Presence is an act of Resistance.
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People have been debating/planning to leave the @churchofengland over LLF but not the crisis in safeguarding tell you all you need to know. #safeguarding
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Some words from me: anordinaryoffice.co.uk/blog/…
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'Believing that a text is divinely inspired should not mean parking our moral compass at Genesis 1 and only picking it back up at the end of Revelation.' Amy-Jill Levine, The Difficult Words of Jesus
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Feel free to read and share @BishopNewcastle's Ad Clerum to Newcastle Diocese as we head towards @SafeguardingSun 👉bit.ly/3UP8E6N
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Petition for the resignation of @JustinWelby as Archbishop of Canterbury in wake of recent findings of #Makin report into the horrific abuse of John Smyth, which uncovers his adequacies in relation to the response to abuse. @churchofengland
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Rebecca here. Such a blessing to wake to a beautiful sunrise, pray morning prayer and see the Amen button keep ticking upwards. Dave is with us still.
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Cake for Dave.
AltText: Two slices of lemon cake on a plate with wooden forks in the foreground. The floor behind is dark with light chairs and a table.
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Rebecca here. On a personal note, all the love and prayers are so gratefully received. I'll update again tomorrow. Peace be with you all.
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Good morning! This is your reminder that it's not your fault for failing to thrive in a system not designed for your thriving.
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Rebecca here. Please, please
pray for Dave and Mrs Dave tonight. Dave has been taken ill today but this time it is very serious. He needs us. I'll do my best to update as and when I know more. Thank you all.
Rebecca (She/Her) retweeted
if jesus told the good samaritan story today it would be called the good illegal immigrant
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So fed up with appeals to people to be more “resilient” when actually structures that break people need to be challenged and reimagined
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Some once insisted the Bible taught white people were superior to black people; a mistake in understanding the text, a sin because it created untold suffering. Today some still insist heterosexual people are superior to LGBT+ people; a mistake and a sin for the very same reasons!
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Our whole education system needs urgent transformation - its pedagogy, curriculum and its method of student assessment - in order to respond to what we now know about childhood & adolescent brain development and neuro-diversity. Only this will make it fit for its purpose.
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What shameful comments. Are women in @churchofengland just expected to accept this with ‘gracious restraint’? We won’t get rid of misogyny while we still have institutional discrimination. #NotEqualYet
We were delighted to welcome some of the first women to be ordained priests in the Church of England to Lambeth Palace today.
This year marks 30 years of women’s ordination as priests.
Over the past three decades, the Church has been immeasurably enriched by the ministry, presence, insight and wisdom of women ordained as priests and bishops. It’s a privilege to serve as sisters and brothers in Christ.
ALT Clergy smiling and listening at the event to mark 30 years of women’s ordination as priests. She is wearing black with a clerical collar.
ALT Clergy listening at the event to mark 30 years of women’s ordination as priests. She has black glasses and dangly earrings.
ALT Clergy listening at the event to mark 30 years of women’s ordination as priests. She is wearing red with a clerical collar. She is wearing glasses and has short blonde hair.
ALT The Archbishop of Canterbury talking at the event event to mark 30 years of women’s ordination as priests. He is wearing black with a clerical collar and a crucifix.
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You can be a Christian and affirm your Queer neighbors. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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people don’t deconstruct their faith to sin. people deconstruct their faith to repent of their sin of certainty
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After two 13 year old boys are jailed for murdering a 19-year-old with a machete, how many more will die before we realise that even focussing on 'how to halve knife crime?' is, in itself, the wrong starting point! Instead we must ask how we create hope for disenfranchised kids!
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To be clear, the main reason @churchofengland is an abusive culture is because bishops (although they complain that they don’t have actually any power) actually function as monarchs & are completely unaccountable to anyone outside of the closed episcopal coterie.
This was brought home to me this afternoon as I did my public ethics training as a newly elected cllr of @camden. It is quite clear what legal structure I operate under as an elected representative of the people of Kilburn. It is also quite clear that work that I do as a cllr is subject to Freedom of Information requests because we are a public body.
None of the applies to the church.
None of this applies to bishops.
Our entire culture @churchofengland is corrupt and sycophantic, and it needs a complete overhaul. It is a/moral & anti-Christ.
Abusers abuse in enabling abusive cultures. @churchofengland is one.
That is why I brought my motion on the need for an Archbishops’ Council commissioned independent review into the systemic, cultural & theological enablers of the abuse of Mike Pilivachi at #SoulSurvivor to July’s meeting of @synod. It is a shame that Joanne Grenfell’s amendment massacred that scope.
But if the Scolding Report, due tomorrow, does not tackle these issues even the motion as passed assures us that @JustinWelby @CottrellStephen et al will commission such an investigation. I look forward to them announcing how they intend to take that forward.