Fr. Brandon Fletcher James
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Assistant Priest in the Diocese of London | 🏴🇯🇲🇬🇧🏳️🌈 ‘Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly….’
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“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love”- Maya Angelou ❤️🔥
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Love unapologetically
Love without restraint
For love endures all things 🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️
@churchofengland
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Lessons for the CofE. I never understood how the church could monopolise on the power of blessing. Even before the formal commissioning of PLF, God has and continues to bless all forms of faithful, committed and loving relationship. It’s in his very gracious nature so to do.
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Blessings on this First Sunday after Trinity. May God continue to confer upon you the riches of his grace ❤️🔥🙌🏽🙏🏽
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How can the CPAS be a resource to the Church of England when it openly endorses homophobia? This is not an affirmation of human sexuality. If anything it is a strategic attempt to condemn, regulate and suppress LGBTQI+ desire.
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Χριστός ἀνέστη! Truly he is risen! Light and Resurrection hope this Eastertide ❤️🙌🏽🙏🏽
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“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship” St. Thomas Aquinas
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Blessed to have presided at midday mass this morning under the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral! Love and light to all who gathered today to witness such an opportunity ❤️🔥🙏🏽🙌🏽
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Wish that bishops had the same level of commitment for LGBTQI+ inclusion as they do for the work of racial justice. Oh how I long for the day when we treat every person holistically without reifying, and focusing exclusively on a particular aspect of human identity.
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Blessed feast day of Julian of Norwich
‘The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love’
- Revelations of Divine Love
❤️🔥
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The recent developments in LLF makes it painfully clear that the house of bishops is more a cult of respectability than a place of honesty and integrity. We are not pawns in some political game. We are people of flesh and blood, heart and soul.
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I will never stop making the case that queerness is not Anti-black. No group or community exists as a monolith hence it is presumptuous to assume oneself as the sole spokesperson. LGBTQI+ persons have and will continue to exist not just in the global south but everywhere.
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What I find absolutely staggering is the claim that to advocate for the rights and dignities of LGTBQI+ persons is a result of “western elitism” and an affront to those in the Global South. Presupposes their own bigoted and colonialist logic. As if queerness is a western import…
Schism.
A total and complete disgrace. Homophobia dressed in theology - hate splattered with the lipstick of love and all made up in the uniform of unity.
Shame on you, building your identity on the backs of LGBTQIA people.
Shame on you.
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Celebrated at St Martin-in-the-fields midday choral Mass for the first time. Nice to be back since being pastoral assistant in 2019. Giving thanks to God for all the rich opportunities I am given in my ministry ❤️🙏🏽🙌🏽
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Who were you in the Christmas pantomime this year Fr?
I was the starring role…….
The baby Jesus?!
No the Star……literally 🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️😂
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Let us be bold in unveiling the malpractice, corruption and hubris of the CEEC and all those who pretend to act with missional integrity while fostering disunity and reaping financial benefit.
“Rather than waiting for disgruntled churches to contact the CEEC and enquire about the financial and oversight arrangements now being developed separately from normal C of E practice, there is a proactive campaign seeking to recruit churches to this split. A proactive campaign
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Who would have thought that one of my various duties as curate was to model in our parish vintage charity fashion show! A great success! 🙏🏽❤️🙌🏽
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‘We cannot understand [Fascism], but we can and must understand from where it springs, and we must be on our guard...because what happened can happen again...For this reason, it is everyone's duty to reflect on what happened’- Primo Levi ❤️🔥
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‘The flesh feeds on the body and blood of Christ, that the soul likewise may be filled with God’- Tertullian
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Ended my day hearing my first two confessions. A profoundly humbling experience.
Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there is hatred let me bring your love.
Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord
And where there's doubt, true faith in you. ❤️🔥🙏🏽🙌🏽
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A beautiful weekend in France celebrating the civil marriage of Clement and Pierre!
“La raison parle, mais l’amour chante”
Reason talks but love sings…(Alfred De Vigny)
🇫🇷⚜️❤️🔥
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First day of a much needed Silent Retreat at Buckfast Abbey
‘Let all guests who arrive be received as Christ’- Rule of St Benedict
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This comes as no surprise that the recent backtracking on LLF is a result of appeasing CEEC, HTB and other staunch conservatives voices over and against the lament and hurt of LGBTQI+ Christians. Yet again resources and financing trump the genuine needs of the flock
So here we have it.
