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Mark Hewerdine

@markhewerdine.bsky.social
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Theology, guitars, politics, ecology, books, Church of England (not necessarily in that order)

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Anna Norman-Walker @anormanwalker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I was waiting for Giles Fraser's perspective to land! A bit of a curates egg 'good in parts' ! I do agree with his choice for the next ABC and his call to put the parish church at the heart of everything. unherd.com/2024/11/burn...
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Burn down the Church Machine
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
I mean it when I say that Dr Nicolete Burbach is doing some of the most important queer theology of our time.
"the Church can no longer afford to ignore or dismiss trans life because it has a stake in these discussions that goes far beyond simply winning a culture war First, we trans people are also members of the Church. That is to say, we are the Church - and a Church that remains alienated from us is a Church that is alienated from itself. Second, if Christ brings liberation from sin, and if that sin manifests in the various injustices that characterise our fallen societies, then a Church that feeds the injustices perpetrated against trans people around the wold is one that is on the side of sin, rather than that of Christ. This remains the case even if the Church is only so aligned by accident, or unknowingly. Surely enough time has passed for such ignorance to be culpable. Finally, as the Body of Christ in the world, the Church must share in the "joys and hopes, griefs and anxieties" of our age. To dismiss or ignore trans life would be to treat it as though it does not deserve attention in this. It would be to treat trans people as though we are less important than whatever else is being achieved through that negation - be it a sense of security within the Church, or the political expediency of having an easy-to-deal-with foe in the culture wars. And in this, it would be a failure on the Church's part to live up to its fundamental nature as the Body of Christ, in whom God did not come to reassure religious authorities, nor simply to engage in politics, but to dwell among us."
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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"But I don't need to know how your brain works". A common comment, when autistic people talk about the need to explain that we're autistic. Mmm. Let's explain a bit of everyday life. Thread. I am invited into a meeting with e.g. 7 people whose brains function in 'typical' ways/
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
"If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions" I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today thanks to the Cass review. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance. Why? I'll tell you /1
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
Just used the word “expedited” in an email which is a first. Let’s see if it worked… (for those who know/care, it’s about a building faculty). Rock n roll life. 🤘🏻
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Today my 15yr old wandered into my room singing a song by Pavement. So folks, I’m afraid I’m the winner of Parenting this year. 🥇
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
My son just said “nicely aged wheels of Parmesan cheese” and I fear he’s going to start looking for more middle class parents to raise him now 😂🤣
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
So this was a perfect, needed-for-me piece to pop up on my Google Alerts tonight. It's beautiful, and some lovely trauma-informed theology. Honored to be cited. And- it's been an evening. Was nice to hear that my book had an impact.
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Wrong approach for forgiveness
Jesus’s words on the cross have been misunderstood, argues Stephen Cherry
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Pop into the guitar shop to buy strings, come out with a fretless bass…we’ve all been there, right?
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
I’m reading American Pastoral and wondering: is Philip Roth really a genius or just a creepy narcissist? I guess he may be both a great writer and also an arse…
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Being a Christian and a capitalist requires way more theological creativity than being Christian and LGBTQ-affirming IMO
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
When you’re practising a worship song with your son ready for church and you realise it’s basically, rhythmically and chord-wise, Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye…
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
I'm never going to recover from learning this
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
‘No one will understand these new Overground line names!’ Guys, we’ve got a Northern line that goes furthest south, District, Met and Central lines named after companies that went extinct 90+ years ago, a Circle that’s a spiral, a Bakerloo that started as a newspaper joke. We’ll probably manage.
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
I just had to google “how do you spell higgledy-piggledy?” How’s your day going?
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
Resisted the urge to say “wow; that as a pretty perfectly symmetrical cross I did on your forehead!” to a parishioner. Totally winning at priesting today.
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
I swear they have two super bowls a year. Doesn’t seem very long since the last one.
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
The Marvels and Captain Marvel would be in my top ten favourite Marvel Cinematic Universe Films.
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
TFW your child’s RE revision makes you feel more sympathy for atheists than the “official” versions of Christianity being written about…
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
I think today’s morning prayer reading reminds us that we need to get back to Biblical Marriage i.e. trading mandrakes with your husband’s new and favourite wife in exchange for a a night of sex with your husband. It’s in the Bible.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/02/2024
The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
This morning’s two sermons featured Lord of the Rings, Taylor Swift, a jar of sand and the Milky Way (the Galaxy not the chocolate bar)
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
“Bitcoin mining uses 10 times more electricity than all of the EVs in the nation. Want to implement a really easy, simple, beneficial climate solution right now? Ban cryptocurrency altogether.” - Jonathan Foley
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Crypto Mining Consumes a Mind-Boggling 2% of U.S. Electricity
Bitcoin alone consumes roughly the same amount of energy as Utah.
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
THE PROBLEM: Most forms of energy are harming the environment THE SOLUTION: Switch to alternative forms of renewab... THE PROBLEM: Hold on, I have an idea, what if we made invisible valueless money that eats electricity THE SOLUTION: ...what? THE PROBLEM: Also I have this plagiarism machine
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
It has defied expectations: it’s been far worse than almost anyone predicted in terms of the wellbeing of the population
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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
RIP 😔 …the soundtrack of every Sunday night homework session: Annie Nightingale: Legendary Radio 1 DJ dies at 83 www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...
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Annie Nightingale: Legendary Radio 1 DJ dies at 83
Nightingale was the station's first female presenter and stayed on air for more than 50 years.
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
I’m sure it’s totally coincidental that the “Statistics for Mission” and the “Clergy Resilience” emails arrived on the same day 🧐
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
At the suggestion of a colleague, I’m compiling a “Demands/Support” or “Shit I’m dealing with/good things and resources available to me” balance sheet. The first part runs to three pages so far; the second part half a page. No wonder I’m miserable….
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
“Every time a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of Parliament, because it does not represent ‘the voice of the people’ we can smell the whiff of eternal fascism...” Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher, author of The Name of the Rose, born #OTD 1932.
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
Jnr1 has friends round for a jam session/songwriting session. They’re all soul/r’n’b’/jazz musicians. They know all the chords. Far more chords than I knew at 18.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 31/12/2023
If you or a company or organisation whose decision-making you control makes donations to a political party, it should be forbidden for you, the company or the organisation to be awarded any contract by the State under any government of which that party is a member. /2
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 31/12/2023
If you or a company or organisation whose decision-making you control makes donations to a political party, it should be forbidden for that party to make you a peer or to give you a knighthood. /1
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Helen King @helenking.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
One of the various things I do is edit the blog ‘Via Media News’. Today we published a piece which has had 11,000 hits today. It deserves them! viamedia.news/2023/12/30/p...
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Plotting the Division of the Church of England
by Nic Tall, member of General Synod and Secretary of the General Synod Gender & Sexuality Group If you have been paying attention to the church press recently, you will have a sense of grumblings f...
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
Covid positive for the third Christmas period in a row. Just thankful that I’ve come down with it a safe distance AFTER the busy Christmas services. Still not happy though :-(
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
What better way to spend Christmas Day evening than finishing a bit of Žižek?
Cover of “First as Tragedy, Then As Farce” by Slavoj Žižek
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special seems to me to be the absolute nadir of seasonal televisual programming. I can’t quite articulate why I loath it so much. This may be because I’ve had wine.
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Sentnces I never thought I’d type #1: my 18yr old son is currently crocheting a Frank Ocean doll.
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
James Cleverly demonstrating the reverse of nominative determinism. And also that he’s seemingly a deeply unpleasant person.
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Dan O'Brien @danopedia.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Ebenezer Scrooge leaning out of his window shouting "you boy, what day is it? Can we carry on being absolutely inhumane ghouls again yet?"

