Mevantha

A wildlife and travel enthusiast, who was a travel designer and now manages Ishq Luxury Villas. Loves teaching and is passionate about Christ. Pursue wisdom!

[Revd Canon Fr Phil Harris† 🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸 @PhilHs10]

As an Anglican priest, my heart is not just heavy—it is breaking 💔

The Church is being taken for fools…

[Sri Lanka CSO FATF Network @sl_cso_fatf]

🚨 What if the real danger isn’t just one law? And how are these law connected?

Listen to Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa’s explanation at the launch of the civil society shadow report submitted to FATF mutual evaluation of Sri Lanka.

Taken together, the laws Sri Lanka is enacting and the digital systems it is building can create an architecture of surveillance and control and shrink civic space.

From the NGO Bill and Online Safety Act to digital identity, data exchanges and AI - what happens when all the pieces come together?

🎥 Watch the full remarks.
👀 The warning is here. The question is: what will we do to address the dangers?

#SriLanka #CivicSpace #DigitalRights #Surveillance #HumanRights #FATF #RuleOfLaw #Digitalisation

@sanjanah, @ambikasat, @HSCollective, @fatfplatform, @FATFNews, @profbensaul, @Ginitastar

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

How it started How it's going

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Word has just come down that St. Paul’s Cathedral in London—the second most important church in the Anglican world—has imitated Canterbury Cathedral in permitting “raves,” nightclub-like entertainments, to take place in its confines.

The usual reasons for acquiescing to this have been trotted out: reaching out to the young, trying to get with the times, etc. But this development simply shows that the leadership of the Church of England has lost any sense of the crucial distinction between the sacred and the secular.

Across the centuries and across the cultures, our ancestors seem to have intuitively grasped the importance of this demarcation. Whereas the secular is the arena of ordinary experience and activity, the sacred is another realm, a different dimension.

Accordingly, in the properly sacred space, one is lifted out of the conventional and introduced into the numinous. This is why Christian cathedrals are filled with images of the saints and angels and why their interiors are meant first to disorient us and then to reorient us toward the divine.

It is also why, in the initiation rituals of primal peoples, a young person is purposely ripped out of the ordinary and introduced into the mythic and mystic dimension. And it is why, throughout the Bible, sacred spaces are carefully set apart from common spaces.

The contemporary West is, quite literally, the first culture in human history that is in danger of collapsing the sacred into the secular, or better, losing any sense of the difference between the two.

This is doing enormous damage, especially to young people, whose lives have been flattened into a preoccupation with money, worldly success, and material things.

The Church indeed should go out into the secular space to find those who have wandered away from God, but it should then lead those wanderers back to the holy.

Having “raves” in the nave of one of the most sacred spaces in the Christian world is, I’m sad to say, another sign of our pitiful surrender to ideological secularism.

[Jonathan Smith @Fiat__Justitia]

As an Anglican, I don’t think there is anything more offensive or humiliating than a Muslim celebrating the desecration of one of my churches.

Perhaps that’s the point.

[Mevantha @MevanthaD]

I've said it many times and I say it again - the CoE is a cesspit.

[Keith Ainsworth @AinsworthKeith]

If nothing is sacred, everything is for hire.

St Paul’s Cathedral just signed a four-year deal with nightclub Fabric to put DJs under Wren’s dome.

Nelson is buried in the crypt. Wellington too. This is where a nation buried its dead and thanked God it still had a country.

They say the shows are “seated.” They say it’s “engagement.” The Queen’s former chaplain called it apostasy. Nelson’s family called it an insult to his memory.

A church that rents the nave to a club that once lost its license after teenagers died on the premises is not “reaching a new audience.” It is admitting it no longer knows what the building is for.

[Tom Wright @profntwright]

The Sermon on the Mount isn’t just about us. If it was, we might admire it as a fine bit of idealism, but we’d then return to our normal lives. It’s about Jesus himself. This was the blueprint for his own life. He asks nothing of his followers that he hasn’t faced himself. And, within his own life, we can already sense a theme that will grow larger and larger until we can’t miss it. If this is the way to show what God is really like, and if this is the pattern that Jesus himself followed exactly, Matthew is inviting us to draw the conclusion: that in Jesus we see the Emmanuel, the God-with-us person. The Sermon on the Mount isn’t just about how to behave. It’s about discovering the living God in the loving, and dying, Jesus, and learning to reflect that love ourselves into the world that needs it so badly.

-Matthew for Everyone

[Newsfirst.lk Sri Lanka @NewsfirstSL]

Rare Underground Clay Pipeline System Found at Sri Lanka’s Ancient Yapahuwa Kingdom

Details: https://t.co/5Wa08a2HgS

#News1st #NewsFirst #NewsFirstEnglish #LKA #SriLanka #ArchaeologicalExcavation #YapahuwaKingdom

[Mevantha @MevanthaD]

Amazing!

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines,
I’m officially declaring myself a @WNBA prospect.

