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Popping on here to share (albeit belatedly) a bit of #advent #hope & #joy Our choir has produced an #adventcalendar - some classics, beautiful arrangements & pieces written by our director of music: here’s the link to the play list - enjoy and share! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

From a couple of weeks ago: entertaining angels unawares - #courage and #hospitality, #listening and #hope. With a h/t to my colleague Al in Hodge Hill - and his community engagement with protestors & asylum seekers juliegittoes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ente...

#Bart #TheSimpsons #StBartholowmew #RowanWilliams #grace - last week’s sermon juliegittoes.blogspot.com/2025/08/bart...

Been a bit absent here one way or another - less time on social media in general, but getting back to some #tinyjoys it’s pick your own dahlias season at Finchley Nursery: carefully wrapped and now on mantelpiece #tinyjoy #dahlias

Realising I have got the stage of reposting these insights out of sheer frustration that no-one in No 10 seems to be paying attention and shifting strategy.

Last week, I took myself off to Kenwood House because I’d been told that the rhododendron were amazing - absolutely popping with colour #kenwoodhouse #rhododendron #colour #tinyjoys

The most precious thing - sermon from the start if #passiontide #anointing juliegittoes.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

Obsessed with these rainbow tulips at the moment - bought them reduced price which was a bonus! #tinyjoys #tulips

The glow of light through these windows is aways feels like hope and consolation - knowing that prayer, worship, witness and community life have been nurtured in this place for a 1000 years! #tinyjoys #hope St Mary’s Hendon

Got home after a run - ready to settle down with MOJO’s interview with Jarvis Cocker whilst listening to the cover CD - and Pulp’s new single “Spike Island” was on radio 2. #EasterMondayTreat #Pulp

May Pope Francis rest in peace. On Easter Day he spoke of the resurrection of Jesus as the basis of the renewal of hope that peace is possible - evil no longer has the upper hand: “Love has triumphed over hatred, light over darkness and truth over falsehood. Forgiveness has triumphed over revenge.”

#HolyWeek in images. From Friday’s performance of “The Messiah”, to #PalmSunday liturgies and “Time for Jesus” in the evening: moving and intense start to Holy Week.

Taken after evensong last night. The glow of candles in the stillness and beauty of this ancient place where we add our praise & prayer to those which have echoed down the centuries. Our stories held within God’s story. This is precious. There is consolation in this #sacredspace #tinyjoys

Some moments from this week - #tinyjoys if you will. I saw my spiritual director and spotted this apt linocut: “A Kind of Prayer” by David Frazer. It kinda reminded me of my dad who used to kneel at his bed to pray before sleep

Some images of this week beginning with a view from the northern line: it’s much maligned but most of the time an effective bit of TfL. Beautiful sunset the tube emerged from the tunnel at Golders Green #tinyjoys #northlondon

A mug of daffodils #tinyjoy

A worth while long read @madsdavies.bsky.social offering a nuanced reflection.

Today’s been the epitome of “the net of alien, sword-set beauty” [Rowan’s poem, Advent, in Epiphaytide] #frost

Short paper deadline SST is next week: a nudge to colleagues in church contexts as well as academy to submit a proposal re #church #theology #ministry It’s a rare space for conversation on topics from #mission to #ecumenism. Danny and I would love to hear from you.

This time last eeek ie as walking around a misty rec in Kington. A bit of a contrast today on a sunny/frosty morning in Hendon. Spent some time listening to birds - including watching this robin #tinyjoys

Photos from my kitchen window 24 hours apart: January days - come rain, come shine. Trying to maintain a discipline or habit of getting outside #tinyjoys

I do love the first Sunday of Christmas - preaching about homes & households - worship & fellowship a blessing after 48 in a very foggy Herefordshire for the family bit of Christmas.

Nadolig Llawen! Welcome all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span.Summer in winter, day in night; heaven in earth, God in man. Great little one whose all-embracing birth brings earth to heaven, stoops heaven to earth. (Richard Crashaw) #clergymaltclub #nadoligllawen #merrychristmas

Our youth group made jesse tree ahead of tomorrow’s confirmation service: telling the story of God’s ways with the world in images. Isaiah 11:1 ~ "A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shal grow out of his roots.”

