My friend is nonbinary and had to get a breast reduction because their GP was worried about their spine, and now they have to get a hysterectomy because they've got endometriosis, and I can't believe a person can be so biologically transgender that the NHS accidentally insists on transitioning them.

Hitting up a trans woman to explain to me how I build a personal media server because I got the annoying artist in plaid shirts flavour of transgender, not the computer genius in knee-high socks flavour of transgender.

Hundreds gathered for Mass on Nov 1 outside the Broadview ICE facility in solidarity with those detained. As it took place, buses left carrying people likely to the airport. Clergy with CSPL followed all protocols to bring communion inside but were denied entry.

*stares at the collection of 200+ DVDs that I've had in storage for the last eight years* *stares at the increasing price and declining quality of streaming services* *stares back at my dvd collection* ...you thinking what I'm thinking?

A living church. A thriving church. A church with no functional noticeboard but a lot of space on the railings.

My friend and I have started a thing where we get up early on Friday mornings and go to the gym. Anyway, somehow it's now exactly 10am and I've read three chapters of a book, been to the gym, showered, done a load of laundry, had breakfast, and am now making a post-gym brunch wrap Incredible scenes

Cathedral friend.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Brianna keeps getting written about, even if not especially her own mother, like she tragically killed herself rather than was murdered in a transphobic hate crime

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

How important is lighting to photographing a gravestone? Here is the same stone at 11:55 am and 12:28 pm on the same day. Raking sunlight picks out every detail in the carving (and even the texture of the stone). grave of silversmith Timothy Dwyt [Dwight] d.1692, Granary Burying Ground, Boston

Me, walking into St Nicks: "anyone wanna hear a fun fact?" Everyone in the building: "is it? Actually fun? Tho?" Me: Absolutely!" Me: "the architect of our north aisle died in 1885 when he tried to get off a train before it had fully stopped, and he fell between the carriages and got decapitated"

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty. “They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

Goodnight. Sweet dreams. 🖼️ The Dream, Fritz Schwimbeck, 1909.

Tonight. BBC Radio 3. 21:45.

Tonight!

They are forcibly de-transitioning trans children/adolescents. Those most severely impacted are aged 11-15. The risk to this group is very high, and NHS England/NHS Sussex know this. They don't care at all about the safety or well-being of trans under 18s.

Producer: "we've seen you explore churches and the theme is 'abandoned spaces' so we were wondering if you had a faith space that fit the..." Me: "I have 𝖆 𝖈𝖆𝖛𝖊" Producer: "you? what?" Me: "Let Me Tell You About 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖛𝖊" Producer: "does it fit our brief for the..." Me: "𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖛𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝕾𝖙 𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖊𝖗𝖙"

Tonight!

Completely obsessed with the way tv shows in the 2000's would end every single episode with what basically amounts to a silly (emotional) little music video.

Join me on BBC Radio Three at 9:45pm this Tuesday, as I take you on a journey to the cave of St Robert of Knaresborough, to explore if a place of faith such as this can ever, truly, be abandoned. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

As a biologist, It really is a great analogy. Also trees. It's like saying, "There are trees and grass, you have to be one or the other." Ok... where is the line that defines "is a tree?" what about bush-like grasses? Palm trees? NON-tree palms? What about horsetails and their tree-like ancestors?

Someone visiting St Nicks: "hmmm, I wonder how old this church is..." Me, a small and gnomelike creature that lives in the walls, appearing silently and from nowhere to say: "let me tell you the secrets of this ancient and sacred place."

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

Sitting on a train near someone chatting on speakerphone like...

Within that reredos is a concealed aumbry, containing a diminutive Romanesque arch, painted copper green, cadmium red, and black. 📷 © John Vigar

God's pronouns are The/They

Me, in this presentation: "This is Durham Cathedral. Now let me tell you why she's transgender."

Oh no, some say he's talking about Cathedrals again...

Remember today that some ghosts may just be trying to speak to you in Latin.

“Increasing the minimum wage will just push the prices up of everything.” My brother in Christ, I don’t know where you have been for the last 5 years, but they have done that anyway whilst minimum wage has remained the same.

POCKET SQUEAKER. THATS HIM.

Nothing like a spontaneous service of compline cobbled together by six trans people with access to a single tea light and a random tattered bible.

Sending a draft of a poem to a friend like "is this any good or am I just insane?" and the answer is, apparently, both.

He never did anything wrong even once.

What help is there for us?

No one hates lefties as much as other, very slighty different lefties.

The thing about Kym and I is that we were born on the same day, in the same year, to mothers with the same first name. We're both poets. We're both gay. We're both 5'2". We're both deeply into our own respective religions. We're just the same person in different outfits. We share a single braincell.

Me: I love my best friend, I'd die for my best friend. The most recent photos of me and my best friend:

Not now truckload of aggressive rhesus monkeys infected with hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID

Some nights I just cannot cope with the modern world and I turn off all my lights and wander around with a candlestick like a Victorian ghost and it legitimately fixes my nervous system.

Had the rare joy of preaching this Sunday, looking at Prayer. Here's a little bit of what I said...

Resited Saxon carving at St Kyneburgha, Castor. Apparently it's Christ pointing at the moon and the sun, not learning to juggle like I first thought.. #TympanumTuesday

8pm bed with book? Yes, yes yes. What a treat.

Someone phoning up a priest mad that there's a little "protect trans kids" postcard stuck in his church porch and yelling at him about it for ages before going "doesn't the church condemn this???" And him just going "no."

Spent a few days at the house of a friend who has a load of old clocks. Came home, am now playing audio of old clocks because I discovered it's a nice way to keep track of time... Problem is now I think I've gotta get (and look after) a clock. Preferably a chiming clock.

"[...] This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. [...]” - Jorie Graham

The lesbian habit of calling their partners wives has a single downside and that is that when they do actually get married people like me end up saying absolutely stupid sentences like "I can't believe your wife is now your wife!"

Told a lovely (very posh) vicar that it was okay, he didn't need to get any food in for me while he's out tonight, because I'd just get a kebab from the place up the road, and he gave me a look of such unbridled disgust.