but the title of BEST Presbyterian logo easily goes to the Church of Scotland. My Lord look at this baby: the burning bush in BLUE AND WHITE, so sharp!, so Scottish!, so REVELATORY 10/10

I’m going to do a vibes-based nonsequential ranking of church logos, on a scale of 1-10 based on how much they rock or suck I’m going to start with the Catholics, because they have the flag of a real nation-state, and, thus, they don’t count for this thread. -/10

A thread on church logos that's excellent (and not only because the Church of Scotland gets tops marks - Nec Tamen Consumebatur, indeed)

The trumpet blast that shall never call retreat? Sounded. ✅ The hearts of men? Being sifted out before His judgment seat.✅ My soul? Swift to answer Him. ✅ My feet? Oh, absolutely they're jubilant 😎

mine eyes? seeing the glory. the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled. the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.

And British writing is "As I walked over the bogland my grandfather left to me, a sense came to me again of what the Norse called "kvallfer" - that we tread over and over on the bodies of the dead who came before us, walking on earth forged from our ancestor's bones."

an old joke of mine is that American nature writing is "I met up with Professor Evelyn Kennedy of the University of Ohio to better understand how wolves and dolphins interact. Over breakfast tacos at a local diner, Kennedy, her long dark hair in a ponytail, explained to me how ..."

I heard there was a king of kings Who conquered nearly everything These words were written for us on a dias It goes like this, the broken face, The shattered legs, the silent space, The endless sands repeating Oxymandias

Oh, has Archbishop Sarah announced she's going to impose a Prayer Book on Scotland again?

"Stay signed in?" Outlook in Browser asks me, seductively. "Yes." I reply. We both know it's a lie, but perhaps one day it will be true. The dream remains.

#MorningPrayer Like your apostles, Lord, you send us out into the world, to walk and work in its streets and the dirt and dust of the world clings to our feet. Give us faith to let you wash us, heal us, and inspire us to keep living your love for people and places that need you.

TOLKIEN: So then Turin, upon realizing he fucked his sister, killed himself. His father, broken by the tortures of Satan and mad with grief… Stop sobbing, boy. CHRISTOPHER: Daddy, I’m six. TOLKIEN: Oh fine, you little shit. Once upon a time there was a hairy little midget that lived in a hole...

Rogier van der Weyden • Crying Angel (detail from the Crucifixion Triptych) • night Venticelli

Too many meerkats in adverts tbf

"Ronald Reagan was a mercantilist" is one of the most "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." I can think of.

It's bribery and corruption, a protection racket. But another way to describe money given to the government under threat of punishment is taxation, here imposed unilaterally and arbitrarily by the executive without the legislature. Ship money is the analogy, if you're up on 17th C. English history.

more and more people are realizing that everything is Ship Money

Some people get obsessed with Strictly

Devastating news for those like me who were sure Taylor could fix them.

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

On this day in 1965, the first edition of The Magic Roundabout was broadcast on BBC1. Using the animation from the French show Le Manège Enchanté, completely new scripts (which bore no resemblance to the originals) were written and narrated by Eric Thompson.

Dr. Fairbrother did breakfast with us, a very good-natured man he is, and told us how the room we were in was the room where Cromwell and his associated officers did begin to plot and act their mischiefs in these counties.

I showed Mr. Cooke King’s College Chapel, Trinity College, and St. John’s College Library; and that being done, to our inn again.

Dislike this sequel to James VI & I's "No bishops, no king"

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Iorek Byrnison is a NATO ally.

This only happens to you once

When I worked for the Girl Scouts, and this was ten years ago, this was a five alarm fire. Membership organizations were crashing across the board, nobody wants to join or commit to any organization they just kind of want activities and services to be available when they feel like showing up

#MorningPrayer Grow in us, Lord, an integrity to the way of your love; bring to fruition in us a faithfulness and commitment in our relationships, that echoes your fidelity to us. As we share our love in families, friendships and with neighbours near and far, keep us true to you.

like i was saying

Both Bible Gateway unavailable in the UK and EU, and the Vanderbilt Revised Common Lectionary site down - is there an interdict against us I don't know about?

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

The carefree face of a man who's just been told he no longer has to be friends with JD Vance.

Fully endorse this, theologically and politically (Although mildly unfair on the present attitude of mainline denominations, at least in the UK - we're doing our best!)

hot take: religiosity is declining and all these mainline denominations keep trying to pass themselves off as social clubs but you can't sell people on christianity if you can't sell them on christ the same is true of liberalism: if we can't sell people freedom all the other stuff is inessential.

For the first time in my life and possibly human history, actually managed Weetabix's serving suggestion this morning

The radical right in Britain increasingly claims to represent "Christian values" & "Christian civilisation" - though its leaders rarely go to church or pretend to believe anything. It's especially important that Christian leaders speak out against this, as it's their tradition that's being claimed.

A courteous but very impressive rebuke to Nigel Farage from the Bishop of Oxford. "I heard no compassion in what you said...". "I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities". Do read. blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...

A Guardian story that should be required reading for those appointing the next Archbishop of Canterbury.

trump's fundamental view of international relations is that of a rapist, but the field is extremely hostile to leader psychology and also to gender studies and so has been largely incapable of dealing with him in any realistic way.

Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.

I love this, it's so broken, an inconceivably small unit combined with an inconceivably large unit to produce a unit that is easily understood by itself yet has no practical significance and does not help you understand the scale of either of its components.

A Friday visit to #RejectionIsland, this week for a rendezvous.

I always said universities were a bit like zoos.