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Category Archives: War
An Address at a Brief Service Honouring Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Delivered at Souda Bay Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, Souda, Crete, GreeceSeptember 16, 2022, 10:00 am We are gathered here on hallowed ground – ground that is holy not because of consecratory prayers made by a vicar or chaplain, or because … Continue reading
We Begin With Prayer for Peace
A Sermon Preached on February 27, 2022The Sunday Next to Lentwith special readings and prayers for peaceat the Anglican Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Cretein the Diocese in Europe, Church of England The readings used were Isaiah 9.1-6, … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian approaches to war, Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine
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Two Minutes of Silence
A Sermon Preached Online on Remembrance Sunday, November 8, 2020With the People of The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever … Continue reading
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Tagged Remembrance Day, Remembrance Day 2020, Remembrance Sunday, Remembrance Sunday 2020, Two Minutes Silence
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Resources for Worship on Remembrance Sunday 2020
UPDATE November 7, 2020 Since this was written and posted four days ago the Greek government has imposed a new lockdown, in the effort to “short circuit” the increasing infections of Covid-19. Therefore, we will not be meeting in person … Continue reading
Notes on the Canadians Buried at Suda Bay Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery
Among the over 1700 graves at the Suda Bay Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery there are five Canadians. All five were airmen. While the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Army functioned as discrete units in operations during the Second World … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Issues, Crete, Greece, War
Tagged Canada, Canadians Killed in WW II, Crete, Greece, Souda Bay War Cemetery, Suda Bay War Cemetery
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Lessons from the Great War: The Will to Fight
This is my fourth post on Lessons from the Great War. The first raised four questions. The second addressed one of the questions – why did the war end? The answer was that the Allies on the Western Front had … Continue reading
Christian Fascism in the USA: Chris Hedges and Authentic Christianity
The good does draw to the good. – Chris Hedges Chris Hedges is an award-winning American journalist who this past January gave the John Albert Hall lecture at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The organizers underestimated … Continue reading
The Territorial Expansion of Modern Greece
I recently finished A Concise History of Greece, Third Edition by Richard Clogg (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Clogg is a now a retired professor of modern Greek history, but previously lectured in London and Oxford. The book is just … Continue reading
Posted in Crete, Greece, War
Tagged A Concise History of Greece, Greece, Richard Clogg, Territorial Expansion of Modern Greece
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Lessons from the Great War: The End
In my initial post on the Great War I asked four questions. The first of them was about the reasons for the war, and the second was about why the belligerants persisted in the war at such great cost rather … Continue reading
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Tagged Armistace, The End of the Great War, The End of World War I, The Great War, The Hundred Days
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The Island Parson 