As above plus gentle solo board game, e.g Cascadia, Wingspan; craft; and after PCC meetings I love a bit of organisational TV like Parks and Rec, W1A, Yes Minister where someone else's organisational challenges can help me laugh at my own.
Festive box with text Enchanted Winter Woodland with lights and music
Reposting for no particular reason 👀 (with apologies for uncorrected typos @lithub.com.web.brid.gy).
Increasingly think the failure to twig the lies is not just lack of diversity in publishing + adherence to a certain convenient narrative about disability, but a wide failure in critical thinking.
Pretty raw stuff here from the Dean of Canterbury: viamedia.news/2025/10/22/w... #CofE
How critical are we of the published material that we use with our children's groups and in schools? Three cautionary tales (all from a C of E context!) #CofEPeeps meristemweb.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/j...
16 September 1963
Shocked parishioners in Kent have complained because the local vicar, Reverend Donald Lugg, wore an open-neck shirt and his wife, Dorothy, wore slacks at a church bazaar.
Photo of Dr Emma Swai, Associate Supervisor at Westcott House. Text: 'Disability, as embodied experience, is a lens not often factored into academic study. I believe that it should be and, therefore, I offer students the opportunity to consider research from a perspective that specifically aims to recognise potential embedded prejudice in the issues or area they are examining. I see my job as a supervisor as supporting my students to find confidence in their own voice. I will never tell students what to think, but I might challenge them: not necessarily because I disagree, but because I want them to strengthen their own position.'
Dr Emma Swai is up next in our intro series. An educator for over two decades, her research interests look at the portrayal of disability in New Testament writings, linguistic analysis of ecclesiastical texts and positionality & interpretation. More info about Emma’s research in bio: buff.ly/kNk2CXB
Having a season = in heat?
Hard to see past Thames tideway tunnel
Graphic 1 of 4. DecodeME: The Results graphic. At the top in bold lettering, it says ‘Main Findings’. Beneath this it says ‘Your genes contribute to your chances of developing ME/CFS. Other key findings are on the following slides.
Graphic 2 of 4. DecodeME: The Results graphic. The slide says ‘People with an ME/CFS diagnosis have significant genetic differences in their DNA compared to the general population’. Beneath this is an image of a DNA helix and a magnifying glass.
Graphic 3 of 4. DecodeME: The Results graphic. The slide says ‘These lie in many places across the genome, and do not impact just one gene’. Beneath this is an image of a DNA helix and graphs.
Graphic 4 of 4. DecodeME: The Results graphic. The slide says ‘Eight genetic signals have been identified. As DNA doesn’t change with ME/CFS onset, these findings reflect causes rather than effects of ME/CFS’. Beneath this is a blue magnifying glass with a DNA helix.
(1/2) Key genetic differences found in people with ME/CFS > Swipe to find out more.
These findings reflect the lived experience of thousands of #pwME.
Thanks to all our participants & supporters who made this possible!
Read a summary of our results: shorturl.at/pgsjk
I’ve long said that a lot of the resistance to adequately funding research into MECFS and long COVID is that a lot of medical professionals are ideologically opposed to the idea of a condition where exercise makes you worse.
Well done! Any Anglican London priests who want to have a go but that isn't the tradition of your church I would be delighted to guide you through in a friendly and forgiving parish. And we can throw in incense and a whole lot more singing if you like.
Read our joint statement here: tr.ee/TsXPjMdu1A
#pwME
#pwLC
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
#FundThePlan
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@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
@joplatt.bsky.social
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
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Shout-out to all involved in church music this week. It's a phenomenal ministry
The music and singing at @mancathedral.bsky.social has been exceptional so far this Holy Week- moving us into a much deeper place of worship and prayer
Incredibly grateful for all they do
#music #church #holyweek
Bats were flitting in my garden last night. In central London. #tinyjoys
For some I reckon it's because they don't know whether to look after you or to defer to you (or whatever their default approaches to men or women are). But I am sure you know that and your guesses are nicer so I would go with them!
Been catching up on General Synod of the #CofE where each speaker says their name and three digit id. I wonder who 007 is?
Save the date!
Churches Count on Nature returns June 7th-15th - what delights of nature are in your churchyard?
#CofE #ARochaUK #GodsAcre #ChurchinWales
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Depending on levels of engagement we might switch livetweeting here in July.
O God, you know us to be set
in the midst of so many and great dangers,
that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright:
grant to us such strength and protection
as may support us in all dangers
and carry us through all temptations;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord.
Today's Collect, especially for anyone who, like me, sometimes needs to sit when it is traditional to stand.
#CofE
Restructuring and lack of restructuring can both lead to roles that clergy are unwilling or unable to do.
Add me please if I am not already there, thanks. Acclimatising to how all this works.
At least 114 clergy posts advertised in a recent edition of the Church Times. This seems a lot. #CofE
In a similar vein I once heard a sermon on keeping Sabbath specifically on Sunday preached in a country where Friday was the day of rest and most people clearly had no choice about their day off. I still don't understand what the preacher thought people would do.
I agree. If there is capacity for reflection during the vacancy I would focus on values.
Wow. Just seeing this has created an expectation in my taste buds for some sweet north american popcorn snack which I guess I last had while playing pac man as a kid.
