Peter wonders if "the film functions as a parable of life in the 1990s? With corporate downsizing and restructuring so much a part of life" even in the church.
Report of the Vision 2019 Task Force, chaired by the Very Rev. Peter Elliott "For consuderation at General Synod 2010".
"As the General Synod gathers once again, we will consider a new strategic plan -- Vision 2019 -- that invites the Holy Spirit to shape the life of our church more and more deeply in in paths of discipleship and mission. Vision 2019 takes three years of listening, prayer, consultation, writing, and waiting on God's Spirit and gives them back to the church as a trajectory for our national ministries under the auspices of the General Synod. Vision 2019 is more, though, than simply a vision for the work of General Synod. It challenges the whole church to receive the Anglican Communion's Marks of Mission as the Spirit's invitation to uinderstand ourselves as called into God's mission through our commitment to Jesus and the life of his church". -- Intro., p. 4.
Contents divided into three main parts: Part One: An Invitation to the Whole Church -- Part Two: A Plan for General Synod -- Appendices.
Contents: [Prefatory letter] dated March 2010 / Fred [Hiltz], Archbishop and Primate, The Anglican Church of Canada -- Part One -- Introduction -- The Five Marks of Mission -- Pray for the Land, Live in the Place: A Theological Framework for the Marks of Mission / [Michael Thompson] -- Part Two -- Vision 2019: The Process So Far -- Priorities for the Church: Living into God's Mission -- Summary: Priorities for the Church Living into God's Mission -- Practices for the Church : Ready for God's Mission -- Summary: Practices for the Church Ready for God's Mission -- Mission: Goes Out From God -- List of Appendices.
Contents of Appendices: A: Preliminary Timeline for Vision 2019 Priorities and Practices -- B: Vision 2019 and the History of General Synod Planning -- C: Quantitative Analysis Report -- D: Vision 2019 Analysis of Submissions by Marleen Morris and Associates, Nov. 2009 -- E: Stakeholders List -- F: Excerpts from the d'Youville Report (National Gathering on Theological Education), Jan. 2010 -- G: Summary of the Governance Working Group Report to the Council of General Synod, Nov. 2009 -- H: Tending the Flames, report of the Youth Initiatives Working Group, Sept. 2009.
Electronic document downloaded from General Synod 2010 section of the Anglican Church of Canada General Synod web site: http://www.anglican.ca/gs2010/wp-content/uploads/019-GS2010-Vision-2019-Report-and-Appendices.pdf
"Once your eyes have been opened to issues of race, class and gender, you see them everywhere, from the street to the screen. Through this lockdown, many of us are spending our evenings at home watching films or series on streaming services. Many of these deal overtly or subtly with issues of race, gender and class, and can prompt us to a deeper exploration of our assumptions in a world dominated by white men. Here is a brief selection of some I've found especially noteworthy". Author looks at four shows: Lupin (Netflix), Funny Boy (CBC Gem), Bridgerton (Netflix) and The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song (PBS). "Over the course of my life and ministry I have had my eyes opened again and again and I'm aware that I much more learning -- and unlearning -- to do. I am buoyed with the hope that as I -- and we -- become more aware of the dehumanizing of people because of their race, gender, class or sexual orientation, there will emerge a more robust embracing of the question in the baptismal covenant: 'Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being ?' My prayer is that my song -- and our song -- will truly become, 'We will, with God's help'."
Author is "adjunct faculty at Vancouver School of Theology and leadership coach in private practice; from 1994 to 2019, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver".
"A review of 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood', the Tom Hanks movie about the Rev. Fred Rogers. https://bit.ly/2V4hWMH".
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"In her film about children’s TV star the Rev. Fred (“Mister”) Rogers, an ordained Presbyterian minister, gifted director Marielle Heller chooses to focus not on the children for whom Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was made, but on a grown-up, journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), a man who carries the scars of an unhappy childhood into his adult life. Lloyd Vogel, a character loosely based on acclaimed journalist Tom Junod, is writing, as Junod did in 1998, a profile of Rogers for Esquire magazine. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood translates the ministry of Rogers from children’s TV into the adult world of violence and dysfunction". "Keeping silence to remember those who loved us into being, asking to be prayed for, and talking about our feelings: somehow this film transforms those thoughts and sentiments from the banal to the sublime. Throughout the film, Tom Hanks strikes just the right tone, never stooping to an impersonation of Rogers but offering instead a loving portrait of a person through whom the grace of God shines. For in Fred Rogers we don’t just have a nice guy—here is someone whose life has been transformed by the love of God in Jesus Christ. Because of that transformation, Rogers is able to put into practice the second of the Great Commandments, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” If each person who understands themselves as a follower of Jesus could embrace this even a fraction of the way Rogers did, it would indeed be a beautiful day in our neighbourhoods.