All bloody principles and practices, as to our own particulars, we utterly deny; with all outward wars and strife, and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretense whatsoever; this is our testimony to the whole world.
I remember coming across the difference when I first read the book. I saw the US cover on review sites before committing to read it and thought "What, Nos-4-Ayyy-2?!"
Please continue to post about your maps. They are charming, and great to see multiple times
That, or something about hatching from eggs...
While buying petrol today (what a luxury!), I saw a chocolate Easter T-rex! Not sure the connection to Easter, but I love it.
I suppose T-rexs are one type of dinosaur. Birds are decended from avian (another type of) dinosaus. Easter chicks are birds. Bish bash bosh, there's your connection.
"What mirage of Jesus are we following if we have succeeded in rendering a whole subset of disciples as ‘peculiar’ – leaving autistic people feeling fundamentally unlovable and shamed?"
This week's quote is from Dr Henna Cundill's new book, Praying by the Rules
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I suspect the local church will drop it some time soon as not many people participate. For 15 min, I was the only person there! But that's the way of things - church isn't for people like me.
I love the Maundy Thursday watch. I was there last night until just before midnight. It's this one moment in the year where my fractured faith life comes together. Something of church, something of Quakers - merging into one.
Eyebrow dandruff. It's a real thing.
I'm late to the party but I have thoughts on RE4:
1) Camp gold. Charmingly cheesy.
2) I understand that Ashley can’t suplex anyone (like Leon), but why can’t she climb down a bloody ladder. I'm less fit than a teenager and can climb down ladders.
3) I forgot how frustrating quick time events are.
Box art from Resident Evil 4. Leon Kennedy on a good hair day, gun raised, standing in a forest in the fog with not‑quite‑zombies lurking in the background.
As Resident Evil Requiem has recently come out, of course, I'm playing RE4. I'm just not paying full price for any video game.
I played RE4 when it first came out. But that was before I started really playing games and I was not good. I didn't get far but I vividly remember those first set pieces.
Photo of Ozzy the mechanical bull, created for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, and now in Birmingham New Street Station. With a peaky blinder hat.
They’ve put a baker boy cap on Ozzy the Bull at Birmingham New Street Station. I wondered if I had just missed it before.
Googled it when I got home, apparently it’s to promote Peaky Blinders. He’s far cooler (and sort of cute in a menacing way) when he’s moving with the glowing eyes.
In a similar vein, Tom Robinson band also came out with this cracking tune:
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A sented candle reading "smells better than your cribbage game"
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An Etsy page for a mug that read "Tears of all the people I've beaten in CRIBBAGE".
Found the perfect Christmas gift for Dad - guaranteed to cause absolute hysteria at family Christmas over games of crib.
There’s a whole genre of these things… even scented candles...
Re-reading #ProjectHailMary in preparation for the film coming out next year. Super hyped.
It's very much a love letter to science teachers. I wonder whether they are going to change the stucture of the story - I'm not sure all those flashbacks will work in a film.
The image includes the quotation below on a light green background, along with a picture of "The Quaker Faith" book cover: Quaker Waiting Worship as an Advent Practice Although traditionally, Friends have not observed the Christian liturgical calendar, they hope to experience it inwardly as a spiritual participation in the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus… Advent is a period of waiting and deep reflection in preparation for Christmas, a time for remembering the birth of Jesus, and anticipating his second coming… When Friends intentionally stop what they are doing, become quiet and still, and pay careful attention to the Holy Spirit within them, they are adopting an Advent practice, waiting in hopeful anticipation for Christ to be born within them. The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.78.
When Friends intentionally stop what they are doing, become quiet and still, and pay careful attention to the Holy Spirit within them, they are adopting an Advent practice, waiting in hopeful anticipation for Christ to be born within them.
The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.78.
Yes, YouTube algorithm, this is exactly the kind of content I want to see.
youtu.be/miFCWJDjL1w
Quote on dark background - text reads "The conservative nostalgia of a Christian congregation, often mistaken for Christian loyalty and faithfulness, may be directed toward its Victorian buildings or centered on minor liturgical conventions whose origins may date back no more than a few decades. The religious imagination, because of its ideological character, has a way of conferring the authority of antiquity upon the innovations of yesterday. John M. Hull - What Prevents Christian Adults from Learning? 1985"
I'm currently reading John M. Hull's 'What Prevents Christian Adults from Learning?'
This book is full of really insightful gems.
In the wider quote, he suggests this means Christian learning often happens in rare moments of creativity, rather than through the week-by-week life of the church.
Co-option? Appropriation? Reframing?
I woke up early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. So went the the kitchen to get a glass of milk, looked out the window and saw Venus!!
The 'morning star' indeed. Odd but wonderful to see a planet with the naked eye.
I’m surprised it was such a flop when it came out. I wonder if it would fare better today.
Stop motion (a medium painstakingly crafted by human hands) feels like it might pick-up a kind of premium in this age of AI slop.
A 21st-century Arts and Crafts movement? William Morris, eat your heart out.
Still from the film Kubo and the Two Strings. Main character Kubo (11 year old kid), with Monkey and Beatle Samari.
On a friend’s recommendation, I just watched Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
A lovely stop-motion film with such a charming story. The animation is utterly beautiful, it's intricate, flowing, full of expression down to the smallest facial movements
#FilmSky #StopMotion #Cinema #KuboAndTheTwoStrings
Text reads: "Dearly beloved Friends, these things we do not lay upon you as a rule or form to walk by, but that all, with the measure of light which is pure and holy, may be guided; and so in the light walking and abiding, these may be fulfilled in the Spirit, not from the letter, for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. Postscript to an epistle to ‘the brethren in the north’ issued by a meeting of elders at Balby, 1656"
I believe that Queries are one of Quakerism’s gifts to the wider Church.
Fun fact: I once shared some of my favourite Quaker queries with my Anglican spiritual director, and she warmly thanked me for passing on “these Quaker guidelines”.
Which was slightly jarring and I couldn't quite describe why.
New blog post - Faith in Questions: The Gift of Quaker Queries.
Queries aren’t leading questions, they’re a spiritual practice grounded in the Quaker tradition of discernment. They invite reflection, listening, and faithful living.
#Quakers #Quakerism #FaithAndPractice
Discernment is a gift from God, not a personal achievement. The gift is not the result of training, technique, or analysis. Like other gifts of God, its origin is mysterious and gratuitous.
— Patricia Loring, Quaker educator
I’m a 2/3 hybrid – we are cringe and that’s okay, and everyone else is cringe and that’s okay.
To live is to cringe and be cringe… and that’s okay.
Yes, cruel but also stupid. Much of the protection these kinds of scammers have is the shame of their victims. Surely Fabien publicising this by sharing the video is shooting himself in the foot just to be extra nasty.
ARticle from the Independent saying "Millennials are confused by another Gen Z thing" plus photo of a woman looking at her mobile phoce with hand on head in confusion.
Is this really news? Because frankly, I'm confused all the time.
We had a Cafe Church-style service round coffee tables in the church hall. In small groups we discussed where we are heading as a church, and who are we willing to notice along the way. Always great to hear about other's experiences of faith, especially when so different from mine.