@nickygumbel
will do "anything" to make sure nothing changes for LGBT people in the Church of England.
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Let us call this out for what it is. A flagrant attempt to bastardise the Church and its sacraments…..🙄
So, lay presidency at the Eucharist is now a thing in the Diocese of London...
Commissioning service 24 July 2024 via
@YouTube
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Great to be celebrating mass this morning on the feast day of St Augustine of Hippo. 🙌🏽🙏🏽❤️. Then onto carnival 🇯🇲
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Consecrate our lives and make of us an eternal offering to you 🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️
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Finally some good news for a change
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The most telling takeaway in all of this is the model of ‘doing’ church that SDF presupposes.
To narrowly invest in fresh expressions and HTB planting reveals that as always numerical growth trumps the long and searching work of discipleship, and a deep cultivation of faith.
An estimated 27,000 people have become regular attenders at church services and gatherings supported by the Church of England’s Strategic Development Funding.
Read more at .
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Palm Sunday Procession this morning at St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park
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Today marks the 76th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Windrush to Britain.
Here is a photo of my grandad who with countless others came from the Jamaica and the Caribbean countries after WWII.
Giving thanks for their lives of perseverance, hope and resilience.❤️🔥🙏🏽🙌🏽
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A Blessed Feast of the Transfiguration
🙏🏽❤️🔥🙌🏽
The love that dances at the heart of things
Shone out upon us from a human face
And to that light the light in us leaped up,
We felt it quicken somewhere deep within
A sudden blaze of long-extinguished hope..
- Malcolm Guite
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Break your word open for us for the feeding of our souls ❤️🔥🙏🏽🙌🏽
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An absolute joy to be a part of yesterday’s service. Onto day three of context placement at St Paul’s and joining the 10th anniversary of Invictus Games Service later on! 🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 369th Festival Service! 👏
Hundreds of you braved the train strikes, and we were delighted that St Paul’s Cathedral was almost full to the brim.
The 370th Festival Service will return on Tuesday 13th May 2025.
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Teach me my God and King in all things thee to see. And what I do in everything to do it as for thee…. 🙌🏽❤️🔥🙏🏽
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It is very rare these days to see a bishop act with such integrity and honesty. If anything LLF has shown that what is left wanting in the synodal process is synodality itself, instead of operating along the lines of secrecy and deceit.
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Delighted to be part of this talk series! ❤️🙌🏽🙏🏽
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O Lord you said my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Enable me to bear it so that I may obtain grace…..🙌🏽❤️🔥🙏🏽
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My second and final week of placement at St Paul’s Cathedral. Blessed also to preside at 8am Mass this morning in Middlesex Chapel. Looking forward to joining Hackney schools choral programme this afternoon 🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️
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We are thankful,
even for the crumbs you offer us at the table. We live in hope 🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️
The final motion was carried on Wednesday afternoon in all three Houses: Bishops 23-10, Clergy 100-93, and Laity 104-100.
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‘Where there is black, there is oppression; but blacks can be assured that where there is blackness, there is Christ who has taken on blackness so that what is evil in men's eyes might become good’ James Cone (Black Theology and Black Power)
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Feast of Corpus Christi
"I adore and venerate you as much as ever I can, though my love is so cold, my devotion so poor. Thank you for the good gift of this your holy Body and Blood, which I desire to receive...," - St Anselm
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Final day of silent retreat at Buckfast Abbey
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Malcolm Guite- Sonnet to Mother Julian
Show me, O anchoress, your anchor-hold
Deep in the love of God, and hold me fast.
Show me again in whose hands we are held,
Speak to me from your window in the past,
Tell me again the tale of Love’s compassion
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As we make the first step into the "bright sadness" of Lent, we see—far, far away—the destination. It is the joy of Easter, it is the entrance into the glory of the Kingdom……
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Silent Retreat at Buckfast Abbey: Day Three
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A Blessed Feast of Pentecost
“Veni, Sancte Spiritus, et emitte caelitus lucis tuae radium”
Come, Holy Spirit, send forth the heavenly radiance of your light. ❤️🔥🙏🏽🙌🏽
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That’s not to mention the suggested ‘need to be transformed and live in accordance with biblical revelation and orthodox church teaching’……
What needs to be transformed is your own personal neuroses and misconceptions of same sex love. We are not your projecting screen.
