I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

People are claiming Pancake Day wasn’t originally a pagan festival, when you only have to look at the name to know it was once a day when cakes were offered to Pan

Tonight's dinner: aubergine, chickpea and red pepper tagine 🍽

Hearts appear throughout the natural world, in leaves, flowers, seed pods and unfolding fronds. A small gathering of botanical hearts for St. Valentine’s Day. #ValentinesDay

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A new approach to outsourcing #churchsafeguarding to an independent body was endorsed overwhelmingly by the General #Synod on Wednesday afternoon #churchnews #churchtimes

The depression clouds have been rolling in all day and I need a distraction, so: What has made you feel joyful and/or hopeful so far this week? Photos welcomed!

A fascinating story here about a very early instance of sign language being used in worship. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... ✝️⚓️

Great to hear the work of the Church of England's Neurodiversity Working Group highlighted during #synod questions [Not just because I'm on it!] Find out more at www.churchofengland.org/resources/ba... #GeneralSynod

Look what I found in a drawer! I'm rich!! We're going to buy a couple of castles, built a late medieval city to live in, built a working replica of the SS Normandie and the Hindenburg and an 1930s village! Also stroopwafels for everyone!!

TONIGHT 7.30pm: A Eucharist as #GeneralSynod considers #LivingInLoveAndFaith - a space to bring prayer, pain, hope and longing about the place of #LGBTQIA+ people in the Church of England. 📍 St Martin-in-the-Fields, London 🌍 Join online: youtube.com/@stmartin-in-the-fields1726

Having spent the weekend chasing the Hereford School (...of romanesque sculpture: ca. 900 y/a in case there's any confusion) Its been very interesting to see the stark interplay of faith & military power in Norman England many of the churches have a motte within ~50 yards 📷 Kilpeck #MotteMonday

West Sussex to Gloucester, via... Nottingham? Go home, trainsplit website, you're drunk...

So I heard we’re posting super bowls. Here’s a Fatimid lusterware bunny. Islamic lusterwares originate in Iraq to emulate the sheen of Chinese porcelain, but the combo with highly animated-looking Fatimid animal motifs is my favorite. He even has a little snack. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

This is a very brief summary of some of the research I've been doing into the Church of England in Croydon &African chattel enslavement, including royalty, Black Tudors &the American Revolution #skystorian #C18th #C19th 🗃✝️ southwark.anglican.org/wp-content/u...

Does anyone know what happened to that shiny orb which used to appear in the sky sometimes?

Just do it! Well, yes, she did it. #mercy #catcontent #catlovers #cat #catsky #cats

Him: what are you thinking about? Me: the Mongolian Winter Olympics uniform

A blackbird told me it was February (sound up for some much needed birdsong dopamine-these are my very favourite birdy notes):

How bloody dare they (And yet more proof that this is pretty straightforwardly about erasing anyone who isn’t white from America’s story)

"The Home Office is preparing to introduce legislation to stop those facing possible removal from “gaming the system” by using the ECHR to appeal against their removal... notably in its Article 3 protection against inhuman or degrading treatment and the Article 8 right to a family life."

Three years today since the Mountain Rescue Incident, and as ever I am pining for another adventure (though maybe not *quite* that much adventure) in the Welsh mountains (Shout-out to the fantastic Longtown Mountain Rescue for all their help when things went awry that evening)

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Move over "Carols by Candlelight", we have "Choral Society Rehearsal by Emergency Lighting and Phone Torches"!

Close... but still no. (The surname misspellings list has now reached 165 different variations.) #ThatsNotMyName

This, this right here, is how I keep getting into Trouble

Today's Candlemas, the final day of the Christmas season. The infant Christ, forty days old, is presented by his mother to Simeon in the Temple in 15th Century glass at East Harling, Norfolk. Behind, Joseph brings a candle and two sacrificial doves. It's time to take down the tree.

Happy #NationalHedgehogDay 🥺 This little Egyptian faience model of a hedgehog is from a tomb at Abydos, and was made around 1,500–1,300 BCE. Hedgehogs had a favourable reputation in ancient Egypt, and were often seen as a symbol of rebirth and renewal of life.

“Forerunners of a world of flowers…” Blooming this weekend to welcome February: hazel catkins, winter heliotrope, winter aconite, crocus, snowdrops, scilla, cornelian cherry, comfrey, viburnum & spurge laurel, early signs the year is already turning. #WildflowerHour #TheWinter10

1 February 1941 | French Jewish boy, Roger Davy, was born in Saint Brieuc (sitting in the middle). He was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy with his family on 10 February 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

Candlemas? More like candle-mess. #CofE

Snowdrops #FairMaidsofFeburary, #Imbolc #Candlemas

It was such a privilege to welcome @bishgloucester.bsky.social and friends from our partner church of St Andrew's, Ramallah, Palestine to our Candlemas service today. Fr Fadi Diab spoke of the realities of daily life under occupation and we celebrated Christ as light for all peoples. #CofE

The joy of planting olive trees with rabbis and my colleagues, the bishops of Gloucester and Chelmsford.

It turns out you can iron directly on a cross-stitch even with metallic thread! It didn't look nearly as nice when I ironed it through a towel. Finally, it's ready to mount and frame!

January has been a nightmare for me and I'll be glad to see the back of it. That said, I was pleased to receive an #ADHD diagnosis this month (if disorientated at how quickly it happened). Diagnosis brings a strange mix of emotions: grief, frustration, relief & validation. But at least I now know.

Sarah Mullally confirmed as archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England.

This hit so fucking hard today.

Impromptu trip to #TewkesburyAbbey for Choral Evensong I very much enjoyed the music and the sense of peace and breathing space - oh, and the unexpected heating in the quire stalls! #CofE

A rather lovely pelican in her piety at All Saints, Oakham. I wonder if they're meant to be oak leaves? #SundayStonework

This morning, Alex Pretti was shot and killed in Minneapolis by a group of Border Patrol agents after filming them. Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse at the VA who helped critically ill veterans. Alex's colleagues say he was a wonderful man who loved his patients and enjoyed mountain biking.

#SmallStepsProject is fundraising to help protect babies and toddlers in Gaza from the cold. £13 will buy a winter snow suit from a local trader. Please consider joining me, if you're also in a position to donate. www.justgiving.com/page/susanah...

One of my Spotify playlists, on shuffle, has just started playing John Farnham's 'You're the Voice': "We're all someone's daughter We're all someone's son How long can we look at each other Down the barrel of a gun?" Indeed.

The Hell Mouth of the Doom painting at South Leigh, Oxon, is quite an eye catcher. We see those people who were not selected for Heaven forming a queue for the fiery depths of Hell helped along by gremlins with sharp forks. Nobility, clergy and lesser mortals in life are on their way down!.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, publicly executed without trial or cause Say his name

And, Lord, please, somehow, turn their guns into plough shares. And turn their hearts into flesh. Please.

Maranatha. Come, Lord Jesus.

I know we are no longer in Christmastide, but... ".. and man, at war with man, hears not the love-song which they bring: O hush the noise, ye men of strife, and hear the angels sing." Longing and praying for a world where people lift each other up, rather than seeking to divide and destroy.

It's another #NationalYearOfReading in the UK, so...if you were designing a course to walk somebody through the history of Western literature, what are your must-have titles? #booksky 💙 📚🪐 #amreading

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...