I think you've managed to say more, and more insightfully, in those few posts than I managed in a couple thousand words! (and thank you so much for the encouragement!)

Priesthood for All Believers Clericalism and How to Avoid It by Simon Cuff - Paperback / softback - 9780334061021 Buy Priesthood for All Believers Clericalism and How to Avoid It by Simon Cuff Paperback / softback from SCM Press - ISBN: 9780334061021

@frsimoncuff.bsky.social has written an excellent book which articulates this much better than I ever could. 5/5

Today's unexpected sabbatical discovery: I've accidentally stumbled into a sub-field of medical research from Brazil that advocates for Heideggerian-inspired nursing as good practice in pallative care. 😵‍💫

George Steiner on Martin Heidegger: 'In short, Heidegger is a man literally overcome by the notion of "is", a man inexhaustibly astonished by the fact of existence, and haunted by that other possibility, which is nothingness'.

I'm not sure I had "watching a livestream of the opening of Canada's parliament" on my list of things for 2025... 🍁

And the 12 points goes to...

I know Pope Leo XIV to be a kind, open, humble, modest, decisive, hard-working, straightforward, trustworthy, and down-to-earth man. A brilliant choice. May God bless him.

View of clouds over Atlantic from ship

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”

- attr. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Resources for the whole church this month with Canterbury Press 🙌

@canterburypress.bsky.social

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A book; Catholic Life in the Church of England by Simon Cuff

@frsimoncuff.bsky.social look what the postie brought along, one day late or I would have been at the launch 🤣

Delighted to say you can now pre-order Selina's next book here:
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
Out in August
#AHeavyYoke

Ice bucket full of wine bottles and box of books on back car seat

Book launch ready!

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So tonight there's a rather lovely thing happening,- the launch of a book created by the splendid Fr Simon Cuff, to which I've contributed maybe 3 pages.
There will be interesting folks to listen to & the book itself is great
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-event...

The Catholic Life book has been printed and arrived just in time for the launch at Mary Mags Munster Square 7pm this Friday. Now you can not only pre-order but buy and get it signed there!! An Easter miracle!

Catholic Life in the Church of England Good News for Every Body by Simon Cuff - Paperback / softback - 9781786226723 Buy Catholic Life in the Church of England Good News for Every Body by Simon Cuff Paperback / softback from Canterbury Press - ISBN: 9781786226723

This Friday at 7pm (Mass at 6.30pm) we celebrate the publication of Catholic Life in the Church of England at Mary Mags, Munster Square, near Euston. We'll hear from the contributors, and there will be the opportunity to pre-order the book. All welcome!

canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978178...

May Pope Francis rest in peace and rise in the glory of the Resurrection!

Christ is Risen! Alleluia! Happy Easter!*

*or that stage of Holy Week where you’ve blearily spent the morning calling light switches Alexa trying to get them to work forgetting they’re just a light switch.

It is finished.

And weep.

A screenshot of Amazon sales rankings 'Hot New Releases in Anglicanism' showing the edited book 'Catholic Life in the Church of England' at number 2 between the 2026 lectionary and the 2026 church diary.

All the essentials for 2026...

Help raise £3450 to launch Ephemeral Love, a new choir in London. – JustGiving Crowdfunding Iʼm raising money to launch Ephemeral Love, a new choir in London.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

Our wonderful director of music is launching an exciting new ensemble (inaugural concert @stgilescg.bsky.social on 15th May). They're close to their crowdfunding goal, do support this exciting new choir!

www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Tickets for 15th May:
www.eventbrite.com/e/ephemeral-...

Journal of Anglican Studies!

Up to Derby to teach Emmanuel College ordinands, having just finished reviewing Gary Dorrien’s magisterial Anglican Identities. Calm before the Holy Week storm!

A full and frank apology to the mother with the toddler who passed me in the street, pointed at me, and screamed “BUT HE’S ALLOWED TO HAVE AN ICE CREAM”. 🍦

On April 24th at 7pm @stpetersdb.bsky.social hosts the second UK screening of the amazing Selina Cadell & Eliza Thompson’s La Traviata - a lavish screening of the opera reimagined as a chamber work. Tickets just £12. Come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/la-traviat... #opera #londonopera

the mystery of God transcends all categories of knowing

This parish is in the bottom 1% of the deprivation index. Over 30% of adults have no qualifications.

Tonight at Lent group we wrote cinquains and had a lively discussion about apophatic and kataphatic approaches to prayer.

Never make assumptions about what people are capable of and interested in.

Spring Statement: Charities condemn ‘cruelty’ of deepening welfare cuts ‘Growth alone’ will not build a just society, says Lord Williams as he calls for wealth tax

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams & me for @justmoneymvt.bsky.social condemning the cuts announced in today’s #SpringStatement as morally wrong and calling for a #WealthTax to help build strong communities where we can all flourish: www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

A gin and tonic on a coffee table with a bowl of wotsits, holding a copy of st Mary le Bow pictorial history.

Visiting my folks and their new coffee table literature…