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Methodist.charity director. All views my own.care about peace, justice, co-ops & climate

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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Breaking news In light of the chair of Scotland and Shetland becoming President of the Methodist Conference some news reaches me. An early Charles Wesley hymn “O thou who startest the eternal boogie” has been discovered meanwhile statues of J Wesley have been getting in the mood….
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
An amazing looking day is coming up
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Shivaji Shiva @shivajishivalaw.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
#PavementsForPeople 1902 edition
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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a man in a purple tuxedo is juggling plates on sticks on a stage
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Anna Bishop @revannabishop.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Come to @sarumcollege.bsky.social for an empowering retreat 17-18 Oct with Prof Gillian Ahlgren, recognised authority on the Christian mystical tradition. Discover your potentiality & engage deeply with God & others through #TeresaofAvila's Interior Castle. Book now! www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...
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Journeying Within: The Wisdom of Teresa of Avila - Sarum College
Retreat on Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle to look within, explore our potentiality, and engage deepening relationship with God.
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Happy Methodist New Year! New circuits and districts have launched. Ministers, well travelled and newly minted have landed in their new locations. But what does this year mean for you? With Covid era fading, and new places launching this should be a year or two of bold confidence. Confidence that
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
This morning I do the Sunday sermon in Iona Abbey. Oh my. The words look so feeble....
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Here is hoping for a better tomorrow
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Anna Bishop @revannabishop.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
To address the crisis of displaced people, we need not to 'stop the boats', but to 'stop the wars'. This is our calling. - Inderjit Bhogal #MethodistConf @methodist.org.uk @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social @publicissues.bsky.social @refugeestogether.bsky.social
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
appalled by news today. The continued spread of violence and war is like a virus spreading throughout the world. It's time to vaccinate ourselves by investing in nonviolence, international diplomacy & democracy. Nobody wins from the latest escalation of conflict, everyone looses.
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Liam Temple @liamtemple.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Job alert at CCS Durham! Three year funded postdoc in Catholic Social Thought and Practice. More info here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... #catholicism #skystorians #catholic #academia
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Catholic Social Thought and Practice
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
And so the tail end of another tricky week is passed. The continued militarization of faith and society is so painful
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Oh my
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
We tried to offer him some money, to at least let up pay for the cabling and switch he installed to make the electronics work right. He refused. Firmly but kindly. Said he found friends here, and that was payment enough.
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Why bother?
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A challenge and privaledge to address Churches Together in England forum today on “a call to peace”. Very nerve wracking but seemed to go well as some fascinating conversations afterwards
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Tomorrows sermon is written. Gorbachev. Jesus. Jerusalem and Couch to 5k....
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Today i’ve been listening to stories about Eileen Power and Virginia Woolf. Wow!
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John Birch @fandw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Bless the peacemakers…. #prayer #peace
Bless the peacemakers….
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Omaha @omahaill.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Beautiful stained glass road cyclist at the Glassworks Gallery in Bath #cycling #art #cyclingart
Framed artwork in stained glass of a male road cyclist, featured in the front window of a shop Street sign of Glassworks Gallery
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth
A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
All I'm gonna say is that it's recognised often that St Nick's is incredibly important to the ecosystem of the diocese, both missionally and pastorally, but we've been told unless we increase our parish share to 70k (an amount that's more than double our annual income) we won't get another priest.
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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a little boy is playing with a hose in a yard .
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Lee Marsden @leemarsden.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hear @jhoncooper.bsky.social Director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation @forpeacemaker.bsky.social speaking on Peace in Ukraine? 19.30 GMT Wednesday 28th January livestream at us02web.zoom.us/j/4101021617...
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Lee Marsden @leemarsden.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If you live in and around Norwich, UK, check out @jhoncooper.bsky.social speaking about the possibility of peace in Ukraine. Free admission but booking recommended @forpeacemaker.bsky.social @anglicanpacifists.bsky.social @cnduk.bsky.social @peaceandjustice.bsky.social @dioceseofnorwich.bsky.social
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I love @canongate.co.uk as they always have such interesting books and their paper is beautiful to touch. This book from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is exquisitely laid out which adds to joy! Thank you
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Fuck yes. “Starting Sunday, most drivers will have to pay $9 to enter the busiest part of Manhattan.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/n...
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N.Y.C. Congestion Pricing Begins on Sunday
After twists and turns, a contentious plan meant to reduce traffic and pay for transit improvements is scheduled to take effect at midnight Sunday.
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Lee Marsden @leemarsden.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
buytickets.at/stcatherines... Faith, Peace, and Justice Forum are delighted to host @jhoncooper.bsky.social Director of @forpeacemaker.bsky.social to speak on Peace in Ukraine? Free admission but booking essential.
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Select tickets – Peace in Ukraine? – St Catherine's Church, Norwich
The Faith, Peace and Justice Forum talk on Peace in Ukraine?  President Trump boasted that he would be able to stop the war in ...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Farage would have us believe that he's hugely popular with young men. Seems that young people have a rather different view on the matter. Hilarious stuff from @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Spotted in the wild in Harborne... @tomflood.bsky.social
Poster on a lampost, with this text:

