David Whale
@dbalaena
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Husband, Parent and parent carer. Dyslexic, all spelling mistakes my own. Rector at Chenies, Little Chalfont, Flauden and Latimer.
UK
Joined September 2011
RT @betterwayUK: The issues raised in this letter are very serious and, in our view, assisted suicide legislation will inevitably lead to i…
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RT @doctor_oxford: This is absolutely not a fair representation of the evidence you were provided with last week, Kim. I spoke in sincere…
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I’m not sure reincarnation is quite the image I would go to for the church (what with Christ being its head and all) but I think it is right to observe that as we care for what have now we must make room for what God is doing next.
How do we make sense of the scale of the challenge facing the CofE? Michael Mitton suggests: "I think we are looking at an institution which is dying in many respects, but there are also these wonderful saplings of life."
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We host an emergency food hub. A good session is when not many people come. A great day will be when we can close it because it isn’t needed. That time still seems to be a long way off.
❌ Food banks shouldn't need to exist. ✔️ We should all be able to afford the essentials we need to survive and live with dignity. Repost if you agree!
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RT @JosiahHawthorne: If you're gonna use Augustine's "ordo amoris," get it right. "All men are to be loved equally. But since you cannot d…
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RT @MattSmethurst: Jesus Christ did not come from heaven, resist sin, suffer hate, sweat blood, and suffocate to death on a cross . . . jus…
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These seem like some sensible suggestions to make a bad idea safer.
When the Assisted Dying Bill received support at Second Reading I stated I would work constructively to improve the legislation should it become law, so I have now submitted a series of amendments to improve the Bill and tackle some of its most egregious flaws:
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I really hope that one of these kids went home, and when asked what they’d done today said “I forgot”
Prince William has just told school children how he asks his children if they have had a good day at school everyday and what they have learnt and they say “nothing.”
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I think assisted suicide would be incredibly dangerous. I think there are legitimate arguments for it. The way it’s being ‘scrutinised’ is a cruel joke. Is this really the way the mother of parliament’s wants to legislate a monumental culture shift?
MPs voted, by a fairly narrow margin, to give the assisted suicide bill the benefit of the doubt. They said it should go to committee so that it could be subjected to robust scrutiny. Since then, the committee: 1. has been stacked with a disproportionate number of pro-AS MPs; 2. has left announcements of sitting days, witnesses, etc to the last minute; 3. has amassed a list of witnesses who are disproportionately pro-AS; 4. has voted to hold key procedural discussions in secret; 5. has refused to hear from the Royal College of Psychiatrists; 6. has dismissed evidence of how AS works in Canada, one of the most egregious cases of assisted suicide gone wrong, as irrelevant. If ever a Bill demanded careful, cautious scrutiny, it was this one. This is not a promising start.
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I continue to pray for safety from the damage this could bring.
Extraordinary opening to the assisted suicide committee, so testy that the chair had to intervene. Before the committee was closed to the public we learnt: —Motion to sit without public scrutiny was only proposed last night without explanation —Kim Leadbeater’s reasoning is “respecting individuals’ privacy” (no further explanation) —Leadbeater sent round her witness selection last week, and then changed it; committee only told the changes at 10am today —Proposed witnesses include 8 supporters from other jurisdictions, 0 opponents —Of 9 lawyers, 6 in favour, 3 neutral, 0 against —No witnesses from disability organisations
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@WalkerMarcus @ChurchTimes Unfortunately the causal relationship isn’t clear, did services reduce following the number of worshippers or leading to it?
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This would seem like a really good place to start
I agree wholeheartedly with Revd James Dudley-Smith's letter to the editor in this weeks @ChurchTimes
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It’s odd to think of myself as one of 10’s thousands of people across the country running round steadily growing circles so that just after Easter we can go on a really long run together.
100 days to the London marathon, so I thought I’d better do my first ten-miler of the year… cold but beautiful out there!
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The church is the home of beloved children not a barracks for servants.
Many are drawn to church nowadays like the prodigal son, sick of the pigsty of materialism and ready to offer themselves as obedient servants of a moral order. The gospel offers something else:
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@NotThatRBaxter They are of course both “on/off”, so given I am not yet the man God created me to be, it has to be the dimmer switch.
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@jonnypollock Because we seek people who live in and are full of the strength and wisdom of God, but could not and would not build the church through their own strength and wisdom.
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