Richard F Watson

Pope of Sandpit Lane; Lord of the Manor of Hougun; trustee @clive_ask 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️; feral franciscan; chaplain to the Guild of Nineteen Lubricators (yes really)

[Richard F Watson @RichardFWatson]

@stalbanscityfc Go Tom!

[Richard F Watson @RichardFWatson]

I am ashamed of The Church of England.

[Charlie Bączyk-Bell 🏳️‍🌈 @charliebelllive]

"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

[Richard F Watson @RichardFWatson]

And the youngest of them is how old?

[The Church of England @churchofengland]

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.

[Richard F Watson @RichardFWatson]

This week's Faith Focus in @hertsad

[Peter Crumpler @PeterCrumpler]

It’s time to say what we really mean, says @RichardFWatson of @StSaviour_StA in today’s @hertsad #FaithFocus

[Richard F Watson @RichardFWatson]

@rmbastable Agreed. Tone deaf comms from Lambeth yet again. It smacks of heroic martyrdom which neither the church nor the world needs right now.....

[Antony Childs @antonychilds]

Another Christmas, another Carols till Closing. It wouldn’t be Christmas without the excellent @RichardFWatson 🎄🍺

[Christopher Hope📝 @christopherhope]

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

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https://t.co/czymFpcdvG

[Richard F Watson @RichardFWatson]

@MartynPercy Totally delusional. Just crazy.

[Giles Fraser @giles_fraser]

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

[MartinSewell @SewellMartin]

Why has NO other Bishop come out I. Support of Bp Helen Ann Hartley?

What -or who - are they afraid of?

Whose interests are being served here?

[Andrew Graystone @AndrewGraystone]

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.

[Richard F Watson @RichardFWatson]

@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....

[Richard F Watson @RichardFWatson]

https://t.co/XgaykvOUgG

[Peter Crumpler @PeterCrumpler]

Rabbi Adam of @StAlbansMasorti writes about a #StAlbans project bringing faith leaders together, in today’s @hertsad #FaithFocus @RichardFWatson

[Jonny Seabrook @radio_jonny]

It’s Sunday Morning & I’ll be on the 📻 from 8am @Mix926official
Special guest at 10.20 @RichardFWatson from @StSaviour_StA talking #beerandfizz
https://t.co/Tk5gmj7Gbo
#Hertfordshire #WakeUp #Sunday #Breakfast @WineCellarDoor @eyesonstalbans @Hospicstfrancis @savestapubs

[Charlie Bączyk-Bell 🏳️‍🌈 @charliebelllive]

Very pleased to be a signatory, along with a number of others, of this letter on LLF spearheaded by Together for the Church of England.

[Richard F Watson @RichardFWatson]

Spot on - thank you.

[Christopher Hope📝 @christopherhope]

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.

[Richard F Watson @RichardFWatson]

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

[Richard F Watson @RichardFWatson]

"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.