Angela Tilby
@AngelaTilby
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Priest, writer, broadcaster, columnist. Canon Emeritus of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; Honorary Chaplain, Canon of Honour, Portsmouth Cathedral. Own views.
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I am no fan of Dominic Cummings but I can’t stand this ritualised baying for blood that goes on whenever someone in public life puts a foot across a line...we all have to use a measure of judgement in conforming to ‘the rules’ the at the moment and it is not easy for anyone.
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Just when did the Gospel change from being ‘God loves you and has sent his son to save you from your sins’ to ‘God adores you just as you are’?
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Does anyone else in the Christian world find the current emphasis on constant affirmation, and self-affirmation, (God loves you just the way you are you are you are) just a bit, how shall I put it, WET?
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This is a unique moment for Oxford and Cambridge colleges to honour their offers, take a few risks and show that they mean what they say in including more students from state schools in general and under privileged backgrounds. We could all benefit from seizing the moment!
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I feel a huge sadness at the death of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Not so much for him, as he passes into God's presence, but for the Queen, his family and for the passing of time itself.
Christ Yesterday, and Today, the Beginning and the End. Alpha and Omega.
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BBC 6 pm News led with an embarrassing interview with Philip Schofield on an evening when there had been a major train crash in India and continuing investigation of the deaths near the pier in Bournemouth. Sheer media indulgence and BBC schadenfreude. Where was the news?
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The Dean of Sheffield seems to think
@BBCR4Sunday
that having no one or very few present at Choral Evensong is a problem. I think this is when choirs learn most, it is when they sing to the glory of God. No one mentioned God.
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@terrychristian
I really disagree. Having a constitutional monarch helps preserve us from the tyranny of political egoism and the distortions of misguided populism.
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‘We’ve loved every minute...’ Have you really, C of E? The deaths, the suffering, the sheer banality of the Church’s message at this painful time, while producing fatuous self-ads like this congratulating itself on its online efforts.....
It's been a year since we started worshipping online together! 🙌🏽
With more than 55 services, 382 contributors and 258 pieces of music, we've loved every minute.
Revisit the best bits of our services at .
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@calvinrobinson
@10DowningStreet
To all you non-compilers - could you just stop thinking of yourselves for one moment and wear a mask when asked to to protect other people? Is it really such a big ask?
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...and they abolished choral Mattins for...this??
Lovely to have the
@ChCh_Oxford
freshers back and to fill
@ChChCathedralOx
with lights and joy.
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Far from being ‘Speccie nonsense’ this piece demonstrates how terrified the contemporary Church is of God, silence, and prayer. and how hard it is working to drive the holiness out of cathedrals.The depressing rise of the cathedral gimmick | The Spectator
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Dear Boris,
Please open our borders to those fleeing Ukraine. Just that.
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Tonight 6pm BBC news led on the death of Paul Cattermole of SClub7. Very sad, no doubt, but is the escalation of violence between Israel and Hamas and the possibility of violence in Northern Ireland really second and third in news value to this? On Good Friday, Lord have mercy.
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A leading campaigner for same SSM has been holding a placard saying ‘Discrimination is not a Christian virtue’. Actually it is. Not in the sense of being prejudiced against particular people, but in its root sense of ‘discernment’, ‘right judgement’, it is gift of the Spirit.
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I wish both sides of the Lambeth Conference argument on sexuality would stop portraying themselves as hurt victims of the other side’s aggression. Victimhood, here, is simply outraged self-righteousness. Have a proper, principled grown-up debate or agree to disagree.
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@imbadatlife
The mess, clutter, lack of proper dress codes, feet on table arrogance suggests that we are being governed by spoiled and entitled teenagers with no moral compass or concern for the common good.
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@CClimateAction
@ChichesterDio
@Greenanglicans
@XRebellionUK
@ExtinctionR
@XRUK_Actions
@JustStop_Oil
@money_rebellion
@OperationNoah
@fossilfreeLDN
These clergy should be ashamed of themselves. There is a time and a place to protest. All this achieved was distress and dismay for those excited children of the choir who had worked so hard to make Choral Evensong available to radio listeners. It is the always the self-righteous
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@Nigel_Farage
Brexit hasn’t been betrayed. It has just been understood, and this has led to some having second thoughts.
