Yaroslav Sky Walker

Priest in the Church of England.

[Yaroslav Sky Walker @FrYSWalker]

@CanonRobinWard @john_ritzema They certainly do in my church.

My face shineth overwhelmkngly after every mass...

...of course...that might just be sweat in the spring heatwave...

[Matt @chinmj]

The binfire of responses to this is a salutary reminder of our vocation to annoy all the right people.

[Yaroslav Sky Walker @FrYSWalker]

@Madz_Grant @policy_uk But therein lies the truth. Thatcher began to evacuate political/social language of all meaning - the idea that she is Tory or Conservative in any sense is genuinely funny - and Anthony Blair continued the project of hollowing excavation.

[Yaroslav Sky Walker @FrYSWalker]

@CyrilDash @michaelgove @Madz_Grant Not as far as I'm aware.

A strict, legalist, Jansenist Catholic - both in the book and the musical, as far as I'm aware.

[Yaroslav Sky Walker @FrYSWalker]

Jansenism truly was a heresy!!!

We can know this because Javert was the villain and a consummate Jansenist!

@michaelgove @Madz_Grant

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

Deliberately conflating bursaries and scholarships is an astonishingly dishonest thing to do

[Yaroslav Sky Walker @FrYSWalker]

@DuncanHegan1 This is also why we need to stop treating biblical imagery of heaven - especially that in the Gospels and in Revelation - as literal.

Too many people think the Christian view of the supernatural is (purely/entirely) Renaissance painting and Dante and so on.

[Madeleine Davies @MadsDavies]

Was looking at a parish website and they have a section where people in the congregation give their testimony. They were older people whose lives had taken various turns, writing about their faith. Made me cry! And think of C S Lewis bit about "There are no ordinary people."

[Yaroslav Sky Walker @FrYSWalker]

@CanonRobinWard @cusackandrew Indeed not!

Primrose would be appalled at what his wife's Shrine has become!

[Yaroslav Sky Walker @FrYSWalker]

@CanonRobinWard @cusackandrew The Savile have done the same.

I'm tempted to rip the sign down while muttering about 'standards'...

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

The Supreme Governor enters the chat

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

As this was my day job for four years in Rome, I decided to read the Pope’s encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. Being free from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, but with an appreciation of any deep thinking by a major Christian leader, I found it very interesting.

In short: His underlying analysis of the situation is deeply Burkean - it’s all little platoons, as read and developed through the scriptural narrative; it’s humanity in its messiness and reality not idealised and perfected. I think I agree with this section entirely.

The solutions are more mixed. While I can understand the instincts, he seems to slip into three presumptions that either need more work or are likely to backfire significantly:
1) the Luddite fallacy - that there is only so much work and once it’s taken away from a worker, nothing will replace it. AI might be a unique threat to humanity or it might be another step forward as we mechanise one thing and then open up others.
2) There is a belief in multilateral action that doesn’t seem to reflect either that such action is often dominated by dangerous pressure groups (see the WHO) or that the bad powers in the world just ignore it, leaving the good powers stranded (see China).
3) There is a trust in state action which (though reassuringly caveated) still ignores the fact that the state driving towards a ‘common good’ that is not actually shared by the public (as manifested by their revealed preference at the till) will often have seriously negative effects.

But all round a much more subtle encyclical than those of his predecessor (which came firmly out of a left wing stable, economically and politically).

[Yaroslav Sky Walker @FrYSWalker]

@CyrilDash A glory, and subsequent tragedy, to never be forgotten.

[Yaroslav Sky Walker @FrYSWalker]

@CyrilDash @DuncanHegan1 Fr Stephen Platt was representing the Russian Orthodox Church, as he does quite a bit of work at the Orthodox Church in Walsingham, I believe. He is a lovely man.

[Yaroslav Sky Walker @FrYSWalker]

@CptHastings1916 Angel's is only great by accident/as a matter of necessity...

...there is an alternate world where we had the best possible Angle ending.

#notmydeadFred

[Yaroslav Sky Walker @FrYSWalker]

@CyrilDash @HappyThurifer Seraphim Rose is a good historical example, and Fr Josiah Trenham is a good modern one.

American conspiracy thinking with the former, and Presbyterian systematics with the latter, fill the void of a proper historical and mystical enrichment.

[Yaroslav Sky Walker @FrYSWalker]

@CyrilDash @HappyThurifer An English or American convert who isn't Russian or Greek, etc, is essentially blocked from engaging with the true fullness of the historic faith, and is forced to just dress...let's say Calvinsim...in a phelonion.

[Yaroslav Sky Walker @FrYSWalker]

Didn't you celebrate the Farage milkshake throwing intimidation.

Don't answer, I know you did.

Do you not even slightly understand the concept of irony?

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is really disturbing.

If Reform form a government, it's very obvious that they will embolden angry mobs to intimidate their opponents.

[David Benedict 🏳️‍🌈🕎 @eggsbened]

There are days when I miss being an editor and I particularly loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.