It was a joy for @churchesengland.bsky.social to spend the evening with young leaders from more than 20 of our national Member Churches listening to their stories and sharing the challenges and opportunities of #ecumenism Thank you to the Ecumenical Patriarchate for hosting #YoungEcumenists

Traditional activities of Holy Saturday: church cleaning. Thank you to @kenson.bsky.social for the timelapse!

Maundy Thursday. “Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself.Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet.”

Our new commission, financially supported by The Postlethwaite Music Foundation, was conceived to further the work carried out by @salfordcathmus.bsky.social to reflect their diverse community within the repertoire. For detailed notes on this commission see our Facebook page Multitude of Voyces.

Sorry for the Facebook link, but here’s our ordinand @kenson.bsky.social again, this time sharing with the Church of England comms team why going to church is important to him. www.facebook.com/reel/9870690...

My privilege & honour to move the motion supported by the National Society and +Portsmouth. I hope this work to include the voices of young adults @churchofengland.org will continue & not lose its momentum as I leave General Synod in June. www.youtube.com/live/44qwtU7...

'This has been a place that has shaped my vocation' @kenson.bsky.social highlights that average age of #GeneralSynod is 58 with 65 members over 70 We need 'prophetically uncomfortable voices of young adults... to become a natural part of this #synod proceedings & deliberations

Here’s #Synod Mirfield ordinand @kenson.bsky.social presenting his motion to enable the participation of young people (18-25) in Synod, because we need to hear their voices in order to help us serve the church’s mission, to listen to each other, to share their vision & to grow their spiritual gifts.

‘Give me 3 reasons why I shouldn’t ordain you!’ @kenson.bsky.social on one bishop's hopeful expectation for those being confirmed 'Can we think about how no. of confirmations relates to our no. of ordinands – could be a mission opportunity to find ordinands everywhere' #synod #GeneralSynod

Especially thankful for @kenson.bsky.social bringing the motion to allow young adults to participate in Synod. As a CEYC member it was important to me that we felt we had representation and were involved with the wider church.

My @churchofengland.org Synod Question regarding the Commemoration of Bishop Ronald Hall who ordained Florence Li.

God I loathe the “AI is here to stay” justification. First of all, many things exist that you needn’t invite into your lives! Poisonous snakes aren’t going anywhere but you aren’t hiring one for the front desk. More to the point in this case, AI is only “here to stay” insofar as you KEEP USING IT

Happy Christmas to all, from my sending parish in Manchester.

And here we are, spreading some cheer and raising some money for orphanage project at Tariro in Zimbabwe. Thank you to all who have supported us!

Busy day in college today - we’ll be carol singing outside the Co-op this afternoon to raise money for the Tariro project in Zimbabwe (tarirouk.com), then this evening we’ll be joining together with our friends at St Hild College for a joint Advent service.

The ‘humanist’ denial of what I would see as an inseparable and innate religious sensibility of the human is a very white western approach indeed. Once again, we are being told what we ‘actually want’, what’s ’good for us’, and not given a chance to be heard.

It’s that season again.

We are proud to support #WhiteRibbonDay with this year’s theme #ItStartsWithMen putting a spotlight on the role women and men play in preventing violence against women and girls. We strive to Make Jesus Known, we must not use, excuse or remain silent about men’s violence against women.

It was lovely to spend Stir Up Sunday at Little Saint Mary’s, Cambridge, in many ways my spiritual home. Wonderful to see friends and people who have supported me in my vocation journey there, and to share in the parish lunch with them.

This is both sad and infuriating. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Stir up, o Lord, the wills of your faithful people" (Collect for tomorrow). Christmas baking klaxon!

Learning about CoE's Triennium Funding plan today, as a member of Synod. Privileged to be part of the discussion and scrutinising the process.

incredibly funny that the church of england is falling to bits, the archbishop of canterbury resigned in disgrace, and his predecessor is just combing his eyebrows and murdering jordan peterson in the guardian. you love to see it

Who will be the next Archbishop of Canterbury? The new Private Eye is out now

I’m sure we’ve all sat through sermons and felt like this afterwards:

For those considering ordained ministry in CoE, come and see how we can be part of your discernment and formation journey.

We might have mentioned we have beautiful grounds, and they were looking particularly fine in the #snow this morning #snowuk

UNISON condemns mass sentencing of trade unionists and civil society activists in Hong Kong and calls for their immediate release  “I stand in solidarity with the 45 trade unionists and pro-democracy leaders,” UNISON gen sec Christina McAnea https://buff.ly/4fOIgBS @catherinewestmp.bsky.social

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Oh, and just as a reminder, the committee that will pick the Archbishop’s successor still contains a member who is named in the Makin Report admitting knowing about the abuse decades ago. He has not resigned.

I wrote about the crisis inside the world's third-largest church and why Justin Welby was not good at his job - foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/18/a...

Scenes from @cor-mirfield.bsky.social this morning before Mattins.

open.substack.com/pub/andrewbr... Now Justin Welby has resigned, instant experts have sprung up all round us like toadstools in the rain. Thirty people should be sacked, according to the Telegraph. Here's my take.

Anyone involved in evaluating contested heritage in our churches should read @mikehigton.bsky.social’s piece in the Ecclesiastical Law Journal on the Rustat Case, particularly the evaluation of heritage institutions’ “objective” submissions and members of the college’s “emotive” ones. Disturbing.

We have an Open Day at the College of the Resurrection on Dec 1st coming up! This is a wonderful place to train and our Open Days are a great chance to get a flavour of the place. You can find more here. Feel free to message me too. college.mirfield.org.uk/admission/

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

Apropos of nothing, here's a pic of Hans Urs von Balthasar at Disneyland. May we all discover and nurture our 'inner child' so we may enter the Kingdom of God like one.