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“I am black and beatiful.”
The Song of Songs. A truly joyous day as we reflected on these words together
@parishnw6
with
@bishopSarahM
presiding warmly & prayerfully &
@RosemarieMallet
’s challenging & rich sermon from personal experience about race, art & representation, 1/2
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The Holy Father on the Trussite trickledown……
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I stood in witness to the justice of God in Christ with other
#LGBTQIA
+ members of
@synod
#Synod
@churchofengland
in solidarity with siblings in
#Ghana
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Fab poster
@StMark_HT
with
@tweet_too_woo
reminding us the Church is a community worshipping God in & through Christ & it’s not just a building. Prayers from your next door neighbours
@parishnw6
as you are fed by Christ who leads us through all forms of death to resurrection.
The
@StMark_HT
choir will be singing tomorrow morning, 10:30 am, outside the building, as part of the Candlemas service. The music is not going to stop.
@tweet_too_woo
. Everyone is very welcome to come.
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1st unplanned contribution
#generalsynod
I asked that the
@CClimateAction
protestors be allowed to speak. Instead we adjourned for 10 minutes so security could remove them. Surely 2-5 minutes of them speaking would have been a better use of time & an act of Christian hospitality?
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"I'm so glad that Jesus was born in a stable. Because my soul is so much like a stable. It is poor and in unsatisfactory condition . . . Yet I believe that if Jesus can be born in a stable, maybe he can also be born in me" ~ Dorothy Day
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#beautifulstory
God already blesses those who have found love with another who takes you out of yourself, gives love, supports & challenges, even if
@churchofengland
does not yet allow us to say the word! Thanks
@carlosbks
for making me a better person & Christian
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I am really very extremely sad and deeply upset at Alan Wilson’s sudden & untimely death.
Alan was a beacon of independent light for quite some time in the
@churchofengland
College of Bishops. He was a prophet in an episcopal culture that has, for at least 20 years, been
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Paul O’Grady’s quote reveals that Liverpudlian Drag Queens are in fact the Liberation Theologians of the entertainment industry. Feel like a bit of my childhood is gone. Thanks for the laughs Paul & Lily. 😂♥️🙏🏾
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On the 3rd anniversary of
#Grenfell
fire poignant memories of the 1st anniversary service & opening of the Memorial Garden at St Clements with
@bishopSarahM
@gtomlin
@SadiqKhan
& the wonderful parishioners: May our remembrance fuel our work for justice.
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“Resource Churches” what a misnomer! “And so Jesus told them a parable: Vicar alone on housing estate parish writes to neighbouring Resource Church, with 13 full time staff, 4 being clergy, 5 times over a year to ask for help with accounts & position of treasurer. No reply…..1/2
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Extraordinary aerial photos from the emergency services of St Mark’s Hamilton Terrace. Praying for
@tweet_too_woo
her family & community as they worship tomorrow the God who in Christ rises from the dead, rises from the ashes, rises from the dust, to the vibrancy of renewed life.
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A clergy colleague and friend (who is a woman) contacted me this week in a lot of distress. She recounted a really troubling abusive encounter with a parishioner (who is a man). I have agreed to post her story of that encounter which includes her feelings about it. We both
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Really disturbing from Bishop Kevin Robertson, area bishop in Diocese of Toronto. Although he was on the drafting group for the Call on Human Dignity not even he had seen this final text. So who did write it & why was it not shared with the working group?
#LambethConference
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A moving speech from
@bishopSarahM
introducing
#LLF
group work
@dioceseoflondon
#synod
In recounting things she has been called on social media it was obvious the toll that holding the weight of her role has upon her personally. She received a standing ovation. Prayers for her.
