Chaplain & Fellow | Oxford | DPhil Candidate: History of Christianity, 19C America, PECUSA, W.A.Muhlenberg | Erstwhile Physio | Runner | 🏴
Oxford & Cardiff, UK.
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Believe thou, O my soul,
Life is a vision shadowy of Truth;
And vice, and anguish, and the wormy grave,
Shapes of a dream! The veiling clouds retire,
And lo! the Throne of the redeeming God
Wraps in one Light earth, heaven,
and deepest hell.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Religious Musings’, 1796.
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At the going down the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
ALT A black and white historical image shows a group of soldiers walking through a battlefield. Overlaid is a large red poppy with the words "LEST WE FORGET" in the center. Below, "REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 2026" is written. A crest is at the top of the image.
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Today, we pause to remember those who lost their lives in conflict.
#LestWeForget #RemembranceSunday
ALT Red poppies in full bloom in the foreground with the tower of Magdalen College in the background.
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Exciting news: my new book 'Hoarded Gold' is out now! It's a collection of Anglo-Saxon proverbs, wisdom poems, and reflections on what it means to be wise - from the thoughts of Alfred the Great to the treasured wisdom of many anonymous poets...
We are delighted to announce that "Hoarded Gold: A Book of Old English Wisdom" by Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) is now published and available worldwide!
To read more about the book, visit: uppsalabooks.com/hoarded-gol…
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If anyone’s interested in the real history behind ‘The Devils’, it’s all discussed in my ‘History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity’: link.springer.com/book/10.10… 👿
“you take a historical story, something that’s established fact, you can tell a story that has parallels with the modern world. And as the modern world changes, the parallels will change, but the story itself stays the same.”
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Preaching across the divide:
The English choral tradition is central to the nation's cultural heritage. How can we safeguard it for future generations?
As I wrote this morning for the @Telegraph, by empowering the Parish Church.
(Link below)
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Today is the last time the sun will set in Oxford after 6pm. The next time the sun sets after 6pm will be in March 2027.
And so the early evenings begin.
📷 Instagram | ObservingOxford
ALT The Radcliffe Camera at dusk, its windows glowing warmly against a deep blue evening sky, with surrounding Oxford buildings and streetlights illuminated nearby.
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Letter to Times today.
I take this to be reflection of the huge shifts in governance and administration that have taken place in this period. Expectations of what a bishop is/does have changed so much.
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A hard piece to write. But it's conversation we need to start having. We need to recognise the cost to our ecclesiology of even necessary policies and procedures. Thanks to @OSacrumCorIesu for getting me thinking.
@ThinkAnglicans @SaveTheParish @MadsDavies
Link in the comments.
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Appreciate the cozy, millennial spin on Narnia, and I'm looking forward to Gerwig's interpretation!
After adapting Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, agnostic director John Huston, reportedly said, "I think I accidentally made a Christian film."
I didn't know the Narnia books were Christian allegories when I first encountered them in public school, but they spoke to my heart all the same.
I suspect Lewis, in the hands of a gifted director and seeker like Gerwig, will still have something to say to us today, something that is neither trite nor expected. That's the beauty of great stories: they can affect us even when we don't quite know what we're looking for, either as directors or audiences. That's the magic.
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Peggy the spaniel runs the bar at a Brighton hotel in 1944. She fetches the beer, clears up the spillages, and settles a fight by bringing a mallet. Then she rings the bell for last orders.
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To give you a taste of what is to come at the Receiving Augustine conference, come and hear Dr @john_ritzema 's lecture on 'Seeing God with Saint Augustine' next Wednesday at 4pm !
Dr Ritzema is a Research Fellow w/ @Pharosofficial and is an associate member of @OU_TheoReligion
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On this day in AD 1066,
The English were defeated by the Normans after a hard fought battle at Hastings.
They were the last ever army to take Roman Draco standards into battle, a holdover from late antiquity and a tradition their ancestors picked up fighting for the Romans
V/ I will go unto the Altar of God.
R/ Even unto the God of my joy and gladness.
The first Eucharist of term. The religious life of the chapel is principally Office based with a weekly Eucharist and for major feasts. The college is dedicated to the Most Holy Trinity, together with the BVM, St Michael the Archangel, and our holy confessors St Hugh & St Chad. Our four patrons are depicted in the south window of the antechapel behind me.
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The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty
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Why is this a difficult question to answer ?
"Do you think that the state of Israel, as a safe home for Jews after the Holocaust and after the pogroms, has a right to exist?"
@bbcnickrobinson repeatedly asks Green Party leader Zack Polanski.