Wine, bread and prayer with the music of Leonard Cohen
A Eucharist service led by
The Wine Before Breakfast Band,
with Brian Walsh preaching
Sunday, October 14, 2012
7.00pm
Church of the Redeemer, Toronto
Avenue Road and Bloor Street
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A poster for the event
More information about the church (incl directions, TTC, etc.)
It seemed over the top.
No, not my sermon last week! I’m talking about Paul.
OK, maybe the sermon was a little heavy too.
But Paul was really laying it on, wasn’t he.
“Those who practice such things deserve to die.”
And, of course the “such things” that he was talking about included everything from sexual predation to covetousness, envy, strife, rebellion towards parents, and foolishness.
For these things, he said, we deserve to die.
The Graduate Christian Fellowship invites you to a screening of:
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“Where Do We Go Now?”
(France / Lebanon, 2011)
Winner of the People’s Choice Award, TIFF, 2011
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Chaplain’s office, Wycliffe College (basement)
6:00 – Dinner
7:00 (or so) – Something After Dinner – film, discussion etc.
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Set in a remote village where a Christian church and a Muslim mosque stand side by side, this film follows the antics of the town’s women as they try to keep their men from becoming part of the religious violence engulfing the country.
Read more Graduate Christian Fellowship – “Where Do We Go Now?” (Film)
(an email that became a pastoral letter)
They’ve come to be known as the “clobber texts.”
You know the one’s I’m talking about.
Those six texts – count them, there are six! ‑ that purportedly are about homosexuality.
Six texts in the whole Bible.
I don’t know, but somehow the more than 2000 texts in the Bible that address poverty and justice just seem to outweigh these six texts.
The Graduate Christian Fellowship invites you to:
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Romans, Home and Homelessness in the Empire
A Bible study and overview of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans with
Brian Walsh
Christian Reformed campus minister at UofT
(i.e. the other member of our campus ministry team)
(Note: Please try to read all of Paul’s letter for Thurs night – see below)
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Chaplain’s office, Wycliffe College (basement)
6:00 – Dinner / 7:00 (or so) – Something After Dinner – discussion, etc.
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Read more Graduate Christian Fellowship – Romans, Home and Homelessness in the Empire
Formation In and Out of the Academy
or How we come to be the people we are (or hope to be)
Thursday, September 20, 2012
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Dear Friends,
I’d like to start by restating the vision of this campus ministry:
The Graduate Christian Fellowship (GCF) seeks to challenge, mentor, and enable students to think, work, and live as Christian disciples in the academy and in their professions. Rooted in the confession that all truth is in Christ, we seek a radical Christian discipleship in all of life.
Read more Graduate Christian Fellowship – Formation In and Out of the Academy
“Paul, a slave of Jesus the Messiah.”
Seven words to open a magisterial letter and the author has already given notice.
He has, in these mere seven words set the agenda for his most extensive letter of subversion.
Seven words and the hierachically oppressive structures of Rome are thrown on their heads.
Paul … a slave.
Not Paul, a citizen of Rome.
Not Paul, claiming to have the legitimacy that is afforded by the empire.
Not Paul, enjoying his status as a citizen, a free man.
No, Paul … a slave.
Read more Wine Before Breakfast – ‘Seven Words’
You know that I think a lot about “home.”
Some folks think that next to “empire,” home is pretty much all I do think about.
Or at least that I’m likely to find either home or empire (or more likely both) under every verse of the Bible.
Guilty as charged.
But I am not sentimental about home.
I know all about broken homes,
homes of violence,
homes of exclusion,
homes of betrayal,
homes that are far from safe and far from sweet.
Read more Wine Before Breakfast – Coming Home in the Empire