My own preferred Orthodoxy is Petrine Orthodoxy. This version has many elements congenial to Rome, Russia, Canterbury and Geneva ... and only a few I made up myself!

Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us. -The Case for the Psalms

Somehow this article made me think of @EricCrampton nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opini…

"Eli Just Brilliant" headline true in two ways: Eli was just brilliant. Eli Just was brilliant.

The Logic Theorist was a computer program built by Herbert Simon, Allen Newell and Cliff Shaw. It's often called the first AI program. It proved theorems from Principia Mathematica. For one theorem it found a proof shorter and more elegant than the one in the book. That program is 70 years old this year.

I have a lot of relatives :)

In 1936 Alonzo Church tackled a question logicians had circled for decades: is there a method that can decide for any mathematical statement whether it is provable? To make the question precise he invented a tiny language where everything is a function: the lambda calculus. He used it to prove that no such method exists. Months later a student of his named Alan Turing reached the same conclusion with an imaginary machine. The two proofs were equivalent, and together they drew the line between what a computer can and cannot do. Church built half the foundation of computer science to settle a question about logic. The lambda calculus he invented is still running today, inside every functional programming language.

The Collect for Saint Barnabas The Apostle. pbs.org.uk

“Bishop Susan Hinemoa Wallace was ordained Bishop of Te Hui Amorangi ki te Waipounamu in a joyous festival Eucharist on Saturday 6 June, joined by more than 500 worshippers and wellwishers.” anglicantaonga.org.nz/news/t…

Sure, Samaritan woman Jn4 wasn't a Trinitarian Christian when she followed Jesus and he appointed her apostle to the Samaritans (you can be a Xn without understanding God as Trinity). But would she remain a Christian if, understanding God as Trinity, she denied this to be so?

Megan, I’m only as liberal as Deborah, Huldah, Mary, Phoebe, Lydia, Nympha, and Priscilla!

In what will certainly become one of the most fundamental speeches of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV told the Spanish Parliament, before receiving a 7-minute standing ovation: "The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization." "If life ceases to be recognized as a fundamental value, what future can our societies have?" he said, speaking to a gathering of politicians, many supporting abortion and euthanasia. "Can a community that casts into the shadows the unborn child, the elderly, the sick, those who suffer in silence, or those who depend entirely on the care of others be called fully just?" "Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence. When this certainty is obscured, the most vulnerable are the first victims, and the law loses its deepest meaning: to serve and protect every person." "For this reason, the moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to accompany, protect and love those lives that are most fragile," he said, repeating what John Paul II emphasized decades ago. Starting his speech he commented that Church's is the "message offered in the spirit of service to the human person." "When the Church addresses anything concerning public life, she does so while respecting the proper mission of institutions and the legitimate responsibility of those who have received the mandate to legislate," Pope Leo said, emphasizing "the Church offers a reflection born of the desire to serve the common good." He hailed Spain as country that "has known how to view the human being as more than just a cog in the social, economic or political order. It has recognized the human being as a creature open to truth, endowed with freedom, and driven by a thirst for eternity that no temporal reality can quench -- in a word, as someone whose dignity takes precedence over all utility and to whose service legislative action is subject." He said it was Catholic orders that "helped to shape a legal and moral consciousness capable of remembering that authority always entails responsibility and that every human being must be recognized as a subject of rights and duties." "That aspiration continues to resonate today: that dignity, justice and the common good should be the measure of social relations, both at the national and international levels." Referring multiple times to his "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical, he said: "When the common good ceases to be a shared horizon, public action runs the risk of fragmenting into partial interests, incapable of safeguarding what belongs to all." "In this context, the family — the primary human reality and the natural foundation of the community — takes on particular importance," Pope Leo said. "The family will always be the first school of humanity, where one learns, before anywhere else, the basic grammar of living together: welcoming life, caring for others, forgiving, serving and belonging." "Human life can never be treated as a commodity," the pope said. "A law does not attain its true greatness merely by having been formally enacted; it attains it when, in addition to being valid in form, it can stand before the dignity of the person and pass that test without shame." "I invite you, then, to lift your gaze to the world around you, not to turn away from reality, but to remember that every decision by public authorities affects real people, especially those who have less power to make their voices heard." "The expanse of one’s vision consists precisely in looking more deeply at what is at stake in every public decision. This is why, alongside technical solutions and legal reforms, a moral renewal is also needed." Video: Vatican Media (fragment of speech follows)

What is it about "England" "playing New Zealand" (whether home or away) and "incident in a night club"???

I knew Colin & enjoyed conversations with him immensely but on this matter, he overlooks the unity of the church past and present, and on that score, bishops are grounded into the formative decades of the church's foundation, & they are integral to maintenance of gospel doctrine

For the first time in history, four different bowlers have taken five-fors in the same Lord's Test. #ENGvNZ

Flexible theology with fizz …

Catholic King Felipe VI of Spain, welcoming the pope on behalf of The Queen and their daughters: Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía, the Government and "the entire Spanish people," said that "For all Spanish speakers, it is a privilege that you understand and regularly use the language we share, thanks to your years of missionary life and pastoral work in Peru, alongside the Order of Saint Augustine. And we feel fortunate that everything that Latin America represents is also very close to your hearts." "You are arriving in a country where part of your roots lie," the king said. "You are welcomed by a people you know well: vibrant and spirited, supportive and tolerant; also creative and cosmopolitan." "The Catholic faith is deeply rooted in our country, and without it -- as you well know -- our history and culture would be incomprehensible," the king said, invoking Spain's giants of faith St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. "In these times, we run the risk of forgetting what truly matters, of slipping into the mistaken belief that -- with many of our points of reference swept away by the tide of current events -- anything goes, everything is permissible, negotiable, and justifiable. And that is not the case," the king said. "Human dignity, human rights, democratic values, and international law must remain our prime numbers... Because in them -- in their myriad combinations -- lies the arithmetic of freedom, equality, and justice; the kind that adds and multiplies, not the kind that subtracts and divides."

Yesterday it was an absolute privilege to be present for the ordination of Susan Wallace as bishop in the church of God and installation as Te Pihopa o Te Hui Amorangi ki Te Waipounamu