Ecumenical-Interfaith
Committee
of Canadian Yearly Meeting
Abbreviated Terms of Reference
- To be a resource for Canadian Yearly Meeting and its Clerks on ecumenical
and interfaith matters.
- To provide support, where appropriate, for Canadian Yearly Meeting
representatives to other Quaker as well as ecumenical and interfaith
bodies.
- To provide information about ecumenical and interfaith activities
to all Canadian Yearly Meeting Friends.
- To facilitate a correspondence network among Friends who work ecumenically
and with other faith bodies across Canada.
- To provide information on financial costs to Canadian Yearly Meeting
of ecumenical and interfaith activities.
- To assist Nominating Committee in seeking Friends to serve Canadian
Yearly Meeting as representatives on other bodies and as occasional
delegates to special assemblies and other meetings in which Canadian
Yearly Meeting wishes to participate.
Comments on relevant written material
A Rainbow of Opportunity: Friends and the Ecumenical
Spirit - Keith
Maddock
Canadian Quaker Pamphlet Series No. 61, 2005
I enjoyed the pamphlet. The pamphlet provided for me a number of thoughts
and ideas
which resonated with my experience.
- posted by Peter Harkness Sep. 2006
Islam
from a Quaker Perspective - Anthony Manousos
Pamphlet published by Friends Bulletin and Wider Quaker Fellowship -
2003
In order to learn something about Islam, Anthony spent a month (from
November 17,
2001) following the Muslim practice of Ramadan including reading the
Qur’an. This is
a description of his experiences and the Muslim friends he made along
the way.
- posted by Peter Harkness Sep. 2006
New
God of Surprises, Gerard W. Hughes, published by Anglican Book Centre, Toronto, 1986.
This is a description of a journey inward to find the pearl of great
price (the Christ) hidden in the field (ourselves). As a
well-educated Catholic, Jesuit priest Hughes has a certain theological
explanation for many things and yet he is able to accept the validity
of one's own search for truth and one's own description and explanation
of what is found. Quakers will feel united with him when he
expresses horror at the church blessing nuclear submarines which are
designed for and capable of bringing about unbelievable destruction and
suffering. I found many other resonances between his words and my
experience.
Contributor - Peter Harkness - January 7, 2007
Links
A Religious Education Committee document on interfaith thought and work
including a list of written reference material. Ecumenical Committee
contributed to the preparation of this item in 1996.
http://www.quaker.ca/Committees/ReligiousEducation/interfaith.html
Reference Material
Sacraments: A Quaker Approach, Maurice A. Creasey, 1956
To Lima with love, Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry: A Quaker Response.
The response from the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain to
the World Council of Churches document Baptism, eucharist and ministry,
published on behalf of London Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society
of Friends (Quakers) by Quaker Home Service, London, 1987
Initiation into Christ - Ecumenical Reflections
and Common Teaching on Preparation for Baptism,
Canadian Council of Churches, Commission on Faith and Witness, 1992.
Anne Thomas wrote the Quaker perspective included in this pamphlet.
Contact
Members of the Ecumenical-Interfaith committee and others are invited
to send appropriate material for any of the sections above except the
first one which is a list of the committee’s responsibilities which
are defined by the Yearly Meeting. If anyone feels the responsibilities
should be changed, this may, of course, be discussed.
Last updated November 23, 2006
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