Tomorrow at 6pm I'll be leading the online worship of the Unitarian Christian Association for the fifth Sunday of Lent - a season of radical simplicity. unitarianchristian.org.uk/live-worship/

this is a country that didn’t even tolerate the globally largest sect of its own damn religion

When cruelty becomes normal, compassion looks radical.

If the kings and rulers of the nations knew the love of God they would never make war. War comes to us from our sins, not because of our love. The Lord created us in His love, and bade us live in love and glorify Him... St. Silouan the Anthonite

As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother. Julian of Norwich

"He has no fixed views on anything. There’s no clarity because there’s no belief. There’s no belief because there’s no understanding. There’s no understanding because there’s no curiosity."

"God longs for the salvation of the rich as for the salvation of the poor...[but] salvation for the rich will include liberation from their injustice." Ronald J Sider

"The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms" Clinton Lee Scott youtu.be/2Wn2e760Fvs?...

The most effective workshop for learning how to hallow one's diminishments is the faithful practice of contemplative prayer... Loneliness, which is a negative experience, can be transmuted into solitude, which is a positive blessing. John Yungblut, 1990.

It would be nice if there was just one area that was inside and warm when you have 40 minutes to wait transferring at Bristol Parkway Station. ☹️

A good day in Belper for the Unitarian Christian Association meeting.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

The Simpson has been on so long and yet they stay eternally the same age. So I'm simultaneously the same age as Lisa and older than Homer.

It might be a mad idea but I genuinely think the Archdruid should be Wales' head of state. A person chosen from among Wales' cultural or literary giants committed to peace and preserving the Welsh language, who's changed every 3 years. (This isn't some woo woo shit for anyone unfamiliar goodle it)

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

There's lots of opportunities to learn with me and @woodbrooke.bsky.social in 2026. Just a few words to tingle your tastebuds: Ignatian spirituality, how to pray, "The Screwtape Letters," the "Quaker Renaissance," Becoming Friends. Follow the link to find out more: jollyquaker.com/2026/03/09/l...

Apocalypse - a time of revealing reigniteuk.blogspot.com/2026/03/apoc...

Say it. Preach the gospel.

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Was wonderfully spring like today 🌼

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Nothing like wandering around an old monastery at night.

Meditation on a hill top.

So great to see someone who seems normal, who feels very much like people I know (especially Mancunian women) get into Parliament.

‼️ BREAKING: Greens WIN Gorton and Denton by-election in a landslide victory 🟢 Grn: 41% (+27) ➡️ Ref: 29% (+15) 🔴 Lab: 25% (-25) 🔵 Con: 2% (-6) 🟠 Lib: 2% (-2) Green GAIN from Labour (+/- vs GE2024) ‼️First-ever Green win in an MP by-election

I feel like we're not talking about this enough.

I've been working over my hours for a while so I decided to give myself a bit of a freelance work/reading week. I've only been partially successful but this is my uninterrupted afternoon.

Wait wait wait ... Andrew MW is arrested AND they found a cure for the common cold today?? This is a good news day!

The detritus of covid slowly decaying. On this pillar there was a hand sanitiser. This week it's gone, leaving only a glue mark where it once was.

I once went to hear Jesse Jackson preach in the small Episcopal church in the middle of Harvard University. For some reason he was over an hour late and we all sung spirituals for an hour waiting. He was worth the wait. Rest in power.

This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent image on your phone.

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

Together with cross-party Parliamentarians I have written to the Home Secretary calling on her to accept today's ruling on Palestine Action. Instead of criminalising those protesting genocide, the govt must examine its own complicity and work to support justice for Palestinians.

Maybe your crush just needs some convincement.... Try sending them a Quaker valentine!

I support #PalestineAction! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

This is a picture of South Wales Police breaking the law. Palestine Action ban was unlawful.

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

This danger was parachuted into my constituency at the last election. We have to get rid him! "Barros-Curtis is often viewed as the ‘heir’ to the Mandelsonian style of party management—ruthless, legalistic, and focused on total control." nation.cymru/news/cardiff...

It announces: Heavy restrictions on any social transition (which in any case would be very limited, see above). Social transition to be hardly ever allowed at primary school. Heavily pushed under psychological scrutiny. Supportive parents deemed suspect & linked to need for safeguarding.

The Church is supposed to be a small working model of the new creation. N. T. Wright

I'm excited about some of the courses I'll be running in the second half of 2026 (if I'm not in prison by that point!)

I have so little time for twee Christian conferences about "Caring for Creation" - do you not realise that there are disturbing forces setting fire to creation? Care means "stopping the b*****ds murdering creation."

This is the court case used to justify proscribing them as a terrorist group on par with Isis and Al Qaeda.

Tree blessing in the park on Saturday.

He is risen indeed! Hallelujah!

Just another normal day in Cardiff.

I AM VINDICATED AND JOYFUL (also this gives fuel to @rabbimarkasherg.bsky.social and my longstanding conversation about whether or not dinosaurs would have been kosher for shabbos dinner but) (tweet TWEEET)

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.