Are there academic studies on an increase in paid working time (across genders) and this being a factor in less capacity for voluntary organisations (like churches)? This article speaks to some of this, but not all of it www.ft.com/content/da7b...

Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.

I have a lot of thoughts about interfaith work in the UK... most of them kinda negative, but not well thought through enough yet.

It's cold outside and there's a cat on my lap. I don’t want to move but there's an interfaith event I gotta go to.

"Hope envisages its future and then acts as if that future is now irrestible, thus helping to create the reality for which it longs." Walter Wink

"Prayer is the field-hospital in which the diseased spirituality that we have contracted from the Powers can most directly be diagnosed and treated." Walter Wink

Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness. Hildegard of Bingen.

This Saturday you're welcome to come and share how you're doing in relation to the state of the world and find some deeper wisdom for facing it. The Spirituality and Climate Sharing Circle www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spirituali...

"Blessed are the peacemakers" Sitting in a police cell after arrest at a peaceful protest is a lonely experience. But please know you are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses. You are not alone but in a great community of those who have sought justice and witnessed to a better world.

God bless everyone arrested today at the Senedd and elsewhere. You are building a better world with your actions and opposing the Empire of violence and lies. I will be praying for you over the next few hours as you sit in cells. You are not alone.

Arrest at the Senedd today.

Multiple arrests at the Senedd. Where are our MSs to witness this attack on Welsh democracy?

Have protesters ever been arrested on the Senedd steps before today?

BREAKING: Hundreds of people in 10 towns and cities are peacefully holding signs which say: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" Across England, Wales and Scotland, people are coming together to defy an unjust law and demand the ban is lifted.

#LifttheBan protests at the Senedd right now.

Happening now: Oppose the Ban protest at the Senedd.

'Everything is filled with angels' (Origen of Alexandria)

Well said, Anderson … www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We joined marches and rallies across the country in solidarity with indigenous peoples and all those at COP30 who are demanding climate action and fair finance for adaptation. #COP30 #GlobalDayofAction

Took me longer than it should have done to get to a climate crisis event in Swansea today ... because of the climate crisis. #floods #climatecrisis

I wonder if the bigger difference isn't between humanism and theism per se as between those who do, and do not, think that the holy HAS AGENCY. The bigger difference is whether you believe in a God who can act, speak, listen, love.

The author of an explosive book that raises concerns about the role of Welsh Labour MP Alex Barros-Curtis in the rise of Keir Starmer says he will ask the solicitors’ watchdog to consider whether the MP’s conduct should be investigated ✍️Martin Shipton

Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.

Contemplative Prayer and Chanting tonight at 7.30pm online www.facebook.com/share/1LAwN4...

Liberal Quakers tend to frame their internal theological diversity as a jolly potluck: "our diversity is our strength." But at Meeting yesterday I experienced it as a crisis. Whether God exists or not makes a huge difference to our ability to be a community of hope. #Quaker #theology

Trevor Philips, "What is the implication of the white poppy?" Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism" "So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"

"I am more of a Quaker than anything else. I believe in the 'still, small voice', and that voice is Christ within us" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

He just keeps getting better and better.

Unusual for me to be in a hotel in Cardiff to get this view.

"Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect."..

Join us on Monday for an online night of chanting and silent prayer. www.facebook.com/share/1Eso7s...

Despite myself, I've got into the Traitors.

Not good about my MP.

If you haven’t registered yet for the eco-liberation seminar which we are cohosting with Green Christian - it’s happening tomorrow night! Full details and link to register here greenchristian.org.uk/an-ecolibera...

When you actually think about it, it's profoundly weird to talk about "the cost of ill health to the economy." Why aren't we talking about "the cost of the economy on our human health and wellbeing"? Should the little numbers be there to serve us, not us to serve the little numbers?

Save this for the next time some Terf decides to speak on behalf of all cisgender women. And the next, and the next because they don’t love facts.

The silent activists who brave Cardiff City centre in all weathers to take a stand on climate change. journalism-school.cardiff.ac.uk/thecardiffia...

Samsung did an update in the middle of the night that locked me out of my phone and it's been three weeks until I could access it again. Very annoying. But I'm back now!

CCA Bristol reminding Barclays that we will continue to hold them to account for funding the climate emergency. #bankbetter #stopfundingclimatechaos

Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness. Walter Brueggemann

'The return, the salvation, for which humanity looks, is the return of the little individual self to harmony and union with the great Self of the universe, but by no means its extinction or abandonment - rather the finding of its own true nature as never before' (Edward Carpenter) 🕉🙏

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome Go through these steps to disable it: opus.ing/posts/how-to... #chrome #aibullshit

"We say it again – an attack against one religious community is an attack against us all" @churchesengland.bsky.social Presidents speak out against hate crime following the attack on the Peace Community Centre and Mosque. cte.org.uk/cte-presiden... #ChurchesTogether

"The idea that a magazine can be on open sale in more than 10,000 newsagents up and down the country, but its purchase and open display can get you arrested, makes a mockery of this daft law."

Be honest with yourself. What unpalatable truths might you be evading? When you recognise your shortcomings, do not let that discourage you. In worship together we can find the assurance of God’s love and the strength to go on with renewed courage. Advices & Queries 11 (Britain Yearly Meeting)

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

Devon and Cornwall Police did NOT arrest protestors today for signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" In sharp contrast, the Met are mass arresting protestors in Trafalgar Square for holding the same signs, despite claiming limited resources #PalestineAction #GazaGenocide

BREAKING: Over a thousand people gather in Trafalgar Square to oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban. Police have already started arresting peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

Calling for #Gaza protests to be cancelled because of the horrific attack in #Manchester completely misses the point. Many of us object to the killing of innocent people in Gaza for *the same reason* that we object to the killing of innocent people in a Manchester #synagogue.