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Vicar (I know I can’t believe it either!), husband to a bonkers woman, father to 4 fine young men (probably despite my parenting rather than because of it!).

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Countdown has started to set up for the fabulous Broadclyst Church Flower festival in East Devon. Opens to the public Thursday 13th October - Sunday 16th, with free entry. Coordinated by our fabulous famous floral designer and author Sarah Pepper.

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@katieengelhart 2/2 and I a Christian. She asked me to take her funeral in the garden I had tended for her. She was a maddening, kind, courageous and wonderful human being. She changed my views for ever on the right to choose ones own end.

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@katieengelhart 1/2 Hi Katie, just read your piece in the Guardian, I was Avril’s gardener, whilst also training as an priest. What started as mowing the lawn became a solid friendship, over lunch once a week we discussed her life and plans for her death, she a devout atheist

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@FrancesVClemson @frjonathanbish It does sound encouraging to hear change is underway, if only it could be combined with paid apprenticeship style learning what doors could be opened.

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@JarelRB @kirstyborthwick You should come along to one of our ‘Miscellany of little known facts about churches’ talks. You will never walk around old churches in quite the same way again!

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@JarelRB They never left rural churches!

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@FrancesVClemson @frjonathanbish Which was why I raised the issue. As a matter of interest, from your experience, what other options might institutions sometimes use and how widespread are these alternatives?

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@FrancesVClemson @frjonathanbish As I say, maybe in the last twelve months things locally have changed, but my experience of part time local training for full time stipendiary ministry was heavily academically weighted, with a strong focus not exclusively, but significantly, on essay writing.

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@FrancesVClemson @frjonathanbish Essays are great if your dealing with someone good at writing essays, otherwise they are a barrier to potentially gifted individuals. It sounds as though what you are saying is local training providers are lagging behind in adopting alternatives.

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@FrancesVClemson @frjonathanbish Fascinating, so having trained locally and completed a slew of essays on a course validated by Durham, and I am sure being informed the essays were double marked by Durham this is choice of the local training provider?

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@FrancesVClemson @frjonathanbish Interesting, because my experience of ordinand training up to just over a year ago is one very heavy on essays which were mandatory. So are you saying with current common awards an ordinand can opt out of writing essays marked by an external academic institution completely?

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@OurCofELike You have dogs at morning prayer? Excellent!

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@bcgray Another opportunity missed to tinkering around the edges, what education requires is a complete rethink. We are trying to educate our children in a system which hasn’t fundamentally evolved for a hundred years. Rows of kids sat at desks, one size fits all?

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@frjonathanbish 2/2 Maybe if we moved to shorter apprenticeship style paid training, a curate who also studied part time like ordinands who train regionally, with academic training given and accredited locally we could widen our pool of candidates & speed up the process and cut cost.

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@walkerlap @andrewbeane Yes, but at least we don’t have to worry about the DAC wielding whips!

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Cannot help but thinking it might be handy is Jesus was in charge of re-ordering in our churches with his proactive policy on furniture moving!

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@JarelRB I can’t ever see Jesus considering whipping a beast of burden!

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Politicians keep banging on about the country paying off its dept but surely if we just all got together, maybe on a Thursday evening for the next year or two, and clapped, that would be it all sorted?

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@SophCowan Surely he just needs to back to the last place he last saw her? Would be far easier than seeking help on Twitter from total strangers.