a black cat laying in a wicker bed with a stuffed animal Alt: a black cat laying in a wicker bed with a stuffed animal

Today this #actuallyautistic theologian is tired, and doesn't really have any words. Speaking is hard.

But he did get new hosepipe attachments, so that the garden will flourish through the summer. So that's nice.

We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.

We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.

Pub? Pub.

I love this. And it would have saved HOURS of my dad driving around car parks working out the optimum covered spot.

Haha! I also am not a green in part for this reason.

Thats what I mean! I understand why we need these now. I wish we could bolt solar panels to every roof as a society. But know that in a capitalist dispensation sometimes we need to take the second best option, which is rural solar farms.

I understand the pushback against turning large tracts of green space and agricultural land into industrial solar farms. I also understand the desire to transition as quickly and efficiently as possible. I don't understand why its still legal to build or refurb buildings without adding solar panels.

I’m starting to wonder if the corporate/ business oriented enthusiasm for AI is just yet another example of people at the top pulling up the ladder behind them.

Yes!!!! Why are we all individual customers of third parties for all of this! And why do clergy and parish officers have to learn how to administer all of this, and then extract data to feed back to Church House?

At a conference and the Trinity & Christology papers stream has effectively been merged with the LGBTQIA+ theologies papers stream… caused by a quirk of planning… but I am utterly delighted.

This is superb.

Adler, the first steam locomotive in Germany

The plate of the Adler: RobT Stephenson and CompY ENGINEERS Newcastle Upon Tyne

Travelled hundreds of miles. Saw the first steam locomotive in Germany, lovingly preserved at the DB Museum. Realised it was made in Newcastle. Don’t feel cheated.

My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award

Evan and Markus at Würzburg Cathedral.

Evan and Thomas in front of the ceiling of the residence, Würzburg

Sausages and sauerkraut

Catholic churches, lutheran churches, and sausage. Lots of sausage. Amidst the Frankfurters and Nurembergers, it would be rude not to.

I met the most beautifully coloured Bluebell, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, in an ancient woodland in Dorset this morning.

Title: Hunting for Easter eggs with Werner Herzog Panel one: Werner goes out looking for eggs saying “I despise this idiotic sanitized ritual, and yet I am unwilling to return home eggless” Panel two: Werner stands before an egg on the ground “The joy of discovery rings hollow against the monumental indifference of the universe” Panel three: Werner carries an egg “what, other than regret, can hatch from this empty chocolate vessel”

Happy Easter!

How many of your thurifers are also acrobats?

Yellow tulips in foreground, open shed in background on right, plans on left.

A garden in gentle disarray, open shed on right

Purple and yellow tulips in foreground right, path and front door in background

Many pots with different plants in, garden furniture and beds of plants around the outside, in disarray.

In the absence of a church to clean, Holy Saturday garden cleaning is happening instead. And very prayerfully. ⚓️ 🌱 Particularly praying for #CofEpeeps as the great feast of Easter approaches.

Don't let my previous ambivalence spoil this for you bc it's what we in theology circles call "sick af"

autism, a'tizəm, n. [Gr. autos, self and E. ism.] A disability where you are surrounded by illogical people who refuse to listen to you and repeatedly create overwhelming situations for you to navigate.

Happy World Autism Day

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

The gospel is the passion. Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem.

Today is my first ever BCP1662 Maundy Thursday Communion Service. Which means I am now practising saying the following line without getting a fit of the giggles: “And the paps which never gave suck. … And the paps which never gave suck.” Not succeeding thus far. #CofEpeeps ⚓️

Appreciation, please!

Most clergy and many lay churchgoers:

A birthday cake, centre, on a blue plate, with six big candles in a row, and two smaller ones on front, as an altar.

Signs you live in a multi-priest household. ⚓️ #CofEpeeps

And yes, holy week stops for birthday lunch. Although it is dairy and wheat free, so some might call it penitential.

Did you know that @churchesengland.bsky.social runs a grant scheme for young Christians aged 18-35?

The Bill Snelson Young Ecumenists Fund supports ecumenical experiences abroad doing anything that builds #ChristianUnity

🚨1 week left to apply

All the info at: cte.org.uk/snelsonfund

#SnelsonFund

Was genuinely weeping at moments.

There we go. One of our former students is officially in post. Time for the tutors to crack on with the marking avalanche from the next generation of St Augustine’s students! ⚓️ #CofEpeeps

Asparagus fern in a white pot, with wooden russian doll with Hodegetria on it, and blue candle to the right, and Society of Catholic Priests prayer top right.

I have a new asparagus fern for my desk. And I need a name for it. It could be called Augustus, because that name is comically inappropriate for it. Or possibly Annunciata because today is the feast of the #Annunciation.

Any suggestions?

#CofEpeeps 🌱 ⚓️ #wearthebadge