FROM THE CHURCH by Ro!d Nosterud The Church has always been the slowest in- stitution to accept social change. Clergy and laity alike have more often than not been suspicious of new ideas, new methods, and new experlences affecting culture. tn this way the Church has acted more like a “backwater” which forces a more careful look at the in- novations of its society. Now such a reactionary force Is a real virtue to a society and can be a part of the Church's role; but It should hardly be the primary characteristic of the Christian. Christ did not call us to be a “backwater”. On fhe contrary, he himself was and is the radical force in society that changes people’s lives. _ desus Christ Is a “spring of wafer’ that flows - through stagnant cultures and gives life to the ‘ dawntrodden. And God knows there are many “downtrodden” who are hurting in our midst. God knows there are still many inadequate ministries everywhere, many unjust laws still on the books. The Christian is the first to be alert to new ideas, new methods, and new experiences that may enrich his faith and his service to others. He may even be the innovator. He encourages change because he recognizes that one cannot complete this year's harvest with yesferyear’s tools. The thought of change does not threaten him because his faith is based on an ongoing relationship with the presence of God in Christ. As Matthew 25 reminds us, we continually meet Him when we meet the downtradden who arc victims of man’s inhumanity to man. Com passion compels the Christian continuafly to create his tools from the materials of his culture so that they fit the people where he finds them. ‘The Grace of God can stand a lot of change and stil be the Grace of God. A few years ago, Stephen Rose edited a series of articles entitied Who's Killing the Church. In the book he suggests that God, himself. was killing the Church because the Church’s awn rigidness falled to allow the institution to take the shape the world needs. Could this possibly be happening?.! think it does happen to individual churches? Let us pray earnestly it does not happen to our Church! | belleve God‘s kingdom — the Invisible Church — will go on, but there is no promise given that each congregatian will go on no matter what, nor even the present in- stitutional church as a whole. if remains to be seen whether the acceleration of cultural change in our age will really cause a “log |am’”’ In our institutional church. There certainly seems to be a scarcity of fresh flowing water. But may that not bean excuse fo leave the church: rather let us bring sur Church into the forefront of our community. Let us help our congregations to become instrumental in changing people’s lives. 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TORONTO (CP) — The only ballet company in Canada entitled to call itself royal, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, intends to stay small enough to be comfortably carried on a bus. That's the way the com- pany started 40 years ago and that's the way it should remain, Arnold Spohr, its artistic director for the fast 20 years, said in an in- terview. Here to promote the com- pany's anniversary tour of Central Canada, Spohr said a company of 25 dancers can pursue excellence in classical ballet and present distinctively Canadian works in the modern vein only while remaining smail enough to travel freely throughout North America and around the world, Just compleling a tour from North Carolina to Massachusetts, the company arrives here Nov. 27 via Waterloo, Guelph, Barrie, Orillia and Cobourg, Ont., and after three perform- ances in Toronto will give three in Ottawa. Then it prepares for its big 40th anniversary season in its home city, ending next April with a celebration in which all its former dancers ee, and administrative staff will gather to celebrate. The company was born in the depression of the 1910s and earned its title Hoyal at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11. tt was almost forced into oblivion 20 years ago when fire destroyed all its sets, costumes, properties and - When Spohr, a Hoyal Winnipeg dancer who was born in Rhein, Sask., and educated in Toronto, tock over the company in 1957, it was virtually to start again from scratch. The company has since then danced its way thrmugh Europe, Latin America and Australia with works as distinctive as What to Do Until the Messiah Comes and The Ecstasy of Rita Joe. Its current repertory for the tour includes works as widely divergent as the classical Les Patineurs by Sir Frederic Ashton and Rodeo by Agnes de Mille, famous for her dances in the Broadway musical Okla- homa! Spohr said it is ballets like Rita Joe, Messlah and Hodeo that Identify the Royal Winnipeg with Western Canada and that, too, have become classics, welcomed around the world. eee rkikttittkibtkitttkkibthin tick t won. [s e Rita. Hidden somewhere in the phone numbers. Find them, and if one is yours you've Pick up your tickets at the Herald office, 3212 Kalum St. : ¥ paper are two Terrace : THEATRE 3 PASSES ie ‘ rekkkkkkkbikitkiik«E. The Heratd. Friday, November 10, 1978, Page 11 No expansion wanted Hita Joe, a story of white men's callousness towards the North American Indian, is as valid in Australia and Latin America with their aboriginal peoples as it is in Canada. Spohr, who tops six feet and is unusually tall for a dancer, does little choreographic work these days. and no longer goes on the rigorous tours with the company. But he still is searching for 4720 LAKELSE AVE. new lalent for the company, particularly among younger choreographers. 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