Praying tonight for the evicted, the evasive and the evangelising. #VicaragePrayers

Praying tonight for the planting, the playing and the plaguing. #VicaragePrayers

Praying tonight for the travelling, the training and the trembling. #VicaragePrayers

Praying tonight for the weary, the wasted and the waiting. #VicaragePrayers

Praying tonight for the baffled, the bruised and the believing. #VicaragePrayers

Learnt a great new song in Sunday Club today. Even the Year 9 lad joined in with the actions! Get this one in your repertoire to go alongside your next recitation of the Athanasian Creed. #totallyGodtotallyman youtu.be/2Ydx9oYn4aA?...

perceive and know what things they ought to do

Church in the snow. And prayers for the world from parishioners from around the world. #LordsDaydelights

Happy New Year all! I'm still mostly posting at The Other Place.

COMMONLY CALLED CHRISTMAS DAY

hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them

I'm on a podcast!

Trialling the crafts for Thursday evening's Advent Cake and Craft event (actually, turns out we're eating more than cake after some mixed communications). Pretty excited to be back with Hama beads for starters.

Happy New Year all! #Advent #VicaragePrayers

Reactivating this account to promote my Substack, Bleak House Revisited, writing about English law, legal history, literature and London. First post on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill which passed its second reading in the House of Commons yesterday open.substack.com/pub/bleakhou...

Today I've realised that I have more legislative experience, after sitting on a General Synod revision committee than my MP does. And sadly, that means that she thinks the Assisted Dying Bill is fine and has brilliant safeguards, and I can see all the legal holes and think it's extremely dangerous.

The Vicar and I know how to have a top evening: him with the men's group at church discussing Romans, me at home on a Zoom briefing new Diocesan Synod members about all the exciting stuff we get up to. Thankfully it was also Open Church this afternoon and I got to lead action songs. #parishlife

"There is no reliable way to identify patients with less than six, or twelve, months to live ... at least, no method that would be reliable enough to act as any sort of ‘safeguard’ for the proposed assisted dying legislation". on.ft.com/49qsdIR

On the 27th day of the month at Matins, Ps.121: "The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in : from this time forth for evermore". Jeremy Taylor's prayer accompanying this psalm is particularly fitting for these days before Advent Sunday:

O ETERNAL Lord God, who alone spreadest out the heavens, and rulest the raging of the sea

In Oregon, people have had assisted suicide for arthritis, diabetes, eating disorders, and “complications from fall”. That's the jurisdiction Kim Leadbeater uses as her example of best practice.

Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord

Useful verification info. Might have to try it myself...

Okay. The CofE are here now. Ramping up. bsky.app/profile/chur...

Interesting subthead, including observations about a swing back to faith. As observed in Justin Brierley's podcast The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God.

Trying to put together a starter pack of UK based evangelicals making the switch from Twitter: go.bsky.app/PU8MaKb

Today at HTWB: people returning after being absent for many weeks, some deep theology taught clearly to all ages, a pleasing made up recipe peri peri sauce made in the slow cooker for lunch, and people requesting technical theological terms in confirmation class. #loveourchurch

thy manifold and great mercies

Street views in the parish this week. #chandeliersandfairylights #loveourparish

You'll mostly find me in the Other Place because not even the CofE is here yet...

Winning at church lunches over here.

I'm still mainly at the Other Place.