Alex Bartholomew

Master of Theology. Counsellor. National Chaplaincy Co-Ordinator @ymcaireland. Interested in the intersection between faith and wellbeing. Tweets my own.

[Alex Bartholomew @alexbart1]

@Translink_NI Hi there is the tree cleared at Moira yet? Hoping to travel from Portadown to Belfast at 13.04

[Alex Bartholomew @alexbart1]

@LaurenBradford_ So sad Lauren, I'm sure the whole community is shaken up. Thinking about you x

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Imagine if we Christians pursued dismantling systems of poverty, barriers to healthcare, demanded livable wages, paid family leave, affordable childcare, and ruthlessly worked to end violence with the same passion so many of us pursue winning a “culture war.”

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Center Parcs goes up for sale for £5 billion, or £36 billion if bought during the school holidays.

[Alex Bartholomew @alexbart1]

The coronation tweets are so good.

[Hannah Wilkinson @hannahcw127]

Reassuring to see Westminster Abbey struggling with the same rota shortage issues as every other CofE church.

@JustinWelby on both welcome team and crowning team.

surely this clash came up on churchsuite.

[Alex Bartholomew @alexbart1]

'Above all, parenting is an invitation to personal healing. Happy parents accept that invitation.' Great thread.

[David Morris @wdmorrisjr]

When I was a young parent,

I had a vision for raising happy kids (but didn't know how).

So I looked to parents a few stages ahead of me whose kids seemed genuinely happy.

I made a startlingly simple discovery -

Happy parents raise happy kids.

8 things they all had in common:

[Pete Greig @PeteGreig]

We believe that God’s eternal Word once squealed like a baby and, when eventually he learned to speak, it was with a regional accent. The Creator of the cosmos made tables, and presumably he made them badly at first. The Holy One of Israel got dirt in the creases of his hands.

[Pete Greig @PeteGreig]

This then is our creed. We believe in the blasphemous glory of Immanuel; “infinity dwindled to infancy,” as the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins put it. We believe in omnipotence surrendering to incontinence, the name above every other name rumoured to be illegitimate…

[Lindsay Robinson @Robinson_Linds]

A Mother & Baby Unit (MBU) remains urgent and vital for NI.

Without it Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Services are incomplete.

Reminder *ALL* Political Parties signed our Consensus Statement and committed to this.

Thanks @WRDA_team @ActionOnPP for leading this forward!

[Alex Bartholomew @alexbart1]

@_Johnnycarson In love, Johnny: dogmatism is also dangerous. Gospel lines are blurred here, too.

[Alex Bartholomew @alexbart1]

Amen to this.

[Pete Greig @PeteGreig]

I No Longer Pray for Peace by Ann Weems
——

On the edge of war, one foot already in,

I no longer pray for peace:
I pray for miracles.

[Anneka Rice @AnnekaRice]

EU has agreed to give Ukrainian refugees temporary residence in EU countries for up to 3 years .. These scenes from Berlin beyond moving..

[Alex Bartholomew @alexbart1]

@ebelfastmission @skainos Hi, when is the cut off for dropping items off?

[Darryl Morris @darrylmorris]

The BBC are setting up shortwave radio frequencies for the people of Ukraine to keep informed with the news as their TV towers are bombed and internet services attacked.

You don’t get that with a Netflix subscription.

[Alex Bartholomew @alexbart1]

@gemmaruthbrown Heartbreaking.

[Pete Greig @PeteGreig]

May I live this day
Compassionate of heart,
Clear in word,
Gracious in awareness ,
Courageous in thought ,
Generous in love

John O’Donohue
—
📷 Clay Banks

[Alex Bartholomew @alexbart1]

(1/2) Those who suffered the trauma behind 'The Secret' asked the makers of the series for their heartbreak to be kept off our screens.

[U105 Radio @U105radio]

The @FrankU105 Phone-In Poll: Should TV drama 'The Secret' ever have been made? #U105 028 90 333 105

[Alex Bartholomew @alexbart1]

@ajbart 😂