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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 27, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A 1 i Winnipeg free press May Faith Oklahoma City bomb disaster reflects the danger posed when ideology becomes More important than when human life becomes expendable darkness lurks in us All what happened in Oklahoma could it happen in our town up until a few weeks ago Oklahoma was a Broadway musical show about Sun and it was a City somewhere in the Midwest farming country of the United it had something to do with Corn growing As High As an elephants but now that All now it has filled our television screens with awful images that looked like something from a second world War except the images were too clearly today broadcast and the Siren sounds were not air raid sirens As in the second world the devastation was the result of a a bomb that blasted away an cent human and innocent of safety and speculation within an hour after the speculation was rampant about who could commit such an act of horrendous speculation began with the immediate images of foreign speculation began with the who is our enemy and Why would they choose to do this to us and the enemy face was definitely not it had to be someone not like someone of a different and but we All know it and that was the second bomb to go off in the United evidence indicates this of such barbarous was homemade by Hometown boys who were simply claiming their go Given rights in the land of the free and reflections Karen Toole Mitchell the Home of the the old testament in the Bible has a Section of psalm 55 Speaks of the horror of such a unique form of violence As it is a horror that is made even More acute and terrifying by the fact it is carried out by one we have called family and the psalmist puts it in these words i have seen violence and strife in the but it was no enemy who taunted or i would have avoided it was one of my own a my own dear Friend with whom i kept pleasant company in the House of the cartoonist in the Pogo strip put it even More directly when he had one of his creations i have seen the and it is years social activist theologian William string fellow wrote a Book my people the All of these writers Are naming what happened in Oklahoma All Point to the enemy which lurks the enemy within is very and should never be the enemy within is part of everyone of and All our the Oklahoma City bombing is a particularly graphic and momentous example of the enemy but the same Phenomena is acted out in our personal and social lives each and every at this not much is known about the first accused except that he was concerned with political and the it of his own goodness in the face of what he determined to be a corrupt government which was denying his in the Book Shadow Side of John Sanf an episcopal priest and writes about this incredibly Complex reality of goodness which becomes destructive because it refuses to see the heart of darkness that lives in us Sanford psychology warns us against trying to be better than we and urges us to strive not so much for a forced but for and to not out of ideals we cannot but from an inner Centre which alone can keep the to try to be and disregard ones darkness is to fall victim to the evil in ourselves whose existence we have in what Sanford Means is that when our ideology becomes More vital than self knowledge or relationships then we become and ultimately the victim of our own heart of when our morality and politics take precedence Over spirituality and then human life becomes expendable for the cause of and right is whatever goal we have become obsessed with at that theres a Story often told which is the in the leaders must decide whether to hand Over a Young Man to save All the people in a after proper deliberation and scriptural they decide to hand him Over based on the it is better that one should perish than a whole slow death they listen to his cries that night As he is put through a slow and later theories who was one of the leaders has a vision in which he is told this one was the the but the priest cries out in How could we know we read the we followed the How could we know and the response he hears you never looked into his if you you would have the bombers in Oklahoma City had a a a their ideals were in and so were the blindfolds and blocks to see in their own darkness that led to this massive could they have parked that truck full of explosives if they had looked into the eyes of any one of their victims i Hope not could it happen Here it can happen any place we forget or deny the darkness in and become blinded to the divine gift of each human is a United Church minister who specializes in pastoral care issues and comments and questions should be sent to do features Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain its a family tradition by David Briggs associated press new York his Grandfather was a methodist Lay preacher whose emotional embrace of christianity alarmed him at and his father was a shopkeeper who tried to unite christians to House the homeless and feed the although British actor Alec Mccowen holds no formal religious its in keeping with fam ily tradition that his signature role has become his Oneman show Marks even 17 years after his first per the actor who otherwise has a Normal career on stage and in films such As cry Freedom and the age of innocence still finds himself drawn to the Challenge of re telling the gospel according to i keep coming Back and doing St and when 1 think id finished