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Wishing you all a Blessed Feast of the Epiphany.
May we like the Magi, wonder and marvel at God’s presence manifest among us. 🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️
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Malcolm Guite: A Sonnet for Candlemas
They came, as called, according to the Law.
Though they were poor and had to keep things simple,
They moved in grace, in quietness, in awe,
For God was coming with them to His temple
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‘We part from the Alleluia as from a beloved friend, whom we embrace many times and kiss on mouth, head and hand, before we leave him’- Bishop William Duranti
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A message to all LGBTQI+ Christians
In all of this let us be reminded
it is not righteousness
nor holiness we lack
For on God’s grace we always lean
And for that we give heartfelt thanks 🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️
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On this feast day of Blessed St Charles de Foucauld let us join in his prayer:
Father,
I abandon myself into your hands;
do with me what you will.
Whatever you may do, I thank you:
I am ready for all, I accept all.
Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures
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Mystery is the beauty of summer nights ☀️☀️
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Amidst feelings of despondency and disillusion over the state and affairs of the institutional church I keep coming back to these words from Origen of Alexandria:
“If Jesus had good reason to weep over Jerusalem, he will have much better reason to weep over the church…”
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“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
— James Baldwin
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“O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness;
bow down before him, his glory proclaim;
with gold of obedience, and incense of lowliness,
kneel and adore him: the Lord is his name”
❤️🔥
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Cherish the little things and be present in those fleeting moments of joy…….
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Couldn’t agree more. The claim of orthodoxy by some conservative evangelicals makes air tight their arguments, and stifles any possibility for genuine mutual dialogue.
In response to a recent Ad Clerum from the episcopal team in the Diocese of Lichfield concerning LGBT+ chaplaincies. I have written to the bishops concerning the use of the term 'orthodox' for the non affirming position in relation to Equal Marriage
@campaign_cofe
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Owed this to myself after a busy few weeks. Savouring time for rest and pause literally! 🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️
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Blessed Feast of St Matthias
O God, who assigned Saint Matthias a place in the college of Apostles, grant us, through his intercession, that, rejoicing at how your love has been allotted to us, we may merit to be numbered among the elect. Amen ❤️🔥
Today is the feast of St Matthias, when called upon he said yes to God.
How can you say yes to God today?
#stmatthias
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Here,' she said, 'in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard... Toni Morrison (Beloved)
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“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act”- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
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Freedom- by Langston Hughes
Freedom will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.
I have as much right
As the other fellow has
To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.
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Said Mass this morning in St Mary’s Convent, Chiswick. Joined by residents and the sisters of the Society of St Margaret. May we too be bearers of God’s grace and love in the world.
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‘In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.’- Madeleine L’ Engle
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Buckfast Abbey Silent Retreat: Day Two
After Lauds and breakfast with Benedictine brothers a morning walk through physic gardens and the chance to take in some stunning stained glass windows.
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Rest eternal Benjamin Zephaniah. Poet, prophet and luminary of our time:
Dis poetry is like a riddim dat drops
De tongue fires a riddim dat shoots like shots
Dis poetry is designed fe rantin
Dance hall style, big mouth chanting,
Dis poetry nar put yu to sleep
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Malcolm Guite- Sonnet for Mothering Sunday
At last, in spite of all, a recognition,
For those who loved and laboured for so long,
Who brought us, through that labour, to fruition
To flourish in the place where we belong.
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Vibes fi days at Carnival! Celebration of culture and ancestral roots
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A Blessed feast of the Conversion of St Paul:
‘But get up and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and testify to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you’ Acts 26:16
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“Out of many one people” 🇯🇲❤️🔥
Happy Jamaican Independence Day
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Fitting words on the fourth day of my context placement at St Paul’s Cathedral
Ascension- John Donne
Salute the last, and everlasting day,
Joy at the uprising of this Sun, and Son,
Ye whose true tears, or tribulation
Have purely wash'd, or burnt your drossy clay.
