Adding the first woman’s name to a list that starts at 597 AD. Does that matter? Yeah, it does.

Bishop colleagues from our partner dioceses of Kagera, Lweru, and Biharamulo, have been visiting for the past ten days. Bishops Darlington, Godfrey, and Vithalis came for Bishop Joanne's enthronement and have spent their time here visiting churches, charities, schools and farms around the diocese.

At Kesgrave Porch Pantry today we’ve got (deep breath Andrew) Lots & lots of shallots Torpedo rolls Finger rolls York baps Brown York baps White Salad baps White Sliced - medium & thick Best of Both sliced Wholemeal sliced and just one small Danish 🇩🇰 sliced Phew! Tx u @Makro #TummiesNotLandfill

OUT NOW: Our January e-news with a new #ThisIsMyStory podcast, a #NewYear reflection, and news from our growing network including a community launch and two birthday celebrations. READ MORE: bit.ly/OTNenews0126

[1/2] Putting young people’s voices at the heart of the SEND system is vital to create change that reflects real, lived experience.

#txt4today✝️ ...all the disciples deserted him and fled. (Matthew 26v56) If you feel deserted for procaiming God's love to all people know that Jesus knows. (Andrew Dotchin)

#ToPray✝️ Have patience with all things but chiefly, have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them; everyday begin the task anew. (Francis de Sales)

#ToPonder Harriet Beecher Stowe once said, The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. (Jason Gideon - Criminal Minds)

Tx to @Tesco Copdock the Porch Pantry at Kesgrave is back. Some lovely GF items included Open 24/7 - everything free - please only take what you need immediately #TummiesNotLandfill

Yep 😔 Men this is on us. We are the only ones who can change this. Choose to be the #FirstManStanding instead of the last bloke shrugging their shoulders #Restored www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#LastLaugh You know you’re bad at cooking when you use the smoke alarm as a timer…..

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’ www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Indeed, Anne Frank was a teenager who was culturally Dutch, having moved here at age 4, but was not a citizen. For Americans asking what they would do for a non-citizen child facing deportation to an unsafe country they never knew, there is a lot to think about here.

Re-upping this article in the Guardian Oz, about my research into the extreme harm being caused by Wes Streeting's puberty-blocker ban. UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia. Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.

#txt4today✝️ Sit here while I go over there and pray. (Matthew 26v36) When we obey and do nothing God begins our salvation (Andrew Dotchin)

#ToPray✝️ There is nothing small in the service of God. (Francis de Sales)

#ToPonder Learn from yesterday Live for today Look to tomorrow Rest this afternoon

In an act of faith-based activism, three bishops and some rabbis (from Rabbis for Human Rights) spent a morning planting olive trees on a Christian Palestinian farmer’s land in the beautiful Al Makhrour valley near Beit Jala. Nearby Israeli settlers are frequently violently threatening these farmers

NationalHCAW Newsletter Issue 18 Q4 2026/26 Winter RIP Elena Noel and Hadiyah Masieh, Round table with the Prime Minister, Policing White Paper and other news from the UK Hate Crime Sector. mailchi.mp/927ba319257f...

#LastLaugh Why don't crabs donate to charity? They are shellfish...

Tomorrow, at St Paul's Cathedral, Bishop Sarah legally becomes Archbishop of Canterbury at the Confirmation of Election. But why is the confirmation happening at St Paul's? Find out below. 🧵

The UK & nine other European countries have agreed to accelerate offshore wind farms & build a power grid in the North Sea. The wind farms will directly connect to various countries through high-voltage subsea cables, with the capacity to power 143 million homes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#txt4today✝️ Where do you want us to make the preparations for you to eat the Passover? (Matthew 26v17) Saying Grace before meals helps us eat and meet with Jesus every day (Andrew Dotchin)

#ToPray✝️ Nothing is so strong as gentleness, Nothing so gentle as real strength (Francis De Sales)

#ToPonder Measure not the work until the day's out and the labour done - Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. (Jason Gideon - Criminal Minds)

When you worship power, compassion will look like a sin.

Hey @churchofengland.org #Synod Peeps. I’ve just put in a Question for the February Sessions and I’ve been given the reference number #215 😲 🤦🏽‍♂️ My advice is ‘bring a cushion’ P.S. taking requests for your favourite sweeties 🍬 as well. Looks as if we will need our sucrose supplement 😭

Suella Braverman says that she believes that if an MP changes party there should be a by election But then explains why after she's changed party there shouldn't be a by election in her constituency

#LastLaugh Before the wheel was invented everything was a complete drag …..

This hit so fucking hard today.

#ToPray✝️ What is heaven? Richard Rolle says it on Middle English @amygrantofficial.bsky.social sings it here. youtu.be/Ok1X7Qv0Kb0?... My prayer is that each of you is touched by heaven in some way today

In our cycle of prayer, we pray this week for Richard Ellis (Warden), and for all who live, work or seek refreshment at Wychcroft Retreat Centre in The Diocese of Southwark @southwark.anglican.org #retreat #prayeroftheweek

#ToPonder Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes... families are torn apart. Men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. (Diary of Anne Frank- January 13, 1943)

Synchronised Slurp @suffolksound.bsky.social with @robdunger.bsky.social today and in the Studio with him from 8am

#LastLaugh Are Scouts a knot-for-profit Organisation…?

Choccie tub update With a really wonderful push in the last week we sent 35kg of tubs to recycling They along with others will be made into benches and sold to support the work of #StreetVetUK We reckon that Kesgrave gifts will make half a big bench or a small one which sells for about £350 We 💝 U

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

Left: Kristi Noem says Alex Pretti is a domestic terrorist Right: Alex Pretti, a VA ICU Nurse, reading the last rights over a veteran at his hospital Alex Pretti, "Today we remember that freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. And even sacrifice for it"

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

When I was a school chaplain in Southern Johannesburg every year I led a retreat at the #OHPwhitby house for about a dozen black lesbians who were born and lived in Soweto. Love is love.

As the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity comes to an end, Rev Dr Isabelle Hamley encourages Christians to walk towards each other even when "koinonia may not look like koinonia" cte.org.uk/koinonia-... #ChurchesTogether #ChristianUnity #WPCU2026 #wpcuwall

#txt4today✝️ Look, we have left everything and followed you (Matthew 19v27) You can't hold on to Christ if your hands are full of other stuff. (Andrew Dotchin)