AUSTRALIAN POLICY TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE UNDER QUESTION  This blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news 2 Samuel 5:22-6:11 22 Once again the Philistines came up, and were spread out in the valley of Rephaim. 23When David inquired of the Lord, he said, ‘You shall not go […]

REV. JOHN STOTT, COMMITTED  EVANGELICAL SCHOLAR, DIES his blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news 2 Samuel 5:1-12 5Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and said, ‘Look, we are your bone and flesh. 2For some time, while Saul was king over […]

MASS MURDER SUSPECT HADZIC DEMANDS HIS RIGHTS AT HAGUE This blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news 2 Samuel 4:1-12 4When Saul’s son Ishbaal heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed. 2Saul’s son had two captains of raiding […]

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME READY TO DELIVER IN AFRICA This blog provides a meditation on the daily readings of the Episcopal Church along with a headline from world news 2 Samuel 3.22-39 22 Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David […]

NORWAY MOURNS Readers will know that this blog is opposed to all violence, especially religious violence; and all fundamentalisms, especially religious fundamentalism. Norway’s mass murderer describes himself as Christian and Conservative, although he seems to have taken very little from either of these traditions but nourished himself on the fantasies of those who think Christian […]

PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE OF NORWAY  May the Eternal Love and Peace be with the wounded and grieving people of Norway. God, who sets before us good and evil, life and death, help us so to discern the beginnings of evil in ourselves and others, that we may prevent its growth and sow the seeds […]

FAMINE IS MADE OFFICIAL  This blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news 1 Samuel 31:1-13 31Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and many fell on Mount Gilboa. 2The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines […]

ALLEGED USA RENDITION CENTRE AT SOMALIAN AIRPORT This blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal adily readings along with a a headline from world news 1 Samuel 28:3-20 3 Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. Saul had expelled the mediums and the […]

MALAWI PROTESTERS STAND FIRM IN FACE OF VIOLENCE This blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news T1 Samuel 25:23-44 23 When Abigail saw David, she hurried and alighted from the donkey, and fell before David on her face, bowing to the ground. 24She fell at his […]

GAZA SHIP “A PARABLE OF PEACE” THREATENED BY ISRAEL This blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily radings along with a headline from world news 1 Samuel 25.1-22 25Now Samuel died; and all Israel assembled and mourned for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David got up and went down […]