If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.

My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA’s eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion. Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in April 2027.

I know my presence on the court will stir up strong opinions.
I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or disrespect any community or personal choices.
I’m simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone — the rules that represent the very values many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for.
My team and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently, and without exception, and I look forward to the #WNBA honoring its stated principles.

See you at training camp.

https://t.co/zlwWpVF0Ou

[Christian Emergency Alliance @ChristianEmerg1]

Nigeria: Yesterday, 27 Christians were buried in a mass funeral following last week’s Fulani Muslim attack on Naridon village, Kaduna State.

Three other Christians were laid to rest earlier.

Muslim leaders will not stop this evil.

Christian leaders must, with God’s help.

[Mevantha @MevanthaD]

@England Harry channeling his inner Femke Broeders-Bol.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If I'm honest this has been a hard season for me lately. I've been struggling with trusting God's timing. I was reminded when reading Psalm 37 today that I am to be still before Yahweh and wait patiently. That Yahweh is good to those who wait for him and seek him, and it is good to wait quietly for God’s salvation (Lam. 3:25–26). This quiet waiting involves hoping in God’s word while the soul waits more intensely than watchmen awaiting morning (Psalm 130:5–6).

I was reminded that prior to preaching to thousands, for a season Peter went back to fishing after thinking he failed Jesus. That Paul sat in prison cells, Lazarus lay in a tomb, Jonah prayed in the belly of a fish, Hannah wept on the steps of the tabernacle, Joseph was locked in the captivity, and Moses stood in the fields of Median herding sheep. All before God made moves in his timing.

Times of waiting, while hard, remind us of the confidence we should have in God’s timing and character. When direction seems slow in coming, we're called to wait for it, assured it will come when the time is ready (Hab. 2:3). Yahweh himself waits to be gracious and show mercy, and those who wait for him are blessed, for he is a God of justice (Isa. 30:18). Rather than taking matters into their own hands, like I often am tempted to do, we are instructed not to repay evil but to wait for the Lord, who will deliver us (Prov 20:22).

Hoping for what is unseen involves waiting with patience (Romans 8:25), and through the Spirit and faith, believers eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness (Galatians 5:5). Waiting involves expectancy and hope regarding events and contingencies still in the future, it's the outworking of a spiritual posture directed at trusting God’s promises and timing rather than our own understanding.

Knowing all of this, writing here on X doesn't make my season of needing to wait any easier, but the consistent, inspired, inerrant testimony of scripture nonetheless gives me something solid to trust in. I am fickle, impatient, and finite. God is trustworthy, forbearing, and infinite. And his timing is right even if I don't know how or when things will happen.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Man, this is beautiful. A life adorning the gospel.

Listen to what @StevenBartlett—host of one of the world’s most popular podcasts—says to Christian apologist John Lennox.

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

92.62m! 🇱🇰🔥

Rumesh Pathirage delivers the throw of his life at the Rome Diamond League, launching the javelin to a stunning 92.62m.

✅ World Lead 2026 ✅ Sri Lankan Record ✅ Asia's 2nd all-time best ✅ 8th on the all-time world list

What a moment for Sri Lankan athletics! 👏🔥

[Tom Wright @profntwright]

This chapter [Romans 6] shines a bright spotlight on the dangerous half-truth, currently fashionable, that "God accepts us as we are." Indeed, the question of 6:1 could be read as raising exactly this question: Will "God's acceptance" do as a complete grounding of Christian ethics? Emphatically not. Grace reaches where humans are, and accepts them as they are, because anything less would result in nobody's being saved. Justification is by grace alone, through faith alone. But grace is always transformative. God accepts us where we are, but God does not intend to leave us where we are. That would be precisely to "continue in sin, that grace might abound." Unless we are simply to write Romans 6 out of the canon, the radical inclusivity of the gospel must be matched by the radical exclusivity of Christian holiness. There is such a thing as continuing to let sin reign in one's mortal body, and it will require serious moral effort to combat this tendency. The idea that Christian holiness is to be attained by every person simply doing what comes naturally would actually be funny were it not so prevalent. True freedom is not simply the random, directionless life, but the genuine humanness that reflects the image of God. This is found under the lordship of Christ. And this lordship makes demands that are as testing and difficult as they are actually liberating.
-Romans, New Interpreters Bible

[Lee Strobel @LeeStrobel]

We're getting great feedback on our movie The Story of Everything -- inspiring, mind-blowing, faith affirming! See it in theaters while you can. Trailer & tickets: https://t.co/02kCY4I129

[Mevantha @MevanthaD]

@ImRo45_Club Simple: Short boundary.

[Mevantha @MevanthaD]

@Telegraph Terrible journalism. What immortal rubbish is this?

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Tharanga stuns Olympic stars with gold in Nairobi https://t.co/geH1NlbqlA

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Back to books - Sweden's schools give up digital learning https://t.co/rnb51C6dQ0