Tim Wyatt
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Freelance religion journalist. Written for @TheEconomist @Guardian @TheTimes @BBC @Telegraph @Independent . Also run a podcast and write a weekly newsletter.
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I've started a newsletter! It's called The Critical Friend and the first edition is arriving tomorrow morning. It will be a weekly email about the church - what it's doing right, what's going wrong, & what might happen next - from a churchgoing journalist:
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Millennials shun modern liturgy for ‘bells and smells’
I've got a piece in
@thetimes
looking at the curious resurgence of interest in traditionalist Anglican worship among the young
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Attention Anglican Twitter: some of you love your church buildings and are devastated you cannot be in them right now. Others of you don't care as much. It's OK to be in either camp. Can we please stop tearing the other side to bits over it in public? Please.
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'Do you want a badge for doing the laundry?'
Privileged to be able to share
@Being_Brent
's experiences of Twitter, the good and the less good, in this BBC story
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You've probably never heard of Martin Sargeant, but he is at the centre of an astonishing scandal in the Church of England. For the first time, we're telling the full story of how he stole millions and also ruined lives of innocent clergy across London. Please read and share!
For over a year,
@tswyatt
has been interviewing the victims of a convicted fraudster, Martin Sargeant who swindled £5 million from the Diocese of London.
Sargeant then made a host of lurid allegations, which have had fatal consequences.
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Very pleased by the sudden slew of new bishops announced today, all of whom are women. Joanne Grenfell will be next Bishop of Stepney in London, Dagmar Winter will be Bishop of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, and Sarah Bullock will be Bishop of Shrewsbury in West Midlands.
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In case you missed it yesterday, I've written for the BBC about
@Being_Brent
and what it's like having Down's Syndrome on Twitter
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Genuinely thrilled to log into Twitter today and discover that my hard work creating the
@churchtimes
's 404 error page has finally paid off.
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@miadegraaf
Don't bring your
#SpicerConjecture
here. This is a forum for verified
#SpicerFacts
only.
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Interesting actual MPs still totally unaware the Electoral Commission will not allow this. Despite the Independent Group coming unstuck for the same reason literally only months ago.
Amber Rudd says she expects to fight next election as an "independent Conservative."
#r4today
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This is by far the greatest fake CS Lewis quote I've ever seen. I
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I've written for
@Christianitymag
about problems in the media coverage of the allegations against Mike Pilavachi and Soul Survivor. Vital we don't allow religiously illiterate axe-grinding to obscure the severity of the safeguarding concerns here
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Incredibly childish for May to call Emily Thornberry Lady Nugee in the chamber. Grow up people. This stuff is important, not a game.
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Vicar's wife?! Come on Daily Mail, that's embarrassing even by your own low standards. She is also a vicar!
http://t.co/zN9bB6jt0i
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@StPaulsLondon
Police treating it as non-suspicious. Cathedral will be closed for rest of the day.
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Excellent piece by
@waltonandy
on how Christian politicians should approach the issue of gay marriage
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The average Trump voter is actually richer than most
Basically their subjective "economic anxiety" is just White privilege by another name.
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Thoroughly refreshing to see an Easter message which actually is about Easter.
.
@timfarron
Easter message: "Whatever you are doing and whoever you are spending it with, I hope you have a wonderful time – Happy Easter."
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The Archbishop of Canterbury is currently storming away with a vote to decide which civic leader should overthrow the government.
Right, since it is now obviously pressing which civic leader do we want to lead the coup?
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This week's podcast takes a deep dive into the chaos and strife of Anglican safeguarding, to find out how it all fell apart and whether anyone can put it back together again. Featuring:
@GavinDrake
@AndrewGraystone
@psephizo
@Jas_Sanghera_KN
@ReshapersCIC
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Tourists regularly place their phones and cameras down on the utterly flat water of this font, thinking it's glass.
You know you’ve hung around cathedrals too long when you’re taken aback that the Russian ‘tourists’ mentioned Salisbury’s clock and spire but not it’s font, the font *is* everything, LOOK
(font as in basin for baptismal water not type face)
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The first C of E vicar to enter a same-sex marriage has been elected to
@synod
http://t.co/TqMmXe0Ddk
http://t.co/SzCAAIwb6Z
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NEW: The Governing Body of the Church in Wales has comfortably defeated this motion by 63 votes to 19.
Welsh archdeacon seeks to end conscience provision for traditionalists Moves to bar traditionalists from being ordained in the Church in Wales have been branded “illiberal” and likely to drive them out of the Church
@tswyatt
reports from Cardiff
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Experimenting with some free automated transcription software, which has produced this gem from a recent interview with someone at a theological college.
"We don't train female priests and male priests, we train people to be trees."
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Has the Church finally woken up to the tech revolution? And if so, what might that mean for faith in the 21st century?
