James B. Greenberg on COP's inability to create possibilities for change - on Substack, Nov 16, 2025 Climate denial didnโt begin with Donald Trump, and it isnโt simply the product of people who donโt understand science. It is older, more organized, and far more intentional than that. Long before climate change became a partisan battlefield,... Continue Reading →
The Way I see Street Photography
On my daily troll through online news, sports, and entertainment items I often check out Fstoppers.com, an excellent source for photographers of all abilities and interests. A recent blog talked about street photography and how photographers must practice care, discretion, and resilience to get good shots. For some persons appearing in public, the taking of... Continue Reading →
Anglicans at COP30
A sermon for the congregation of St. Stephen, Summerland on Sunday, November 16th, 2025, the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost by the Very Rev. Ken Gray Early in the Spring of 2002, while rector of this church I received a call from ecojustice colleagues at the Anglican General Synod in Toronto. โWould you be willing to... Continue Reading →
So, protesters, many of whom were Indigenous, broke into the UN COP30 event Tuesday evening.
A comment from Isaiah Brokenleg, (Shaneequa) Staff Officer for Racial Reconciliation at Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America Another important voice from COP30 At that same moment, I was across town at the Tapiri Indigenous Voices gathering at the Anglican Cathedral. Inside, we prayed, sang,... Continue Reading →
At the movies, with Emma Thompson
Kathie and I are working our way Emma Thompsonโs new four-part suspense series on Apple-TV, described by Wenlei Ma on THE NIGHTLY as โa great show with an unusual tone that, like Slow Horses, generously peppers wry humour between the drama and thriller elements. It keeps things moving along without ever getting bogged down in... Continue Reading →
And now, for something completely different
Just for fun, and for a break from the savage political and ecological non-fiction swirling around me right now, I have turned my hand to fiction, and to short stories in particular. Here is my first story. See what you think. Truth disguised Truth be told, sometimes distractions are the main thing. Recently graduated from... Continue Reading →
Residential school denialists are coming to Kamloops, and theyโre proud of it
TRIGGER WARNING: Abuse; Racism; Denialism Thanks to Chris Dolson for sharing this post from Wilbur Turner Frances Widdowson, Dallas Brodie, and Jim McMurtry โ all well-known figures who deny, mock, and downplay the documented atrocities of residential schools โ are advertising a OneBC event at TRU on November 12. McMurtry even bragged on X, writing... Continue Reading →
The elders that surround us
The Very. Rev. Ken Gray, All Saints tide 2025 -- This article first appeared in the November issue of TOPIC, the Newspaper of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster, Vancouver BC Canada As we remember saints, sinners, and all souls together through the triduum of Halloween, All Saints, and All Souls let me also honour... Continue Reading →
Meet my friend Ray
Ray Fletcher and I go back a long way, to the winter of 1983. We had both gone north to the Anglican Diocese of Yukon, Ray as a parish priest first in Atlin and later Dawson City. I arrived to join the Yukon Apostolate, an informal order of laity keen to serve the Church in... Continue Reading →
All in the family
A sermon for the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, November 9th, 2025 for the congregation of St. Stephen, Summerland by the Very Rev. Ken Gray The original title of Norman Learโs 1971 TV sitcom All in the Family was Those Were the Days which ended up as the showโs theme song. I can imagine J D... Continue Reading →