Giwizzi 🌈

Church history student.

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@MathewsAnnika I think people know my experience of the Church of England's proud bigotry on mental ill-health 😐 Personally, I would not disclose any previous experience of mental illness: the Church sees us as fundamentally, permanently broken, incapable, and barred from ministry.

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@anniefoss @DisabilityJ @AscensionVicar @PriceLaurence @sammargrave @ianwyllie @Martin_Seeley @a_j_williams @RevdNirvana @AudreySuffolk Indeed.

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@anniefoss @DisabilityJ @AscensionVicar @PriceLaurence @sammargrave @ianwyllie @Martin_Seeley @a_j_williams @RevdNirvana @AudreySuffolk The Equality Act doesn't apply to clergy selection, in the same way that the otherwise-protected categories of race, sex, and sexualil orientation do not apply. Religious organisations successfully lobbied to be exempted.

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@yjmstom @dodgyvictorians Maybe they have less insight? I don't really understand. They've just asked if I'd go on the preaching/leading rota again. I know I've left them short-staffed, and I was working under loose supervision but..

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Big Sunday dinner with my dad eaten, and now I think a snooze is in order, before I do my reading for tomorrow's slightly unexpected class. Come Friday, I'll have no more classes at all!

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@dodgyvictorians @yjmstom I don't know why the clergy thought me suitable. Even after being paused. I was supposed to lead next weeks service, and preach the following. But I've no spiritual self-awareness, just head knowledge, not heart.

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I want to go home

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@dodgyvictorians @yjmstom That's why I'll take up making coffee, setting up, copyright reporting and perhaps altar service again at some point.

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@dodgyvictorians @yjmstom I'm hugely looking forward to being fit to serve again. I loved it so much.

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@dodgyvictorians @yjmstom There will be more distance soon. I shall have to leave my church. Which might be good, as it hurts to not serve as I did, and I had too much confidence from there anyway.

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@dodgyvictorians @yjmstom I don't think they would command me even if I asked them, actually. But then, I suppose, I don't go in for demanding obedience from others either.

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@dodgyvictorians @yjmstom There are only a few people to whom I would freely offer my obedience. The DDO is not one of them 😁 but those to whom I would offer it would not actually request I obey them.

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I've also bought myself a copy of the works of John of the Cross, which should arrive tomorrow. That's my relaxation reading.

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Marco Polo discussed, and now I'm off to give back numerous books about Teresa of Avila.

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@dodgyvictorians @yjmstom I feel rather dirtied by the process, to be honest. In it, words don't have their normal meanings, and everything I've done is wrong. It's all very confusing, and I'm someone I've never known myself to be. But it is for my good...somehow.

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@dodgyvictorians @yjmstom I know it will work out. God brought me back from near-death, he will make a place for me.