Me in
@WiredUK
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Just tried to photocopy my passport and the printer decided to include a smudge of black in possibly the best position.
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Really excited to have my new podcast with Premier finally go live. Thirty minutes each week unpacking and explaining one big story from the church world, with guests and the
@PremierNewsDesk
team. Got some great episodes lined up and a handful in the feed ready to go 😃
Check out our brand new podcast Premier Christian Newscast hosted by
@tswyatt
Episodes on
#Hillsong
#Ukraine
️
@churchscotland
gay marriage vote.
Available here and all podcast providers:
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Amidst all the jokes about thin-skinned Stephen Fry quitting Twitter yet again, let's remember he's battled with mental illness. Be kind.
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This is the only good Doctor Who take.
The most shocking thing about Doctor Who is the number of grown adults who seem to have strong views about a children's programme
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@joncstone
Throwing in 'Some' at the start of a sentence I had wanted to begin with a number but can't because it's bad style. 'Some 3,000 people claimed asylum last year...'
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Just had an actual phone call from a reader who was, get this, pleased with something I had written and, genuinely, wanted to thank me for writing it.
Not entirely sure what to do about this.
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Stumbled across this delightfully accurate definition while researching the history of evangelicalism:
'A fundamentalist is an evangelical who is angry about something. A pentecostal is an evangelical who is happy about something.'
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Big news from Anglicanism here - grouping of conservative Churches formally announcing intent to break centuries of relationship with C of E and recast leadership of global Anglican Communion of churches away from
@justinwelby
.
Global South Fellowship of Anglican churches break away from Anglican communion: Statement:
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@WalkerMarcus
@MadsDavies
In my experience, the vast majority of candidates for ministry gave zero thought as to how many bedrooms they might get in their free house while figuring out how to respond to God's call.
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Please do read the full account at The Fence and share it widely - I really think this story deserves to be much better known.
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Aware this is a bit of a lockdown cliche, but I've started a podcast with my dad
@johnswyatt
(we had actually made plans pre-covid, I promise!). Each episode I ring him up to chat about an issue in ethics, science, tech, healthcare and more, and think together about how
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I often feel like the critics of the HTB movement would be taken more seriously if their attacks were more commonly a) grounded in fact (HTB is not remotely Calvinist in its theology) and b) less hyperbolic (sinister and absurd?!)
The whole HTB/St Mellitus axis operates within the CofE exactly like Momentum within the Labour Party to undermine traditional Anglican practice, diversity and spirituality in favour of a kind of emotive Calvinism that is often sinister, voluntaristic, extrinsicist and absurd.
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@Mr_Sam_Brown
Don't be too hard on yourself Sam - I thought some of the grief you got was pretty unfair. Twitter is an unforgiving place and sadly even Christian Twitter is not very good at kindness at times. I thought you handled the criticism very graciously.
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Jeremy's cycling videos get better and better
Kind of amazing, my trip through Hammersmith Broadway this week. This place was the seventh circle of hell for decades. Not that the child on the bike will ever know!
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I’ve got a piece in the
@Spectator
arguing that today’s American evangelicals could learn a lot from how Billy Graham conducted his ministry
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Absolutely love this picture
French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe defeats children in a game of dominos during a visit to a school, July 2020.
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This is a) probably untrue as conservative parties regularly form governments via proportional voting systems around the world, and b) really unhelpful for the cause of electoral reform.
They know.
#PR
is an existential threat to the Tories according to the Spectator.
Let’s make it happen and watch them disintegrate.
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WHO has been teaching the Archbishop of Canterbury Stormzy lyrics!?
I’m enjoying listening to a half hour special
@BBCCovWarks
with
@JustinWelby
. He’s just been asked how do you prepare for Prince Harry and Megan Markle’s
#royalwedding
? He quoted
@Stormzy
and said “I stay prayed up and get the job done.”
#MICDrop
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Royal peculiars. Suffragan bishops. Deanery synod. 'House for duty'.
No-one quite does esoteric jagon and eccentric job titles like the Church of England.
Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask, at
@RelMedCentre
:
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Just watched The Post and absolutely pumped about journalism. No doubt C of E General Synod tomorrow will bring me back down to earth.
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Absolutely majestic demolition of the modern (especially student) Left's rejection of free speech
http://t.co/sICG7kI3VK
by
@NickCohen4
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Around 50 Christians gathered outside the Scottish Parliament to sing and pray ahead of the referendum tomorrow.
http://t.co/JJeY3Venwc
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Good job opening here at the
@churchtimes
. Don't rule it out if you haven't come across the paper before - it's an interesting role which got me my proper start in journalism (and made some good friends too!).
Reporter: Church Times
A full-time reporter is sought to work in a busy London office as part of the 13-strong editorial team that produces the Church Times.
