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 →
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 →
[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 →
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 →
CHARLIE ANGUS / THE RESISTANCE — MAY 18, 2025 [Former MP Charlie Angus has now closed his Ottawa office following from the Canadian House of Commons for 21 years. His advocacy continues however, notably through his Substack blog: The Resistance.] [Charlie Angus] "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a... Continue Reading →
[Ken Gray writes] We don’t hear much about Panama these days given other media priorities. During a meeting of Anglicans including one Anglican Archbishop I was concerned to learn of mass protests in Panama, three in particular, that will influence the quality of life and exercise of freedom going forward. The cruelty of the Trump... Continue Reading →
