Ben Brown

Priest in the Church of England

Theology and Spirituality

[Rebecca Stott @RebeccaStott64]

The first episode of my five part radio series Beautiful Strangeness goes out on BBC R4 today. Commissioned back in January and produced by the iconic @LoftusMedia If it's your kind of thing, you can find all five episodes on BBC Sounds. From apparitions to quantum entanglement..

[Ben Brown @ben_brown71]

@bbcnickrobinson I thought this was one of the best interviews I have heard in a long time attempting to hold power to account. It was not easy listening but I am glad that the questions were being asked so persistently. Worth the licence fee.

[Ben Brown @ben_brown71]

Ezra Furman - Power of the Moon (Official Video) https://t.co/Md0rDUdzAf via @YouTube

Glorious song here about mysteries and wonders

[Ben Brown @ben_brown71]

Arcade Fire - Year of the Snake (Official Visualiser) https://t.co/tlbpOqPxs9 via @YouTube

Marvellous, soul-stirring song from Arcade Fire

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"almost every night...even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer...His last public act...was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."
https://t.co/CN3UICcLko

[Mark Vernon @platospodcasts]

Be angry about betrayal, shocked at sin. But always ensure you love, William Blake seems to say in "Judas Betrays Him".

[Ben Brown @ben_brown71]

@StMichael71 Theologians, of all stripes, have, of course, fallen short of the divine. There is nothing wrong with this but it is important not to take their words as somehow beyond challenge. Christ understood the reality of human nature and its complexity. Mercy and love flower at death.

[Ben Brown @ben_brown71]

@StMichael71 But this is a quote from a great theologian and not God, so I think my point about nothing being impossible with God stands.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Today is #TransDayOfVisibility, more important now than ever, given how many people are attacking transgender people and questioning their right to exist. This article is by Sister Luisa Derouen, OP, who has ministered to transgender people since 1999. https://t.co/s4HDud9Uec

[Ben Brown @ben_brown71]

The vulnerability and poverty of God is more powerful than any strong man.

[Ben Brown @ben_brown71]

God loves souls, not the exterior work.

Meister Eckhart

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"There are more people in jail in the UK because they spoke what they thought was right... than there are in Russia."

Ex Trump ambassador Carla Sands claims more people are jailed in the UK for free speech than in Russia. @vicderbyshire questions her sources.

#Newsnight

[Ben Brown @ben_brown71]

@SimonSimplicio Worthy simply doesn't come in to it. We are loved absolutely and unconditionally.

[Ben Brown @ben_brown71]

I was in London today and passed a cafe where someone was reading The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence. There was something profoundly moving about seeing someone reading such rich spirituality in the middle of the busy city. People are hungry for God.

[Ben Brown @ben_brown71]

@underhill_eve Underhill here again writing with that particular disarming beauty, prophetic passion and intellectual depth that was her own.

[Ben Brown @ben_brown71]

God is an illegal migrant

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

Unimaginable destruction in Gaza: homes, schools, hospitals reduced to rubble.

Survivors tell me we have to bear witness.

And that we must do more: to protect them, to deliver lifesaving aid, to maintain the ceasefire, to help them rebuild.

[Ben Brown @ben_brown71]

If we fixate on the light of God we will miss the God who meets us in the shadows of life and in the depths. Our religious language has grown shallow and overly light-filled. We need to recover a the richer language of 'dazzling darkness' and unknowing.

[Ben Brown @ben_brown71]

@RoryStewartUK A superb exposition.