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Absolutely delighted that this evening our PCC
@parishnw6
unanimously agreed that we would be willing to use the standalone services for the celebration of the civil marriage of same sex couples as outlined in the recent resolution passed
@synod
@churchofengland
. I hope other
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Massively sad to be approached today by an ordinand
@churchofengland
who came out gay at their theological college. On hearing the news suffragan bishop (a woman) of their sponsoring diocese gets in car to go & tell them they can no longer be supported by them. Shower of shite!😢
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I would like, as one who certainly has not & does not see eye to eye with Sarah on many matters
@dioceseoflondon
, add my thanks to those of many of others about
@bishopSarahM
leadership of the LLF process. The sacrificial way in which she has devoted herself to this arduous task
Powerful words from
@BishopSarah
in her closing speech this afternoon at the end of the
#Synod
#LLF
debate
I think it was the most memorable and moving speech I have heard from a bishop in years.
I remain grateful to her for all that she has done in leading us through the
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Really devastated by the news of the fire at St Mark’s Hamilton Terrace, our neighbouring parish to
@parishnw6
Sending not just thoughts & prayers
@tweet_too_woo
- but is there anything we can, do you need to use our building etc
@bishopSarahM
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“It is about time the Archbishops spoke out once and for all about this prolonged and sustained attack on the LGBT+ community from a section of the church who are indifferent to the harm that they cause.”
@JayneOzanne
👏🏼👏🏿 Silence is complicity.
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😢 news. Andrew Hammond’s conduct of worship at Synod has been thoughtful, considered, prayerful, focussed on themes to sustain the business of the day, to inspire & feed. He has also brought in diverse people and voices to lead worship, rather than 1/3
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What is significant about this for me is that we now have a serving diocesan bishop who is publicly honest about what he feels is the direction of travel for the church in relation to
#LGBTQIA
+ lives. More bishops need to ‘come out’ & do likewise. Part of the tragedy of the 1/3
BREAKING. Bishop of Oxford calls for an end to ban on same-sex marriage in Church of England
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May Christ the biblical hermeneutical key unlock the closed doors of our discriminatory interpretations.
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This is so desperately sad. I am immensely sorry
@JayneOzanne
feels that she needs to resign. But I can also fully understand why she is doing so. For those of us whose ministries have meant much involvement with other
#LGBTQIA
+ people deeply hurt & abused
@churchofengland
the
I'm resigning from
#Synod
due to the callous disregard of the harm
@churchofengland
teaching causes
#LGBT
+ people, particularly young LGBT+ people in conservative churches.
The bishops' 'unity at any cost' agenda is highly abusive, as is being told to 'love & accept' our abusers
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“reality is that many people who oppose same sex marriage don’t just oppose it, they oppose anyone being permitted to disagree with their point of view, their theological or Biblical interpretation. This is all about power” Indeed
@charliebelllive
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“The UK loses the moral high ground if we don’t fulfil our legal obligation to pay the historic debt”
@TulipSiddiq
our MP in Commons on same page as
@Guli_FD
&
@JonathanKester
expressing our wishes in
#Westhampstead
for release & return of Nazanin
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Mock debate
@synod
for new members education is undoubtedly much more controversial than anything that will before us in the next 5 years…..
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Bishop of Liverpool
@paulbayes
in a deeply personal & passionate way saying what far too many of us, bishops, clergy & laity actually think but are often too reticent to say out of fear. “I want to see an end to LGBTQ+ people hiding who they are for 1/2
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This is totally misjudged & really quite shameful by
@JustinWelby
. What Prince Andrew has been accused of needs to be investigated & answered in a proper legal way. It does not progress the mission of
@churchofengland
that when it comes to the Royal family the Archbishop sets
In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the Platinum Jubilee, the Archbishop of Canterbury tells
@tombradby
that Prince Andrew is 'seeking to make amends' having settled his sexual abuse lawsuit and we must 'learn to be a more open and forgiving society'
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I hope that some of my clergy colleagues who have been quite critical of Katherine Birbalsingh’s so called ‘ban on prayer’ will listen to this
@TTRadioOfficial
with
@RogersHistory
to get the fuller picture first.
