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The two articles I just referred to in the FT are "Code Red," about cyber crime and cyber espionage, by the estimable Misha Glenny, and the other is the FT weekly lunch interview, with Rafael Grossi, the "world's nuclear mediator."

Often, I find the obits in the NYTimes the most interesting feature. Here is my latest example. What a remarkable thinker! And a Scots (by tradition) Presbyterian to boot. nytimes.com/2025/06/02/boo…

I preached a THEOlogical sermon for the new rector of St Barnabas, Greenwich CT today. My 1st sermon in more than a year. It was greeted with great enthusiasm. Here's the point: the same sermon with another audience could have flopped. It all depends on the movement of the Spirit

My sermon at St Barnabas Church for Justin Crisp's institution as rector is on the church website. I have never had a more responsive congregation. That's what a sermon can be...everyone working together in God's field, God's building (I Cor 3:9)

Watching TV news tonight--protesters vs. police in LA--I had just one thought. If only those who are trying to protect our democracy would step aside for a few months of nonviolent training--like the Civil Rights Movement. Where are the MLKs and Bayard Rustins, etc., of today?

Claudia of Mexico moves powerfully to call for nonviolent resistance. cnn.com/2025/06/09/wor…

THis is worth a very careful reading and rereading. I didn't get with it at first but the sections on 1) the Bible talking with itself and 2) the whole discussion of Jesus' uniqueness are simply breathtaking. I'll keep this. nytimes.com/2025/06/08/opi…

I truly hope to have something to say on my own eventually but for the moment I seem to be letting others say it. If you are nervous about saying anything the least bit critical of Israel in Gaza, read this by the indispensable Tom Friedman, a proud Jew: nytimes.com/2025/06/10/opi…

War. Boys and young men (and women too) thrilled and titillated by the size, shape, and power of the bombs. Bombs away! I used to say that when I threw the laundry over the upstairs railing. God help us, there is something in us that loves a bomb.

"Civilization every day commits crimes for which any individual would be imprisoned for life...You are never free of the world...to share life is to share guilt." --WW2 Pacific war novel by Richard Flanagan

Can't wait for the latest Britbox...the six (in)famous Mitford sisters! My fave is Jessica ("Decca") who exposed the funeral industry in "The American Way of Death." She lived at Virginia Seminary for a time with Virginia and Clifford Durr (q.v.) who bailed Rosa Parks out of jail

Of all the virtues with which man can endow himself surely none other is so odious as that justice which can teach itself to look down upon mercy almost as a vice! --Anthony Trollope, "Orley Farm"

I think I will read this next. For obvious reasons.

I am not planning on dying any time soon, but if I should die tomorrow, I will die so grateful that I have done what the Lord gave me to do. And thankful also that some much younger persons have responded to my flawed attempts to bear witness to the living presence of our Lord.

Mark Edmundson is one of my academic heroes and he has done it again in the 7/13 WSJ. I adored "Paradise Lost" in my youth and it's still in my memory bank. This prof has made it live on a campus (Grounds--if you know, you know) where politics makes it difficult to teach.

Awesome! Great stuff Ben Crosby ⚓️ 🦆 youtu.be/2YLwY113gns?si…

Here is a link to the article by Mark Edmundson (thanks, Phil Ziegler). You do not have to have anything to do with UVA to see how deeply this probes into the necessity of standing for something and not cravenly melting away from fear. archive.ph/34TTg

Best advice ever: If you are caught in the act, Tell it early. Tell it all. Tell it yourself. Here's looking at you, Pres. Trump.

"Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all." Thomas Hobbes Re-read Genesis 15:1-18 One of my best sermons in my OT book, "The Bloody Passageway," is on-target.

I should not be allowed access to media! I just sent a supposedly private message to Wes Hill compimenting him on his Easter book and somehow it went out to the world, complete with a wacko AI commentary (?) that proves I would never recommend AI to anyone for anything 🤪😝