A kestrel and a red kite overhead as I drove back across the downs after presiding and preaching on Advent Sunday for the Community of St Mary the Virgin Wantage. @csmv-wantage.bsky.social #tinyjoys #CofEpeeps

@steeleye-span.bsky.social at The Beacon Wantage last evening. Full house, fantastic music, ending of course with "All around my hat" with audience participation.

Morse cat enjoys watching "Kingdom". Did David Attenborough's voice wake him up?

The politically and commercially manufactured ‘problem’ of immigration is boring and repetitive across the centuries. The question is why do many people still fall for it? The real effort is not in seeding the propaganda but in keeping the public opinion ground receptive and fertile to it.

@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...

Any #CofEpeeps following the sorry saga of #LLF should read this powerful response by Professor Mike Higton to the "misappropriation" of his work in the recent Faith and Order Commission paper on doctrine, intended to inform the House of Bishops decision-making. viamedia.news/2025/11/17/c...

I wish the @churchtimes.bsky.social was better informed editorially, about the unaddressed problems & lack of compliance with the terms of 2014 settlement. I hoped that would improve over the last year or so. But Katie Stock’s article -even the headline & subheading were uninformed. #NotEqualYet

Without asylum: Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist Queen would have been without a front man The other queen wouldn't have had a husband Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc

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

Let us pray for the Community of St Mary the Virgin in the UK Society of Our Lady St Mary in Canada Evangelical Daughters of Mary’s Way in Sweden

❌ Yesterday the Government rejected both Amendment 130 (renumbered to 40) and the chalk stream protection amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

And today a reminder that there are real people whose lives are affected by the current C of E policies on LGBTQIA+ relationships viamedia.news/2025/11/13/a...

I presided and preached at All Saints' Church East Garston this morning. We began with the Act of Remembrance. What a beautiful display of poppies! #RemembranceSunday #CofEPeeps

Stunning illustration of mimicry! Common cuckoo eggs (top row) imitate the eggs of their host species (bottom row). The 30 October issue of Science explains this dazzling coevolution with genomic data — though I admit, it’s complex enough that I’d struggle to teach it! 🧪🌿🌎🦉

It's absolutely bonkers that end of life / palliative / hospice care isn't as much a part of the core NHS mission as maternity care. Yes, in theory you can die at home without needing medical support, just as in theory you can be born at home without it, but come on!

I think this may be a Four Spot Orb Weaver Spider, Araneus quadratus. The colour of the abdomen varies greatly and may be pale yellow, green,orange, red, or dark red-brown. #tinyjoys

Can anyone ID this british #Spider found on the outside of my garden shed? @BBOWT

Our Lord did not become a man and die and rise again so this country could have a “coherent cultural identity” and I am also not at all convinced that God created human beings in all their diversity in order to sort themselves out into homogenous lumps.

University tuition fees in England to rise with inflation from 2026. Student debt is £267bn, could double in a decade. Due to low wages unlikely to be repaid. Young people burdened. Most European countries don't charge uni fees. England destroying social mobility. Must abolish tuition fees.

There's going to be a new genre of AI-facilitated Darwin Awards, isn't there? File this as a near-miss alongside the AI-generated book on foraging wild mushrooms, and unprepared hikers having to be rescued after following AI instructions up snowy mountains

Thank you to our amazing team of volunteers, who give up their time and work so hard for integrity and accountability in the @churchofengland.org Go @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social !

##CofEPeeps need to see this.

Those in a flap about the appointment of a female Archbishop of Canterbury are gonna lose their schizzle when they find out how many female Supreme Governors the Church of England's had...

For the first time, we expose the subset of @churchofengland.org churches that limit women’s roles & opportunities: www.womenandthechurch.org/transparency

Making a retreat is the best way of 'stopping to think' about the greatest Reality in the world - God (APR archive 1960's). Where might you go? promotingretreats.org #retreat #prayer

So the church (C of E, anyway) has finally caught up with the very first moments of Christianity as a faith, in which women were the first witnesses and teachers.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Seems topical once again (www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...)

Canada moves forward, recognising the state of Palestine. 🇨🇦

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

"it is statistically certain that our confabulation vending machine, designed to produce persuasive facsimiles of knowledge to cover up its absence of knowledge, will produce confabulations that are just a persuasive facsimile of knowledge uninformed by the knowledge it doesn't have"

To read the statement from church leaders calling for an end to the war in Gaza. www.archbishopofyork.org/news/cardina...

Worshipped at stalbanscathedral.bsky.social this morning, where I worshipped from age 6, was confirmed and married. We just called it "the Abbey". Lovely All Age Eucharist.

Less than one percent of seats in Parliament. But featured in a quarter of news bulletins. That's some impartiality right there BBC 👀 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/12/bbc-under-fresh-pressure-over-extent-of-reform-uk-nigel-farage-coverage

"So please do pray for us today, wherever you are, as we debate these important matters with wisdom and with compassion." Today, The Rt Rev Dr Steven Croft reads Psalm 121 as the House of Lords begins the debate on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.

One of our cats, when I was small, did learn how to use the front door knocker. When we were on holiday, he was fed by the next-door neighbours, so he knocked on their door instead...

Delicious post baptism afternoon tea. #CofEPeeps

It is sad but I doubt it's the end of her political career. She's one of savviest politicians I've met and will be back. This resgination has been done in a way to maximise the chances of that.

In Clacton, the search for Nigel Farage enters its 424th day.

My take on older people and the prospect of digital IDs, from today’s @thetimes.com #CofEpeeps @churchofengland.org

Daily Telegraph today refers to A Rayner’s property “empire”. Whatever you think of her housing arrangements, I don’t think constituency house (bought for 375k in 2016), house in Hove, plus use of ministerial flat in London is an “empire”. Duke of Westminster wont fear a rival!

I have been watching a pigeon carefully picking up a pruned lavender stalk and carefully taking it away then coming back and picking up another one. Such patience, they have been doing this for over half an hour. @rspbengland.bsky.social

A short introduction to St Mary's Convent Retreat Wing and Maribel Centre.

"The issue of how you keep people alive is actually a relatively simple one." David Miliband says airdrops of aid into Gaza are "symbolic" and the real problem is the blockade, which is "denying people the aid, the food and medical support they need". www.channel4.com/news/gaza-cr...

So happy to be back working with the BBC on weather, climate, educational outreach and more