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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Iceland got the memo this is Eurovision! #eurovision

Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

If he lived near the station or around Mill Road probably. The station and factories were targets because of munitions manufacture and the transport of them. Local myth says we were spared because Hitler’s girlfriend Unity Mitford was living in the Hillmorton Vicarage!

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Just watching this ready for a rather special event in my parish school on Friday! Can’t believe we actually did this in June 2023 - that is the sound of 2,500 children wanting to be world changers! Enjoy the ear worm - it’s a banger! youtu.be/uKE9U7Tj_QI?...

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World Changers @ ALIVE 2023-WITH LYRICS

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is who I am. Obvs not as old as Hendos but the same character - born across the road from the factory.

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Spent an evening on my iPad! It felt like the first year or ordination training in 2020! But better! I love Julian and Hannah Lewis did a great job! So that’s Hildegaard, Claire of Assisi and Julian - half way through my Sarum Female Mystics Course for fun!

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Preached at 3 services today - still went for a swim after St Gabriel’s - now time for a beer!

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

And now more culture - not medieval - guess the musical…

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This is just too exciting! If you know you know!

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Part one of our London day out! British Library exhibition on Medieval Women. With my lovely daughter Niamh Colbrook - then off to see a show!

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Helen-Ann Hartley @helenannhartley.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My open letter to the Diocese of Newcastle following this week’s General Synod debates on safeguarding ⬇️ www.newcastle.anglican.org/news/an-open... ‘This is indeed a watershed time for the Church and I do not think my episcopal colleagues in particular grasp this’.

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An open letter from Bishop Helen-Ann - Newcastle Diocese

An open letter from the Bishop of Newcastle to the Diocese of Newcastle reflecting on General Synod.

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I pray it as I swim - 30 mins of swimming - 200 reps. Soul and body workout!

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

A great Head Teacher’s briefing today. We shared Psalm 147:1-11 and spent time thinking about Flourishing for All CofE anti- bullying guidance for schools, how we might gather pupil voice and a case study of amazing courageous advocacy in one of our schools. So proud of our school family!

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

What a great day for an SSM priest determined to share the gospel with the next generation. Presiding at Communion at Rugby school Chapel and then working with the kids at St Gs our Church in schools this afternoon. 50% children aged 3-16 today - what a joy! God is good!

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I think the statistics about school services is even more interesting! The CofE has 4700 schools just think if the existing parish church for each one set up a NWC for kids in their school - younger and more diverse sorted!

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I am reading Truth and Repair by Judith Herman. She stresses reparation as central to the pursuit of justice. She talks of victims, perpetrators, bystanders as all having a role in truth and repair. Church has been a bystander and is now an active blocker to repair by blocking reparation.

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

What a joy to preach to two very different congregations today on Isaiah 43:1-7. Do not be afraid I have called you by name you are mine! 14 children at St Gs this afternoon - our Church in school - producing their own reminders that God knows their name and calls them his own. YES and AMEN!

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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

This article dares to dream of the radical hospitality offered to the most vulnerable child that was mentioned in a recent Sojourners article, the same that was offered to our Lord. Mary's yes was radical. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The image that speaks a thousand words about our inhumane migration debate | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The birth of a baby boy on a dangerously overcrowded refugee boat should be a wake-up call to all of us, says Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Such a treat to lead Carols by candlelight this evening. Two services 500 people. I had the best view in the house! 800 years of Christmas Eve celebrations in this wonderful building. “The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.” ‭‭John‬ ‭1‬:‭9‬.

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Such a joyful time at St Gabriels on Sunday the Children treated us to the Nativity and the Vicar was the Donkey! The second photo is us finishing with our child led Grace - needing a much bigger circle! @dioceseofcoventry.bsky.social

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Christmas Service at St Peter’s with 250 children from Dunchurch CofE Junior Academy Wonderful singing and reading and we had a great discussion about Angel Gabriel and how God promises to be with us even when things take us by surprise! Looking forward to being with the Infant school on Monday!

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Megan Carpentier @megancarpentier.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.) www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, “Given the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence ‘what country is to the south of Rwanda?’” Even if the system responds with the word “Burundi,” this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the human’s answer, and to say the AI “knows” or “believes” Burundi to be south of Rwanda is a category mistake that will lead to errors and confusion.

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

St Gabriel’s CofE Academy at St John’s for the Christmas experience in the other Church building in the parish. Wonderful questions from year 3 - including if Jesus is God for Christians why do they call him king of the Jews? Lots of theological reflection going on! @dioceseofcoventry.bsky.social

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

My Theology of planting a Church in a new development in a brand new CofE school. Pray, turn up, be faithful, and build relationship with those the Spirit brings. Expect the unexpected and be prepared to be pruned.

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The Children's Society @childrenssociety.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

In response to the investigation into the experiences of 193 children who were sexually abused by a family member, @markrusselluk.bsky.social said: "This report lays bare a devastating truth: too many children at risk of sexual abuse are being failed by a system that reacts too late."

"Child sexual abuse is a horrific crime, and we all have a role to play in stopping it." -Mark Russell, CEO, The Children's Society.

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Today I eventually finished my photo memory frames of Alive 2023 for the DBE Office. Every time I walk in and out to my desk I will walk through the middle of them and say a prayer for the children who were there. #Worldchangers

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Insightful and useful reflections

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I am working through it - slowly! Currently in deconstruction.

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Rev April Gold @aprilgold.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Had a really exciting meeting this morning discussing possibilities for rolling out The Difference Course for Primary Schools across the Diocese next year. Placing reconciliation behaviours right at the heart of our schools as they educate a generation of #worldchangers

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