David Whale

Husband, Parent and parent carer. Dyslexic, all spelling mistakes my own. Rector at Chenies, Little Chalfont, Flauden and Latimer.

[Steven Bartlett @StevenBartlett]

What if everyone is actually destined for hell?

When Christian Apologist Wesley Huff joined me on The Diary Of A CEO, he explained a central idea in Christianity that many people misunderstand.

According to scripture, the standard for being “good” isn’t simply being better than other people. The standard is God himself.

Which means, by definition, no human being meets it.

That’s what Christianity calls the bad news. Humanity can’t save itself through good actions or intentions.

Here's him breaking it down

[David Whale @dbalaena]

Hey @guardian I for one would have voted differently if I’d known that assisted suicide was on the agenda for this parliament. This is the most consequential law with the weakest democratic foundation. It puts my son’s life at risk and I hope it comes to an untimely end.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Today’s #manuscriptmonday looks at one of the best-known elements in the Christmas story (a 🧵)..

[David Whale @dbalaena]

It’s distressingly ironic that the UK’s envoy for women and girls is promoting a bill that will likely cause predominantly more untimely deaths in women.

[Harriet Harman @HarrietHarman]

Public opinion is in favour of Assisted Dying Bill. It seems too that a majority of peers want Assisted Dying Bill to be thoroughly scrutinised and then get sent back to Commons. It is therefore not “The Lords” which is blocking the Bill, but a minority of peers who are frustrating the will of the majority of peers, public opinion & The Commons by filibustering .

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

An Anglican priest, Edwin Achi, who was abducted in northwest Nigeria last month, has been killed while in captivity. His wife and daughter are still being held.

Info: Reuters

[David Whale @dbalaena]

Imagine taking a loved one to A&E, and the first question you’re asked is “do you want help living or dying?” Come Lord Jesus.

[Nikki da Costa @nmdacosta]

Falconer's allies Pannick and Birt have tabled amdts to do this: the day after a doctor raises ending your life, you "MUST be assigned a Personal Navigator by the Assisted Dying Help Service". They mandate a MAX timeline of 30 days, or 18 days to death. Cost saving for NHS! 1/

[Nikki da Costa @nmdacosta]

Falconer's allies Pannick and Birt have tabled amdts to do this: the day after a doctor raises ending your life, you "MUST be assigned a Personal Navigator by the Assisted Dying Help Service". They mandate a MAX timeline of 30 days, or 18 days to death. Cost saving for NHS! 1/

[Dr Cajetan Niall @TradSkowronski]

Sounds insane but also logical once you accept suicide is a treatment option.
Reject the bill to stop this.

[Nikki da Costa @nmdacosta]

Well said. Not a single voter in this country has had a say on this Bill or even whether this change should happen

[Nikki da Costa @nmdacosta]

Here's the detail you gloss over. When Falconer is in charge of grouping, should one take at face value that he got it right first time? Or might he try and skew things in his favour so that difficult issues get less air time?

Here's just one of his original groups which Falconer titled DRAFTING CHANGES where he's pulling a fast one. Nothing anyone can do of course because only the sponsor of the amendment can degroup. 405 is a downgrading of provisions for ensuring the patient can understand and properly communicate with the doctor. NOT a drafting change. 418 is a very significant change widening doctor shopping provisions to situations from where a doctor is unable or unwilling to act due to illness to any situation where unable or unwilling. NOT a drafting change.

Then there's the ELIGIBILITY group where Falconer clearly just wanted to shove everything he could in there from whether or not you actually had access to a GP to what was motivating you to end your life, to what was required for informed consent. Then in a group that's ostensibly about Lord Carlile's provisions for Assisted Suicide orders and the High Court, he stuck in amendments to do with VSED, temporary relief of symptoms, and certainty of prognosis.

[David Whale @dbalaena]

@JoshuaPenduck I think you’re argument, although broadly plausible, is rather undermined by the new ABC being dyslexic.

[Dr Ian Paul @Psephizo]

Your seasonal reminder: Jesus was not born in a stable, and it actually makes the story of Christmas more relevant, powerful, and important! @WalkerMarcus @AJWTheology
https://t.co/CqN4zjyRNW

[David Whale @dbalaena]

@prayerbook_soc @CanonRobinWard I think I’d scrape through, but it’s a great way to show how far the work of ministry has shifted. How many who took this test were prepared to lead multiple parishes, apply for grants, manage safeguarding procedures, or plant new worshipping communities?

[David Whale @dbalaena]

Hi @Seahawks fans in the US. I’m a British fan and, having lost my old cap from the Wembley game, have replaced it with this one. Is the flag on the wrong way round?

[David Whale @dbalaena]

@AdamMerrivale Not if I had £40m, but if I had an answer to prayer I felt called to testify to I might donate my story and some funds to such a project.

[Dr Ian Paul @Psephizo]

What does the House of Bishops' statement on marriage and sexuality mean? Is this the end of the Living and Love and Faith process? And where does this leave the Church of England? @talkChristianly
https://t.co/8ApYWp0tCy

[Glen Scrivener @glenscrivener]

For months now I've been thinking about a conversation I had with a teenager in Australia. She asked 'Why pray if God already knows what we need?' In thinking about the answer together we developed an analogy that has been blessing me ever since. Imagine this...

[Daniel Heaton @2D0XPS]

There is a hair's breadth theologically between Justin Welby and Sarah Mullally: he was not an Evangelical; she is not a Catholic. Words do mean things.

They are both ‘Modern Central’; theirs is the median churchmanship of the CofE now.

[David Whale @dbalaena]

@SJHull2 @TankMuseum Shiny

[David Whale @dbalaena]

@NairoInGreen Funny you ask but, yes basically. https://t.co/wYstYFMjTf