwich, a glass of fruitade and a small cake.
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I bet if he was giving out free troll dolls you would be jumping for joy.
 
revjohn said:
James Mutchmor was also, all things considered a very powerful influence and he, like Woodsworth was on hand at the Winnipeg General Strike.

Mutchmoor would serve on the Board of Evangelism and Social service from 1932 to 1963 and as Moderator from 1962 to 1964.

I am not sure when The United Church of Canada shuttered the Board of Evangelism and Social Service or what it's successor agencies might have been. Sometime in the early 70's I believe. The Church has not been the better because of it. I cannot speak from much first hand experience because I didn't come aboard until 1979. But the volumes of study documents put out by the Board of Evangelism and Social Service was quite copious.

And then there was Bob McClure.

A very different generation for the Church.
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I believe the United Church replaced the Board of Evangelism and Social Service with the Committee for the Organization of UCW Bake Sales long ago.
 
revjohn said:
Not too hard to imagine that being so. :whistle:
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This all depends on how the scripture is presented ... and thus the outcome is indeterminate ... except those that are determined IT's fixed ... when perhaps it isn't ... I just don't know things that can be qualified ... life gods unseen except by those excessively distraught by emotions of various archetype ... brainstorms ensue! Where? That's indeterminate too as we've never see god's soul ... too busy advocating the partisan passage ... sous-la!
 
chansen said:
Anyone else getting the sense that all is not right in Jae's world?
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Yeah. I wondered about that on Wednesday. Over on the BC Election thread post 56.

Noticing an escalation to inflammatory.
 
Periodically can cause PMS ... and thus there may be a problem of a spirit contained in the left soul ... as the only thing left of the Shue in ... tis for the boids ... Jae does not believe in and icon of left ... thus it goes on without a consideration of history or what some of us learned from the history of Roman Christianity ...

Love has a plan for this as a godly Jacqueline .. or Jack off in the mountains ... Greek is like that with fissures gathered at the shore ... humanitarian voids? Thus incarnation came up as understanding of that witch isn't ... and thus belief in what's miss NG inde Mrs. ... nigh messes? Twas a close shot ... near Canon?

I cannot make this clearer as people do not like virtue ... or we'd act differently ... life is mostly a lie as it is not common in the cosmos ... an oddity of creation? Is there something beyond that to clear us the b' Oz .. an old Hebrew word for chaos ... parallel to excessively populated citii's ... as sis?

That sister bothers me like Deborah did her brethren and they lost it in gasp ...

Dark snakes as midnight ... the asp ins? Wiggly an UN Qle?
 
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Speaking of solutions, what hope might there be that someday, all governments of the world will simply call their soldiers home? What if that was a UN goal? That all soldiers be housed within the borders of the legal territory of the country that houses the capital of said country?
 
Graeme Decarie said:
And, yes, New Brunswickers know at least some of how they have been ripped off. But they don't do anything about it. And they routinely vote for the two political parties that are owned by the Irvings. And, yes, they know the Irving papers lie. But they still buy them and read them.

If a majority here agree with most of what I write, this is a very silent majority. And if church leaders agree with what I say, they are mute. It is hard to imagine a world less Christian than the Christian west.
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What are they supposed to do about it? The Irvings and their ilk control so many things. People who stand up against this, here and elsewhere, are ridiculed or silenced in a variety of ways....."snowflakes" "libtards" "fake news".....those are only the recent incarnations of silencing tactics. We can all take a dour approach and condemn churches and the like for not doing anything. That's the easy way. I'd like to hear some ideas about possible workable solutions.
 
For almost 2,000 years, the Christian churches have opted to accept the status quo. You think the churches can't do it? I think they can. But they won't.
No major world leader ever believed in the UN. The U.S. has never seen it as anything but a tool of American policy. Once that got uncertain, the U.S. turned against the UN. And the wimpy UN has not even mentioned the illegality of most U.S. wars of the last 70 years.
My approach is not a dour one. I'm simply pointing out a reality. Can the church do anything about our behaviour? I think it can. Perhaps I have more faith in the church than church-goers do.
 
The church can't do much if it holds itself apart from other persons and groups that support democracy and human rights. Church membership and relevance is in decline. Out on the west coast there are likely more atheists than church goers. Hardly anybody goes to church. It's a small entity here - all denominations. They're not noticed much. But human rights, equality, peace, and the environment are issues of importance despite decline in church membership. The church has to be for the people rather than the people for the church, in order to do anything significant and be taken seriously. Pope Francis has made some headway in that regard, and I respect him for it - even though he is still stuck in a few old school views.
 
We were impressed at some point in time that silence is golden ... and so it was till a greater power gave us the sense of dark forms on walls, marble slabs and clay tablets ... progressing to EMG tablets connects to dark networks that bother despots with the falls of virtue exhibited there ...

When it was best if the common people didn't know and thus the rise of the word: naïveté! It is said to have impolite metaphors that only brutes use when suffering fitz ... catty behavior?
 
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