Katherine comes across in this, unlike her sometimes hard tweets
"We don't have prayers. The way we celebrate Christmas is very secular - we have a Christmas tree and Santa, we don't have a Nativity and we don't talk about Jesus"
Katharine Birbalsingh with
@RogersHistory
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Bishop calls housing estate
vicar this week to say Resource Church Vicar would like to ‘church plant’ into housing estate parish & church building. Housing estate Vicar says to bishop “You can tell Resource Church Vicar to go f**k themselves.” Let them with ears to hear, hear!”
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The rhetoric used by
@JillLCDuff
here was an extremely low point in the arguments that were presented today which was hyperbolic, incendiary & immensely dangerous. Personally I received death threats for retweeting the blogs of a young woman who wrote about the psychological
Jill Duff (Suff Bishop) - In doing what we are suggesting we are placing a target on the back of every one of our clergy
#synod
#generalsynod
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This was my speech at yesterday’s debate in
@churchofengland
#Synod
I called for meaningful apology embodied in resignations that take real responsibility for our safeguarding culture over which our leadership has presided.
Apology needs meaningful embodiment if it is to
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Quite an extraordinary bald statistic here on the ratio between clergy in parishes and diocesan support staff over the last 60 years.1959: 13,075 to 259 compared to in 2022: 7,210 to 6,500
@SaveTheParish
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Such a wonderfully strong image of Mary which speaks volumes to much that we are experiencing in our rainbow
@parishnw6
the
@churchofengland
& the
@dioceseoflondon
our own communities of
#Kilburn
#WestHampstead
our nation, in the States & right across the globe.
@bpedmonton
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Below is the text of an
@synod
#synod
Private Member’s Motion that I am proposing &
@SewellMartin
seconding & which we hope will be debated as an emergency matter in July. We ask for a fully independent investigation of the allegations of abuse
#soulsurvivor
The text will go 🧵1
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"Black Madonna: Omega" by Indigenous Australian artist Julie Dowling
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Been a long day in the vicarage. Thanks wonderful people out there who have been in contact with me to say keep tweeting ‘you empower us.’ Thanks also
@bishopSarahM
for agreeing to fund therapy for secondary trauma caused to me by
@HTBChurch
@nickygumbel
abuse of others. Peace!
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Very many thanks to all those who put themselves forward for
@churchofengland
@synod
elections
@dioceseoflondon
Congratulations to all who have been elected. Particular thanks to all those who voted for me. I look forward to serving the diocese & the church in this capacity.
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I am sure you have all been at it for quite some time now but asking for continuous prayers for those of us who are members of General Synod so that we can feel the love between Mary & Jesus, the love of God.
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“To deny Robert the right to express his understanding of the recommendations & report & to deny...the right to share my story, denies him of freedom of expression.”
@RatchelG
highlighting the significance of the present CDM against me. from
@churchtimes
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An Aboriginal depiction of Madonna and Child by indigenous Australian artist Richard Campbell
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“Same-sex relationships are…just like everyone else’s, a fact so obvious it cannot be denied, and therefore the sin lies in accepting anything less than equal inclusion. I appreciate reconciling my view with the Church’s traditional teaching on 1/2
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As the Vicar
@parishnw6
I am also a postmaster since we have a Post Office
@SherriffCentre
Do look us up!
Tonight’s drama on the Post Office scandal made me think of the parallels between the cultures of
@churchofengland
& Post Office & the abuse that we have meted out &
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The state of the Church!?
Last night I was contacted by a senior clergy person in a diocese
@churchofengland
to thank me for my contributions to
#Synod
safeguarding & sexuality.
But for them they said, they had had enough. They were applying now for jobs outside the church.
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@GriffithStephen
Yes. I also advised to contact diocesan safeguarding to at least log the incident & receive advice.
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👍🏾👏🏿👍🌈 Wonderful statement from
@KCLGBT
calling on
@dioceseoflondon
@bishopSarahM
to recognise Jarel Robinson-Brown’s extraordinary pastoral giftedness expresssed with many
#LGBTQIA
+ & black & brown
#BAME
people & beyond.
