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@faithric

Licensed Lay Minister in the Church of England. ✝️ Also a lawyer, ⚖️ but see @lawric.bsky.social for more of that.

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I absolutely agree. Ingenious, functional, and long-lasting. Do please flood BlueSky with latch pics.

16.09.2025 08:11 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Text of Lincoln's Second Inaugral speech. Frame 3

Text of Lincoln's Second Inaugral speech. Frame 3

Text of Lincoln's Second Inaugral speech. Frame 2

Text of Lincoln's Second Inaugral speech. Frame 2

Text of Lincoln's Second Inaugral speech. Frame 1

Text of Lincoln's Second Inaugral speech. Frame 1

On the wall of the Lincoln Memorial. One of the most moving things ever engraved on a wall?

20.07.2025 16:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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09.05.2025 20:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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09.05.2025 20:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My take on the decision by @stalbanscouncil.bsky.social to stop prayers before the beginning of its Council Meetings. From today’s Herts Advertiser. @revmichaelcoren.bsky.social

20.03.2025 09:19 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

In the Christian context, I suggest that those of us leading daily Morning Prayer in St Albans get hold of the list of Council meeting dates and include a prayer for wisdom and compassion. And we should tell councillors that we are doing so. Other local faith groups might do the same? ✝️

20.03.2025 09:50 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My New York Times subscription had risen to £10 a month, which I decided is too much. So I went through the cancel process on the app. At the final stage, I was re-offered the introductory rate of £2.50 a month for a year to stay on! I declined, but you might want to opt in?

14.02.2025 10:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
JP Morgan International Finance Ltd v WeRealize.com Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 57

JP Morgan International Finance Ltd v WeRealize .com Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 57
https://buff.ly/3CHN8uK
Window for option to buy shares. If not “exercised” later windows available. Held: “exercised” meant notice served, not that a contract resulted. So a “one-shot” opportunity.

07.02.2025 17:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Don't Want to Pay for Copilot AI? Switch to Microsoft 365 Classic A standard subscription to Microsoft 365 includes Copilot for an additional $3 per month. Here’s how to get a cheaper Classic plan without the AI features.

Sorry. The link no longer works. Try this: uk.pcmag.com/productivity....

06.02.2025 16:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Don't Want to Pay for Copilot AI? Switch to Microsoft 365 Classic A standard subscription to Microsoft 365 includes Copilot for an additional $3 per month. Here’s how to get a cheaper Classic plan without the AI features.

Me too now. This non Microsoft link should work : uk.pcmag.com/productivity....

06.02.2025 16:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Switching to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family Classic Plans - Microsoft Support Learn how to switch to a Microsoft 365 subscription plan without AI features, which include Microsoft 365 Basic, Microsoft 365 Personal Classic and Microsoft 365 Family Classic.

If you'd prefer to do without Copilot in exchange for a lower sub, you can downgrade to Microsoft 365 Personal or Microsoft 365 Family Classic. https://buff.ly/3El78nA…

06.02.2025 16:02 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Bailii Salem v Salem

Salem v Salem [2024] EWHC 3311 (Ch)
https://buff.ly/4hm2rbF
Settlement agreement clause requiring reasonable endeavours to agree an expert determination process held unenforceable as an agreement to agree.

30.01.2025 17:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bailii Topalsson GmbH

Topalsson GmbH v Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited [2024] EWCA Civ 1330
https://buff.ly/3CixndH
Contract interpreted as requiring both the claim and the counterclaim to be subjected to the liability cap before one claim was set-off against the other. Interest was outside the cap.

26.01.2025 17:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bailii SATA Internaçional

SATA Internaçional - Azores Airlines SA v Hi Fly Limited [2024] EWHC 2762 (Comm)
https://buff.ly/40Juaxc
Interesting discussion (at para 148) of the state of knowledge of one party’s mistake required for rectification of a contract where there are multiple parties to the contract.

26.01.2025 10:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cobalt Data Centre 2 LLP & Anor, R. (on the application of) v Revenue and Customs [2024] UKSC 40

R (on the application of Cobalt Data Centre 2 LLP) v Commissioners for HMRC [2024] UKSC 40; [2024] 1 WLR 5213
https://buff.ly/3WtEBlS
Whether a change to a contract is a variation or a new contract is a matter of objective intention, not whether the change goes to the root of the contract.

25.01.2025 17:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bailii URE Energy

Ure Energy Limited v Notting Hill Genesis [2024] EWHC 2537 (Comm)
https://buff.ly/40PGzP5
No waiver of right to terminate on breach unless innocent party has actual knowledge of legal right or “Nelsonian blindness”.

25.01.2025 10:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Case on Bailii Coinfloor Limited

Coinfloor Limited (in members' voluntary liquidation), Re [2024] EWHC 2767 (Ch)
https://buff.ly/4jFpTSW
Novation of customer contracts should be inferred where necessary “to give business efficacy to what actually happened”.

24.01.2025 17:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pulling my hair out, trying to sign up for a Biblingo Black Friday deal. There's just nowhere to add the BF code before inserting bank details, and that feels too late. Anyone any ideas? ✝️

02.12.2024 07:36 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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'Trump Bible' one of few that meet Walters' criteria for Oklahoma classrooms Bibles endorsed by former President Donald Trump cost $60 each online, with Trump receiving fees for his endorsement.

Fascinating recent example of dynamics of canon, with rhetoric of closure vs anthological fluidity in practice, rhetoric of historicity vs embrace of anachronism in practice (not even to mention the masking of power at play) www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2...

04.10.2024 15:14 👍 23 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 2

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This seems just astonishing. The KJB is deep in the subconscious minds of many older Christians, but does anyone really believe that reputable modern translations are not more accurate renderings of the Hebrew and Greek? Or more understandable to young people?

04.10.2024 15:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

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I'm pretty worried about all the environmental and employment and intellectual property and accuracy downsides of AI, but I must admit that this is amazing.

02.10.2024 20:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Even though experts understand this to be an 1867 commemoration of the completion of a telegraph from Istanbul to Baghdad, I'm convinced it's a device to enable bellringers in one village to ring the bells in the next one. ✝️

30.09.2024 16:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Does your mind sometimes wander while listening to daily prayer, especially early or late? I've just discovered that consciously spotting the verb in every sentence is keeping me much more focused on meaning. Worth a try?

30.09.2024 06:40 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Stunning photograph.

28.09.2024 18:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The sun rising over parkland.

The sun rising over parkland.

The sunrise at High Leigh Conference Centre ahead of the first full day of #LYCIG Leading Your Church into Growth. Much work and discernment ahead for the church teams here.

28.09.2024 06:54 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Three bicycles parked outside a church.

Three bicycles parked outside a church.

It must be years since three people cycled to our Sunday morning service. And in the heaviest rainstorm of the year!?

22.09.2024 12:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0


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...Amen

22.09.2024 06:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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20.09.2024 10:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A wonderful conversation with a young woman who is starting to recover her sense of self worth after reading 'The King's Daughter' by R. M. Obi. From the review: "Unveil your royal lineage, grounded in grace and humility, and embrace your Heavenly Father's unconditional love."

20.09.2024 10:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

With @reverendally.bsky.social at the #festivalofpreaching kneading bread. "Creativity can stop metaphors calcifying and help to give them life again."

17.09.2024 14:31 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0