Seriously, abolish the home office.
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
It’s not fair to call all 313 MPs who voted for the Rwanda bill horrible racists, some of them are merely moral vacuums willing to throw vulnerable asylum seekers under the bus to prolong what’s left of their short careers
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
Does anyone know who wrote the awful Christmas Nativity version of Hallelujah, and if I can seek an injunction to have to it banned?
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
“Elon Musks says Disney boss should be fired Immediately” And I’d like Elon Musk to be fired in a rocket straight for the sun but we can’t always get what we want, can we? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
“We are open to conversations about creative partnerships and sharing these objects in the future”. Me after breaking into my neighbour’s shed and nicking his lawnmower. Sorry, I mean the British museum.
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Adria @adriaandthepriors.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
This is the best bit of advice I’ve seen on the internet 😂
My younger brother is trans. My parents have been horrendous about deadnaming and misgendering him. At Thanksgiving, I used an air horn to correct them. I fixed a 2-3 year long problem in two seconds. 10/10 would recommend this training method.
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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
In 2009, Žižek wrote this about the financial crash: “The primary immediate effect of the crisis will not be the rise of a radical emancipatory politics, but rather the rise of racist populism…” 1/2
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JacketDan’s Stunt Spooktacular @jacketdan.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
*breaks glass in case of emergency* Alright, let's fucking talk about it!
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