How long, O LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? / how long shall thy wrath burn like fire? Psalm 89.45 (1962 Book of Common Prayer, page 446)

Contrary to some claims, the three gifts were not seen by patristic authors as representing Jesus' identity as "King, and God, and Sacrifice," as "We Three Kings" puts it. The problem lies in the confusion in later theology about sacrifice as about violence and death. 1/4

Be of good cheer. All is in order.

The actually offensive thing should be that Trump took his oath on a Bible.

So none of you told me they were 'sacrificing' life-size Pop-Tart mascots at that bowl game. I feel a bit slighted.

I didn't want to write this piece on Christmas stealing from pagan festivals because I have always thought that was a myth. BUT in researching it I realized something interesting 1/6 www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... featuring: @praxeas.bsky.social @zafulotus.bsky.social

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

Basically pathetic, of course, but if they were to accept the logical corollary that guns are an addiction crisis for the USA, I'd accept it

A new 3-year JRF in Theology and Religion at Oxford, based at Trinity College. Applications due 21 January! www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Anti-Semitism is utterly vile and must be opposed unequivocally.

Initial 'D'(ixim[us]) depicting Dunstan pinching the devil's nose with a pair of tongs. Ouch! BL Harley 315; Canterbury Passionale; 12th century; England, S. E. (Canterbury); f.15v

We don't have to guess how an at-will public employment system will be used under Trump, because we have a de facto at-will system already in place. Under that system, here are some of the reasons you can be fired from the federal government: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...

Currently grumpy that the RCL and even the 1979 BCP lectionary include Matt 1:25 in Advent IV Gospel (noting that original Roman lectionary does not). Prior to 3 yr lectionaries, Advent IV was John the Baptist.

Now that Trump has been awarded the FIFA War is Peace Prize, we expect the FIFA Ignorance is Strength prize to be hotly contested by the members of the Texas and Oklahoma legislatures bullying their universities.

While the classics types don't like comparisons with Nero, Caligula, or Elagabalus, I must say that this guy is a big help for understanding the motivation behind "Damnatio Memoriae."

I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'd be disturbed if recent statements from the administration about Somali and Afghan people led to our making generalizations about the behavior of people from particular ethnic backgrounds. In fact, not every second-generation German migrant is a kleptocrat or a fascist.

Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

You know who I think of when I read “not a net asset to the United States,” “undermine domestic tranquillity” and “non-compatible with Western Civilization”?

If Joe Biden had claimed that he redesigned the hulls of Coast Guard cutters, we'd be way over in 25th amendment territory. With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.

As clear as day - the attacks on public broadcasters are not about bias they are about the truth.

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...