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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyone help? Vague recollection of someone describing an activity during the confession & absolution where the kids put paper flowers in the font, which unfold as they soak up the water. Maybe from Godly Play? And what was the explanation?⚓

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Forward Day by Day: supporting Christians in the pews since 1935. @forwardmovement.org ⚓

Several booklets underneath the foot of a pew.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Medieval lectern carved into the shape of an eagle, by someone who was familiar with geese.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Am leading a church service next week. The saint of the day is Joseph Butler. Can anyone recommend an extract from his works that I could use? The regular attendees will be able to cope with old fashioned language. #JosephButler #TEC

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We all need a timeline cleanse! Terracotta figurine of a #dog feeding her puppies. 500 BC-450 BC Boeotia, Greece. The terracotta figurines from this region during this period typically depict everyday scenes. Life without dogs is possible but pointless 🐶🐕 On display at Antikensammlung München 📷me

A terracotta figurine of a reclining dog nursing two puppies. The dog is mostly white with a rough, textured surface. One puppy is yellowish-brown, while the other is the same color as the dog.The figures rest on a flat base.

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CosmoQuest @cosmoquest.org · 02/04/2026

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Anyone willing to comment on the economics of selling prayer books? Prayer Book Offices by Church Publishing is very expensive. It's currently on sale at a well known online retailer with 32% discount. But does this mean Church Publishing makes a loss? ⚓

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Bought a new printer cartridge before the old one ran out. Had it to hand when the ink ran out mid-document! It's a small win, but I'm taking it! #Adulting

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Fourth Sunday of Advent. It's nearly Christmas!

A pair of socked feet. The design on the socks is an Advent wreath, with the candles on the legs, and greenery on the heel and ankle. All four candles are depicted as lighted.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Third Sunday of Advent. Pink not purple!

A pair of socked feet. The design on the socks is an Advent wreath, with the candles on the legs, and greenery on the heel and ankle. Three candles are depicted as lighted.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Second Sunday socks! #Advent

A pair of socked feet. The design on the socks is an Advent wreath, with the candles on the legs, and greenery on the heel and ankle. Two candles are depicted as lighted, one on each leg.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Stepping into the first Sunday of Advent! ⚓

A pair of socked feet. The design on the socks is an Advent wreath, with the candles on the legs, and greenery on the heel and ankle. Only one candle is depicted as lighted.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Can anyone recommend a specifically Episcopalian blog article (or similar) about blessing objects? I'm thinking around the subject at the moment. ⚓

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Big day for me yesterday! I wore a cassock and surplice for the first time. Officiated at Sunday Morning Prayer for the second time. Still can't really believe I'm doing this! 📕

Cassock and surplice on the same coathanger, hanging on a wooden door.

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Kaya Burgess | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 @kayaburgess.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

500 years after it was chopped off on Tower Hill and retrieved from a spike on London Bridge... A CofE church in Canterbury wants to open its vault to see what remains of Thomas More's head To exhume and restore his relics and possibly build a shrine www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

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Church seeks to exhume skull of Thomas More for 500th anniversary

An Anglican parish in Canterbury wants to open a vault to retrieve the remains of the Catholic martyr in time for the anniversary of his execution

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Per @sirocyl: "ah yes, the classical Pope-Antipope annihilation - which yields either two Jesuits through schismatic pontifaction, or emits a Cardinal via the interregnum mechanism. Through quantum vacuum fluctuations, a Jesuit pair may reconclave into a Pope by emitting sedevacant radiation."

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Landmark day for me tomorrow: it's my first time preaching at a Sunday service. I'm doing three services at three locations, with the third a slightly different format. I'm up for the challenge, but it's also daunting. Prayers appreciated! ⚓

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

When the bus company can't remember John's name.

Next stop display on a bus that reads The Baptist Chap.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

My first time in a role wearing vestments this Sunday. It's a cassock-alb. Are there vesting prayers? #Episcopal ⚓

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Winding down from the Epiphany blessing of chalk - job's not finished until the receipts are submitted - and ramping up for the Candlemas blessing of candles. 🕯️

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EOW Without Context @eow-no-context.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

see, everything has become new!

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

One of the 12th century ‘Miracle Windows’ at Canterbury Cathedral which portray the miracles of St. Thomas Becket. Becket was martyred on this day in 1170. 📷 My own. #StainedGlassSunday #ThomasBecket

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Helen Prejean, CSJ @sisterhelen.org · 23/12/2024

Biden has commuted almost all federal death row. This is indeed a good day to do the Lord's work. I'm thankful to so many religious leaders and justice advocates who helped make this possible. I pray for victims' families, knowing that wishing for death is not a healing course.

nytimes.com

Biden Commutes 37 Death Sentences Ahead of Trump’s Plan to Resume Federal Executions (Gift Article)

Those affected by the president’s action on Monday are still subject to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Three men will remain on federal death row.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Opinions wanted! What's the best chalk for chalking lintels at #Epiphany? Any other tips from experience for the blessing of chalk?⚓

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Narrator: The Advent study book did not, in fact, arrive.

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EOW Without Context @eow-no-context.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

there is the possibility of congregational reaction ranging from confusion to anger

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Living life dangerously: my Advent study book is not being delivered until tomorrow!

