🏳️‍🌈Ian Whitley🏳️‍🌈

Vicar of Lingfield and Dormansland , Subversive Celebrant, Follower of The Way, Son, Husband, Dad, he, him, 🏳️‍🌈 ally. Tweets and views are my own

[🏳️‍🌈Ian Whitley🏳️‍🌈 @MissionLandD]

@WalkerMarcus Who were the 9?

[MartineOborne @MartineOborne]

The 'equal but different' message of complementarianism does not recognise that, when power & privilege are added to the context (as in @churchofengland), this becomes 'Know your place, know the things you can & can't do - because you are different.' #NotEqualYet

[Andrew King @drandrewmking]

🚨Giveaway🚨

I’m giving away a copy of my ⁦@tandtclark⁩ book on Amos. RT and follow to enter. Tag a friend for an extra entry. Winner announced 6/23.

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

Guess which MP has received £224,575 from people + companies linked to the private health sector between Jan 2023- March 2025?

🚨Wes Streeting, our Health Secretary🚨

We think these donations should be BANNED! If you agree, please click here to sign! https://t.co/fOS8zUQyI9

[🏳️‍🌈Ian Whitley🏳️‍🌈 @MissionLandD]

@Keir_Starmer It is about time you changed parties because you definitely are not Labour

[MMT for Progressives @MMTLabour]

@SaulStaniforth Totally deranged and malicious. There's writing is on the wall. If Starmer wants a second term he needs about a million U-turns and several high profile sackings.

[Lucy Webster @Lucy_Webster_]

Just a reminder that the DWP itself estimates the PIP fraud rate at 0%

[Robert Thompson (he/him) @Rgt71Robert]

“The absolutist conservatives have done everything they can to block moves towards inclusion.” ⁦@charliebelllive⁩ absolutely right. I would put it even more strongly: exclusivists exclude & make people like us unwelcome. It’s theological cleansing. https://t.co/5HZnDlAmvE

[Robert Thompson (he/him) @Rgt71Robert]

I do really earnestly pray for all those to be ordained bishop tomorrow that they may indeed work for unity of @churchofengland in all its diversity.

Earnestly because the majority here may well want to strengthen the exclusion of LGBTQIA+ people like me in the church. They may well feel themselves not even in communion with many of us who are open about sexuality and support equal marriage. They may well even feel that because of that we are not really Christian.

When one of the those to be ordained compared meagre and minimal proposals from the House of Bishops as presented to @synod by @bishopSarahM to increase diverse representation in our Church as a manoeuvre akin to Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, some may well despair.

The level of ‘debate’ has become so toxic and it only those of us who are #LGBTQIA+ that are suffering the sacrificial burden of this utter duplicity at present. These lies that we live are not just abstract, but they shape real people of faith, with embodied lives in real parishes & communities.

Unity must no longer be at the cost of #LGBTQIA+ lives.

[🏳️‍🌈Ian Whitley🏳️‍🌈 @MissionLandD]

@charliekirk11 His will be done - really? Then why quote the Roman Empire way ‘Peace through strength’ rather that Jesus’ way of the servant king and non-violence.

[David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow]

Amazing that she cannot imagine a quicker, more efficient method for putting pounds in people's pockets than trying to invoke the growth fairy.

[Richard Scorer @Richard_Scorer]

Former chair of child sexual abuse inquiry says Tory government response was ‘awful’ https://t.co/BF0U8Tae6d

[Patriotic Millionaires UK @PatMillsUK]

Very much hoping @RachelReevesMP will listen. The country cannot cope with cuts. But the richest of us can absorb a tiny tax rise. Thank you @carla_denyer

[🏳️‍🌈Ian Whitley🏳️‍🌈 @MissionLandD]

I’d take a Christ following Christian over a Bible believing one any day.

[Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga]

protestants: “we are saved by faith alone”

also protestants:

[🏳️‍🌈Ian Whitley🏳️‍🌈 @MissionLandD]

If I was the training incumbent for that Curate I would be telling them how selfish they are and they would be apologising to you. You your son would be very welcome in our church. I love it when kids are noisy as it means a) they are present and b) I get a chance to engage.

[🏳️‍🌈Ian Whitley🏳️‍🌈 @MissionLandD]

@ClergyMaltClub it’s not whisky, however shalom to you all

[Andrew Graystone @AndrewGraystone]

Nye says that the Rochester Synod may not be aware of the Archbishop’s Council response to the Makin Report.

The report was four years late.
The Support Scheme is failing.
The Redress Scheme doesn’t exist.

That’s precisely why they have no confidence. https://t.co/uEpmuQk7UY

[Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga]

@RealJRHughes where did jesus say anything about homosexuality?

[🏳️‍🌈Ian Whitley🏳️‍🌈 @MissionLandD]

@PeterStefanovi2 @DanielKebedeNEU Aa a school governor I can say with absolute certainty that there is nowhere to make any cuts without affecting the students care. We were better off with the Tories m, at least we knew they heartless and didn’t give a shit. This lot pretend to care and then shaft you anyway.

[Gavin Drake @GavinDrake]

BREAKING:

A Church of England diocese led by the former Lead Bishop for Safeguarding breaks ranks with the status quo and calls out the Archbishops' Council for its safeguaridng failings.

Time for the whole Archbishops' Council, including @CottrellStephen and William Nye, to go