#BlackLivesMatter
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Some negative comments on Catherine & Jane’s public blessing by
@suffolkvicar
in
@FelixParish
reveal much more than homophobia & include: pastoral insensitivity, misogyny & an inadequate theology of both marriage & the nature of God.
The language used accuses them of
Rejoicing with Catherine Bond & Jane Pearce on this Gaudate Sunday.
Today Catherine & Jane may well have been the first same sex couple to be legally & publicly blessed
@churchofengland
. One small step for them & all
#LGBTQIA
+ faithful people. One very small step for
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On my way to day 2 of
#synod
sporting my new & really fabulous deep burgundy Harvey Howlett Hat.
It is in Harvey’s range of heady knitwear which he markets as ‘H to the power of 3’.
Trinity Wool-Stich is apparently Harvey’s drag name.
♥️ the hat
♥️ the man
♥️ Church House
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Enormous enormous, thank you to so many friends who came today to help me celebrate the 25th anniversary of my Priestly ministry, the ministry of all
God’s people & to honour and venerate Our Lady of Kilburn, as we prayed for racial, gender and social and economic justice.
Our
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Feeling really very sorry for the blessed virgin parrot who has been ended by the
#CDM
debate
@synod
@churchofengland
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Disturbing statistics. ♥️♥️♥️
@WalkerMarcus
channelling Jesus’ penchant for metaphors of nature here in response: “As sure as night follows day if you close parishes and reduce clergy, the number of people who are able to turn up to church will fall. This is a doom spiral of the
Sunday church attendance is just 80% of what it was in 2019,
@Telegraph
analysis has revealed, despite the Church of England claiming that it has “bounced back” after the pandemic. Wi
@bienbutcher
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Rejoicing with Catherine Bond & Jane Pearce on this Gaudate Sunday.
Today Catherine & Jane may well have been the first same sex couple to be legally & publicly blessed
@churchofengland
. One small step for them & all
#LGBTQIA
+ faithful people. One very small step for
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Enormous thanks to anonymous £1000 donor. Really generous. Massively grateful. This is a really significant piece of art. It speaks powerfully to many. As
@parishnw6
parishioner put it: “as a woman of colour, the statue is saying “here I am, look at me 1/2
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Many congratulations to Anderson
@TheOutsider40
on being ordained a bishop today. Here he is pictured with
@DoverBishop
& Kelly Brown Douglas
@RevDrKBD
who preached a fabulous sermon calling us all to embody the story of God’s liberating, inclusive, redemptive, eschatological
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In
@Synod
@churchofengland
there’s been a moratorium on all discussion re. sexuality, marriage or gender since 2017 to allow the LLF process time & space. English Bishops should therefore refuse to support the Lambeth Call on Human Dignity reaffirming 1.10 simply for consistency.
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The great coming out in favour of equal marriage of
@WalkerMarcus
has been the highlight of my day so far! ♥️♥️
Speech by
@WalkerMarcus
in Synod arguing that the bishops’ deliberations should be transparent. He announces his support for same-sex marriage, saying this mean ‘difficult conversations with fellow conservatives’. It’s only right, he says, that bishops should also face scrutiny.
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I am desperately personally sad that Helen-Ann
@BishopNewcastle
has decided to stand down from her position as a co-lead Bishop on LLF
@churchofengland
. She is a person who combines great intelligence, a good mind with empathic human thoughtfulness and real pastoral skill & care.
Living in Love and Faith: A statement from the Bishop of Newcastle, the Right Reverend Dr Helen-Ann Hartley
@BishopNewcastle
. Read full statement 👉
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This is Carlos here. Sadly Robert is having to postpone his anniversary Mass tomorrow. He was taken to A&E this afternoon with severe abdominal pain. He is still in quite a bit of pain. He has not been discharged. The doctors are considering changing medication.
