My reflections on apologies, non-apologies, and why they do more harm than good, ahead of Synod. I think we need to be talking clearly about honesty and integrity, their presence and absence, as we think about the ordering of our common life as a church. #CofEpeeps ⚓️🕯✝️ viamedia.news/2026/02/07/s...

liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/421... These ‘students’ are now 20’s and 30’s. Punitive tax rates of +9p in the £ on a spiralling fees debt will increasingly hold back economic growth as well as their prospects. It unfairly affects people from poorer families whose children had to take loans to study

Tee-hee!😀 From the current @privateeyenews.bsky.social. ✝️

I was away from home less than a week but Morse cat is showing how much he has missed me.

On retreat at @csmv-wantage.bsky.social this week, highly recommended. #CofEPeeps

Looking forward to my retreat @csmv-wantage.bsky.social next week.

#CofEpeeps ✝️⬇️

#tec I just listened again, and again I was moved to tears youtu.be/-UofDcv7D6U?...

The UK’s poorest people are getting poorer, The Rowntree Foundation says a record 6.8m people were living in “very deep poverty” in 2024. And over 5m of these were living in households where someone works. The decision to end the 2 child benefit cap will help, but more is needed!

#BigGardenBirdwatch ends and this morning the Long-tailed Tits arrive in my garden!

A surprise treat at the end of my birthday dinner @doublehelix.bsky.social

Shared by a friend

'Alright pal, got plans for the #BigGardenBirdwatch?' 'Nah, just the usual... hang out of sight whilst she's doing the count, then touch down once the hour's over. You?' 'Classic. Planning some fly-bys with a few of the boys, but we'll only land one at a time.' 'Niiice.'

Is there no beginning to this man's talents?

You couldn’t make this up: Church Times brilliantly juxtaposes bishops’ rejection of blessings for same sex couples with two of them blessing the River Thames

The #Epiphany Season on the Sunday celebrating the Baptism of Christ at St Mary's Convent @csmv-wantage.bsky.social #CofEPeeps

The #Epiphany Season on the Sunday celebrating the Baptism of Christ at St Mary's Convent @csmv-wantage.bsky.social #CofEPeeps

Today my pastor of several years was detained by ICE at the lawful demonstration where ICE officers murdered Renee Good. Three times they taunted and asked him if he's afraid yet. They let him go because he's white, saying, "Well you're white and it wouldn't be any fun." This is his story:

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The springs have sprung and we have water flowing again in the River #Lambourn. #Chalkstream #tinyjoys

A walk through a sprinkling of snow to tell the story of the Magi to the chilren in our #Lambourn church primary school on this Feast of the Epiphany. #CofEPeeps

My other #orchids are flowering but what should I do with this one?

Morse cat is always attracted by David Attenborough's voice. He enjoys watching foxes as well as parakeets #WildLondon

Among the humanitarian INGOs banned by Israel from helping in Gaza: Médecins Sans Frontières, CARE Internat’l, Oxfam, World Vision, Norwegian Refugee Council, ActionAid Internat’l, International Rescue Committee, Caritas Internationalis, American Friends Service Committee, Danish Refugee Council. 🇨🇦

It’s nearly 2026, when the Church of England elects General Synod again. And a lot hangs on this. viamedia.news/2025/12/28/t...

Happy Christmas to all! Just back from Midnight Mass. Presiding and preaching at 10.30am. #ClergyMaltClub

'Be patient until the coming of the Lord... strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near' (James 5. 7,8). Retreats give time for patient and prayerful reflection and consolidation... Book your 2026 retreat now! promotingretreats.org #retreat #prayer

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