A Message of Solidarity and ResistanceCHARLIE ANGUS / THE RESISTANCE - JUN 9, 2025 [Ken Gray] Charlie Angus, Robert Reich, David Frum, Bob Woodward, Mark Milley all agree. Trump’s creation of violence and the imposition of the national guard and marine corps personnel in California is a test case for using military action against American... Continue Reading →
[Ken Gray] Our extended visit to Victoria continues to serve up delightful surprises, none more exciting than a reunion with Aboriginal Neighbours friends. While never a member of the organization myself, our ministries intersected especially during my time as rector (priest) of the Church of the Advent in Colwood from 2005-2016. A summary of their... 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 →
[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 →
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 →
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 →
So many words come to mind when I think of Trump’s acceptance of a luxury jet from Qatar. The best is disgusting. The images in today’s gallery below suggest others. Feel free to add your own in the comments. Frankly speaking, in so many ways, there are no adequate words. Let’s enjoy some music instead.... 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 →
How a calculated campaign of cuts, tariffs, and institutional erosion is dismantling the American future—one budget line at a time. Re-post from James B. Greenberg May 20, 2025 You can kill a country without firing a shot. All it takes is dismantling the systems that make collective life possible—education, science, public health, infrastructure—and calling it... Continue Reading →
Take Note - Reflections on life, music, politics, retirement and more by Ken Gray 