with As i did five years nevertheless it comes Back into my Mccowen i think i have be Mark but the particularly the were relatively unexplored territory for the As Mccowen discovered when he began search ing for a material for a one person i wondered Why the so called greatest Story Ever told was never Mccowen it seemed to me no one trusted the words sufficiently to think they would hold up in this sort of the gospel of Mark was actually his last he first considered and rejected the other three gospels John for be ing too much a study of Jesus rather than the Story of Matthew be cause it was More a great Sermon than a great Story and Luke because he Felt the style of writing was so Beautiful he would be tempted into indulgent what was left was the gospel spends More time Tell ing the rather than comment ing on As the shortest it can be told in two with a dra Matic break in the Middle at the be ginning of chapter the end is the dramatic passion narrative of the death and resurrection of it took Mccowen 16 months to learn his All the attention in the show is on the the spartan set consists of three chairs and a Mcco Wen dresses simply in Slacks and a Mccowen said he is drawn to the humanity of Jesus relation ships with his apostles and the Stormy encounters against the hypocrisies of the scribes and Shari i in the Mccowen Rolls up his sleeves As he recites Jesus posters a erection instructions to go into All the world and proclaim the Good this is what the resurrection is he it should be about preaching the gospel to every Cul when he runs into trouble or is de Mccowen said he finds the gospel a source of since Ive been doing i find my self More often choosing to do to believe there is a purpose rather than that there is no he As parents and loved ones have passed he Hast Given up Many people have gone under be cause of but i do try and have tried to believe there is a purpose to their death and there is a Challenge to me to carry up photo nun instructs children in Sarajevo multiethnic modest Miracle blooms amid agony of War by David Crary associated press Sarajevo in this City of bombed out slain teachers and cynical the first roman Catholic school since the second world War represents a modest Miracle and an act of Faith in a multiethnic the dwindling Catholic minority has invested its Money and Hopes in a school open to any child with Talent and muslims make up More than a Quarter of the 593 students within the freshly painted trimmed with crucifixes and pictures of the some students Are serb Ortho Dox or and Many others have Only one Catholic Bishop Pero who Spear headed the is proud without being it int difficult to be the Best school in he Sudar said the Muslim led govern ment was sceptical when the school opened in some officials worried it would become a bastion of ethnic and religious nationalism for traditionally roman Catholic but those troubles were nothing compared to troubles with the Cath Olic parents who first didst believe our school would then were angry when there was no room for their Sudar they asked Why Are you taking muslims when they have All the other schools in town for them selves students provide an bub bling with Praise for the what religion you Are Doest matter to said Ida a baptized Catholic with a Muslim father and orthodox were a big family in this a Muslim Mima Mula said some of her Muslim friends thought she was crazy to move to the Catholic but Only because the work would be this int a nationalistic said who wants to teach Ara its just a Good the school serves children six to sudars diocese raised More than to renovate a dilapidated three Storey building that had housed a Catholic school until communists nationalized it in some Muslim leaders see us As croat Sudar in some people Are upset that we admit Muslim i am Happy we Are caught in the the spokesman for Bosnia top Muslim Clergyman praised the pro we Are glad to say that Bosnia Multi religious spirit is still functioning in said Muharem spokes Man for islamic Leader Mustafa the proof for this is the opening of the Catholic before War started in there were catholics in there Are about Sudar and they opted to invest in a school even before fixing up War damaged there Are new window new desks and a computer room where a dozen students learn graph i design Sudar were More Quali fied teaching applicants than vacant that the faculty includes former University the school also offers a history of religion teaching the Back ground of other world As Well As islam and orthodox we want to provide not Only an but a code of behaviour and Sudar we wish people had More of this kind of education As Well As learning How to the Centre for self awareness Church of religious science invites you to our sunday morning Celebration of life Viscount Gort hotel 1670 Portage for Call Tim Peterson 2547897 teaching the science of mind Winnipeg free press for Home 6977001 18005428900 440 Margrave Street at notre Dame Avenue duplicate worship services and 11 caught up into heaven televised for 11 12 noon a passion for souls radio Jsn of course Ubu an Welcome Don president of world vision Canada will be in june is there Hope for Rwanda Scott has wept with the talked with the leaders and laughed with the dont miss this Chance to hear his All Are Welcome at Portage Avenue mennonite Brethren Church 1420 Portage Avenue from pm on june there will also be a pastors bag lunch meeting at noon on june 2nd at gospel mennonite 232 Nassau Street world vision 606228 notre Dame 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