1) The Rev Sam Norton, rector at West Mersea, Essex, United Kingdom has come up with a great find. Private Eye magazine has a small bit on the Dave Walker and J. Marker Brewer SPCK/SSG story.
Ya'll know the sayin, as they say in Texas, that he who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. Not when it comes to paying yourself a fee from corporate coffers. It's a form of Texas Hold 'em. Texas Hold'em is trying to make a winning hand with your two cards and a bunch of cards belonging to all the players:
Did you catch that:
bloggers … have been checking out the US bankruptcy filings, which may explain why SSG can afford to pay the lawyers. The “disclosure of compensation of attorney for debtor” shows that for legal services rendered in connection with the bankruptcy case, SSG is to pay $75,000 to lawyer J. Mark Brewer, who also happens to be… chairman and CEO of SSG!
2) For all the latest scoop on the story and links to archives of all Dave's posts, visit this dedicated blog: SPCK/SSG: News, Notes & Info
3) A Wardman Wire Resource Page with links to archived messages that J Mark Brewer forced Dave Walker to remove from his blog.
4) A post from an unlikely source: For God’s Sake Cease and Desist: The blogger writes:
Now we’d normally say send in the lions and let them sort it out but in this case poor old Dave deserves a bit of support. The SPCK are a legitimate target chain of Christian bookshops who specialise in works of fiction about some dead people with beards. What is of interest is that they were recently taken over by the aforementioned St Stephen Trust and appear to have been driven into the ground.
The St Stephen Trust are a bunch of Texan evangelist bastards run by one J Mark Brewer who had planned to save the failing SPCK and send the Lord’s own word to the unwashed hordes of the UK. . . .
The thing you must carefully consider in Texas Hold 'em is that other players at the table are entitled to most of the cards you are playing with.
UPDATE: See: Breaking News on J Mark Brewer Texas Two Step Cease and Desist Posting
My name is Dan Porter. I have always believed in God. And I have always been a Christian, which means I have always believed, at some level of understanding, Christian assertions about Christ. But during all of my adult life—I am now 65—I have struggled with many seeds of doubt brought on by modern science, objective history, the question of why a loving God would allow so much suffering in the world and difficulties with seemingly conflicting moral precepts. 
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