Community Can we have a safe route for our kids to walk/bime/roll to school?
City No, a driver might get mad.
That's the entirety of the discussion.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
From a space for cars to a place for people in one of my favourite client cities, Groningen Netherlands. Another powerful before-and-after transformation 1960s vs 2021. In recent years one of the city’s biggest challenges has been where to park all the bikes Seriously. A good problem to have.
Large central space in Groningen Netherlands used for surface car parking in the 1960’s, then transformed back into a thriving people place with movable tables and chairs.
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Good work from #wallace&gromit tonight - lots of laughter in our house
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Some holiday reading
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The Fellowship of Reconciliation @forpeacemaker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
On 5 - 6 June we're supporting a Multi Faith Peace Theology conference at Wesley House, cambridge. A call for proposals/abstracts is out. So if you are an academic or activist, thinker or doer then don't delay and submit your paper abstract today: bit.ly/peace2025
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Judith Rossall @judithrossall.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Campaigns and Church Engagement Officer role being advertised. Interesting role. jpit.uk/work-for-us/...
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Join the Team – Joint Public Issues Team
Campaigns and Church Engagement Officer  Can you motivate church members to activism and inspire them to bring about change? The Methodist Church is seeking to recruit a Campaigns and Church Engagemen...
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Off for a few days looking at #justpeace with church folks from around Europe
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Abeeha Tariq @abeehatariqart.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I remember when you could just buy a computer program like Microsoft Word or Photoshop and just have it on your computer forever without having to pay monthly or yearly. What a time that was
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Matt Edwards @greenmattbfd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🇳🇱 In the 1970s, #Utrecht built a 12 lane road on top of one of the historical canals. 🛥️ In 2020, the Catharijnesingel canal was restored removing the blight of the highway from the city centre. 🏗️ It's not impossible to undo the #UrbanPlanning mistakes of the past with the political will.
An aerial photo from the 1980s showing Utrecht city centre with a massive twelve lane road cutting through the city centre.An aerial photo from 2020 showing the road removed and replaced with a canal. To the right, you can see the refurbished Utrecht Centraal station.
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
It's beginning to look a lot like #christmas
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Town and Country Planning Association @thetcpa.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Where a child lives - the built & natural environment around them – is crucial to giving them the best start in life. Our report reveals how better planning & urban design can help to raise the healthiest generation in history. www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/raising-the-healthiest-generation-in-history/
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Raising the healthiest generation in history: why it matters where children and young people live - Town and Country Planning Association
Recommendations and an evidence review from the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee inquiry into children, young people and the built environment (December 2024) For decades, governments, ...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/12/2024
The number of humanitarian workers killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war has reached 341, says the spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
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Food availability across Gaza ‘at an all-time low’, UN says
The deadly Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon come as US and France say they are monitoring ceasefire violations.
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Exciting moment where key people at church do not talk to you even when you greet them. Why? Mainly because I called out a decision and some control freakery. To think this is a community of love!
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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A brief guide to my desk.
Black and white line cartoon showing man sitting at a desk, in which is a huge pile of paper and junk. Title ‘A brief guide to my desk’. Arrows point at the pile, with the following captions:
- important to have handy
- Incoming, outgoing, pending - that sort of thing
- Misc / don’t know
- In progress as we speak
- Referring to every now and then
- Yes, I’m doing it
- I’ll get in to it soon - don’t you worry about that
- And what concern of yours is it anyway
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Attending the Theos Annual Lecture to find out "does the future have a church"
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
In December I'm heading down to Cornwall for the first time to do some poems at the Cathedral... Wanna come? www.trurocathedral.org.uk/whats-on/car...
Wed Dec 18th 2024 7:30pm - 9:30pm

CAROLS WITH
PRIDE Carols with Pride. Come and join in the celebration of the Christmas story with Cornwall Pride. This service tells the story of Christmas and celebrates love, welcome and diversity. We welcome everyone, including the LGBTQI+ community, their families, friends and allies to join us on this joyous occasion. These carols, readings, and music services will include poetry performed by Jay Hulme, a poet, performer, and educator.
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jacob owen ✞ 🇵🇸 ☭ @andwiththyspirit.substack.com · 24/11/2024
Christ is King of all justice, love, forgiveness, and equality. His Kingdom is not from this world. that is not to say, as many have, that his Kingdom is a far off reality to which we blindly aspire. His kingdom is not from this world in that its love has no borders, its justice is unbounded.
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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is one of our oversize plan books of London properties owned by St Bartholomew’s Hospital 1848-1927 (normal sized archivist for reference) #EYAHuge #Archives [SBHB/HC/55]
Woman wearing all black sitting cross legged on a table next to a large book of plans
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A fascinating book. It examines in some detail the silence of Wesley on Slavery and raises awkward questions that some Methodists would rather avoid.
Book cover of Ownership the evangelical legacy of slavery in Edwards, Wesley and Whitfield
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John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel" Maya Angelou She was right. As true of institutions as of people.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The International Criminal Court has officially issued arrest warrants for Israel's PM Netanyahu & former defence minister, as well as Hamas's military commander over alleged war crimes
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