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Just gave my name in Starbucks as ‘The peace of the Lord be always with you’. When the barista shouted my ‘name’ the whole place shouted ‘and also with you’. Try it.
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Anyone else think this is terrible?
"You are my best friend, soulmate, and in just a few pushes, you’ll be the most amazing mother our daughter could ever ask for."
Husband of the year surprises pregnant wife with book of motivational messages to encourage her during two-day labor.
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IDS has become the first government minister in history to resign in protest over his own policy.
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I don’t think any government can stop births from going ahead!
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Just reminding folks of this >> Marcus Rashford is the youngest person to lead The Sunday Times Giving List
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This year is slightly unusual in the liturgical calendar for families with children in that the Feast of the Consumption of Chocolate Eggs coincides with the Feast of the Realisation of Uncompleted Homework.
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Obama: Britain will be at the back of the queue.
Britain: I like the sound of this orderly queueing system.
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I wonder what the design brief was: “we’re looking for something less iconic and friendly. More … evil empire-ish”.
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"What did you do during the Coronavirus crisis, Grandpa?"
"I campaigned to remove the availability of childcare from people working to support their communities."
"Really, Grandpa?"
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I have several questions about this cake, not least why it is being served on the lid from a large storage box?
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Delighted to announce that I have been appointed to an exciting new position at Lambeth Palace as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s first advocate for the animal kingdom.
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“The foreigners residing among you must be treated as native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”
Leviticus 19:34
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*Into dictaphone* Idea for a show: I Can See Your Sacraments - a succession of “priests” celebrate Mass and a celebrity panel has to guess who is the real priest and who are the sinners faking it to win a £10,000 cash prize. Could do a Christmas special with Bishops.
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I find this message quite astonishing. It seems to say that Evangelical clergy are now living in fear that a gay couple may turn up asking for a blessing and they will have to explain what they think. Have I misunderstood?
Given the decision of the General Synod to depart from our biblical foundations, the Church of England now needs to provide safe space for faithfulness to a biblical doctrine of sex and marriage.
John Dunnett explains why we need to take action to ensure this happens. 👇
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Delighted to be able to finally announce that the BBC have commissioned a four part documentary series based on my book, Beard Theology. Huw Edwards will present the series to be aired from April 1 next year.
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The odd thing about this image is that he could have left by the back door but chose the front. He must have wanted to be photographed like this.
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For my non-Church friends, just to let you know that today is the first day of Advent. It starts on the fourth Sunday before Christmas, which may or may not fall on 1 December. Don’t be fooled by those chocolate filled calendars!
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I keep hearing the argument that welcoming gay marriage would mean the church compromising its teaching to accommodate secular culture. But is it possible that the church’s historic attitudes to homosexuality were influenced by the secular culture they were formed in?
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Delighted to announce that the Archbishops have appointed me to a new role in the Church of England as Pioneer Minister to the Animal Community. I’ll be developing ways for the church to become more animal inclusive and grow our mission and ministry to the animal kingdom.
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Gender roles in the Bible, example No. 318 - men do the washing up: “I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.” 2 Kings 21:13
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I watched this last night and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up on end when Dame Judi did this >>
Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:
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Pray for those who have no choice but to stay and wait for the Taliban to come. Some of us have won the lottery of life to have been born in the time and place that we have.
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Oh, no. This is unacceptable. Campaign for
#InternationalMouseDay
starts right here. Heck of a lot more mice in churches than cats and they deserve recognition!
#CofEMice
As part of
#InternationalCatDay
, we're celebrating the felines that call our churches and cathedrals home.
Show and tail your photos with us by using
#CofECats
.
📸:
@engcathedrals
of
@BudgeofNorwich
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“a person can become a Christian in as little as five weeks after completing a basic course”. Should we tell them that no courses are necessary?
I’m sure I don’t need to worry, but I hope every Church leader will ignore this story.