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So given the social media posts Marcus is certainly right that apologizing for the destruction of African religions has proved controversial!! There has really been quite a lot of what I can only describe as ‘faith fury’, mostly from white men, as far as I have seen, so I wonder
This seems somewhat... controversial. I feel this would be quite a watershed moment for the Church of England.
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Since the House of Bishops announcement about the change of mode of commending &/or authorizing PLF I don’t think I have ever known quite so much despair &/or anger amongst many
#LGBTQIA
+ colleagues & so little trust in & quite frankly contempt for the HoB as a body. This arises
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I have just been round to bring flowers, which feels so tokenistic, & have spoken to
@tweet_too_woo
& David her husband. The family are completely unharmed & they thank all for prayers & support.
@dioceseoflondon
@bishopSarahM
@ArchdeaconLuke
been really supportive.
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So there’ll be a revised version of the Call on Human Dignity (as yet unknown….) & an option to vote that this Call ‘does not speak for me’ which is all good. But how did we get here? Who wrote the Call? Who agreed it? Who’s responsible? Who will resign?
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They argue that backing LLF prayers will lead to disunity. No. The disunity already exists &
#LGBTQIA
+ pay the price for it, some with their lives. The small shift asks non-affirming colleagues to share the sacrifice. But apparently the sacrifice is too much……But very good 1/2
Leaders of 11 C of E organisations have written to the College of Bishops, arguing that it is “unlawful, unconstitutional, and illegitimate” for the Bishops to commend blessings for same-sex couples
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Love this image of three black women as the Magi by Maya Telford. We have many more than 3 here
@parishnw6
!
Thanks to Shawn Marie for finding.
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Here
@Guli_FD
speaking from her body, her history, her heart, her faith as much as head & reason. She is a powerful & positive force
@churchofengland
as a whole in her support of common decency & humanity, following the example of Christ.
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“The best palliative care in the world cannot prevent hugely painful deaths.”
That’s what is at the heart of
@MattHancock
’s argument in favour of assisted dying. Having worked as a chaplain in a palliative care unit I can say that his judgment is completely right. As a hospice
For 50-years we've had a legal choice over who to love, for a decade we've had a legal choice over who we can marry.
The time has come for Parliament to vote on changing the law to allow assisted dying, to help prevent terminally ill people from suffering very painful deaths.
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Totally devastated this evening to hear of Fr Terry Murray’s death today. Terry was the local Catholic Parish Priest
@theoblates
@RCWestminster
churches of The Sacred Heart & the Immaculate Heart of Mary
#Kilburn
. I only had lunch with him yesterday to plan for Christian Unity
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Really admire the formation of
@InclusiveEvos
& the content of this letter. My own journey of faith (& sexuality) has brought me to a more modern, ‘liberal’ Catholic expression of faith. But as one formed in the riches of a tradition that emphasises the key authority of
New Post: an Open Letter from Inclusive Evangelicals on what we hope for at General Synod and going forward. Signed by over 600 Anglican Inclusive Evangelicals.
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So here is Paula Vennells a priest of the
@churchofengland
@diostalbans
knowingly misleading a parliamentary select committee (?) with what are so evidently evasive, technically pernickety, self- serving, managerial responses.
It was after this that the former Post Office CEO
Bates v Post Office: public interest TV at its best.
Prompted a dig into the parliamentary archives. Here’s former Post Office chief Paula Vennells in 2015 saying there was “no evidence” of miscarriages of justice.
Surely false - and knowingly.
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Thanks
@BishopWorcester
&
@BishopofDudley
for ‘coming out’ for equal marriage & the full affirmation of
#LGBTQIA
+ people. Excellent that as bishops they have chosen to be publicly & personally honest & vulnerable as we continue
#LLF
conversations. More bishops need to do the same
The Bishop of Dudley and I have written to all licensed clergy in the Diocese of Worcester as the ‘Living in Love and Faith’ process draws towards its conclusion.