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This is neither a prayer nor a pledge. It is what happens quite a lot in made-up liturgy at the moment - a prayer to ourselves. A better prayer: ‘Almighty God who seeest that we have no power to help ourselves. Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls…’
Today as the COP26 climate conference begins, we pray that we may all care for creation. 🌏 🙏
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@Nigel_Farage
This is one of the most worrying and anti-democratic thing Nige has ever said.
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I recognising the validity of the republican viewpoint but ‘Not my king’ is an expression of the liberal individualism that validates endless consumerism under the guise of personal choice. Nothing about how we might connect to one another and cohere as a society.
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Very good news
@ChChCathedralOx
@oxforddiocese
that the allegations against the Dean which led to his being subject to a CMD have been dismissed. Time now for those who pursued this malicious matter to consider their positions? Could we even hope for some resignations?
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@RoryStewartUK
I want, I want, I want. Jacob Rees-Mogg seems to suffer from gluttony as well as avarice and to think these vices are virtues. I prescribe a desert island for him and a course of readings from the desert fathers.
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Of course what the self-righteous pile on against Lady Hussey has achieved is that the media and everyone else ignored the Queen consort’s speech about violence against women. A suspicion of unconscious racism trumps routine blatant misogyny.
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There are two integrities. Both are meant to flourish. There is currently one diocesan bishop that does not ordain women. The system is heavily weighted in favour of those who do. Can we have fewer ‘cries of pain’ please, and a bit more goodwill?
I'm conflicted.
I respect the Bishop of Blackburn elect enormously as a priest and as an evangelist.
But I hear the cry of pain from ordained women and others at his appointment, as he does not recognise their ministry as discerned by the church.
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No, a House of a Lords without Bishops will be narrower and less well-informed. Bishops speak for communities, minorities and the vulnerable and they keep the nation in touch with its history and the faith on which our common ethics are based.
Giving Church of England bishops the automatic right to sit in the Lords undermines reasonable democratic principles. Our honorary associate Dick Taverne explains why he's introducing a bill to
#ScrapTheBishopsBench
today in Politics Home:
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Oh
@CofEcomms
please consult a theologian before putting out these inane and inaccurate messages. I have offered.
Sorry CofE comms, this is not the case. God IS the Trinity. The Trinity isn’t something external to God.
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The real issue is that the C of E has been captured by HTB with its confident, top-down authoritarianism, it’s reduction of the faith to a message and an experience, and it’s detachment from place, culture and tradition. Ruthless pragmatism has replaced pastoral care.
@AngelaTilby
@Andy_Lightbown
@MadsDavies
@giacbelloli
Poor theology is a symptom of a wider issue. It isn't the issue in and of itself
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I lit this candle this morning for Anna Matthews, vicar of
@StBenetsCam
who died suddenly yesterday. This is St Anne with Our Lady as a child, in the church of St Catherine in Honfleur. Please pray for Anna, her husband, family and many friends, and for St Bene’t’s.
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I think everyone from
@ChChCathedral
has blocked me now, including the Sub-Dean
@mission_priest
and the Chaplain. As an Emeritus Canon I am part of the Greater Chapter, and do not intend to stop being concerned for this troubled institution.
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Why isn’t this statement by the Dean on
@ChCh_Oxford
website?
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@calvinrobinson
You are up against the unacknowledged racism of the supposedly anti-racists. They can’t quite bear you if you fail to see yourself as a victim. ‘Whom resist….’
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Doing Thought for the Day on Radio Four tomorrow on Long Covid and other debilitating conditions
#LongCovid
#CFSME
@BBCRadio4
.
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Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph both treat allegations against Russell Brand as a massive lead story, so feeding the celeb culture beast while important news is consigned to near obscurity. Why are we obsessed with such trivia?
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@jeremycorbyn
Every Israeli killed on 7th October had a name, a face, a story. But they were Jews….
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Because I had the temerity to suggest that there was a certain irony in the sub-Dean offering a Lent series on peace and reconciliation given the cathedral’s collusion with the persecutors of the Dean.