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Grateful for the kindness and love showed to me on this my birthday. May I continue to experience life in all its fullness . 🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️
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Like Mary and the other disciples we too must revisit the tomb of our griefs and losses, and leave not in emptiness, but with invigorated hope and trust in Christ crucified, died and risen.
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We unite ourselves
with Christ's redemptive work
when we reflect
to our brothers and sisters
God's healing,
God's forgiveness,
God's unconditional love”
- Sister Thea Bowman ❤️🔥🙌🏽🙏🏽
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Let us not in our silence be complicit in the suffering of others. What we are witnessing daily on a national scale is the deleterious effects of Islamophobia, Racism and xenophobic speech. The sheer “caucasity” to minimise such or suggest otherwise…… 🙄
🚨our statement on the brutal violence and attacks being carried out against migrants across Britain.🚨
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Day two of wondrous sunshine and Yayoi Kusama’s polka dots to colour the view ☀️⚫️
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A great joy it was to preside at my first midnight mass since being priested. Through the body and blood of Christ may we come to in-breaking of God’s Kingdom among us.
📸 Look at this post on Facebook
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Make ours to be a cruciform love like his……..❤️🔥🙏🏽🙌🏽
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Advent Meditation from Rubem Alves
In the silence of the night a little
child cries
“I think she is hungry” says
her mother.
And takes her own body,
the woman,
her breast
and offers it to that little body
which knows nothing of this world,
nothing but
hunger.
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Every morning when I wake
Dear Lord -- a little prayer I make
Oh please do keep thy loving eye
On all poor creatures born to die
And every evening at sundown
I ask a blessing on the town
For whether we last the night or no
I'm sure as always -- touch and go
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How time has flown since being deaconed last July. Deo Gratias 🙌🏽🙏🏽❤️
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Benjamin Zephaniah- Dis Poetry
Dis poetry stays wid me when I run or walk
An when I am talking to meself in poetry I talk,
Dis poetry is wid me,
Below me an above,
Dis poetry's from inside me
It goes to yu
WID LUV.
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Every morning, when I wake,
Dear Lord, a little prayer I make,
O please to keep Thy loving eye
On all poor creatures born to die
And every evening at sun-down
I ask a blessing on the town,
For whether we last the night or no I'm sure is always touch-and-go
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Fill in the blanks
I am convinced that neither_________, nor _________, neither __________, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.
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Wonderful news for my hometown of Hackney and for Islington respectively. May the fruits of such endeavours be tangibly felt by the communities they are called to serve 🙏🏽❤️🔥🙌🏽
The Diocese of London has been awarded a £9.4 million grant from the
@churchofengland
's ‘Diocesan Investment Programme’ to catalyse church mission in Hackney and Islington over the next six years.
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Was lovely to be a part of St Cyprian’s Patronal festival last night. 🙌🏽🙏🏽❤️ Give us the perseverance of all your saints and embolden us in the faith
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Receive this cross of ash upon your brow,
Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday’s cross.
The forests of the world are burning now
And you make late repentance for the loss.
But all the trees of God would clap their hands
The very stones themselves would shout and sing
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The church is awfully good at prevaricating at the expense of its flock.
We're Working On It is probably one of my saddest cartoon prints. Yet people and churches have it hanging where people can see. It exposes the cruelty of non-suffering people making suffering people wait for what the non-suffering people already enjoy and take for granted. I drew
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@Crowe_JE
That is the absence of a robust theology of human desire. We must begin from the premise that LGBTQI+ persons are not naturally disordered or corrupted as a result of depravity of sin. Rather their yearning and longing for love is a fundamental part of what it means to be created
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At a time when the world is facing darker days I take comfort in the prayer of Cardinal John Henry Newman
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An icon of the Theotokos and the Christ Child I acquired in an antique shop in Hackney. Ave Maria Gratia Plena 🙏🏽🙌🏽
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The real tragedy of the Post Office scandal is the personal cost of reckoning with institutional abuses of power
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O Oriens
O Dayspring,
splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness:
Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death 🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️
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