Christine Allsopp
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Priest, Retired Archdeacon, enjoying life in the Valley of the Racehorse , tree planter 🌳
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Ruth Harley
1 day ago
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.
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Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word - ViaMedia.News
by Revd Ruth Harley (Vicar, Cowgate and Priest in Charge, Newbiggin Hall) When General Synod meets in the coming week, the Archbishop of York will move a motion beginning “that this Synod recognise an...
https://viamedia.news/2026/02/07/sorry-seems-to-be-the-hardest-word/
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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
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Streeting called Tory student loan changes ‘mis-selling’ – before Labour copied them
Campaigners said Streeting’s comments exposed the hypocrisy at the heart of the Government student loans policy
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Stephen Lynas
2 days ago
Tee-hee!😀 From the current
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I was away from home less than a week but Morse cat is showing how much he has missed me.
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On retreat at
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this week, highly recommended.
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Looking forward to my retreat
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next week.
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Phil Groom
12 days ago
#CofEpeeps
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Dean: pronouns: thou, thee, thy/thine
13 days ago
#tec
I just listened again, and again I was moved to tears
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Sunday Holy Eucharist Service - January 25, 2026 (Sermon only)
YouTube video by Cathedral of St. John the Divine
https://youtu.be/-UofDcv7D6U?si=3iPoNlGaDmAZU8o5
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Steve Chalke
13 days ago
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!
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#BigGardenBirdwatch
ends and this morning the Long-tailed Tits arrive in my garden!
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14 days ago
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A surprise treat at the end of my birthday dinner
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20 days ago
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Rev Peter W Nimmo
23 days ago
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RSPB
23 days ago
'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.'
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Nick in Moldova
24 days ago
Is there no beginning to this man's talents?
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Helen King
24 days ago
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
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The
#Epiphany
Season on the Sunday celebrating the Baptism of Christ at St Mary's Convent
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29 days ago
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The
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Season on the Sunday celebrating the Baptism of Christ at St Mary's Convent
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FieryHeart
about 1 month ago
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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Dr Rebecca Warren
30 days ago
🤣🤣🤣
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The springs have sprung and we have water flowing again in the River
#Lambourn
.
#Chalkstream
#tinyjoys
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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
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My other
#orchids
are flowering but what should I do with this one?
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Morse cat is always attracted by David Attenborough's voice. He enjoys watching foxes as well as parakeets
#WildLondon
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David Hamid
about 1 month ago
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. 🇨🇦
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Helen King
about 1 month ago
It’s nearly 2026, when the Church of England elects General Synod again. And a lot hangs on this.
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The Archbishop and the Ballot Box: Why 2026 Will Be a Critical Year for the Church of England - ViaMedia.News
by Nic Tall, National Co-ordinator of Together for the Church of England When future church historians look back at 2026 and judge what most shaped the direction of the Church of England in that year,...
https://viamedia.news/2025/12/28/the-archbishop-and-the-ballot-box-why-2026-will-be-a-critical-year-for-the-church-of-england/
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Happy Christmas to all! Just back from Midnight Mass. Presiding and preaching at 10.30am.
#ClergyMaltClub
about 2 months ago
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Association for Promoting Retreats
about 2 months ago
'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!
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#retreat
#prayer
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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.
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#tinyjoys
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@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.
2 months ago
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Morse cat enjoys watching "Kingdom". Did David Attenborough's voice wake him up?
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Prof Nisreen Alwan
3 months ago
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.
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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️🌈
3 months ago
@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
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Cries of Suffering: A Response to ‘The Nature of Doctrine and the Living God’ - ViaMedia.News
by Mike Higton, Professor of Theology and Ministry at Durham University The Faith and Order Commission’s recent document on ‘The Nature of Doctrine and the Living God’ (GS Misc 1429) is not, in my jud...
https://viamedia.news/2025/11/17/cries-of-suffering-a-response-to-the-nature-of-doctrine-and-the-living-god/
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Ruth Harley
3 months ago
Any
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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.
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Cries of Suffering: A Response to ‘The Nature of Doctrine and the Living God’ - ViaMedia.News
by Mike Higton, Professor of Theology and Ministry at Durham University The Faith and Order Commission’s recent document on ‘The Nature of Doctrine and the Living God’ (GS Misc 1429) is not, in my jud...
https://viamedia.news/2025/11/17/cries-of-suffering-a-response-to-the-nature-of-doctrine-and-the-living-god/
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Lizzie Taylor
3 months ago
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
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Otto English
3 months ago
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
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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️🌈
3 months ago
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.
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#safeguarding
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Anglican Religious Life Project
3 months ago
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
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Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust
3 months ago
❌ Yesterday the Government rejected both Amendment 130 (renumbered to 40) and the chalk stream protection amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
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Helen King
3 months ago
And today a reminder that there are real people whose lives are affected by the current C of E policies on LGBTQIA+ relationships
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A Question of Conscience - ViaMedia.News
by Revd Ruth Harley (Vicar, Cowgate and Priest in Charge, Newbiggin Hall) Standing at the font, I smiled at the scene unfolding in front of me. A happily gurgling baby and his two proud parents, surro...
https://viamedia.news/2025/11/13/a-question-of-conscience/
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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
3 months ago
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Dominique Berteaux
3 months ago
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! 🧪🌿🌎🦉
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Kate Watson
3 months ago
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!
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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
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4 months ago
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Can anyone ID this british
#Spider
found on the outside of my garden shed? @BBOWT
4 months ago
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Dr Jo Kershaw
4 months ago
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.
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Prem Sikka
4 months ago
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.
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University tuition fees in England to rise with inflation every year from 2026
Bridget Phillipson confirmed the plans for the next two years, with fees to increase automatically after that.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkzj87n8rdo
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David Allsopp
4 months ago
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Mushroom pickers urged to avoid foraging books on Amazon that appear to be written by AI
Sample of books scored 100% on AI detection test as experts warn they contain dangerous advice
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/mushroom-pickers-urged-to-avoid-foraging-books-on-amazon-that-appear-to-be-written-by-ai
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David Allsopp
4 months ago
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
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#Autumn
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