April 1, 2002 Letters to the editor

Discrimination Dear editor, It is probably safe to assume that most people would agree that a person who holds no religious beliefs can be a complete citizen of Canada. Most people would then also agree that the...

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April 1, 2002 A Lenten Rendering

re'nder v.t. 1. Give in return (render thanks, good for evil). 2. (arch.) Give back; hand over, deliver, give up, surrender, (render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's). 3. Pay (tribute etc.), show (obedience etc.), give...

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April 1, 2002 Bible stories endless source of drama and (unintended) comedy

AH, EASTER - bunnies, lilies, chocolate eggs and Bible movies on TV. Every spring, television marks the Resurrection (and Passover, we might note) by scheduling films that pay appropriate reverence to the season, unless you...

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April 1, 2002 Costa-Gavras probes role of church in Holocaust

Paris Amen, a much awaited film by Constantin Costa-Gavras that raises controversial questions about the church's role during the Holocaust, opened in cinemas in France in late February, having already created a public stir....

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April 1, 2002 ABC book is well-prepared manifesto

ALL WHO MINISTER is certainly an unthreatening title. Even the sub-title, "New Ways of Serving God's People," sounds innocent. But the parts of this book are so cleverly arranged that it is not until the final chapters that an...

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April 1, 2002 Masterpieces from Rome

Examples of Vatican art on exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum June 8 to Aug. 11 in conjunction with World Youth Day.

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April 1, 2002 Marga Buhrig

Marga Buhrig, a former president of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and one of Switzerland's pioneering feminist theologians, died in February. She was 86. Born in Berlin in 1915, Ms. Buhrig moved as a child with her...

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April 1, 2002 Calendar

Ecumenical gathering Vancouver School of Theology will host an ecumenical gathering called An Interfaith Meditation Conference, June 14-16. The gathering will feature teachers from five major faiths: Christianity,...

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April 1, 2002 Cubans want to return to ECUSA

Special on Cuba In February, the primate, Archbishop Michael Peers, went to Havana for the 93rd synod of the Episcopal Church of Cuba. He attended in his capacity as president of the church's metropolitan council, a body that...

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April 1, 2002 Right wing condemned

San Antonio, Texas The executive council of the Episcopal Church in the United States has passed its strongest condemnation yet of Anglican Mission in America, warning of possible schism and describing the existence of the...

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