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@charliebelllive @MartynPercy Sir Chris Bryant’s ‘A Life and a Half’ 2025 is a candid memoir highlighting the contradictions of Church culture in the 1980s during his training years at Ripon College Cuddeston where some ordinands, bishops and archdeacons were themselves gay, and lived their lives in secrecy.

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@JayneOzanne Jayne in his recent memoir ‘A Life and a Half’ Sir Chris Bryant MP reflects candidly on his experience of the gay culture within the Church of England during the 1980s including his time training with gay ordinands for ministry and meeting gay bishops and archdeacons at Cuddeston

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BBC Radio 4: A big thank you to last week’s T4TD contributors and the Advent Sunday morning services focusing on the 4 nations authors and poets. Outstanding music and reflections.

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Enjoying Radio 3s composer of the week. Sir John Rutter.

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@Rgt71Robert Thank you Mark. A well
deserved standing ovation. Love wins.

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@DeanSouthwark Excellent. A worthy winner of this prestigious architectural prize.

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@BBCSteveR @TheBJReview @JournoCharity @UniWestminster @shirinwheelerEU So well deserved. Valentina would be so pleased for you.

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@MichaelSadgrove @NaomiLWood @PetrocTrelawny @elizabethalker @BBCRadio3 @LNER Oh what a shame to miss Darlington, understandably

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@MichaelSadgrove Thank you Michael. A beautiful reflection supported my rich, beautiful music.

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@MichaelSadgrove Thank you Michael.
Andrew was down to do a reading - Psalm 139 - at his mother Margaret’s funeral service in St. Oswald’s, 21st February this year, but alas, didn’t show up.

He had received his diagnosis a couple of days earlier.

All so very sad.

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@MichaelSadgrove
So very sad to hear Revd Andrew Perry, eldest son of the late Michael and Margaret Perry died yesterday (pancreatic cancer). RIP

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The Alaska Summit

The Madonna of Kyiv

Photo of Tetyana Blizniak by András Földes

February 2022

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@GraemePeacock1 ‘Nothing for you here (pet)’ said the father of the current chancellor of Durham University, Fiona Hill.

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@zoomafrika1 Jambo Patricia. Karibu!

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@MichaelSadgrove Oh dear! Fulham’s reputation goes before him. Time to blow out the candle and seek help.

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@giles_fraser 2 great minds. Would have loved to have been there

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@MichaelSadgrove Old Revs? Jesus speaks to Peter of old age on a beach. Your old rev ministry of wisdom, prayer and encouragement, often in frailty, matters, your witness and faithfulness endures, you never retire from love. We are still in ‘old age’ led, loved and carried by Christ.

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@MichaelSadgrove Delighted to hear you are now home, rest well. Remembering you in prayer, the parish communities of Haydon Bridge, Corbridge and Hexham. CK:RIP

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A beautiful BBC Radio 4 morning service from the Hay Festival 2025.

Hiraeth. Diolch yn fawr iawn.

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Remembering in prayer the church communities of St Andrew’s Church, Corbridge, St Cuthbert’s Church, Haydon Bridge and Hexham Abbey.