Grateful for any shares to cast the net wide! Seeking a fellow adventurer to accompany me in the season ahead in fabulous @dioceseofcoventry.bsky.social
Posts by David Porter
The old Presbyterian upbringing wants to say “that’s what you get for washing your car on the Lord’s Day!” 🤣🤣
Busy day for Saints. Today the church also remembers Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah, Indian priest, evangelist with the YMCA, ecumenism & bishop. Praying for all trying to explain their faith in a local community & for all working for the unity of the Church of God.
This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.
🔴‘Britain’s Deeply Unfair Two-Party Electoral System is Dying and MPs Know It’
Startling new research reveals that this year’s General Election was the ‘most disproportionate ever’ with millions of votes wasted, reports @josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
The Paradox of Tolerance Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. - In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be un-wise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intol-erant. Credit: Karl Popper
Touching on Karl Popper’s ‘Paradox of Tolerance’
A church on its knees: the Welby legacy | New on The Church Mouse Blog www.churchmousepublishing.co.uk/2024/11/a-ch...
Siting in departures at Birmingham airport using the time to populate my feed with friends who have fled to brighter skies.
As Anabaptists prepare to celebrate our 500th anniversary it’s important to also tell the parts of our story of those who have disrupted the status quo and, not only abstained from war, but worked for justice: the transformationist stream of Anabaptism: young.anabaptistradicals.org/2024/08/27/b...
So been on here over a year - rarely visit - but find today a lot of old friends in this new space.
Please add me - thanks
In Wurzburg at the Community of the Cross of Nails German gathering. Great to meet old friends and make new.
Wurzburg was Christianized in 686 by Irish missionaries Kilian, Kolonat and Totnan. No better place to watch Ireland v New Zealand match this evening!
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