Managed to get for a run this afternoon - not as wet and grey as rest of the week. Lovely to hear the birds on route

A sermon on the shock of hope from Advent Sunday: juliegittoes.blogspot.com/2024/12/shoc...

I have written an essay over on Substack about being a woman in the world of ideas. If you have ever wondered why it’s harder to find women to do public events, you should read it open.substack.com/pub/morefull...

I have been thinking about, and being sustained by, the local a lot recently. Pre and post the publication of Makin. “Nothing is real (repentance included) unless it is local, for only here can the Body of Christ be discerned, along with the divine value of each incarnate soul.”

Love the different station designs on the tube & these tiles are special (chalk farm, northern line) although probably taken for granted #tinyjoys #thetube

40 minutes and a short work between meetings = being able to drop into Tate Britain for a first look at #The80s

This afternoon’s walk - around the park and back through the church yard.

A post gym coffee #AngelCafe and @davidwelchuk.bsky.social it’s not a chai latte!

North London does “snow”!

At the moment it’s the small (local) things that are helping: local cafe, local discount, local people, local chai latte 1/

A couple of photos from the dress rehearsal #PilgrimsProgress at St Mary’s Hendon An astonishing immersive performance - love & grace overcoming adversity & death. Bunyan’s tale set to music Richard Morrison. Two opportunities to see it today - 16.00 & 18.30

I haven’t yet deleted my account on the other place but stepping back. I have said little there, or here, not because I am indifferent to all that faces CofE but because I’m focusing on the local, the in-person relationships, unseen work, smaller spheres. Praying that is hopeful & hope filled 🙏🏻

#Sermon #Greatness Thinking about GOAT, the twisties of life, safeguarding our children and the attending perhaps to the children we ourselves were: juliegittoes.blogspot.com/2024/09/goat...

Glad to read reflections from Fr Thomas & Fr Sam in this piece by Hannah for #Theos It chimes with a conversation with my spiritual director this week - the way being a vicar can feel more Martha than Mary & consciously looking at habits/boundaries/attention www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2024...

I was excited to receive this in the post today #Pregnancy #Birth #Theology thanks Karen O’Donnell & Claire Williams for editing; proud to be in this collection. The folk at church I’ve shared this with are also excited to see it (& want to read it!) #Menopause #Church

It’s not Banksy but this has appeared opposite one of my churches - spotted by the pub landlord #graffiti #streetart

Interesting research confirming what is a key benefit of humanities & social sciences, incl religious studies - to understand the perspectives, complexity and diversity of those different from ourselves: theconversation.com/people-think...

Took a break from writing to cut some fresh dahlias at Finchley Nurseries #tinyjoys

Yesterday’s sermon: good news, salvation and the powers of this world, including AI; seeking God’s ways, remembering and recommitting. Will be adding “Nexus” to the books to read list! juliegittoes.blogspot.com/2024/08/lord...

Still getting to grips with tomorrow’s sermon but here’s last week’s: needing to eat; the bread of life; bread getting inside us. With some inspiration from Sr Corita Kent and Nick Cave juliegittoes.blogspot.com/2024/08/you-...

I keep all sorts of random stuff but one of my cats just knocked over a vase containing palm crosses and inside was the tiniest of origami cranes (half the width of my thumb)! No idea who made it/gave it but a #tinytreasure #tinyjoy

Lots of “greens” today: scrumptious salad at a cafe in North Finchley, the colours of an installation in trees at Tally Ho and walking back through Victoria Park with its new sensory garden.

Nothing like coming in to start cooking tea, turning on R2 and heating #Pulp #Disco2000 courtesy of Sara Cox #AllRequestFriday

There are so many theatre options sometimes it’s nice to put £15 to go to a show in an intimate space: “I love you, now what?” explores love, illness, grief and hope - the familiar often unspoken feelings as relations begin/evolve & end

Over 30 years ago I received my GCSE results whilst on a youth pilgrimage to Taizé - still have the t-shirt! Thinking of today’s students in their relief, joy or disappointment - and all that lies ahead. It’s just the beginning and they have so much potential