A sermon for the congregation of St. Anselm, UBC, VancouverTrinity Sunday, June 15, 2025The Very Rev. Ken Gray I am so grateful to be with you this morning in response to the kind invitation of your rector, the Rev. Alecia Greenfield who has now launched into a short vacation. While I am not sure of... Continue Reading →
Be peaceful Be careful Be heard
Re post from Holy Incongruence with thanks to Connie Foss Moore THE MOMENT WE HAVE FEARED HAS ARRIVED: Donald Trump is set to deploy ICE tactical units to five Democrat-run cities amid the protests in Los Angeles as Gavin Newsom blamed his administration for inciting the California chaos. The military-style units are set to storm... Continue Reading →
Image by Miguel Angel Chong - Own work, CC BY 4.0, Reposted article by Christl Dabu via CTV NewsUpdated: June 11, 2025 at 11:11AM EDT A Peruvian cardinal who worked closely with Pope Leo XIV for years will be stopping in Calgary to support peaceful demonstrators as world leaders gather next week for the G7... Continue Reading →
The photo shows CLUE: Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice leaders at a march earlier this year.] Please find below the remarks Bishop Taylor prepared for a prayer vigil last Sunday night at Los Angeles City Hall that was canceled because of security concerns. His remarks are in response to the unwelcome, uninvited, and... Continue Reading →
Re-posted from CHARLIE ANGUS / THE RESISTANCE - JUN 4 "[A primary feature of the gulag or concentration camp is that]…the human masses sealed off in them are treated as if they no longer existed, as if what happened to them were no longer of interest to anybody, as if they were already dead and... Continue Reading →
A sermon from Su McLeod, Director of supporter relations, Alongside Hope (formerly the Canadian Anglican Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund) on Sunday June 1, 2025 at St. John the Divine Anglican Church, Victoria BC [Ken Gray] OUR UNPLANNED VISIT to my childhood church, St. John’s Iin Victoria brought to life so many fond memories... Continue Reading →
With thanks to Bill Sundhu and Avi Lewis who wrote the following message. [Avi Lewis] My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal). When he was Canada’s ambassador to the... Continue Reading →
No, Mr. Netanyahu, it is neither anti-Semitic nor pro-Hamas to report that in just over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and injured 77,000, 70% of whom are women and children. It's not anti-Semitic to report that your attacks have destroyed 221k homes in Gaza, leaving one million people homeless, or nearly... Continue Reading →
Dear Robin Hood, It has been some time since we last communicated. Come to think of it, we may never have exchanged greetings, until now. Greetings from the modern era, one marked by many of the same malevolence typical of your own generation — greedy tyrants, weak-spined sycophants, and no shortage of narcissistic sociopaths. We... Continue Reading →
Take Note - Reflections on life, music, politics, retirement and more by Ken Gray 