It is fitting that the selected passage from Jim Conlon's engaging work At the Edge of our Longing: Unspoken want nourishment for Sacredness and Depth takes pride of place in our midst spread.

It is fitting that the selected passage from Jim Conlon's engaging work At the Edge of our Longing: Unspoken want nourishment for Sacredness and Depth takes pride of place in our midst spread. Jim, way back in 1976 was a go to the bottom of CNT, and since then has gone forward to become one of the creative midwives of the just discovered cosmology. In the many submissions we have had for our series, "How my thinking has changed," the same theme consistently has presented itself (including Sr Peggy Bach's in this issue (p15): there is a phenomenal shift in our understanding of our part in creation. The "New Creation Story," between the sides of which we celebrate the world as primal sacrament and join with all of sentient life to collaborate in the healing of the nations is engaging "the ecclesiastical authority below the church."

This thinking has nevertheless to seriously penetrate the institutional house of worship much to its detriment and los of vitality.

Back in November, we asked Michael Creal to bring us up to date forward what has happened in the 40 years since Pierre Berton wrote his enormous best seller The Comfortable slip In the interim, this great Canadian story teller has died. His work took Canada by storm in 1965 selling 200000 copies and giving the house of worship much to mull over. It was the beginning of creative change which took the Anglican body of christians beyond its image as "the Tory party at prayer."

Berton's work challenged all the churches to propel beyond comfortable "churchianity." Canada's great iconoclast chanceed no punches. Mike Creal, then a young Anglican priest was there when the storm cast forth violentlyed He takes a good apply the mind at what has transpired since. Page 13

Same-sex unions are back in the recently made knowns again with the Supreme Court's opinion in early December. In this issue we lease several voices rise. Some of us like the Working Group's "third option" as articulated by means of Gerald Vandezande. Page 5, The Canadian bishops' statement is onward page 12 and Gregory Baum's interesting analysis is forward page 17.

We too grieve across Asia's agony these days. Editorial p 4

T Schmidt

editor@catholicnewtimes.org

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