Lyra Percy

German Shorthaired Pointer. Owner of Percys. Likes chasing deer or squirrels; walks & treats. Dislikes deprivation of these. Views my own and usual disclaimers.

[Daniel Heaton @2D0XPS]

@WalkerMarcus You are required to pass on disclosures whether the victim wants it or not; safeguarding steps in to protect those who can't protect themselves. To assume all adults need safeguarding would be massively infantilising and an assault on individual freedoms.

[Lyra Percy @LyraPercy]

Bruised Reeds and Mustard Seeds    https://t.co/8aGmCvrtXo

[Lyra Percy @LyraPercy]

@MartynPercy

[Lyra Percy @LyraPercy]

In Cappadocia leading a study tour and pilgrimage for Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Anglican Church. Remarkable caves from the earliest Christian communities here, comprising convents and monasteries, and even some seminaries.

[Lyra Percy @LyraPercy]

In Cappadocia leading a study tour and pilgrimage for Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Anglican Church. Remarkable caves from the earliest Christian communities here, comprising convents and monasteries, and even some seminaries.

[Lyra Percy @LyraPercy]

Cappadocia!!

[Lyra Percy @LyraPercy]

In Cappadocia leading a study tour and pilgrimage for Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Anglican Church. Remarkable caves from the earliest Christian communities here, comprising convents and monasteries, and even some seminaries.

[Luke Larner @lucaslarner]

@Rgt71Robert @churchofengland @ClergySupportUK @ArchbishopSarah @CottrellStephen If we're going to continue with this "it's a stipend not a wage" and "you're office holders not employees" charade then the only logical position is a single common stipend. Anything else is laughable imho.

[Robert Thompson (he/him) @Rgt71Robert]

Sad that people like David who have wonderful ministries in the ground of @churchofengland rely so heavily on @ClergySupportUK whilst:

@ArchbishopSarah : ~£95,630
@CottrellStephen : ~£81,950
Bishop of London: ~£75,120
Diocesan Bishops: ~£51,910
Suffragan Bishops/Deans: ~£42,350
Before we get to scrutinising their expenses too that is……

It is time for deeply Christian change.
It is time for a single common stipend.
It is time to be more like Jesus Christ.

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

If any other organisation continued to treat gay people as second-class citizens, they'd be held up to public ridicule and odium, if not prosecution. How does the Church of England still get away with it? https://t.co/hS0H5pL9VP

[Daniel Heaton @2D0XPS]

With the wave of dioceses coming off Twitter, I think of this article from @_F_B_G_
https://t.co/dtjoiFyUvk

[Robert Thompson (he/him) @Rgt71Robert]

“The Telegraph has seen evidence that the bishop then allegedly breached church protocol by sending a confidential email about N’s claims directly to the priest concerned. She also wrote that the claims were “unsubstantiated””

@GabriellaSwerl continuing to do excellent work on our safeguarding cultures @churchofengland @dioceseoflondon and raising exacting questions:

If the Telegraph have seen this @CottrellStephen must have seen it, but then dismiss it as a breach of protocol? If that is the case there is a question to answer about Stephen’s adjudication and it does now really require public justification.

With this entire pantomime of process in relation to Survivor N and how his complaints have been treated, the problem to this point has been that justice was not being seen to be done. The problem now is that this may not be justice all……

Survivor N said: “They have demonstrated in their record that they speak out of both sides of their mouth. So on the one hand, you have people like Stephen Cottrell and Justin Welby and Sarah Mullaly shedding tears on camera for survivors, while, on the other hand, they’re absolutely armed to the teeth [with lawyers and PR firms] against survivors.” Archbishop of Canterbury betrayed me, claims ‘abuse victim’

https://t.co/JGJ9i1fJg6

[Robert Thompson (he/him) @Rgt71Robert]

Hmm. Totally feel this since we have to raise about £4-5 million for both our buildings in the coming 5 years. But why should the Church receive such relief? Thats the question.

If churches are to receive public subsidy for charitable and public benefit then what are the moral standards by which that can be assessed?

Shouldn’t demonstrable standards of safeguarding, transparency, and gender and sexuality inclusion accompany public benefit?

What would it mean for the Church to argue not for entitlement, but for trustworthiness? @NatSecSoc

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This is brilliant.
♥️ 🎶🎻

[Madeleine Davies @MadsDavies]

@DuncanHegan1 Yes, I'm interested in the difference between nominal and practising Anglicans. Eg the findings on views on migration here: https://t.co/JUsminAhvL

[Madeleine Davies @MadsDavies]

Interesting US findings.
Do C of E clergy have a sense of the balance with their congregations?

[Simon Sarmiento @simonsarmiento]

https://t.co/TTkWekKaG6

[Lyra Percy @LyraPercy]

Bishop Thomas Ely Dies at 73 https://t.co/baoR6XQ6ct via @The Living Church

[Simon Sarmiento @simonsarmiento]

DBS software data breach | Law & Religion UK https://t.co/SH7dBeTvCu

[Church Times @ChurchTimes]

"Yet both scandals illustrate the dangers inherent in being blinded by the new and shiny — and the golden ticket to growth — at the expense of appropriate structures, safeguards, and Christians’ own moral duty."

Read this week's Leader ⬇️

https://t.co/WlnGEpNZin