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I hope that one day such an advert won’t specify that applicants must be male >>
Rector, All Souls Langham Place
@dioceseoflondon
We are looking for a godly and gracious, Christ-dependent man who shares our biblical and theological convictions and wholeheartedly embraces the breadth of our ministry and missional convictions.
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He will send His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways
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If you are the praying kind, could you say one for A please. Going through hell and needs to know God’s love and needs a sense of hope. Thank you! Let’s show this site can be a good place after all!
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Appropriate for the sabbath?
Not sure this was what the diocese had in mind when we were asked to find new streams of income. I admire my daughter's creativity though.
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@DPJHodges
I think the key question on the Sue Gray job situation is “exactly when did Sue Gray and Kier Starmer start discussing a potential job”. This is what calls independence into question, not what civil servants do after they resign.
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This has got people talking, but is nobody going to mention the grammar?
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I wonder if this "female presenter" also has a name?
Andrew Neil steps down from Sunday Politics as female presenter takes the helm
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I'm told this is 100% accurate >> Londoner's Diary
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On it
Would be a real shame if someone were to chew the wires...
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Retweeting without comment >>
The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, reads from Philippians 2: 'Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.'
#BoB80
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I simply cannot comprehend an ideology which leads people to bomb and shoot terrified refugees. Lord have mercy. I have no words.
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The most churchy thing about the CofE’s online services is that they never start on time!
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he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
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The queue has reached the other side of the world. Soon the back of the queue will meet the front as it fully circumnavigates the globe.
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@greg_jenner
My fave is a historical one - we live closer in time to the life of Cleopatra than Cleopatra was to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Egypt is ooooold.
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🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞*Let it be cheese. Let it be cheese. Let it be cheese* 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
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Michael Gove live just now: "there is not a fixed date, like Easter, when you know the peak will come". A great example of a date that is not fixed there.
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OK, hands up who thought the film about Queen Anne would help you understand the origins of the Church Commissioners?
Don’t expect this film about Queen Anne to help you on the origins of the Church Commissioners, says Stephen Brown
#TheFavourite
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If you pray, I'd be grateful if you could say one for my dear friend still very unwell in hospital.
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Wow - bishops queueing up to criticise the HoB pastoral statement. Never seen anything like this before.
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Rishi Sunak has been chancellor for three weeks and five days. Incredible weight on his shoulders right now. Praying for him and all those in positions of power.
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In the Bible, hospitality meant giving the stranger at your door the very best you could offer before they went on their way. Hospitality turned strangers into friends and allies.
@pritipatel
Please let us show hospitality to Ukrainians at our door.
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Considering further concepts, including Strictly Come Priesting, Priesting on Ice and Keeping Up With The Anglicans
*Into dictaphone* Idea for a show: I Can See Your Sacraments - a succession of “priests” celebrate Mass and a celebrity panel has to guess who is the real priest and who are the sinners faking it to win a £10,000 cash prize. Could do a Christmas special with Bishops.
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Please join me in praying for wisdom for our elected politicians at this time and for all voters tomorrow.
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Not true. He is named after Archibald Robertson, theologian and Bishop of Exeter before the First World War. Harry and Megan loved his translation of Athanasius’s On the Incarnation.
He's actually been named after Archibald Campbell Tait, the anti ritualist Archbishop from 1868 to 1882 who looked a bit like a Basset Hound.
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This is not a book review but a character attack on Vicky which is absolutely plumb wrong.
@EAUKnews
should take another look, take the article down and think about an apology.
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…I mean, the wallpaper alone nearly bankrupted me …
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Wow. Pretty cool!
@thechurchmouse
Our church has no plans to open for some time, but we are providing an outdoor labyrinth for those who still want to make use of a sacred space in the village.
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This is the exact opposite of the Church of England.
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Thank you
@RevRichardColes
"Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, and neither floods drown it."
@RevRichardColes
returned to the Breakfast Show with some touching words for
#ValentinesDay
. 🧡
@zoetheball
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CofE just called to say I was PROBABLY going to be named “Bishop of London”, but I would have to agree to an interview and photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass.
Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!