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I wish to clarify my comments on Russell Brand. I do not regard the allegations about him as trivial. They are extremely serious and of course they should be investigated. Whether they should have been front page news is another matter, one of journalistic judgement. I am sorry
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Yes, thank God.
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I can’t agree with this. Immersion in shared and practised liturgy is infinitely more important than ‘creative’ experiments which are so often desperately self-conscious. Improvisation comes best when you know the score so well it is part of your being.
Ordinands (particularly
@RiponCuddesdon
), take every opportunity you can to write liturgy, use creative worship and less prescribed services as much as you can. Get confident with both BCP/CW and writing your own stuff. It is so useful in parish.
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Oh no, I seem to have been blocked again by
@ChChCathedralOx
. I wish they would stop hinting that there are still terribly serious issues about the Dean which are of course deeply confidential. This is not how adults behave. Nor should Christians, actually.
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@Cresswell68
@doctor_oxford
@terrychristian
I suspect your fathers and forefathers might have known that a plural does not require an apostrophe.
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Wow, on a balcony in Crete, I have just discovered how good a Negroni is!
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I am beginning to think that the whole LLF process has been a disaster. The C of E embarked on it at the wrong time and in the wrong way and now everyone is going to blame everyone else for an unresolvable split.
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I would just like the clergy to know the Bible, and have some grasp of Biblical scholarship, Church history and doctrinal development, to be literate and capable of communicating the faith in an intelligent and non-defensive way. I’m afraid that cannot be taken for granted.
@AngelaTilby
I’ve found church quite theology based and academic in an abstract way compared to NHS/social care - think we need more ‘applied’ research to support clergy with issues they are actually facing
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I think it’s pathetic for bishops to claim ‘they haven’t been trained’ to deal justly with abuse issues. The problem is that they lack discernment, judgement, a willingness to listen to the vulnerable and unattractive rather than ‘excellent priests’ like themselves.
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What could be more delicious for lunch than sourdough toast with tomatoes still hot from being in the sun and in the vine?
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To me the decision about Shamima Begum shows how weak and petty we have become, how incapable of supporting the young and misled, how little we believe in redemption. Bad news on Ash Wednesday.
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If any putting Advent services together find the provision for candle prayers a bit too complicated, here is a simple one which I penned last year and can be used through Advent: As light in our darkness, as hope in our hearts, Come, Lord Jesus, Come.
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I understand, but I just hope the clergy don’t see this as an opportunity to try and turn themselves into life-streaming media stars. Clergy egoism a serious danger in such times!
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The Queen is offering the spiritual ministry to the nation that the C of E’s leaders are not even attempting.
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I think this is a grossly misleading perspective on Augustine which makes it even harder for the contemporary Church to say anything wise or helpful about human sexuality.
“While many of Augustine’s teachings have been revered for generations, when it came to his ideas around sex and gender, he basically took a dump and the church encased it in amber,” Bolz-Weber writes.
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Friends, I did not anticipate this Twitter storm. My original comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek, though I am still very sorry about the abolition of Mattins
@ChChCathedralOx
. I am sure the chaplaincy team and
@clarehayns
are doing their best. Please accept my apologies.
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‘I do not want her targeted’, said Ngozi Fulani of Lady Hussey. Curious that white, privileged C of E clergy are happy to take aim on Ms Fulani’s behalf. Unconscious racism, saviour complex or what?
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@OurCofELike
Attending Church on the Lord’s Day is not something you do if you just happen to feel like it. It is a duty and a joy. Sometimes a duty before it is a joy. Sometimes you have to drag yourself out of bed. The point is to be there. Why? Because God has invited you…and we all need
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Perhaps he could formally apologise to the Dean and the cathedral congregation and announce that he is restoring the Dean’s permission to officiate in the diocese? ‘Courageous, Compassionate ….’ Or something wasn’t it?
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I think Steven Pinker’s comment is disproved by history. It is Christians, who believed in the resurrection of the dead, who founded the first hospitals, cared for the weak, and promoted the idea that God might desire abundant life for all, both in the next world and in this.
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I have seen a lot of response to my defence of
@StEbbesChurch
in not being obliged to state its views about women’s ministry. My position is simply this. For nearly 2000 years the Christian Church almost universally limited or refused ministerial roles for women for a variety
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It would have been so much more fabulous if the Dean had been there.
