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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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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Weekly newsletter by email in two parishes, weekly notice sheet printed and emailed at the other

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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

They do. I’m surviving rather than thriving but things are getting slowly better

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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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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

It’s just like going to Tesco for milk and coming out with bars of chocolate. Honest.

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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

I saw a quote recently along the lines of “forgiveness is a gift that can be offered, but repentance is needed for the gift to be accepted and forgiveness to be complete.” I’m still pondering it.

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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

That’s another word I can’t spell! Along with “embarrassing”

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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

Maybe General Synod needs to introduce spectacular musical half time shows to lift the mood?

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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

Now I’m thinking about all the MCU films that annoy me. So many: Love and Thunder, Antman and the Wasp, Doctor Strange(s); I even get bored of some of the Spider-Man ones … I’m obviously not a Good Fan.

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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

I think it’s because: a) I care about the characters b) they’re funny but not in a “look at me, aren’t I funny?” way c) they’re not overlong d) CGI is good, scripts are decent. e) cats.

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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

No, not retracting or apologising. Yes, I like them more than: Iron Man 2, GOTG2, Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3, Dark World, even Civil War.

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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

And the irony is: he attends a CofE school which means he’s doing GCSE RE. If we’d sent him to one of those awful “secular” schools he wouldn’t have to deal with this shit. At least not though year 10 and 11 anyway.

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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

It’s so f-ing exhausting living in a homophobic and transphobic world as a parent of a trans gay kid. Imagine how hard it is being a trans gay kid in the same world.

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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Also TFW your child’s very identity and experience is a subject of ethical debate within curriculum area…

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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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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Next he’ll be eating Milky Ways…

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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

I ate a mini one from a tub there other day and even that felt wrong

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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

It’s a useful exercise - to see in black and white the reasons why life is so tough. Also makes me wonder how I’ve kept going tbh

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