It’s a ritual common for many of us, the Fortune Cookie after Chinese dinner out. I do wonder hwoever, where is the fortune, and what is the cookie anyway. It doesn’t look like any cookie I might make or eat. Highly stylized, with a hard crackable exterior, it looks more like a shell on the... Continue Reading →
Yogas Design, Unsplash Certain English words elicit strong emotions for me. Words such as “charge” which could refer to a light brigade or the expenditure of a significant amount of money. Likewise “reboot” could refer to a mangled computer hard drive with the obligatory hour or more of AI technological struggle (yes, I am a... Continue Reading →
Tuesday July 20, 2021 In today’s Morning Prayer with the garden congregation from Canterbury Cathedral Dean Robert began with a rather long list of pressing global concerns: The fatal deluge of flooding in Western Europe; the human rights abuses presently enacted on minority populations and young male adults in Burma/Myanmar; firestorms in the United States;... Continue Reading →
What a difference five years makes. In May of 2016 I was installed as Dean and Rector of St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral in Kamloops BC, a city now recognized all over the world as the place where 215 unmarked graves were recently identified, the final resting places of children who never returned home from the... Continue Reading →
A friend recently asked me how Canadian Anglicans have responded to the challenges of reconciliation and find hope for healing, especially following the discovery of unmarked graves at the Kamloops Roman Catholic Residential School. Our own Anglican school, located a few hours drive from Kamloops in Lytton BC has its own shameful record of "missing... Continue Reading →
Take Note - Reflections on life, music, politics, retirement and more by Ken Gray 