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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just this quote says it all (apols for reposting) ‘….withholding participation when it entails accountability, but encouraging participation when it offers influence; and denouncing the wider Church while seeking to exercise power within it.’

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“You see, universalism is actually the harder of the two doctrines. For a true universalist believes that Hitler, Stalin and Mao, and every murderer and petty tyrant is redeemed by the loving mercy of God…” “Ah, yes, but what if they all had to debate Charlie Kirk?” “Now we’re getting somewhere.”

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Good on +Arun. You can’t have a ‘legitimate debate’ when the other side are wearing black shirts and balaclavas. (And +Rosemarie and +Sarah who are also quoted, but Arun was a bishop in my old diocese and is an all around good bloke!)

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

what's funny about this is that monks were perfectly delighted with the printing press, the myth that the late medieval church resisted printing is false, you can actually embellish printed books and people did, illuminators and scribes are not the same people, and simon should read more.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The thing I noticed is that little Mason has become rather difficult to teach, which strikes me as bad news for Mason, bad for his classmates and a nightmare for teachers in classes with five or six kids like Mason. And if we think kids like Mason and his class matter, this is a worrying approach.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You can demand a return to "Christian values", or you can attack empathy as "suicidal". You cannot do both.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

‘Oceans are battlegrounds,’ obvs. Alternatively, that ‘Andor’ show looks like it’s crying out for a sequel.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

For more than sixty years, prayer for the dead has been an authorised part of the Church of England’s liturgy, and to my knowledge for most of that time this has been completely uncontroversial.

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Chris Hind @hindchristopher.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

quick reminders: there is currently a land war in Europe and the nation which has been mostly responsible for our defence since the 1940s is withdrawing from that role

The massive cuts in defence since the 1980s

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Data like this - especially hard data about self harm - is the real proof that the mental health crisis is real. Whenever people talk about the growth of welfare budget, not only are there real human beings behind those numbers, it is also growing because of very real problems.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

An excellent point. The is something the CofE has been very bad at in the last 15 years where in a lot of our debates we have relied on lay and ordained scholars to supply the church with ‘further theological work’ to contribute to synod - the scholarly debate isn’t in the chamber any more.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Unoriginal observation of the week, but this was one of the reasons I gave up on Game of Thrones. Leaving aside the meandering plot, there was too much modernism-only-without-refrigeration going on.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Sun’s out, spires out. As the lads say.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Amused by this because my dad would set the AC to 80 degrees, as anything less than that was a profligate waste of electricity and money. Open a window. Turn on a fan. After all, that’s what you do at home. Because growing up British in America is not quite the same as growing up American!

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

‘For a tiny state on the edge of America, Kansans have excelled…’

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Game adaptation of Robert K Massie’s ‘Dreadnought’ and ‘Castles of Steel,’ obvs.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Well, it all begins with the creation of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline in 1904…

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Seem to remember the previous occupant of the White House averaged going to Mass at church about twice a week, so not sure what Mr Vance and fam are doing.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Have to say that the US president signing a treaty in Paris in the USA’s 250th anniversary AND having it signed in the Palace of Versailles is definitely a sign that the show writers are overdoing it.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Isn’t this just going to be mad stuff that @oldenoughtosay.com has found on Rightmove and shared here for our viewing pleasure?

Rightmove’s most-viewed homes under £400k

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Ah, yes, as Jonathan was saying just the other day while doing his US tax return.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I’m old enough to remember some rightwingers calling out Obama for having an opinion on Brexit, presumably they’ll be shocked by this

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I am the son of two police officers so I admit I am hardly unbiased here but I feel like the fact British policing has been hollowed out by massive budget cuts over a decade ought to be a larger part of the discussion than "DEI"

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

this article is full of views so alien to my own it might as well be from medieval times

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

So much of this just reads like 'man in early retirement spends too long on the internet' takes.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is super! And it chimes with a lot of what I’ve experienced as a long term resident of the ‘grim urban north’: these communities are less ‘rooted’ and cohesive than people think, there’s a massive generation gap, people are more socially liberal than the stereotype.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Changing my home insurance just before we move: Agent: "Do you know roughly when it was built?" Me: "Just give me a minute to look at its listing on English Heritage..." Agent: "Oh, is it listed?" Me: "Grade II*. Oh here we are, it was built in 1461."

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If you're asking whether the Americans are awake, the Americans are awake. Watch what you say everyone! Especially if it's about food.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Three and a half years of ministry are ended. Richly blessed here, learned a lot and have been privileged to share so much with the people who I have served among. Followed by this rather nice piece at Wakefield Cathedral in the afternoon!

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

My parish, folks. For one more day, anyway.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It would not only be a disgrace, it would be cutting off our nose to spite our face in terms of our influence abroad and expanding the void that is already there from the gutting of USAID (as well as our own shameful cuts). Obviously defence spending needs to be increased but this is not the way.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This whole thread is excellent, but I think this continues to be the key element missing in how we talk about immigration: a majority of the UK think that immigration should be reduced… but that evaporates once specific roles are mentioned.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Is it morally defensible? No. But is it a coherent response to a difficult situation? No. Ah, but is it effective in bringing down fuel prices? Ha, you're not going to believe this...

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is, I think, the great social problem that not enough people know is coming. We’re a generation off of old fashioned hard pensioner poverty becoming the norm for a much bigger part of the population and nobody is prepared for this.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 19/05/2026

This is a weird analogy as it isn't clear to me why Artemis "should" cost more than HS2 in a sort of cosmic, moral sense. A few single use rockets for a dozen or so people vs a strategic railway covering hundreds of miles that needs to last a century?

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

When some people spend all their time getting radicalised on the internet, it will, at some point, spill into consequences in real life. The other flash points that I'm aware of locally are supermarkets and (to a lesser extent) schools.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Sick of American centric political quizzes? Want to back Britain? 🇬🇧 Do this quiz!

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

When you start seeing this plastered all over Lichfield Cathedral's socials starting next month, you'll know who to blame!

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A decade ago I would have been against this, because of the long tradition of jobbing barristers being MPs… but it is an invitation for grifting as things stand. We could always do something like the CofE stipend system where if you take a second appointment you declare it and your stipend reduces…

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

If it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French. To steal somebody else's joke.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This week in 1812 Spencer Perceval became the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated. Its the least interesting thing about him. Working with hedonistic lawyer James Stephen, the devout Christian engineered one of the first slavery bans in British territory WITHOUT Parliament's approval. /1

painting of spencer perceval, a middle-aged man with swept back white hair.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Streeting’s now cancelling the really BIG fixtures in the diary. Definitely going for it if he’s putting off the Church Times!

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Ah, the Princess of Wales Shopping Centre in Dewsbury. A name that always promised too much. Do they expect us to believe that Katie M just pops down to Fone Planet for a second hand iPhone 14 when her old phone stops charging?

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

So, is it time for the House of Cards rewatch yet? Enquiring minds want to know.

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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The UK being 2nd in the Climate Change Performance Index should be seen one of this government's long term legacies. One of these things that nobody has shouted much about, but a sign that things have actually got better on one of the most important issues of our day.

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