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Bible verse of the month 30 Hours for Poverty In Conversation with … Gender equality How it impacts the youth Keith Tucker — Susan Bird attends the I will show you my faith by my in one parish and his ministry UN Council on Women's actions. with the dying Rights James 2:18 Page 6 Page 7 Page 11 www.niagaraanglican.ca A section of the Anglican Journal A Gathering Place and a Sounding Board for the People of the Diocese of Niagara Summer 2015 providing farm workers with wheels p Dave Coles helps repair and St. Alban's launches Bikes for Farmworkers maintain bikes for farm workers. While walking a newly repaired AmAndA moore nizer for Bikes for Farmworkers and location,” said Hahn, noting also offer a social once a month bike to the storage shed a — BFF for short. “Someone most are responsible for provid- for the workers. The church is rainbow appeared overhead BEAMSVILLE — A local out there could really use the ing their own food. “Imagine also setting up an Internet cafe and michael Hahn grabbed his church has found a new use for transportation.” being in a country where you where workers can Skype with camera and took this picture. “It unwanted bicycles. The church is collecting old don't speak the language and are their family members back was a total surprise,” he said. St. Alban's Church has been bikes which they will rent out to confined to a corner on the farm, home. Photo: Michael Hahn reaching out to the thousands farm workers for a $10 deposit, miles away from town. How do “Happy workers are better of farm workers who come which they will get back when you get food? How do you get workers,” said Hahn. from countries like Mexico and they return their bike at the end services?” St. Alban's is also working Jamaica to make them feel at of the farming season. The bike rental program is just alongside another Lincoln Related home. The church's latest initia- An estimated 8,000 workers one way St. Alban’s is making church to take care of the farm tive will give those workers the come to Southern Ontario each temporary workers feel at home. workers’ needs. Southridge The HOLLIStorial reflects freedom to travel. year to tend farms. About 2,000 Having a Spanish-speaking Community Church, with on this story and how we can "There are garages filled with to 3,000 of them land in Niagara minister has allowed the church locations in Vineland and St. make connections in life and bicycles that haven't been used where they work long hours on to offer services en Español on Catharines, has been offering the Bible. —See Page 3. in five, 10 years," said Michael the farm. Sundays and provides bussing Hahn, a parishioner and orga- “Many are isolated by language so that workers can attend. They —See BIKES page 3 2 Summer 2015 | For the latest news and events visit niagaraanglican.ca The Logos: Ontology for Christians Colin C.m. CAmpBell Jesus was both God and man. ing principle behind phenomena “What is shocking This truth was hard won! In to be the Kingdom of God and Ontology is the study of what the fourth century, Arius would himself as the embodiment is real. Secular thinking about about Christianity is not accept it. The Cappadocian of it. To Jewish Christians, he reality is based on the ontol- Fathers—Basil the Great, was God’s Messiah. John forced ogy of atoms and molecules. its claim that Jesus Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of the issue for the philosophers Christian tradition is based on Nazianzus—argued that Jesus by asserting that he was also the ontology of God’s Providence, was both God and was homoousios; that is, possess- the Logos. That is, the order exercised in two ways: in our ing the same substance as God. behind nature is not due to some spirits by the Holy Spirit and in man.” Their opinion carried the day abstract principle or the laws of the material world by the Logos. at the First Ecumenical Council physics. It is due to the action of does not emerge from the past In prayer we are familiar with in Nicaea and Arianism was a providential loving God. in a predetermined way. Instead, the work of the Holy Spirit. The And physics explains everything declared a heresy. Surprisingly in the last few quantum field theory is much work of the Logos is invisible using the Standard Model of the However, the belief defended decades, the previous ontology more consistent with an open most of the time. It is this that Universe. at Nicaea did not originate there. of science has collapsed, clearing future, regulated by human deci- most troubles those wedded According to Christianity, we In the Fourth Gospel, John the way for a Christian ontol- sions or by the Logos of God. to the ontology of science. The are spiritual as well as material equated Jesus with the Logos ogy, compatible with scientific So, our God is not just “out Christian world is ready for a beings. “We live, move and have of the Stoics and Hellenistic observations. At the time of the there,” as Philo thought. He is Logos-based Christian ontology, our being” in a Providential God, Judaism. To Philo of Alexandria, Enlightenment, Isaac Newton also “in here,” trying to get out. compatible with the ontology of who created a world that is “a God’s utter transcendence and introduced the idea that We might well ask why the world science. Quantum field theory pale reflection of his glory”. His separateness from the world rigid laws of motion dictated is not a better place. The answer and Bell’s theorem suggest a way Providence “neither slumbers was necessary for him to remain everything from red giants to should not surprise us. The world to do this. nor sleeps” in its watch over us. uncontaminated by it. However, quarks, requiring an ontology of is the best place that we have According to science, we are God does this by his immanent the philosophers were aware determinism. His theory made allowed God to make. We have material beings whose minds and presence, as Logos and Holy that there was a basic order Newton a deist—and it worked work to do! bodies can be explained by scien- Spirit. beneath the world of transient so well that it seemed to be true. tific reductionism. Mental health The belief in One God as a phenomena, suggesting God’s In the 20th century, quantum Dr. Colin Campbell teaches school is just psychology. Psychology is Great Spirit is common to many activity. They called this organiz- mechanics debunked deter- in Hamilton. EMAIL: ccmcamp- just biology. Biology is just chem- religions. What is shocking about ing principle the Logos. minism and John Bell proved [email protected] istry. Chemistry is just physics. Christianity is its claim that Jesus proclaimed the organiz- conclusively that the future Summer Reading Who killed the curator? The trial takes place in the Vatican The Fifth Gospel: a novel, by Ian Caldwell orthodox faith (Greek) and the other in the Catholic faith Simon & Schuster, 2015 (Roman). The curator of an exhibition that is to open next to the Sistine Chapel, displaying pages from the ancient reviewed By roB roi Diatessaron document, is murdered. The purpose of this exhibition is to discover if the This is not to be confused with the Gospel of Thomas, Shroud of Turin is authentic or a fake, and also to bring which was considered to be the fifth gospel by the schol- the leaders of the two separate faiths together in hopes of ars of the Jesus Seminar. uniting them. The fifth gospel referred to in this thriller is the gospel The trial, to discern who killed the curator, takes place called the Diatessaron, composed by the Assyrian Tatian in the Vatican which has its own system of justice, sepa- in the second century. Its text was a fusion of the four rate from that of Rome. All of this takes place as Pope gospels into a single document. It took Caldwell 10 years John Paul II enters his twilight years. to write, and is based on painstaking primary research in To help the reader follow the activity around the multiple languages, as well as interviews with priests who Vatican there is a map inside both the front and back have worked at the Holy See. covers. Caldwell weaves this intriguing story around several issues within the Vatican that are all connected in some The Reverend Rob Roi is a parish deacon at St. James’ way. There are two ordained brothers, one a priest in the Dundas. EMAIL: [email protected] Bible Verse of the Advertise month Send us your favourite or where your meaningful Bible verse and Af o rda why you have selected that ble reAders Are verse or the story behind your Advertise in the Niagara Anglican choice. Contact information is Contact Angela @ 905-319-2521 on page 3. or [email protected] | Summer 2015 3 HOLLIStorial The Editor reflects on … Two Bible stories coming to life in Beamsville The story of the rainbow and life in Beamsville is the miracle program for temporary workers so is St. Alban’s.” carries on its legacy by serving the miracle of the great catch of of the great catch of fish (Luke 5). and serve mainly farm workers “Notably the Bikes for others in different ways and fish are evident in the Bikes for After Peter and friends had toiled from the Caribbean.
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