Well this holiday has involved visiting zero churches. This is most unusual. Ben Youssef Madrasa.

Me and @jobm.bsky.social could do this for £50 and a trip to The Range.

#MorningPrayer Save us, Lord, from the pride and passion for power that pervades our world; from the tantrums of those who trump their own ego, and the temptation to do that ourselves. Help us always to show your love to those in need, for you were a refugee in the land of Egypt.

If you want a hoodie or tshirt they are preorder only. Orders close on the 16th.

That awkward moment when I realised that @metanoiauk.bsky.social was still branded for the Christmas release last year.

We came. We saw. We rocked the Kasbah.

Band merch drop!

Such a good night last night with @daraobriain.bsky.social at the Victoria Theatre. Heartwarming and hilarious.

Looks great.

“Robb, don’t slip on that banana skin” *slips on banana skin* “It’s a real banana skin not a metaphorical one”. “I thought this was the Liturgical Commission not super Mariocart”.

When two or three are gathered in my name, one shall say “all will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of things will be well”.

Our Lord did not become a man and die and rise again so this country could have a “coherent cultural identity” and I am also not at all convinced that God created human beings in all their diversity in order to sort themselves out into homogenous lumps.

@robbsutherland.bsky.social and I seem both to have incurred a £100 fine as a result of following Google maps to get to our clergy study day. Tried to make us turn left where there was no left turn - so we ended up (separate vehicles) driving ahead onto the buses only. ⚓✝️

That’s the way to do it.

Work life balance.

Am constantly annoyed by autoincorrect changing words that exist into other words. Like gig being changed to gif.

Our house is full of plague. I’ve passed my chest infection on to @thebassplayer.bsky.social. Have managed to find someone to cover Silverthorn’s gig tonight.

Anyone else having issues with the Sunday worship app? I’ve deleted it and reinstalled it. Same problem.

Three hours just disappeared in the blink of an eye!

Robert Jenrick is another person who has cooked his brain on Twitter (“Activist judges” is a very American-brained phrase, and I’m also sceptical that 30 judges and mags are really in favour of “open borders”, as opposed to a slightly more liberal regime, or just helping immigrants get their rights)

Developing a chest infection was not on my list of things to do on annual leave.

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Short version: You AREN'T paying your state pension. You paid for your parents' pension. The 'kids today' and 'those immigrants' are paying your pension.

Tonight we talked about Victoria Wood and how clever her comedy was. She was four years younger than my mum. When she was using a hostess trolley so was my Granma. I am feeling a bit old. And eying up a woman’s weekly.

VNV Nation is on the telly box. Fr Eddie must be in charge of the YouTube playlist again.

Well @thebassplayer.bsky.social says she won’t do an acoustic version of Right Said Fred’s I’m Too Sexy with @robbandruth.bsky.social. What a killjoy.

Putting it out there and hang the consequences. We need to neuter the use of the word “orthodox” (small o) as a dog whistle for not inclusive. We need to start using it again without the dog whistle. Credal. Not a Donatist. Opposed to Arianism for example. Orthodox. Like me. And my 🌈 friends.

We’ve been on a little trip out. It seems we’ve accidentally started booking gigs as an acoustic duo covering songs from the 50s to now - anything we love where we can sing excessive harmonies. As is usually the case, we went shopping for Ruth and came back with something for Robb.

This is the kind of headline where I am glad to see our tower blocks in the background. @holynativity.bsky.social @leeds.anglican.org

Have just seen a guy in St Peter’s Square with Green piping on his cassock. What’s that mean?

The Rapture is not a bloody long held myth, it’s a fundamentally twentieth century one (granted, its roots are in the nineteenth century but it didn’t get big till the twentieth), and it’s got nothing to do with the Catholic Church.

Me and my mum at the Colosseum. Having a wonderful time talking about memories of my dad, my grandparents, when mum was growing up, life in the pit village when only one family had a TV and they all sat as kids cross legged watching it.

Open top bus round Rome for three days. €40. Disabled free. Bargain.

Watched a deadpan 8 year old tell her dad he’d never be as good as Eddie [Van Halen]. Nothing can top this level of parenting.

Most clinical psychologists are at work on a Friday morning when someone on This Morning claims they can communicate with the dead and invokes their profession. Mine is in the hospital waiting room saying “this poor woman needs to be allowed to grieve not put on national television”.

I had whooping cough as a child. It was horrible. Vaccinate your kids.

People who push Christian nationalism hate it when actual Christians speak up because of course “Christian” really means “white”

To: All Staff Subject: IMPORTANT REMINDER!!! NEVER lend animals your phone to order items online. Gavin just confiscated another anvil and six rockets from the coyote enclosure.

JEFF: I love Def Leppard. GEOFF: It's Deof Leoppard.

New 'I saw Jesus' face in a slice of toast' just dropped.

A voice for the voiceless.

On a personal note, volunteers are ace.

Sun sets on Youth Group camp as we make s’mores on our last night on the North Yorkshire Moors. @leeds.anglican.org

Introducing the Youth of the parish to the quintessentially English activity of Morris Dancing. A day out in Whitby at Youth Group Camp. @leeds.anglican.org

Crabs come up the elevator eating their food and then go back in the water. We’re pretty sure they know exactly what’s going on. Youth Group always love crabbing in Whitby. @leeds.anglican.org

Everyone loves a steam train! What better way to get to Whitby? #YouthGroupCamp @leeds.anglican.org

Are we the only people who say “I’m ready for home now” a day or two before a holiday ends?

And whilst we were at the Castle, one youth leader scanned this poke stop. And I planted Pikmin Bloom flowers around it. Because step counting gps games are important 🤓

Youth Group: life under canvas.