I can guarantee that your life will not be made one iota happier, richer or safer by being beastly to trans people.

Took him to see some Christmas lights. Every year I want to go and see the Christmas lights and we haven’t had time or the energy. Now we do. Yaaay!

One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.

Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive: https://goodlaw.social/cpfx

How have I never seriously listened to Schubert’s piano sonatas before? Seriously, they are a delight!

Most high, all powerful, good Lord, yours are the praises, the blessing, honour and all glory. ⚓️✝️

Pray for Bishop Christopher of Southwark as he announces his retirement from the Feast of the Transfiguration in August next year.

Happy Dazzling Body Bears Sunday to one and all! Or Deep Sea Whaling Sunday for the environmentally conscious. #advent #CofEpeeps ⚓️

If you want to support autistic people, stop waiting for us to be “calm” before you care. We don’t owe you composure to deserve dignity.

I actually love this.

British horticulturist, garden designer, and writer Gertrude Jekyll was born #OnThisDay in 1843. She bought this pair of men's leather boots when she was in her 40s and continued to wear them (after many repairs) until her death in 1932. Guildford Museum collection. #fashionhistory

I volunteer as tribute. [Works out how this info can be dropped casually into a lecture soon]

philofilioquism

New book on the desk. This feels like a must read for any Christian theologian thinking about hospitality and welcome. #theosky

I must confess that my expectations were not particularly high... but... well done to the labour government on the budget. Always going to be opportunities I think were missed... but this really is a step in the right direction.

I imagine we can all relate to Andalgalornis here

PS I'm aware I'm being 'that guy', but I can't help but find it disturbing that a criminal, abuser and possible child molester, is only now having his power base threatened because there's a rumour he did something 'gay'. As a gay man that is worrying.

Taps the sign

@mikehigton.bsky.social has published this brilliant response to the Faith and Order Commission's misappropriation and misrepresentation of his work in its recent documents which informed the House of Bishops' recent decision on Living in Love and Faith. #CofEpeeps viamedia.news/2025/11/17/c...

Preparing some slides for a lecture on Saturday, and I am struck again by this comment on the CofE's commissioning of safeguarding reports & the tension between wanting to know and not wanting to know. Gardner was #safeguarding advisor in Bath & Wells when Peter Ball's abuse become publicly known ✝️⚓️

Hot marmite. The ultimate losing-ones-voice cure.

Death by Bodley in Cardiff for tomorrow’s mass. Lovely to be in a church that just feels like a church. Very excited to be preaching at St German’s!

The fact that abuse of people who are not deemed sufficiently “vulnerable” according to several categories is deemed not a safeguarding matter is simply insane. Everyone deserves to be protected from abuse, not just those who fall into certain categories. #CofEpeeps #safeguarding

Gluten free baking. When you try a tested recipe but with a new type of flour substitute… and the chemistry says no.

My response to the third FAOC report... on clergy exemplarity and Same-Sex Marriage. "Indeed, with the concept of ‘communally regulative understanding of doctrine’, the bishop is rendered powerless, and the bishops as a House are disempowered utterly." ⚓️✝️ #CofEPeeps viamedia.news/2025/11/12/a...

My response to the second FAOC report, this time on the Doctrine of Marriage, which led to the Living in Love and Faith decision of the House of Bishops is out on Via Media. ⚓️✝️ viamedia.news/2025/11/11/a...

Beginning and end of the day. A really superb day with superb students. Time to decompress on the train, cook dinner, and pass out in a warm bed.

A long and hard day yesterday engaging with some horrible institutional and online homophobia. But today I am out of bed and on the train to spend the day teaching students to be joyful ministers of the Good News with integrity and hope. This is what it is actually all about. ⚓️✝️

A Pastoral Letter on LLF (Living in Love and Faith) and the Inclusion of LGBTQIA+ people in the Church of England from The Provincial Council of the Society of Catholic Priests (SCP) Europe. www.societyofcatholicpriests.com/scp-news/liv...

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The Dean received a standing ovation from the congregation for his sermon this morning

This is what I need today. “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.” Somehow just repeating the angel’s words to Mary and all humanity just helps put things a little bit back into perspective.

I'm meant to be teaching students how to be amateur psychologists in parish ministry... but instead have prepared slides on Cicero, Augustine and Aquinas on desire, disordered love & concupiscence. How much of parish drama is people not knowing what they really want or how to get it.

Hl. Johannes Chrysostomus, Erzbischof Von Istanbul https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/hl-johannes-chrysostomus-erzbischof-von-istanbul-867

If only all of our spoons could be used on things which regulate us and give us fulfilment…

#ToPray✝️ Sometimes the most honest prayers we can pray are the ones that sound like; This is hard. I am tired. Please help. (Ashley Morgan Jackson)

Back in Southwark for the licensing of lay ministers. Bernard Mizeki, pray for us. Lancelot Andrewes, pray for us!

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

Politics defined by ones relationship to surveillance-feudalism makes much more sense.

My experience is that there was a an absolutely huge gap between people’s beliefs about how their immigration systems work and how they actually work, and if you’ve had experience of the immigration system in the US or UK, you’ll spend a lot of time with one raised eyebrow when the topic comes up!

A successful Francis Day. Interacted with and taught students basically constantly from 9am-5pm. Then came home and set fire to a chicken. Actual fire. A new one for me. Don't know what Sainsbury's are feeding those birds these days. Napalm?

Good fact!

So pleased and proud that Sarah Mallally is new Archbishop of Canterbury! What a historic day!

Yaaaaaay!!! Pray for Sarah our Archbishop!!!

I love that a BBC tech person in a lanyard doing checks is the anglican equivalent of the red curtains on St Peters.

I will be praying the rosary on 7th October as a member of the Society of Catholic Priests, praying for peace in the world. Join us in prayer for peace wherever you are and whenever you can.

Forsythia in the ground. Salvia in the ground, replacing a bush that we hate. Offspring of the bush that we hate potted and preserved for next season to provide ground cover in a bit of the garden we can’t see. Now for a deep breath.

I'm finally reading some Ken Leech. Spirituality and Pastoral Care. Mind-blowingly good pastoral theology. How is his work not on every ministerial theology reading list? #theosky

Its a contender for worst selfie ever, but please pray for these graduates of St Augustines who were licensed as Readers at Canterbury Cathedral tonight!