Rev Dr Andrew Butcher

@stbarnabas_nz Prev @btibethlehem @justicenzgovt @asianewzealand @vicuniwgtn @stateivlp @otago @ISEAS, @nzpopassn Tweets mine, retweets not endorsements.

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

“If he makes a move on Greenland, the damage that does to America's ability to rally allies, that's devastating."

David Rennie, Geopolitics Editor at The Economist, discusses President Trump's foreign policy approach to Greenland.

#Newsnight

[James Chapman @jameschappers]

The best story you’ll read this Christmas https://t.co/o73BU4gCH7

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

A controversial new scientific research paper claims it takes '32 minutes to boil the perfect egg', when everyone knows you can get the perfect egg within 5 seconds

[William Whyte @william_whyte]

And where do the extrovert Archdeacons sit?

[Emily-Jane : 🍂🪐 @willbondspeare]

he looks like all 3 top gear hosts combined

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

The Labour government says it's ready to go all in on 'Artificial' Intelligence after 6 months learning the limitations of their own

[Madeleine Davies @MadsDavies]

I have a long read this week, looking back at Justin Welby's time as Archbishop of Canterbury. Quite hard to summarise an eventful 12 years. I'm sure others would have different emphases or readings
https://t.co/g5GpqsOuG8

[LBC @LBC]

'How's that on a scale of medieval misogyny?'

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop tells ＠AndrewMarr9 that Elon Musk is 'riddled with contradictions'.

[Peter Carrell ن @petercarrell]

Richard Hays: Theologian of the Cross, Member of the New Community | Psephizo https://t.co/yChK2ibght

[James Rice 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🦆 @JamesRice21]

"And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way."

[Paul Middleton @ProfPMiddleton]

Richard Hays, Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Duke, has died, aged 76. A hugely influential scholar, his 'Moral Vision of the New Testament' (1996) remains an important work, as will his last book, 'The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story' (2024).

[Mike Batt @Mike_Batt]

I was once whingeing to Paul McCartney that I'll always be known primarily for the Wombles. Straight-faced, without irony, he said, "Yeah, I have the same problem with The Beatles".

[Nick Bryant @NickBryantNY]

The model post-president - and a presidency under-valued at the time. Jimmy Carter’s brutal honesty was often interpreted as weakness. He told Americans hard truths that they didn’t want to hear, rather than going with the usual arias of US exceptionalism.

[Simon Sarmiento @simonsarmiento]

‘The church must speak out’: Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin on racism, sexual abuse and asylum seekers https://t.co/reNEAlXnxd

[Peter Carrell ن @petercarrell]

I compliment @rnz_news on finding our Diocesan website and my message on it!

https://t.co/wrqIU9or9p

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

“Heresy is fundamentally easy; heresy arises from the urge of the human mind to make sense of the mystery of God. And the Incarnation is very far from easy to process, whatever sentimentality or warm nostalgia we may choose to dress it in.”

@DrFrancisYoung on Xmas’s weirdness

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

At a farm in Oxfordshire, a working-class former McDonalds employee and a farmer struggling to make ends meet, bond over the unfairness of inheritance tax

[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

Commentatorballs. These are real quotes from real sports commentators, sent in by readers.

Watch 'An Evening with Private Eye 2024' in full, on YouTube now.

[Rev Dr Andrew Butcher @DrAndrewButcher]

@jaustinNZ Congrats Jonathan!

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

As all clergy can testify, churches are tremendously calm places at Christmas, and not hectic at all…