Matthew's story of the Canaanite woman is an unusual and disturbing story in the Gospel tradition. Alongside other Gentile stories in Matthew's very Jewish Gospel, it signifies the opening of the doors on the Gentiles and their inclusion in the community of faith. The woman's language and the silence of Jesus speak powerfully to the contemporary context within Anglicanism. The liturgical language she employs teaches us how to speak in worship, while Jesus’ silence addresses our own experience of suffering and the seeming deafness of God. In the end, the narrative, for all its exegetical difficulties, is a powerful story of communion and the ultimately gracious response of God. As Anglicans we need to recover the depths of our own speech, grounded in Scripture and the Book of Common Prayer, as expressions of the grace of an inclusive God who teaches us how to speak and how to wait in faith.

This paper explores the meal scenes in Mark's gospel and examines the theme of Divine Hospitality in the Old Testament. In doing so, a connection is made between the table fellowship of Jesus and the Kingdom of God. The article concludes by reflecting upon ecclesiological practices of the Eucharist in light of the inclusivity of table fellowship. The argument is that by attending to the meal scenes in the gospel of Mark, an understanding of the Kingdom of God manifests and should shape the way the Church practices hospitality.

On Tongatapu the central place of the rising kingdom of Tonga developed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD. Marked out as a monumental area with a rock-cut water-carrying ditch, it soon developed as the site of a sequence of megalithic tombs, in parallel with the documented expansion of the maritime chiefdom. The results of investigations into these structures were achieved with minimum intervention and disturbance on the ground, since the place remains sacred and in use.

Biological classification has been successively shaped by Neoplatonism, ideas of plenitude and one-dimensional continuity (the Great Chain of Being), two-dimensional continuity (Linnaeus's map), idealized comparative morphology and development and, through phylogenetic theory, Darwinian descent with modification. Concepts of Algae have thus evolved within a succession of very different paradigms. Algae have been imperfect plants; a segment of the Great Chain; the least-developed members of vegetative form-series; and primitive forms from which plants (and even animals) can be elaborated. The idea of a single grouping of simple organisms, formalized by Bory de Saint-Vincent and others in the early nineteenth century, was developed in a phylogenetic framework by Haeckel as Protista. Most macrophytic algae, however, remained Plants until Copeland merged eukaryotic non-green algae into Protista. Arrangements of algal taxa within form-series, and recognition of Algae and Protista as taxa, are incompatible with Hennigian phylogenetic systematics (cladistics). Developing genomic perspectives threaten to undermine established concepts of organismal lineage and higher-level biological classification.