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Find me the wildest passage in the Bible. I’ll start with 2 Kings 2:22-25 when 42 boys were mauled by bears after Elisha cursed them for calling him “baldy”.
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Just went into The Church Mouse blog archive - seems the first post went up in January 2009. The Church Mouse is 10 years old folks! A huge thanks to all of you who have been with me on the way. It's been a blast.
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Don’t forget it is one of the high points of the liturgical year tomorrow - accidentally turn up at church an hour late day.
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Dear
@Starbucks
I like your idea of liturgical colours for cups, but it should be purple for Advent and red for Pentecost.
Yours
Mouse
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What a heartbreaking end to an incredibly tough year. Much love and prayers to everyone who’s plans to finally see family have been dashed at the last minute.
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I’m afraid your flirting won’t work on me
@Number10cat
. Let’s just be friends.
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Whenever I hear people say that support for same sex marriage means people are theologically poorly educated or happy to ignore parts of the Bible I think of Rowan and wonder how anyone can truly believe that accusation.
Good to see this too this morning- reminding everyone that Bishop
@Steven_Croft
is not alone I'm his support for
#samesexmarriage
...
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How can this possibly be happening!?!?
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@_F_B_G_
When you drive to France, the eurotunnel terminal in England has a display of great French men and women in the corridor leading to the bathrooms. This is the final picture.
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Vote on the ordination of women passes in the Province of Central Africa (Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, Zambia). Great news.
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Still can't understand why politicians always send Christmas cards with their own picture on. Someone should tell them it is not about them.
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Absolutely bleak General Synod paper ostensibly on finance but actually staring into the bleeding heart of the Church of England.
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@Canonjjohn
I get what you mean here, but also it has been estimated that up to a third of rapes take place within marriage or partnered relationships, so this isn’t a brilliantly worded tweet.
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Right. It’s November - OK to start buying mince pies, right?
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@AndrewGraystone
The most courageous act by a bishop I've ever seen was Rowan Williams preaching to a packed football stadium in Zimbabwe, then personally handing Robert Mugabe a dossier of his human rights abuses. Incredible moment.
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Beard Theology Lock-down Giveaway! For your chance to win a signed copy of Beard Theology (by me) and a print of one of
@davewalker
's brilliant illustrations signed by Dave himself, just RT this post by Sunday 4 May. Details here
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Killer question from Mrs Mouse: “Why don’t they just give Chris Whitty a clicker so he doesn’t have to say ‘next slide please’?”
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Coleman’s Mustard doesn’t really go out of date, does it? 12 months after the best before date will still be fine, right? Asking for a friend 😬
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I’m sure I don’t need to worry, but I hope every Church leader will ignore this story.
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This is incredible news!
Children across much of Africa are to be vaccinated against malaria in a historic moment in the fight against the deadly disease
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Hey
@ChristianToday
, it is plum wrong to call this fringe group 'Orthodox Anglicans' and imply that everyone else is not. As far as I can tell, this objection stems from a group who could all fit in the back of a taxi.
Stephen Cottrell's appointment as Archbishop of York exposes divisions in the Church of England
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Top tips to make online church feel like normal: (1) arrive a few minutes late and tiptoe to your seat carrying coffee; (2) Always sit in the same seat - if a family member sits there before you fell free to scowl at them;
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I can announce that I will not attend the State Banquet for Donald Trump when he visits.
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It's a big building with patients in it, but that's not important right now ...
Princess Anne and Hungarian footballer both in hospital with concussion - so what is it?
Read more 🔗
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Hallelujah, Jesus is risen! In fear, confusion, doubt and pain - Jesus is risen. In hope, love and expectation - Jesus is risen. Yesterday, today and tomorrow - Jesus is risen. For you, me and our neighbour - Jesus is risen. When there is nothing else to say - Jesus is risen.
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Very concerned by the way this story has been used. Against the wishes of the girl, her family and her teachers, this vicar and Christian Concern have publicised their situation to the whole world.
"I do not feel at liberty to ignore Jesus Christ’s instruction on this issue."
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