Just waking to the appalling news of the evil attack on our Anglican Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City. A short IDF warning avoided more deaths but it’s unconscionable to attack medical facilities. The impact on Gaza’s ability to tend the sick and save lives is devastating.
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This is a pretty good section
Sorry Nick but to paraphrase “all the politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No.”
Woefully inadequate responses www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
The best writing I've seen on this so far and which elegantly if not explicitly asks a vital question: so long as these bigots and homophobes are allowed to remain in the Church of England how can we pretend to be an organisation which takes safeguarding seriously?
I'm sorry but far right politics are simply not worthy of being listened to and should not under any circumstances be given the time of day
Hear out the white supremacists with power. Drive the socialists from public life, demonising them all. The British media eh?
This is really, really, really good.
I missed the layby bit in the Makin report. Awful.
Another thought about "protecting the work" (apart from the arrogance) is the lack of faith.
God needs these particular men? Give over.
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UK journalists talking about echo chambers when 0.2% of journalists are Black and 2.5% Asian and 51% of the most influential journalists went to private school is a bit of a joke
Allison Pearson has a rant of a column about how she’s being investigated by the cops for a tweet. Halfway through she says it’s been upgraded to a criminal matter under S.17 of the Public Order Act 1986, ‘likely or intended to cause racial hatred’, and… that’s maybe 50% UK op/eds on a good day
The first screenshot of a message from Bishop Craig Loya. It says: Beloved in Christ, Preachers often refer to weeks around the turn of the liturgical year as the “doom and gloom Sundays,” because the scripture readings feature themes of judgment and last things. Episcopalians hate those readings. We find it hard to square the idea of judgment, and often violent predictions of suffering and struggle, with our image of an endlessly loving and merciful God. But it’s important to remember that all of scripture was written by and for the oppressed and the marginalized. It was addressed to those left out of the gaudy abundance of the powerful and privileged. From that perspective, God’s promise to overturn the world order and set the scales of injustice right was good news indeed. The apocalyptic writings in the Bible we so often disdain were actually written to provide comfort and reassurance for God’s people who faced a world that was falling apart in fear and vulnerability.
The second screenshot of a message from Bishop Craig Loya. It says: All around the world today, there are billions of people who have been left out of the overwhelming wealth and abundance that many of us enjoy. In our own nation, we are living through days when some of the most vulnerable among us: the immigrant, the desperately poor, persons identifying as LGBTQ+, and many others, are facing a future that feels deeply fearful. In the midst of all of this, often under-loved passages from Mark 13, Daniel 7, Revelation 1, and Luke 21 will remind us that God always stands on the side of those who live in fear and on the margins. They will remind us that arc of God’s project to heal the world with love ends in justice. They will remind us that Jesus, the human face of God’s loving heart, is still Lord when everything else is falling apart.
Final screenshot of the letter from the bishop of Minnesota. It says: Only the Spirit’s power can fully bring about God’s perfect reign of peace. Our job is to point the way to that coming reign through our work, our witness, and standing where Jesus stands. In these weeks, dearly beloved, may we stand with Jesus, with all the suffering people, in all the small places, throughout the world and history, and shout with them, until our voices are hoarse, the prayer that resounds through the centuries: “come, Lord Jesus, come.” Grace and Peace, The Right Reverend Craig Loya 10th Bishop Episcopal Church in Minnesota
A good and needed message from the Bishop of Minnesota ⚓️
I keep coming back to the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast program that the FBI dismantled, before Congress created the federal means-tested School Breakfast Program.
just absolutely incredible effort
2.2 million people, half of whom are children, held in a prison with no rights or comforts or basic dignity, all of whose lives are being declared meaningless. The only description I can conjure for what seems to be looming in the distance is a sacrifice to Moloch. It's absolute depravity.
German Junker aristocrat woman called von der Leyen is in favour of genocide? Knock me down with a feather
Von der Leyen is a very obvious fascist sympathiser.
I love socialised medicine and think it is essentially a prerequisite to civilisation but fuck me every interaction I have to have with the NHS makes me want to burn it to the ground.
Absolutely love the assumption of heterosexuality by clinicians!
People sitting on the viccy line chairs? I think not!
So strange how this keeps happening!
BBC News - Fire at Grade II listed Bilston pub treated as arson
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'The kind Vladimir Ilyich would have shot everyone here's meme
Me looking at videos of young Tories being interviewed at conference.
Damn it turns out that signalling to the right that there's a great big honking "win button" to deploy against people who are Muslim or are perceived to be "too friendly" with Muslims may have been a mistake?
An improvised poster in a bus stop, reading: “Tower Hamlets is a dump. Give the mandem and gyaldem a pay rise”
Bus stop, Bethnal Green
Latest in the culture war: Church raising money for the homeless is “woke crap”. Maybe click on the link and give them a few quid?
Piastri P2? Let's fucking gooooo
Love to see McLaren being good again
