Simon Fisher
@therealsjpf
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Bright-eyed young archdeacon breathless above.
St Helens & Warrington
Joined October 2011
I commend this thread for the expert way in which it demolishes a number of Dominion-inspired strawmen
First of all, damn you for making me write this thread. As to the argument, it's a serious-sounding rebuttal, but once you slow it down, it misses the point. The author, I believe, is making the following claims:
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100 years since the birth of the great Richard Burton. One of the finest Christmas interviews ever filmed. If you’ve never seen it you’re in for a treat. If you have seen it, it’s now a perfect festive tradition. Nadolig Llawen. https://t.co/GWypYUeSWq
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A small but significant victory has been won in the endless annual War Against Fakelore Pagan Christmas (tm). Repeat offenders, @EnglishHeritage peddled some of the usual seasonal fakelore with the claim below:
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The life peerage system is, as it was intended to be, a disaster for any sense of hierarchy in Britain "Lord Falconer" isn't a real peer. He got a life peerage for being a Labour hack, and so gets to present as a Lord and participate in the already neutered House of Lords. The
⚡SHOCKING! Lord Falconer says “pregnancy should not be a bar” to assisted suicide! After Lord Mackinlay (@cmackinlay) tells Peers that Oregon protects viable unborn babies from assisted suicide, Lord Falconer seems completely unmoved & unbothered about this issue.
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Samuel Johnson died on this day in 1784: an exemplar of Church and King oikophilia.
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'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks. Today is St Lucy's Day, which was once the date of the winter solstice - the saint of light in the darkest days of winter. This luminous medieval St Lucy is from Minster Lovell.
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“This isn't, then, a letter from disinterested Peers making a point based on constitutional principle. It's almost exclusively from long-time supporters of assisted suicide, keen to get this Bill through. And they're misrepresenting the true constitutional position to do so.”
Let's take a look at the record of the signatories to this letter:
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It’s an indictment of how far Post-Conciliar Catholicism has cooked our brains that this is what people think a ‘cardinal’s hat’ is
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This is fantastic, especially the ending
Britain's new battleships HMS Anson and HMS Howe join the Royal Navy fleet (1942)
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@rorysutherland I was asked a clever Sutherland-esque question in a feedback form for some whiskey I ordered online. The question was “what NEARLY stopped you from buying this product?” They can’t get feedback from those who didn’t buy, so seemed the next best thing.
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sure, i ask myself “what would Jesus do?” (WWJD) more importantly, i ask myself, “would st. paul write a scathing letter from prison about this action?” (WSPWASLFPATA)
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In the Fisher household Mrs Fisher demands the Muppet Christmas Carol, the children demand Die Hard.
Not saying I’ve raised my kids right but their number one demand for the festive season is a family screening of The Muppet Christmas Carol.
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Did another adult baptism this morning but yes this church being empty on a *Saturday afternoon* proves that christianity is finished in Britain.
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Further evidence that the Bishop of Ramsbury is one of the very few Anglican bishops in the UK speaking meaningfully about patriotism, place, and national identity, in contrast to - as Bishop North pointedly said - clergy who "squirm nervously during Remembrance Sunday".
+Ramsbury: The C of E has “long been hesitant about declaring love for England...Yet the failure of liberal institutions in general to speak ardently about homeland leaves a vacancy for such natural affections that the far Right is only too happy to fill” https://t.co/OvQE77pZNh?
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I can think of no finer hill to die on for the House of Lords than the protection of human life.
“If they continue to push against the expressed will of the democratic majority, the Lords may find that it is their own future which becomes the question.” Christine Jardine MP joins many arguing that deliberate time-wasting tactics risk tarnishing the reputation of the House of
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Amazing thread. Nine times Lord Falconer has said the Upper House can of course reject a Bill.
1. Lord Falconer, 2017: the Lords has the right to reject a bill which wasn’t a manifesto promise.
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Today's landmark report on unbinding nuclear power in Britain should receive trenchant support from the bishops of England, with their special responsibility for the poor. Cheap energy is a primary issue of justice - currently obstructed by self-righteous middle-class pharisaism.
Britain needs nuclear power. Our nuclear projects are the most expensive in the world and among the slowest. Regulators and industry are paralysed by risk aversion. This can change. For Britain to prosper, it must. Earlier this year, the Prime Minister appointed me to lead a
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"If we want visitors to worship with us, and come back, then we must prophesy, each one of us. This is the only numerical growth strategy Paul teaches; and as far as I can tell, it is the only growth strategy taught anywhere in the Bible." (link below)
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Really enjoyed speaking to @MadsDavies about change in parishes, and highlighting some of the key aspects of @lycignews work: helping clergy and parishes navigate change successfully. @ChurchTimes @ChichesterDio
I have a feature in this week's paper about clergy trying to make changes, the resistance they may encounter, and how change is best handled. The Living Ministry study found most clergy had experienced “active resistance to change” https://t.co/RZYSHl7spU
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