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@Steven_Croft
justifies his new position on same sex marriage with the claim that we have learnt a lot about ‘identity’ in recent decades. Not true. We have bought into thinking we are autonomous self-creating beings. A recipe for addiction, despair and loneliness.
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Is it really his role to repeat government advice? Has he nothing to say about God, or about faith, or about resurrection? Does he not understand that closed churches are a powerful sign that God has shut up shop and gone away?
I’ve no doubt
@JustinWelby
is a lovely man & dedicated servant, but I feel he’s failing to understand the emotional hurt here. “Leading by example” in practice seems highly condescending & I’m uncomfortable with the church expressing such a lack of faith in people’s common sense.
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Worse, it suggests name-calling and a lack of basic charity. We should not be so insecure of God’s grace to demand that others label themselves in ways which merely bolsters our sense of self-righteousness.
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For those who hate Tories, this is not a Tory budget. It is pure Whiggery, do-as-I-like individualism, with no sense that we have responsibility for one another. This is where liberalism leads in the end. Me first. My rights. My privacy. My freedom. My entitlement.
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We are learning at last, with great sorrow and disappointment, that the NHS is not god, but an ever greedy idol, currently in visible collapse. We must now rescue those enslaved to it and by it, and create a workable, Public Health Service which all can use with confidence.
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And let’s include the Dean in that, and a change of mind and heart from those who have spent so much money, time and energy on their absurd conspiracies aided and abetted by
@ChChCathedralOx
and
@oxforddiocese
.
Happy New Year! We hope that 2022 brings safety, prosperity and joy to all members of the House, past, present and future.
#ChristChurchTogether
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I don’t think I am a troll, but I have recently discovered that the Comms dept.
@oxforddiocese
declined a routine request to publicise an online retreat I offered in February on the grounds of a comment I made to
@thetimes
on the bullying of the Dean of
@ChCh_Oxford
Our advice? Don't feed the trolls by responding; their comments are best ignored. Pro tip: It's acceptable to mute or block people online if their trolling is persistent.
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This is so important. For those who wonder whether the
@churchofengland
has a future, an important part of the answer is here.
In corners of the
@churchofengland
evangelism is happening through music and liturgy, through the beauty of holiness. Good news shared through scripture, song, prayer and contemplation.
@York_Minster
we see this everyday.
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Among the many problems with this statement is the Archbishop’s poor understanding of Anglican ecclesiology. We do not claim to be ‘a’ holy, Catholic and apostolic Church, but part of ‘the’ one, holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. This failure of understanding explains a lot.
A statement following my meeting with the Archbishop, bishops and senior clergy of the Anglican Church of Ghana last week:
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I so agree. I wish we were allowed to feel and express sadness and fear rather than this twitchy activism.
I don't go for the 'Great chance to do church differently' line. Though it had to be done, to deprive God's people of the Eucharist is a nightmare. But I am grateful for two crisis bi-products. The discovery of Zoom and the rediscovery of my bicycle.
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I would more time for HTB if it focused energy on the urban poor, (like the Wesleys) giving dignity, structure, and living faith to those horribly let down by wider society. But, no, though a few HTB inspired church plants have taken up this challenge, HTB prefers the affluent.
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Hold on a minute, does
@JustinWelby
and
@churchofengland
not understand that ‘the Paschal character of Easter …should be celebrated throughout the season and should not be displaced…’ St GEORGE is transferred until tomorrow.
Today, on the feast of our patron Saint George, may the Holy Spirit strengthen our hearts to receive courage to walk in faith and trust in the loving kindness of God in everything we face.
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Let’s just ban intercessions. The Eucharistic prayers are enough. Omitting preachy intercessions could shorten the service by up to 10 minutes (I have timed several samples).
@liturgicalben
@LlandaffDio
There can't be enough of this. The intercessions are where latent Anglican atheism is expressed most candidly as God's told what's happening in his world & subjected to the minutiae of medical diagnoses. We use far too many words, lacking in depth, resonance & imagination.
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The contemporary church often seems to fear, despise and have contempt for theological learning. It has lost its links to the academy, and does not like the clergy to read or think too much.