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I am in the knitting, rather than the naughty, corner. Mind you there are no corners in this rotunda of a room. 😂
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Happy it was confirmed yesterday that in
@dioceseoflondon
somebody in a same sex civil marriage can be licensed as a Lay Minister (LLM) God is calling many in such loving relationships to this & ordination too & sad to have to inform that the latter can’t be explored at present.
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Since we kept Candlemas on Sunday we have been back in green for the midweek Masses. It has been lovely to wear this fabulous chasuble which the wonderful Jacquie Binns made for me just after my ordination as a priest.
My parents gave me £500 at that time as a present & I
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Planting need to end now!! Thanks
@fluff35
for asking me write this. I argue that the drive for more church panting & so called 'resource' churches is a deeply unbiblical form of 'church' which owes more to Neo-liberal 1/2
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I have written this morning to
@bishopSarahM
in whose ministry I share
@dioceseoflondon
to express what many of her clergy & people are feeling today in the light of the LLF/PLF paper
@synod
@churchofengland
I recommend others to do the same.
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“In his spare time, David enjoys gardening, travelling, keeping fit and spending time with his fiancé, Marc Penny, and his cat, Gordon.”
Fabulous! ♥️🌈
Canon David Morris will be the Assistant Bishop of Bangor
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“Should you be gay and fall in love and have sexual relations with someone twice, just twice, that’s it. Death. Executed. Hanged by the neck until dead. Can we pause the culture war for a moment and recognise how horrific this is?”
@WalkerMarcus
piece putting many of us to shame.
If you’re looking for something to spend your twitter tokens on today, may I commend my article on the outrage of the Church of Uganda’s support for the horrific Anti-Homosexuality Act.
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The issue of single clergy is very important. There seems to be too much reliance on thinking that the second income in the household will keep people alright…..
@Rgt71Robert
@churchofengland
Can we also consider those of us who are single - and there is no other income coming in to run a house which is often far too big for one person.
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@RevDougie
😢😢And the ecumenical element of Resource Church planting where is that? ‘Bringing Jesus’ to a place that apparently God’s never been before even though there’s a Catholic community, a URC one, a Baptist one etc. Such individualist narcissistic denominational rhetoric rancours!!
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First time I have come across the word ‘Godphobic’!! Ireland a land of saints & scholars :)
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Poor, poor Abijah at Morning Prayer
@churchofengland
He failed to get the memo about the singular significance of Adam & Eve & promoted biblical marriage by sleeping with many more than just his ancestors…..
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Demonstrating re. lamentably limited outcome of
#LLF
for
#lgbtqia
+ people
@lambethpalace
with
@JayneOzanne
@PeterTatchell
@BenPBradshaw
who gave us the assurance MPs will not sit back as the established church continues to discriminate.
@JustinWelby
now in conversation with us.
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Decompressing with Fr
@WalkerMarcus
from
@dioceseoflondon
Diocesan Synod. He tells me a fresh expression of church is to forgoe any vegetables.
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Hope!? How on earth did we get from a House of Bishops that was 1/3 in favour of equal marriage & 2/3 in favour of blessing same-sex civil marriages to GS2328 with its pitiless & draconian liturgical policing of
#LGBTQIA
+ lives & loves!? As I go to preside at
@parishnw6
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This is just so so lovely - from David the husband of
@tweet_too_woo
Vicar
@StMark_HT
posted on Facebook.
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Ironic that Steven Croft’s son is suspended as senior pastor at Soul Survivor because of mishandling complaints which are not yet in public domain, whilst the Bishop of Oxford remains in post for safeguarding failures which are very well document & public….
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Another sad tale of a bishop who is not prepared to dialogue with those who want to
@SaveTheParish
What is the problem with open debate in
@churchofengland
and why do the hierarchy not seem to welcome it?
@giles_fraser
@WalkerMarcus
@AllisonPearson
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Wouldn’t have stopped Fletcher or Smythe….Focussing on ‘deference’ & titles stops us interrogating the real issue re. clerical abuse - power that is held untransparently & without robust & effective scrutiny. It is a systemic problem not one of etiquette.
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