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