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!

I received my inheritance from my Grandma today. Emotional going through some things that were meaningful for her and are for me. Here a portrait from before the premiere of Vaughan Williams’ Concerto Grosso, for which she played.

Please pray for these wonderful graduates of St Augustine's who were licensed as Lay Ministers in the Diocese of Chichester last week.

Authenticity isn’t the same as chaos. Being authentic means showing up as your whole self - within boundaries, within consent, within context. Unmasking is not dumping pain on whoever is near. It’s truth with relationship at its center.

And all the autistic people said, “Amen.”

LIMERICK It was the Medical Council’s belief, That as a form of effective relief, Paracetamol would Be next to no good From the pain of the Satsuma-in-Chief.

this exists it is called thinking

Lord Carey has no legitimacy to be heard in public. He should have been ejected from the Lords long ago on the basis of his safeguarding record.

"Cutting the NHS budget" is never an acceptable reason to permit the killing of the elderly and disabled. It is however a good prompt to have a really grown up conversation about what treatments are appropriate to offer, and to refocus our resourcing on quality of life rather than extending life.

Tis the season to get bulby…

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

Nothing tastes worse than a bad cup of tea, because it carries with it the disappointment that it should've been a good one.

Today I am delivering a lecture on the Holy Spirit the Giver of Life, and how the fire that destroyed the Egyptians is the same fire that dwells in our hearts. You bet I will be referring to Indiana Jones. Praying also for repentance and reconciliation for those gathering in our city today.

It was great to welcome the first batch of new students to St Augustine’s last week. Please pray for the other batch being inducted (induced?) tonight.

Well, its the first essay crisis I’ve had for years. But 6500 words will be produced for various things by the end of the day! Really hoping the ADHD part of the AuDHD neurodivergence package turns up today and does her magic!!!

Four shelves of books removed from the library for disposal. This is exciting as there is now room to shelve the current books more neatly. Ooooorrrrrrrrr… to buy more books. Yup. Buying more books.

A very happy 801st anniversary of the arrival of the franciscans in England to one and all!

Please pray for the 50 new students being welcomed to St Augustine’s tomorrow, and also those who will have their inductions through the coming week. And for the staff who have been preparing for their arrival!

Actual footage of the angels and saints ministering to me as I wallow in a sea of Quality Street wrappers garnished with self-pity. Appendicitis continues to be neither mindful, nor demure. Looking forward to a train ride for some light admin in a medicinal haze tomorrow.

The smoking ban was quite possibly the greatest achievement of the late 20th century.

Having spent the day in St Mary's with "mild" appendicitis, to be treated at home with antibiotics, I shudder to think what full blown appendicitis must be like. Nighty night.

Microtheology.

Slumming it at work today. You have been prayed for.

Good to see new books going on library shelves!

So, microsoft want to put up their prices over 10% to pay for developing add-on services we don’t want and from which it seems we can’t meaningfully opt out. They’ve just lost our family’s business after three decades.

Once I thought there was a scary monster in my wardrobe. Turns out it was autism. Getting diagnosed showed me it wasn’t scary at all, just a part of me that’s actually huggable.

Days off on Tuesday and Sunday works well on a bank holiday weekend. Prayer ascending for everyone going back to work today. [Sips coffee in garden]

This has really cheered me this morning.

this is why it’s so important to talk about being Autistic as a culture, a neuro-culture We are brought together by our shared experiences driven by a lot of shared neurology that differs from what is currently considered typical We can’t limit our neurokin to criteria chosen by other people

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

The lesson about the vineyard from Isaiah this morning was all about Israel falling short of God's standards. Right-wing Israelis talk of the land being given to them by God. They do not talk of how God commanded them to live. Slaughtering & starving innocent people is NOT God's plan.

This week I have had a cold. I am almost over the cold now. But instead my autistic/ADHD body is now recovering from the stress and workload of constant stimulus and boredom of being ill. Working my way through Maggie Aderin-Pocock’s 13 minutes podcast.

A reminder: if a trans person existing in a space with you causes you discomfort or anxiety, you should not harass or exclude them. You should speak to a decent therapist instead. Just saying.

It's a remarkable experience, going through a 'situation', and then reading varied newspapers write about the situation and just thinking... Oh wow, this is NOT what happened at all!

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Well, the mythopoetic men’s movement was both a ghastly thing to happen and a ghastly thing to constitute this afternoon’s rabbit hole. Rage levels are rising.

Today I received an email reply from a person whose work I am writing about. Sometimes people in the Church and the Academy are just lovely. I hope that if I am ever one day something eminent I am as generous and as kind to early career people who send slightly annoying inquiry emails.

I love the idea of curators interacting with the censors along the lines of "Why yes, of course you can censor our library. These bins here contain the unsorted complete Grove Books theology pamphlet back catalogues. See you in a decade."

We need a new pneumatic variant of solastalgia. It's like solastalgia, but specifically naming a longing for a world wherein we can breathe easily again.

Tonight’s trip to the doctor. Highlight was being told I had the lowest cardiac risk score the doctor had ever seen. But utterly cancelled out by the lowlight which was her needing a second tape-measure to measure my waist size.

Zeffirelli's Francis of Assisi was historical trash but theological gold. Giving a lecture tonight on Bonaventure and the Cross, and just cannot resist getting these visuals in!