All you Prayer C peeps...

Happy Martinmas. Thank you for laying down your arms, sharing with the poor, and refusing to use state power for religious ends. abmcg.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-sa...

I'm developing the theory that public "therapy" dogs are meant to deal with the trauma created by the "WORKING DOG DO NOT PET" thing.

After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

Bully. Thug. Liar. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The private bribe being paid for defense forces, just like Trump’s treatment of the White House as private property, reveal the basic agenda for this regime - to align political power completely and directly with ownership of capital.

The US armed forces are being paid for by a wealthy individual rather than the state. What could go wrong?

Further to this it’s now become clear that the Gafcon primates’ meeting was held in…Sydney.

Why the Global South isn’t leaving the Anglican communion : abmcg.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-g...

We stand together — elected officials, business leaders, the faith community, law enforcement, educators, and more — in our opposition to the abuses of power by Donald Trump's administration. We're telling this unwarranted and unconstitutional occupation to stay out of Chicago.

One of the most effective things you can do to damage Christianity is to stand before the world, with a crucifix around your neck, and lie.

Bishop Sarah Mullally has been named the next Archbishop of Canterbury. What gifts does she bring to the role? What does this mean for the Church of England and the Anglican Communion? Helen King ( @helenking.bsky.social ) & Andrew McGowan ( @praxeas.bsky.social ) share their thoughts ⚓

The sulky GAFCON response to Mullally for Cantuar reeks of grumpy old white men not getting their way. Those lurking with the check books know it will weaken their attempts to stop other national churches ordaining women as priest and bishop. Their coalition depends on…1/

Reminder:

Trump's “peace” plan shows Netanyahu has outmanoeuvred yet another American president www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Anyone else been put in Facebook jail recently? I remain suspended for no apparent reason.

Slip of the tongue led to the Trump version of Morning Prayer, Suffrages A: “Let not the greedy, O Lord, be forgotten…”

This Ryder Cup fiasco is a foretaste of a generation of young men whose have been told that Charlie Kirk’s views and Donald Trump’s integrity provide an acceptable example. This is going to get much worse.

Note that these deployments, and the increasingly-exaggerated descriptions of cities as war zones, are the prelude to declaring (and creating, if needed), circumstances where (e.g.) free elections could not be held.

On Luke's Gospel and Kirk, among other things: substack.com/profile/2099...

I wake to the near-tragedy of a Geelong loss in the AFL Grand Final and here is Nick Hornsby in @nytimes.com reviewing (very nicely) Helen Garner’s “The Season” and telling me, the reader, that Australian footy is a game “in which you almost certainly have no interest.” The irony.

Ed Luce's FT column this morning is pure brilliance.

“And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted.”

Every major outlet bent the knee today, giving wall-to-wall coverage to Kirk's funeral like it was state decree. This is how propaganda works: normalize the fascist, erase the truth. Don't let them gaslight you. Find independent journalism and fight back.

Last year, prominent conservatives accused Charlie Kirk of antisemitism. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/u...

Simply assault.

"We want to change the perception of journalists away from the elitist East Coast Democrat of yesteryear to the rabid logical fallacy machine of tomorrow. And at the Times, that dream isn’t too far in the future."

Lectionary for Proper 20: Why praise “dishonesty”? The steward is not pilfering, like some modern “manager” fudging expenses or stealing stationery. Would ancient readers have thought the owner was more hard-done-by in this transaction than the debtors were by the whole system? 1/4

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

I'm disturbed by anyone celebrating Kirk's death, but I am flabbergasted at anyone calling him a hero. He was a vile man, who like all of is needed mercy and forgiveness, but didn't seem to understand how much.

"War is peace" etc.

So does this seem like a sound foundation for deciding to address drug trafficking with deadly force rather than the law? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

The Canterbury election thing may be a mess, but the Archbishop of Canterbury is not a quasi-pope, and the Communion functions perfectly well without one. Pray for your diocesan bishop first anyway, not Cantuar.

The designation by the Australian Anglican Church of the Sunday before November 11th as "Defence Sunday" is as bad, in a different way, as the USA's gradual conversion of the commemoration of the armistice to "Veteran's Day" with of course the additional twist now of... 1/3

A great victory for the fundamental freedom to let children die...

So @nytimes says “Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics.” “Their” tactics? Seriously?

Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.

Lizzy Goodman in @nytimes re Oasis: "It was possible to say you wanted to be bigger than the Beatles, & then literally try to do that? [T]o announce that you wanted to be the biggest rock star in the world, as Liam did, & then actually become one of the biggest rock stars in the world?" 1/2

Mark Cuban getting ratiod by a complete rando

I think we all know deep down that a lot of US mainliners really just want a weekly community choral get-together - but I wonder what proportion it is really is?

Pay to play clearly on the table. Corruption openly mooted.

Cardinal Pizzaballa after his visit to Gaza: “Humanitarian aid is not only necessary — it is a matter of life and death. Refusing it is not a delay, but a sentence. Every hour without food, water, medicine and shelter causes deep harm….It is morally unacceptable and unjustifiable.” ⚓️

Bret Stephens saying the Gaza campaign isn’t genocidal because it could be more genocidal is like saying Trump isn’t a corrupt autocrat because he could be worse.

Chronic Venal Insufficiency sounds about right.

I’m flabbergasted rhay the Australian government would follow Trump’s lead as a means to oppose antisemitism. That comparison would raise the suspicion that these aren’t measures for combating antisemitism at all, but for controlling discourse about Gaza. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

The Melbourne synagogue attack is absolutely vile.