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One great virtue of the BCP, and why it is so easy to assimilate and remember is that it has a high proportion of words which can be spoken as one syllable compared with contemporary speech, for example: ‘we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep…..
By yours truly 👇 Why millennial men are turning to the Book of Common Prayer via
@spectator
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If you find the Advent candle prayers too wordy for this difficult days I offer this, to be used on all four Sundays as the appropriate candle is lit:
As light in our darkness,
As hope in our hearts,
Come, Lord Jesus, come.
@ChurchTimes
@cofe
@cofeportsmoth
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Bless this courageous woman!
For women, singing is forbidden in Iran. This woman is bravely singing in one of Esfahan’s most historical mosques. When the security agent tried to stop her, she resisted and continued. Brave Iranian women like her will some day bring down this most anti-woman regime.
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How true. The BCP is for realists. Most modern liturgies are for idealists.
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@ProfJCharmley
@ChChCathedralOx
I think they just find my tweets irritating. I find my tweets irritating. It is irritating to bang on about truth and fairness to an institution where individuals have chosen to close their ears and eyes.
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Praise be to thee, my Lord, for Brother Cat, whose effortless superiority calls forth our humble obedience.
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@calvinrobinson
@10DowningStreet
You exaggerate. It’s not tyranny but simple charity. There is quite a lot of evidence (and also common sense) that masks prevent some of the droplets which could carry infection reaching others. Not perfect, not foolproof, but kind. Why is this such a problem?
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@KateAndreyev
Yes, yes, it really is. There were faithful Christian’s centuries before there were Evangelicals!
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For those wounded by the
@SoulSurvivorGB
revelations may I suggest a more earthed understanding of human sinfulness. Charismatic leadership (and not only in the sectarian sense) is often the product of grandiosity, theatricality and narcissism.
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It is shocking that this was not stopped at source. I am afraid the message has to be, do not support Oxfam. Go for Christian Aid, Save the Children or other charities which help the hungry and needy without contributing to the erasure of women.
We have removed the post because of concerns raised with us. We will re-post shortly
#ProtectThePride
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Spare me this literalism! This is the language of devotion not a sound recording of an event......
@KaraNSlade
My problem with Silent Night is it makes me want to scream "nothing about this night was silent! Mary had just given birth, the armies of heaven were singing their battle hymn, and there were aninals everywhere! None of these things are silent!"
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Christ Church Cathedral should be closed pending an investigation into the behaviour of the canons and their reckless misunderstanding and misuse of safeguarding procedures in order to further damage the Dean.
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Guessing some Trinity sermons that might get preached tomorrow: ‘The Trinity is really, really difficult. Don’t worry if you don’t get it. We are flying the Pride flag. The Trinity is about all about inclusion and diversity. It’s all about us. Amen.’ 😆(c) I-Spy Book of Homilies.
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The attempt to crush the Dean continues. This institution is out of control. Narcissistic, sadistic, exploitative. Would you really want to study there?
Christ Church confirms internal disciplinary tribunal | Christ Church, Oxford University
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May St Frideswide deliver all
@ChChCathedralOx
and
@oxforddiocese
from the corrosion of lies, manipulation and the ongoing persecution of the Dean.
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The
@CofE
’s failure to do justice to survivors of abuse reveals its schizoid leadership culture: apparently Jesus -centred, Spirit-filled and yet totally secular and legalistic in practice and lacking in any pastoral instinct. There is no integrity.
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Totally agree. SDF funding for choirs!! Starting / reviving a church choir with children is a proven strategy for renewal, ecclesial, spiritual and cultural.
@liturgicalben
@BishopStAlbans
@UKHouseofLords
This is excellent & very welcome. All we need now is for +Alan to persuade the majority his 41 episcopal colleagues that this is primary mission & should be a priority for SDF funding.
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This is simply barbaric. Mary wants to live, but the state is pressing her towards accepting euthanasia because she is In pain and has ‘maxed out her credit cards’.
What I still can't understand about euthanasia in Canada is the reality of it.
Mary wants to live. "She has no other options"--in part because she's been maxing out her credit cards.
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Brilliant article exposing the
@CofE
’s false faith in top down management and the destruction of local community.
Not since Beeching has the local had such powerful enemies. Vennells and the Church of England.
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