Be peaceful Be careful Be heard
To those who will protest in the Un-United States today
Love one another: It actually works, if we work at it
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 →
Calgary visit to focus on ecological debt prior to G7 meeting
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 →
Resistance to unjust power – Pentecost remarks by Bishop John H Taylor, Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles
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 →
American Gulag — AKA Where’s the Magna Carta now?
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 →
God is Good, All the Time, All the Time, God is Good
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 →
“Ask not what the climate is doing to your country, but what your country can do for the climate” – Prime Minister Mark Carney
[Ken Gray] It was a pleasure to visit the church of my childhood and later years, St. John the Divine in Victoria this past Sunday. I attended in order to co-sign a letter to Canadian Minister Mark Carney asking him to honour his previous commitments (Value(s), p. xv) to create policy which protects the environment... Continue Reading →
A tale of two kings
The two men could not be more different in character, social perspective, and behaviour. Each have their own personal flaws for sure, though one works through such challenges; the other places them at the centre of his speech, motivation, identity, and action. One is a real king, Charles the Third, by the Grace of God... Continue Reading →
“Don’t insult our intelligence” — Bernie Sanders confronts Netanyahu’s government.
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 →
A letter to Robin Hood concerning The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History
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 →
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