I was waiting for Giles Fraser's perspective to land! A bit of a curates egg 'good in parts' ! I do agree with his choice for the next ABC and his call to put the parish church at the heart of everything. unherd.com/2024/11/burn...

I mean it when I say that Dr Nicolete Burbach is doing some of the most important queer theology of our time.

"But I don't need to know how your brain works". A common comment, when autistic people talk about the need to explain that we're autistic. Mmm. Let's explain a bit of everyday life. Thread. I am invited into a meeting with e.g. 7 people whose brains function in 'typical' ways/

"If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions" I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today thanks to the Cass review. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance. Why? I'll tell you /1

Just used the word “expedited” in an email which is a first. Let’s see if it worked… (for those who know/care, it’s about a building faculty). Rock n roll life. 🤘🏻

Today my 15yr old wandered into my room singing a song by Pavement. So folks, I’m afraid I’m the winner of Parenting this year. 🥇

My son just said “nicely aged wheels of Parmesan cheese” and I fear he’s going to start looking for more middle class parents to raise him now 😂🤣

So this was a perfect, needed-for-me piece to pop up on my Google Alerts tonight. It's beautiful, and some lovely trauma-informed theology. Honored to be cited. And- it's been an evening. Was nice to hear that my book had an impact.

Pop into the guitar shop to buy strings, come out with a fretless bass…we’ve all been there, right?

I’m reading American Pastoral and wondering: is Philip Roth really a genius or just a creepy narcissist? I guess he may be both a great writer and also an arse…

Being a Christian and a capitalist requires way more theological creativity than being Christian and LGBTQ-affirming IMO

When you’re practising a worship song with your son ready for church and you realise it’s basically, rhythmically and chord-wise, Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye…

I'm never going to recover from learning this

‘No one will understand these new Overground line names!’ Guys, we’ve got a Northern line that goes furthest south, District, Met and Central lines named after companies that went extinct 90+ years ago, a Circle that’s a spiral, a Bakerloo that started as a newspaper joke. We’ll probably manage.

I just had to google “how do you spell higgledy-piggledy?” How’s your day going?

Resisted the urge to say “wow; that as a pretty perfectly symmetrical cross I did on your forehead!” to a parishioner. Totally winning at priesting today.

I swear they have two super bowls a year. Doesn’t seem very long since the last one.

The Marvels and Captain Marvel would be in my top ten favourite Marvel Cinematic Universe Films.

TFW your child’s RE revision makes you feel more sympathy for atheists than the “official” versions of Christianity being written about…

I think today’s morning prayer reading reminds us that we need to get back to Biblical Marriage i.e. trading mandrakes with your husband’s new and favourite wife in exchange for a a night of sex with your husband. It’s in the Bible.

The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?

This morning’s two sermons featured Lord of the Rings, Taylor Swift, a jar of sand and the Milky Way (the Galaxy not the chocolate bar)

“Bitcoin mining uses 10 times more electricity than all of the EVs in the nation. Want to implement a really easy, simple, beneficial climate solution right now? Ban cryptocurrency altogether.” - Jonathan Foley

THE PROBLEM: Most forms of energy are harming the environment THE SOLUTION: Switch to alternative forms of renewab... THE PROBLEM: Hold on, I have an idea, what if we made invisible valueless money that eats electricity THE SOLUTION: ...what? THE PROBLEM: Also I have this plagiarism machine

It has defied expectations: it’s been far worse than almost anyone predicted in terms of the wellbeing of the population

RIP 😔 …the soundtrack of every Sunday night homework session: Annie Nightingale: Legendary Radio 1 DJ dies at 83 www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...

I’m sure it’s totally coincidental that the “Statistics for Mission” and the “Clergy Resilience” emails arrived on the same day 🧐

At the suggestion of a colleague, I’m compiling a “Demands/Support” or “Shit I’m dealing with/good things and resources available to me” balance sheet. The first part runs to three pages so far; the second part half a page. No wonder I’m miserable….

“Every time a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of Parliament, because it does not represent ‘the voice of the people’ we can smell the whiff of eternal fascism...” Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher, author of The Name of the Rose, born #OTD 1932.

Jnr1 has friends round for a jam session/songwriting session. They’re all soul/r’n’b’/jazz musicians. They know all the chords. Far more chords than I knew at 18.

If you or a company or organisation whose decision-making you control makes donations to a political party, it should be forbidden for you, the company or the organisation to be awarded any contract by the State under any government of which that party is a member. /2

If you or a company or organisation whose decision-making you control makes donations to a political party, it should be forbidden for that party to make you a peer or to give you a knighthood. /1

One of the various things I do is edit the blog ‘Via Media News’. Today we published a piece which has had 11,000 hits today. It deserves them! viamedia.news/2023/12/30/p...

Covid positive for the third Christmas period in a row. Just thankful that I’ve come down with it a safe distance AFTER the busy Christmas services. Still not happy though :-(

What better way to spend Christmas Day evening than finishing a bit of Žižek?

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special seems to me to be the absolute nadir of seasonal televisual programming. I can’t quite articulate why I loath it so much. This may be because I’ve had wine.

Sentnces I never thought I’d type #1: my 18yr old son is currently crocheting a Frank Ocean doll.

James Cleverly demonstrating the reverse of nominative determinism. And also that he’s seemingly a deeply unpleasant person.

It’s not fair to call all 313 MPs who voted for the Rwanda bill horrible racists, some of them are merely moral vacuums willing to throw vulnerable asylum seekers under the bus to prolong what’s left of their short careers

Does anyone know who wrote the awful Christmas Nativity version of Hallelujah, and if I can seek an injunction to have to it banned?

“Elon Musks says Disney boss should be fired Immediately” And I’d like Elon Musk to be fired in a rocket straight for the sun but we can’t always get what we want, can we? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“We are open to conversations about creative partnerships and sharing these objects in the future”. Me after breaking into my neighbour’s shed and nicking his lawnmower. Sorry, I mean the British museum.

This is the best bit of advice I’ve seen on the internet 😂

In 2009, Žižek wrote this about the financial crash: “The primary immediate effect of the crisis will not be the rise of a radical emancipatory politics, but rather the rise of racist populism…” 1/2

*breaks glass in case of emergency* Alright, let's fucking talk about it!