Maurice McCracken

Mostly wrong, totally loved. Leader @christchurchlp

[Maurice McCracken @Mos_aic]

I voted @LibDems for my whole adult life until they jumped so entirely onto this bandwagon. Never again.

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance, it does not do enough to protect everyone from discrimination and harassment and it is not compatible with longstanding British values.

@EdwardJDavey and Marie Goldman have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Justification gets you out of Egypt, but sanctification gets Egypt out of you.

[Maurice McCracken @Mos_aic]

Luckily for Alice's thesis there have been no non religious movements enforcing Orthodoxy through violence in the last century. If there were this would be embarrassing nonsense.

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

With all that’s going on in the world right now, I feel it’s really important to draw a distinction between ‘religion’ and ‘faith’. I’m not religious, but I have a humanist worldview which prioritises rational thought, empathy and kindness. I know many people of faith who hold similar values.

But organised religion does something more: it attempts to codify, systematise faith. To create 'orthodoxy' vs 'heresy'. It's a brand that can be linked to states and political movements. It can be used to whip up political support, to reinforce in-group loyalty & to *other* different faiths and religious/ethnic groups.

And to justify violence and war. 1/3

[Maurice McCracken @Mos_aic]

@Philip_Goff Of course, I agree with that. And somehow we believe Jesus death is connected to that enthusiastic welcome. I don't think this parable tells us *how* at all (barring that the father takes all of the cost of the son's rebellion on himself). Happy Easter to you!

[Maurice McCracken @Mos_aic]

@Philip_Goff In the context of 15:1-2 and 16:15, and with the postscript with the other brother,I think it's about how God celebrates sinners repenting more than the efforts of good people to be righteous. I don't think it says anything about the mechanics of that.

[Maurice McCracken @Mos_aic]

@Philip_Goff Well yes it's almost as if every parable doesn't contain every doctrine. You'd be hard pushed to demonstrate Christus Victor from Luke 15 as there's no battle or enemy mentioned.

[Maurice McCracken @Mos_aic]

@Philip_Goff A parable where the father takes the cost of the son's sin upon himself? Not sure it's at odds.

[Tom Wright @thomaswright08]

J.D. Vance in April 2025: “I think a lot of European nations were right about our invasion of Iraq. Frankly, if the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire world from the strategic disaster that was the American-led invasion of Iraq…I don’t want the Europeans to just do whatever the Americans tell them to do. I don’t think it’s in their interest, and I don’t think it’s in our interests, either.”

https://t.co/xrDhe7AL9V

[Kathleen Stock @Docstockk]

Interesting how some women who valiantly fought gender wars now using same tropes beloved of transactivists to defend decriminalisation of late term abortion.
- AS IF there will be thousands of sinister men who want to predate in changing rooms/ women lining up to get rid of their babies! (there won't be, but still need legal deterrent for the few, especially with pills-by-post in the mix).
- AS IF anyone would do that if they were not totally desperate/ in danger/ traumatised etc! (fact check: there are lots of different motivations, humans are diverse. Check out the stories of actual matricide! The idealisation of 50% of the population is stupid wherever you find it ).
- It is MY RIGHT to do what I want to my body, regardless of consquences for others ( how is that not just abject narcissism and selfishness? We aren't living in the 18th Century. Every possible form of contraception was already available. How can it be ok to prefer to try and get rid of a later term baby - especially when you have to go through labour either way - rather than deliver it for adoption?).
Starting to wonder where transactivists got this stuff from🧐

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

Thwarted in their attempts to kill people when they’re nearly dead, the political class have settled for killing people when they’re nearly born.

[Maurice McCracken @Mos_aic]

@RDLaverty In several cases near here it's been conservative congregations who sold the buildings to developers.

[Maurice McCracken @Mos_aic]

Hey @lpoolcouncil @voitechnology was 100 million times better than @boltapp Can we have them back please?

[Maurice McCracken @Mos_aic]

@lpoolcouncil voi are slowly removing scooters from circulation, when will Bolt take over? At the moment it's basically impossible to find a scooter.

[Daniel Heaton @2D0XPS]

If you lined up a pair of newborn booties for each of these babies who never got to wear one, it would stretch from Big Ben to St Alban's Cathedral.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

While global media attention has switched to Venezuela, worth pointing this out;
Iran enters tenth day of protests with 29 killed, 1,203 civilians detained so far.

[Faezeh Alavi @SFaeze_Alavi]

I would like to ask my non-Iranian followers to spread the news of Iran more than previous days🙏

Today, many Iranian accounts don't have access to the internet to spread the word . We need help of the international community 🇮🇱🇺🇸

Khamenei is pure evil.

[Maurice McCracken @Mos_aic]

@DaveK48 It's the bit about all the science books saying the same things if you threw them all away and rewrote them that I'm dubious about tbh.

[Maurice McCracken @Mos_aic]

Oh my goodness please teach some basic epistemology to people who are going to publicly opine about things like this.

[The Ricky Gervais Clips @gervaisclips]

This is atheism in a nutshell.

[Preston Sprinkle @PrestonSprinkle]

“China first” is not a Christian value.
“Nigeria first” is not a Christian value.
“America first” is not a Christian value.
“England first” is not a Christian value.

Christians are members of a global, blood-bought, multi-ethnic kingdom. And our allegiance is to a global God, not a tribal deity.