@ChurchTimes
#reporter
#journalismcareers
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Great piece on Soul Survivor, how it influenced the church and what to make of it now by
@MadsDavies
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I'm writing a feature for
@churchtimes
about non-traditional curacies. I'm looking to speak to people who did curacies outside the norm - maybe maternity cover or turnaround ministry in a declining church, or something else? Please do share or email me: tswyatt
@gmail
.com.
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The Church of England: winning new recruits with orange juice and absence of theology since 1534
http://t.co/mNboM2HJiN
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@fixing_projects
@paulbayes
Obviously I agree! My editors at the Telegraph seem to have slightly amended my original text (as is their right) which had the bishop 'bringing' his wife, not 'taking' her.
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@annaverdon
@miadegraaf
@chrispleasance
@rachael_hook
#SpicerFacts
Tim Spicer was awarded the OBE for his service in N Ireland in 1992.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury
@JustinWelby
announces he will not personally use the new prayers of blessing for gay couples the Church of England is proposing next month. This 'self-denying ordinance' was necessary to maintain unity within the global Anglican Communion, he said.
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Impressed by this gracious and thoughtful response to
@AngelaTilby
's latest
@churchtimes
column which has been causing stirs online
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The American person who keeps accidentally putting in my email in forms, has now signed me up to Barnes & Noble, on top of getting updates about his kids' school assignments, information on his home's sale value from an estate agent, and the group email planning a family holiday.
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I'm genuinely struggling to imagine something Lewis would be less likely to write.
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This will be hugely challenging for the C of E. All 16,000 parish churches plus 30,000 other buildings to be made net zero in just ten years. Interesting to see how much offsetting is required to cancel out those who cannot eliminate their emissions by 2030.
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Lots of big football clubs were started by churches. And their links to Christianity persist, 150 years later, despite it all. My latest podcast digs into the deep connections between football and faith, with
@mwakelin44
and
@DannoCiS
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Slightly concerned about this ad appearing on Google. Can someone check on all the priests?
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Discovered this morning the largest ever response to a Church of England consulation was about putting in term limits for people standing for deanery synods.
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@nathestevens
Hi Nathan, I'm a freelance journalist specialising in coverage of faith issues and the church. Would be interested in trying to get this astonishing story out there - would you be able to get in touch? tswyatt
@gmail
.com
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Lots of questions here about the dubious Christian Legal Centre who claim to be representing Alfie Evans’s parents
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Briefly considered emailing my MP to encourage them to support the effort to get Corbyn to resign. Then remembered Corbyn is my MP.
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THREAD: The bishops of the Church of England have released a lengthy paper explaining their approach to introduce blessings for gay couples in church. It lays out why they are going to push ahead with the prayers and blessings despite much conservative backlash.
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@MarkDiStef
@jimwaterson
Just like to wade in and say that I'm really pleased the genuine 1 hour I spent making that 404 page last year has paid off.
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Facinating piece by
@theosnick
on the ‘Clap for Carers’ tribute last night and how the pandemic is cementing the NHS's place as modern Britain's national religion
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I'm a committed atheist, but my child has become religious // Fascinating story
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In my first week I did a story about a commuter upset that his train home had skipped his small village station to make up lost time.
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Incredible reading voice. Wait until the end.
'April is the cruellest month' -
@Geoffrey_Cox
recites T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' . The Attorney General explains why he's using poetry to get through Brexit
🎧 Political Thinking with
@BBCNickRobinson
[Tap to expand]
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@JimmyRushmore
But Aaron was talking about after the war began. That said, it's not a tremendous argument for govt control of production today, given we're not in a global existential war with a fascist European neighbour.
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@OwenJones84
Have deleted my tweet. It's poor form to jump in without reading article 1st, and I don't like it when others do it. Apologies.
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Or, maybe there is just perhaps more than one type of evangelicalism, and Alpha has as much to do with muscular Christianity as Giles does.
The inevitable backlash. Evangelicals rally round to attack those who place their theology at the scene of childhood beatings.
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The Chinese government donated $100,000 to the Philippines. Ikea's charity gave $2.7m. Draw your own conclusions.
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C of E youth rep
@sophoftheyear
deliver zinger at
@synod
during climate debate by noting unlike most of the other members, she actually would be around in 50 years time to experience the consequences of their actions.
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Beautifully played by the Guardian/Mirror in holding back second part of story until entire government had exposed themselves by defending Cummings with the 'he stayed put while recovering' excuse.
Another witness says Cummings was seen again the following week on April 19.
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Hard to see the Church properly tackling burnout and clergy wellbeing until it takes this excellent question more seriously.
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@Nigel_Farage
Having just met survivors of a rather bigger storm in the Philippines, I can assure you their need is greater than ours.
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