Pope of Sandpit Lane; Lord of the Manor of Hougun; trustee @clive_ask 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️; feral franciscan; chaplain to the Guild of Nineteen Lubricators (yes really)
"None of my clergy colleagues have enquired as to how I am doing. No one from the bishop’s staff on which I sit have said a word."
For absolute shame.
https://t.co/9lHEsfjgc5
The Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) for the Archbishop of Canterbury held its first meeting in London this week.
Read more at https://t.co/Sa5ejr2d2B.
Another of the great Christmas nights out with the amazing Fr @RichardFWatson on vocals singing carols and Christmas songs for three hours. Packed pubs in St Albans. 10 nights. Unmissable. Everyone singing. One of the best Christmas nights out in the UK. #carolstilclosing
5 fixes for the Church of England.
1. Burn down the machine.
2. Woman archbishop
3. Stop swanning around the world
4. Shrink the big tent
5. Lean into the weird.
https://t.co/AcJwMKgFQL
I’m nervous about calls for @JustinWelby to resign. What is needed is not a scalp but a wholesale change of culture in the church.
To build a safer church we need an end to deference, secrecy, tribalism, and bullying in the House of Bishops. Most local clergy understand this.
@charliebelllive Not naivite... just an unwillingness to call this out as unacceptable behaviour and such that renders Bishop Tim as unsuitable for office. Shameful papering over the cracks....
All the usual suspects who know what is going on and normally rule out a general election are silent. This is ominous.
Number 10 is packed with the Press getting drenched in a summer down pour.
The fact that we are sinful creatures who fail in manifesting this vision is an impetus to recalling us to this truth and not a denial of it" @AlisonMilbank#onceandfuture
"What will energize traditional Anglicans is a vision of their incorporation in the mystical body, which intensifies and renders theological the life they already understand as being in community.