A sermon for the congregation of St. Stephen, SummerlandSunday, November 15th, 2026 - Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost|The Very Rev. Ken Gray The phrase: “Here comes the judge” was originally created and performed by Black vaudeville comedian Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham (1904-1981) in his courtroom sketch routines. The words form part of a humour sketch. Today’s application... Continue Reading →
Analysis from Tzeporah Berman Prime Minister Mark Carney has just been listed by Newsweek as second in their list “Revenge of the Climate Heretics: The 50 Leading Eco-Policy Dissenters”. Right after Bill Gates and before Trump. And yesterday Cansda received the “fossil of the day” at #cop31. Oh Canada! how far we have fallen. And... Continue Reading →
[Ken Gray] One of the highlights of my time as a music student at London's Royal College of Music was singing in Britten's War Requiem conducted by David Wilcocks in the spring of 1979. There are simply no words to describe the experience, something I recall as the 50th anniversary of the work's first performance... Continue Reading →
Rob Weinert-Kendt November 6, 2026 in America: The Jesuit Review “Apperceptive mass” is a fancy psychological term for the way our prior experience colors our perceptions. I first heard it back in film school as a useful critical concept to explain our evolving relationship with movie stars: the way a Tom Cruise or a Denzel... Continue Reading →
Grannie Kathie and I are back with Jack and his young parents in Nelson for a few days. When we last visited in person Jack was just five days old. Now at nine weeks he is bigger, longer, stronger, wide-eyed, physically reflexive, and, mostly, lots of fun. I say “mostly” as parents know that babies... Continue Reading →
In Chicago several years ago I dearly wanted to visit the Griffin Museum of Science and Technology especially to view the U-505 exhibition. Sadly, time and circumstance did allow for a visit, but one day . . . it’s still on my bucket list. You would never get me down in one, but I remain... Continue Reading →
I don't know about you, but I think we all need to listen to our “happy song” even when we are not happy. It could lighten our day. My own happy song, “Gentle on my mind” performed by Molly Tuttle is my goto music. Filmed at the Augusta Heritage Center's Bluegrass Week the center of... Continue Reading →
After Father Michael Lapsley was exiled by the South African Government in 1976, he joined the African National Congress (ANC) and became one of their chaplains. Whilst living in Zimbabwe he discovered he was on the South African Government hit list. In April 1990 he received a letter bomb in the post. As a result... Continue Reading →
Trump Makes His Chief Bigot His Chief of Staff - Not good news Reposted from Robert Reich on Substack Friends, Anyone wondering how Trump will respond to the biggest repudiation a modern U.S. president has ever received from American voters need wonder no longer. Today, Trump announced that Stephen Miller would become his chief of... Continue Reading →
As winter approaches, Palestinians in Gaza are desperately trying to prepare their tents and damaged homes while food cuts by the World Food Programme are exacerbating rising levels of hunger. Al-Abd Abu Beid prepares a meal of lentils from food rations distributed by the World Food Programme, one day after the UN agency announced it... Continue Reading →