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Just a reminder that if you’re going to argue politics during Thanksgiving, you might as well get it going as early as possible, that way if somebody gets mad and storms out you can totally have their deviled eggs, follow me for more holiday tips

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Unshaunsheep @unshaunsheep.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

THE TERRIER WAS WEARING A STYLISH, RED DUFFLE COAT! This is not a drill. Clearly indicating her wish that we had gone red for Kingdom season rather than stick with green for Trinity 24. These doggo liturgical critics can be brutal... #CofEpeeps

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Cécile Schnyder / Lina Hound @linahound.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Faith, Hope and Love remains - but when you see a croissant on the table - then Hope is the greatest of all #bassethound #hope #croissant

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Utterly proud of fabulous @robminchin.bsky.social for proposing a resolution for an anti-harassment policy in our diocese, agreeing to sit on a committee about it, and getting the final resolution passed 98:2! Our church will be a safer place for it. #TEC #DioceseOfTheRioGrande ⚓

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Dr Robert Minchin @robminchin.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

In Puerto Rico, the tradition, as I learnt it from my neighbour, is to pray for someone on the anniversary of their death for seven years. Seven years ago today, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, leading (after a botched response by a racist US government) to over 3,000 deaths. Pray for Puerto Rico.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Have just spotted a bright light in the sky over NM with a persistent tail. Possibly the Starliner coming in to land at White Sands!

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Borthwick Institute for Archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

On this day in 1948 the new National Health Service was launched. This issue of the Nursing Times described it as a 'comprehensive service made possible by the State for its citizens, not as a form of charity, but as their right.' Happy Birthday to the NHS! #nhs76

Photograph of the front page of the Nursing Times, 3 July 1948 titled 'Our Health Service', describing what the new NHS will offer and featuring a photograph of a nurse treating a patient and another of parents and their children.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Cheering for all those Returning Officers who announce the number of spoiled ballot papers! Electors have a strong obligation to vote, but deliberately spoiling your ballot paper is an option if you truly don't want any of them. #GeneralElection2024

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

Met with this coyote today at the Bosque del Apache, NM. #TongueOutTuesday

A coyote standing at the edge of a dirt road, facing right. Its tongue is just visible sticking out the front of its mouth.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 09/04/2024

Types of Eclipse Photo xkcd.com/2917

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

"What does it mean to hold God in your arms and know that you're dying?" We marked Candlemas yesterday. Here's a little poem from my latest book about the thing I find most incredible about Simeon.

The Temptation of Simeon Theodochos

By Jay Hulme From The Vanishing Song

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Messiah. Luke 2.26

If you won't see Death before
you see the Messiah

Keep Your Eyes Shut.

Don't enter the temple to God's call,
you've gained immortality after all -

why listen to the songs they're singing?
Why hasten towards your ending?

Don't hold death in your arms
and proclaim it

Life.

But you're stood in the temple already,
praising this child you've seen.

Oh Simeon - God-receiver - enraptured in an
instant, answer this one question, please:

What does it mean to hold God in your arms
and know that you're dying?

My friend, you misunderstand -
as I held The Christ to my chest
I saw Death

fleeing away.

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Alex Klein @alexklein.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Alabama tortured Kenneth Smith to death tonight.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

This morning the Old Testament reading was from Jonah. The preacher touched on whale/big fish translation. I remembered this poem from @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social and the prompting not to miss the point of the story, to see the miracles elsewhere.⚓

Text of the poem "Dag Gadol" by Jay Hulme, from "The Backwater Sermons".

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Dr Robert Minchin @robminchin.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

The Season of Christmas being past, it is now the Season of St Patrick on Walmart’s liturgico-commercial calendar! ⚓️

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Sir, I’m calling today about your expired home warranty ⚓️

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Continuing the theme of cake in New Orleans, today the weather is horrible so I am eating beignets and watching the Mississippi.

Three beignets on a small plate, on a green tray, on a table. Behind, the window reveals a grey scene of a river.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Visited a parish for Mass this morning in New Orleans. Went to the parish King Cake tasting afterwards and had three different flavours! Almond-satsuma was the best. Then lunch at a bakery so more cake! #Epiphany ⚓

An open box of pastries on a wooden slat tabletop, with potted poinsettias in the background.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Swag from this evening's parade in honour of St Joan of Arc's birthday! It's the official start of Mardi Gras here in New Orleans.

Group of items on a table: a small triangular flag on a plastic stick, a tealight, a book of matches, two wooden tokens, candy, a small brown envelope closed with a red wax seal, two information cards

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Reading grad apps today, the one I'm looking at now (a student finishing undergrad in 2024) has 3 first-author + 7 co-authored refereed papers. HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Today is the winter solstice, mid-winter's day, the longest night. Some Christians pray the O Oriens antiphon today, as part of a larger pre-Christmas prayer sequence. It inspired an Anglo-Saxon poem, which inspired Tolkien's story of Eärendil. ⚓

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A Clerk of Oxford

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Now we come to Christingletide, where in ancient British tradition, the Christingle King goes from church to church distributing oranges, sweets, ribbons and candles to children. Money was also collected for the poor. Suppressed by the puritans, it has enjoyed a revival since the 20th century. ⚓

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