Bibliographic record
Abstract
Sisters and brothers in Christ, it is an honor and a privilege to speak to you under the rubric of a council of churches, as General Secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches. I cannot officially welcome you to Montreal, since the Canadian Council of Churches is based in Toronto, but it is always a pleasure to welcome American colleagues to Canada as a reminder to us all that there is much life and energy, as well as ecumenism north of the 49th parallel! The place to begin my presentation on the theme of Mission: Ecumenism in the Midst of Pluralism is to say that it is a good thing we Christians are people of paradox, living in and with the truth that for us Jesus Christ is both fully human and fully divine. The reality of ecumenism in the world in this time and place is very much one of paradox, so much of what I have to say will reflect that, whether I make those connections overtly or leave them to your prayerful reflection. We begin with a story from one of the most famous of all Canadian authors, Lucy Maud Montgomery, a story from one of the later books in her worldfamous series based on the character of Anne of Green Gables. I underline the fact that Montgomery is Canadian for the sake of our American sisters and brothers. As Canadians we are very aware of all that happens in the United States, and we think it would be great if Americans knew as much about us as we do about them. The Anne of Green Gables books depict life in Prince Edward Island around the turn of and the early years of the twentieth century, years very close, in fact, to 1910. The story in question points out how far we have come in ecumenism. It is told in a very matter-of-fact way, making its point dramatically by the fact that it is not dramatic. In the story some people of a particular village in P.E.I. are gossiping about the scandalous behavior of one of their number. As a Presbyterian, the woman in question has actually dared to set foot in the Methodist church in the town--the territory of the other. Scandalous indeed! In the story there is much outrage over such behavior, yet it was only a few years later that the United Church of Canada came into being, bringing those very same Methodists and Presbyterians into organic union in a denomination that believed and believes itself to be united and uniting--a very long distance to travel in just a few years. How archaic and unecumenical that story, which must reflect a very real dynamic in that time and place and so many others, seems to us now! In so many ways we have come so far, but there are big questions and challenges before us, paradoxical ones, indeed. I continue, therefore, with three stories that point to the three themes that I believe to be critical as we think forward from 2010. These three stories indicate a tremendous interest in and understanding of the imperative of addressing pluralism from an ecumenical perspective. The first story is one of an encounter I had with an evangelical colleague. It was only the day before yesterday that a sister in Christ who calls herself a believer asked me to articulate for her my theology of interfaith dialogue and relationship. Knowing that we live as Christians in a pluralistic world and wanting to stay completely centered in her Christian faith, she was determined to think through the biblical theology of interfaith dialogue and relationship. The second story is one about youth. We get many students wanting to work with us at the Canadian Council of Churches these days. I actually had eleven in the last academic term choosing the C.C.C. as a part of their field-education courses or for credit as the practical expression of their faith and the publicsphere courses through the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Toronto. What is very noticeable is that all eleven of them want to work in areas that could be defined as social justice. In eight years as general secretary of the C. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.044 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.018 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".