Currently trying to look for a physical copy of an NRSV with apographa, with legible type face, that's sturdy enough to be carted a training evenings and weekends. But not too heavy or expensive. I assume I'll find it in the same section as the pet unicorns 😆 🦄

I was not prepared for his head to turn.

Taking a look at the faith of Samuel Ryder, who founded the #RyderCup being played this weekend. #CofEpeeps. From today’s Herts Advertiser #FaithFocus

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Morning sky-folk, happy #InsectThursday from me and an absolute unit of a buff tailed bumblebee 🌱🐝📷 #Bloomscrolling #nature #UKWildlife #BugSjy #Flowers

At a time of incredibly difficult and sad news from round the world, some incredible news. Huntington’s disease, most common in adults - but I also nursed teens with the condition - has successfully treated for the first time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

Daughter & I have made 4 small museum kits for mental health-beautiful vintage tins containing tiny printers’ tray-like storage compartments, a collection of precious items with hand-written list of what they are,plus a booklet I’m writing about how collecting improves mental health. On Etsy soon...

It’s tough at the moment, but where are you have you found small glimmers of hope? #hope

Living water…that’s one way to describe the sewage they and other water companies let flow into bodies of water 😬

Folks in the Narthex might find the Barmen Declaration of 1934 of interest as they, and we, also ponder how best to respond in a raise in authoritarianism. #Narthex

"Science and religion don't mix" ...lol. #StayCurious ♥️ @rsc.org @churchofengland.org

No doubt the US leaders will try to link e.g. paracetamol to autism. Can I recommend www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor... for anyone who can't work out what's causing what? Hilarious site that compares things that 'seem' to cause each other. But they don't.

Every day you can see the impossible happen. A rose blooms & implores 'hey, over here' We hurry by with barely a glance, paying no attention to daily miracles which carry optimism & belief in the imaginable. If we conceive the possible, we can make it so, let's do that ❤️ #photography #words #hope

Good thread. If anyone wants to know more about this rather depressing story (in which a peculiar, marginal, and harmful way of reading the Bible gets transformed into what a lot of people think is intrinsic to Christianity), there’s a good In Our Time on Darby, Schofield, and their legacy.

Yesterday, the ordinands and trainee lay ministers had our commissioning service, where we’re called out from the congregation and stand before them, as a reminder of who we’re called to serve. and publicly committed to God as we train. What did Sunday look like for you? #CofEPeeps ✝️

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

We know who made this number up - it was the Centre for Policy Studies. However, after I pointed out two major errors, they have admitted it is completely wrong and have withdrawn it - see note on their webpage here. cps.org.uk/research/her...

David Sparks of the Focussed podcast and Mac Power Users has released a lovely little app called ‘No List’. It’s totally free - and it truly is, there’s no paid option. David’s built it to support the fact that many of us, including himself, find it hard to say, ‘no’.

Please sign and share 🙏 actionnetwork.org/letters/the-...

“Patriots love their country. Nationalists hate their neighbours” Love this from Tim Farron!

The sea itself is about 3.5 miles as the crow flies, but the estuary is just half a mile away. Ipswich has a port, too, with large ships and dredgers coming in on a regular basis. Occasionally when the wind is in the right direction like this morning, you can hear a ship’s horn 🥰 #TinyJoys

#ToPray✝️ The apostles remembered what many modern Christians tend to forget-that what makes the gospel offensive isn't who it keeps out but who it lets in. (Rachel Held Evans)

I know what the lectionary is, as in, a list of cyclical readings. But do I understand a lectionary is also a book of said readings, published for each year of that cycle?

Ah, Co-Op Bank, we have the misfortune of meeting once again. I deal with seven UK and Irish banking institutions on a regular basis, and truly nothing compares to the UK’s most ethical and pointlessly bureaucratic bank. Just bizarre.

Saw one of some of those fancy rainbow clouds this evening. In person it a full colour range but I could only catch a couple of the colours. #TinyJoys

So good news is my blood test result is back and my iron is back in range 🥳 The bad news is that was supposed to be ‘tests’. They were meant to test for coeliac and…just didn’t? Called to find out why, said ring after 2pm for test results. Rang at 2pm, “We are closed for training. Call tomorrow.”

Quakers join international campaign to stop foreign complicity in Israel's illegal settlement project quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

My satsuma is like a Russian doll! #TinyJoys

Reminder that if Air Canada cancel your flight out of the UK and say they can't rebook it same day, you can ring them and say: "You are obliged to check sister carriers." Then they will magically remember to do so. This post brought to you by me now flying BA to Toronto, 5hrs later than planned.

I just find everything feels a bit better when I watch this.

The ABA industry continues to test whether its 'interventions' make autistic children hide being autistic. www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11... is a new review of ABA based 'interventions' which uses e.g. the ADOS checklists for alleged abnormal behaviour/

Not often I’d quote Tim Keller - we’d diverge on a lot of theology - but this one has stayed with me for years now. It didn’t save my life, but it did transform how I saw and processed the things I’ve experienced.

Niche tweet, but I introduced a friend, who works for a small community organisation, to the concept of batched payments. They’re really excited about the time it will save them. Even at a non-management level, there are skills and processes you can share with others to their lives easier 🥰

Never too much geekiness! My dad also pointed out (from a Facebook post) that later this month there will be a date (27th September) which is a squared number in two different date formats! 27092025 09272025

Just survived a 2.25 hr PCC (vestry) meeting 🫠 It was mostly worth the time as we needed to cover some time consuming topics in tedious detail, but I am now very glad to be home. We only have them every 2-3 months so good be worse. Just not especially compatible with a 0515 wake up 🥱 ✝️

Amen to this. Meanwhile, the UK government, led by a human rights lawyer:

If you are not already following the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, you should, because their posts are one of the best US exports. And they’re tariff-free.

Kudos to the tree surgeon and his team next door who managed to pollard the huge eucalyptus in winds so strong I was almost blown over at the bus stop.

This is something the Church of England is going to have to address carefully soon, I fear. I want to see a revival, but not if it’s built on Christian Nationalism, which is a dangerous distortion of the Gospel and bad news for pretty much everyone.

Very moved listening to the late Dame Vera Stephanie "Steve" Shirley talk about she and her sister Renate’s escape from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, a safe and legal route that helped 10k children to escape an evil regime, with boats arriving at the port a just a 7.5 miles from here.

World Tramdriving Championships klaxon (ht Joanna Holman on mastodon). No word yet on the line-up of events, but previous years have featured tram skittles. This year I'm hoping for tram flyball. www.tramwm.com

Bobbie and Phyllis would like you to know their lives are dreadful and they do not get *nearly* enough warm laps to sit on /s

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 A 200+ page research paper from the University of Warwick, led by Nataliya Kosmyna (et al) This was published a couple months ago but I've only just had the chance to read it. I highly encourage others to do the same but I wanted to condense some observations in a short 🧵

About to complain our mentor neighbour were shining for the 40k candle car lights through our bedroom window. Only to realise they weren't quite that bright and that it’s the moon 😬 🌕

I briefly looked up B&Q earlier, whilst stood in a branch of B&Q. I am now being served ads for B&Q…in Wolverhampton. More than a hundred and forty miles away. May be apples own VPN at play, but why there.

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"Just being angry doesn't make you a prophet...you must speak from humanity...the ultimate calling of the preacher and prophet is to restoration not condemnation. The aim is to help everyone find their way home to God, preachers included." "The Church is what we do next..." Oh Mark! Thank you!

When has God felt far from you this week? When has God felt close? ✝️