40 Days of Positivity in Photo. Day 3 I love cooking. Time passses so quick whilst I’m remembering the recipe and faffing with ingredients. Tonight’s cassoulet - a before picture. Stuck it in the oven a few hours ago. FYI: I have the same rules for measuring wine in recipes as I do garlic.

40 days of positivity. Day two, the photo. This is my cat. There are many like him, but this one is mine. My cat is my best friend. He is my life. He’s been quite ill for the last month but now he’s a constant munching machine. So rejoice and be glad!

40 days of positivity. Day two, the photo. This is my cat. There are many like him, but this one is mine. My cat is my best friend. He is my life. He’s been quite ill for the last month but now he’s a constant munching machine. So rejoice and be glad!

Ash Wednesday. youtu.be/JF-gxPUxtEk?...

Lent. Forty days of taking a photo of something positive. After tonight’s service, I was brought a Christmas present from the vestry that I didn’t know I had. Lent and Christmas. All at the same time. Woohoo. I will probably be more of a photographer a d less of a snapper.

“This is the season for truth, not performance”. #AshWednesday @holynativity.bsky.social

“Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return”. These are the most honest words we will hear today. It is the great leveller. Opening words from tonight’s preacher at @holynativity.bsky.social

Last week at General Synod I was called to speak about Working Class Vocations. I got invited to Lambeth Palace to share an Iceland Prawn Ring with the Archbishop of Canterbury. You can find out all about it by clicking the link. www.robbsutherland.com/blog/working...

Loved this! Wonderful light moment at the end of our week together

I missed my vocation to be a stand up comic. Whilst I get good laughs there are always important points. We need action to see working class vocations across all levels of leadership in the Church of England. #GeneralSynod

The Archbishop of Canterbury just publicly invited me to a prawn ring at Lambeth Palace.

'In areas of poverty we have to have the contact with the bereaved - and increased fees will stop that contact' Jonathan Macy on his #synod amendment to ensure that funeral fees do not hit certain low-income areas "so hard that they aren't going to have a funeral ministry anymore" #GeneralSynod

Cutting stuff out of a five minute speech on the fly is difficult. #GeneralSynod

I had a wonderful lunch at #GeneralSynod with Deaf Anglicans Together. I have been learning some sign language and the difference between sign language “accents”. Northerners count different. Who knew?

We’re debating fees for weddings and funerals. I imagine that we’re going to come to an impasse where low income low wealth communities want them down and people with large rural graveyards want them up. #GeneralSynod

“We all die”. Morning #GeneralSynod

Listening to Bishop Martinez Rosa dos Santos Bassotto - visiting #GeneralSynod from Brazil. She brings greetings from the people of the rivers and the forest. She's telling us about COP30 and socio-environmental justice.

“You have to remember that Robb is more of a vibe than specifics”. @canonrachel.bsky.social

Poverty and the Church: 40 Years After Faith in the City. My call for concrete action by #GeneralSynod in the next five years to deal with the causes of intergenerational poverty. www.robbsutherland.com/blog/poverty...

I am orthodox. I am also inclusive. #GeneralSynod

"People know that I believe we should increase that [LiNC funding]… we must have open and transparent processes for dealing with those things. And we will get to it" @archbishopofyork.org speaking about LiNC funding in #synod debate on poverty #GeneralSynod

“Fresh expression of deanery synod”.

I’d like to say something about liturgical formation. Twenty five years ago they [synod] did a lot of liturgical work. People questioned why they were doing all that. I don’t think we do enough liturgical business”. ++Stephen Cottrell. A paraphrase because I’m sitting here live. #GeneralSynod

'We need to reduce complexity and our proposal offers this & more' Bishop Joanne Grenfell encourages #synod to vote for the motion saying it will create a ‘single strengthened safeguarding structure’ #GeneralSynod

“I would like to call the man in the black clerical shirt”. Not me. The other man in the black clerical shirt 😆

My approach to #GeneralSynod seems to be unusual. I don’t arrive at a debate with a pre fixed voting bf intention. I engage in the debate.

Hello. Former Index On Censorship staffer here. To be very clear, having your request to speak at a society of which you are not a member does not count, in any sense whatsoever, as censorship. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

You can read Archbishop Sarah's #synod address here: www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/news/archbis...

The new Archbishop of Canterbury receives a long ovation as she begins her inaugural Presidential address to #synod

Every day I am learning to be more fully me through the care of good people around me.

I say we shut down Jersey until we can work out what’s going on.

Delete standing order 16

Of course I can pack shirts for #GeneralSynod and forget the plastic collar.

We’ve been playing it on acoustics all afternoon.

Caught in the act. It’s been awesome to find time to work on new songs at the @resoundworship.org retreat.

“The kudos of the kingdom is fruitfulness in you field (not fame in every field)”. In a world where we’re driven by influencers and statistics, a refreshing reminder we’re called to be here in community not seeking the adulation of strangers. @resoundworship.org

“Writing a song for your local church is like making a home cooked meal”. Chris Juby makes a call to resource the local church rather than chase Christian pop stardom. @resoundworship.org

The combination of the collective sacrifice of young people during the pandemic and the fact this gov has actively increased the cost of employing young people makes this attempt at using false mental health stats and downplaying real health conditions seem particularly cruel

New Star Trek is fun. It’s a weird combination of Star Trek and Grease. Without the songs.

Study day for our Episcopal Area with Rev Canon Dr Mark Pryce @leeds.anglican.org

We are the miracles that God made To taste the bitter fruit of Time... - from 'An African Elegy' by Sir Ben Okri #ClergyStudyDay #Poetry

Things that never appear in a eulogy #3. “Remember when he got the latest iPhone*?” *other manufacturers also exist.

It has been an intense but good two days talking about vision and strategy at @onfiremission.bsky.social.

Speaking to my Methodist colleague after the service of prayer for Christian unity. All of his talk about growth, sustainability and longevity was about consistency and a minister running one church. Meanwhile the Church of England is trying to make circuits with one minister 18 churches.

Great time at Rock Mass last night at @holynativity.bsky.social. Spent a few minutes making showcase run a sample from Helix Stadium. Really user friendly.

New Dexter definitely lives up to old Dexter.

"Why would anyone hand the keys back to these people [the Conservative Party] to take the country forward and hope that they would fix it" says Robert Jenrick, who was a Conservative Party Shadow Minister until just a few hours ago, and has been plotting to take it over for years

67% of Reform MPs have previously been elected as representatives of the Conservative Party. They broke the country last time; do you trust them to fix it?

I think he needs a plaster for that burn. His party leader just dragged him. First press outing in the bag.

It's going to be my first General Synod in London in Feb. Looks like I need to apply for a credit card so I can book a hotel. I forgot how expensive they are.