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Charlotte Gale

@revcharlottegale.bsky.social
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Anglican Priest, Shopkeeper, Author. Big fan of birds and dogs. Blessed to co-lead stclaresatthecathedral.org. 🌈

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/they @thedottyrev.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#ToPray ✝️ When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins. (Benjamin Cremer)
Purple text on an orange background 

When you worship power,
compassion and mercy will look like sins.

(Benjamin Cremer)
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
So I am assuming that every Bishop in the Church of England will immediately be contacting all their gay clergy, and offering them appropriate pastoral care. #cofepeeps
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a pink pig with white wings is flying in the air
Alt: Picture of a flying pig.
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Not everyday you get sandwiched between Jeremy Corbyn and Harry Baker! #greenbelt2025
A picture of me pointing at a book signing timetable which shows Harry Baker before me, and Jeremy Corbyn after.
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It’s a really easy read I’m told 😊
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
So ridiculously excited about getting to talk at #greenbelt and also quite terrified… #cofepeeps
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Charlotte Gale - Greenbelt
Rev Charlotte Gale is an Anglican Priest, who together with her partner Rev Naomi Nixon, leads the St Clare’s Community, based at Coventry Cathedral. Now in its eighth year, this simple community in t...
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Enjoying my first bubble tea at #coventrypride
Picture of me drinking bubble tea under a rainbow umbrella.
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 15/07/2025
LOL
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Today I stood in the shade of an oak tree that is probably 1000 years old. #perspective
A picture of the Wyndham Oak in Dorset.
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The perfect ordination gift. #cofepeeps
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‘It’s Rev Actually…’ Mug
This mug is the perfect quirky gift for clergy friends, and is ideal as an ordination gift.
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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We are SO excited to be joined by some wonderful folk at our National Gathering this month! Check out Josie's workshop and book your place at movement.org.uk/events✌️
a photo of Josie (she/her) and a post it note containing the words "Josie (she/her) is a final year PhD student researching the impact of the pandemic on fatherhood. In 2023 she co-founded Affirmation Bristol; a growing progressive, inclusive and ecumenical Christian community. She also works as a Community Pioneer Worker for the Methodist Church, which focuses on creating spiritually nurturing communities outside of the regular church frameworks."workshop: Christian community outside the church. What is ‘church’? How do we define Christian and spiritual community? In this interactive workshop Josie and James (co-founders of Affirmation Bristol) will be encouraging us to examine our own communal spiritual practices and rethink how we might find Christian community outside of the church"
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Wow, the new Nemo song was absolutely the best part of the whole show. So raw and so beautiful. #eurovision
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
If I could be bothered to vote (which I can’t) I’d go for Italy and Austria. Sweden can manage without my support. #eurovision
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Too worried about her getting gravel in her mouth to pay attention to the song. #france #eurovision
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Sweden are just so good at this #eurovision thing. Perfect level of nonsense.
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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It would be welcome to see one or two episcopal signatures added to this letter …
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Religion Media Centre @relmedcentre.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Since Coventry's destruction in WWII, its Cathedral has stood for reconciliation and peace. The new Canon for Reconciliation and Art @katemassey.bsky.social tells how art can offer ways to heal historic wounds and foster justice and peace. Angela Youngman reports:
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From the ruins of Coventry, its old and new cathedrals provide a backdrop for reconciliation - Religion Media Centre
Coventry Cathedral’s commitment to reconciliation and peace began just hours after its 1940 bombing and now continues through worship and art.
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Finally managed to deactivate my X account. Feels good.
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The sermons are a bit different at St Clare’s. We create them together. #cofe
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Making Meaning Together
A friend recently came and joined us for worship at St Clare’s, and was intrigued by the ‘shared sermon’, created together by all the community. She had some questions for us, so Naomi and I sat do…
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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
We've not one, but two new blog reviews up on the website! See if you recognise one of the authors 😉 Head to movement.org.uk/blog to check out our members' reviews of Lectio Divina by Barbara Birch, and Simple, Generous, Open, by Charlotte Gale ➡️
Book Review: Simple, Generous, Open. Mission and renewal in the progressive church by Charlotte Gale.Book review: Lectio Divina, revelation and prophecy by Barbara Birch
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
So touched by this review and not just because he describes my writing as genius 😊. He really gets what I was trying to do in writing the book, and that is incredibly gratifying. #cofe #narthex @canterburypress.bsky.social
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Book Review: Simple, Generous, Open by Charlotte Gale | Student Christian Movement
A must-read for anyone with a passion for ministry, Simple, Generous, Open is equal parts memoir and manifesto for change.
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The existence of Archaeologists implies a lower rank of Aeologists
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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
A beautiful day to be in Oxford. I’ve been on a panel talking about the discrimination that women in ministry still experience and it’s intersection with LGBTQ+ affirmation. What if one day we didn’t have anything left to say and could just enjoy the sunshine? #NotEqualYet #IWD
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Heard today that a lovely chap who regularly popped into the shop for a chat, had taken his own life. I had no idea he was struggling. Sometimes life is so desperately sad.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A reminder for these times.
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Only a few days more to get your ‘Retreat in a Bag’ at the special pre-Lent price. #cofe #retreat #lent
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If you are planning a quiet day or retreat during Lent, why not take a St Clare’s'Retreat in a Bag' with you. There are six different ones to choose from, and we have reduced the price to £25 for ONE WEEK ONLY. Offer lasts until Ash Wednesday. #CofE stclaresatthecathedral.org/product-cate...
Contents of a St Clare’s ‘Retreat in a Bag’.
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We have builders in. They’re going to be here a while. We made them mugs. #sublimationprinting
Four mugs, each with the name of the builder, their drink order and a picture.
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
More really good stuff from Al.
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Emma Pumpkin and Tyga Lyca @lizzard99.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A photo Mum took while on vacation in Ireland 2015. If only life was this peaceful. ❤️❤️❤️😻 #CatsOfBluesky #ThrowbackThursday
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Packaging ‘Face to Face with Jesus’ packs. I’ve done hundreds and hundreds of them, and yet every time there is something new to find in these images of Jesus. #cofe stclaresatthecathedral.org/product/face...
Lots of postcards showing different images of Jesus.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
"What does it mean to hold God in your arms and know that you're dying?" A little poem for Candlemas.
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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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Indeed 🤣
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
YET ANOTHER STUDY shows that a tiny number of children are diagnosed with gender dysphoria and an even tinier fraction receive puberty blockers or hormones. Anyone still pretending there is a "debate" about this is willfully ignoring all of the available data. gidmk.substack.com/p/gender-dys...
Of the 3,782 children with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria in this dataset, 176 were ever prescribed puberty blockers and 302 ever got hormones.
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I’ve just popped this lovely pre-loved 4 piece home communion set in the St Clare’s Shop. #cofepeeps
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Secondhand home communion set
This lovely 4 piece silver plated home communion set has been gifted to us. It is in good, but used, condition with some marks on the inside of the case, and some wear, especially on the lid of the…
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Oh no…..
Picture of me holding a hotel receipt telling me that my room number is 101.
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Yesterday I read this small and wondrous book. A vision of what the world could be… also really encouraging to any downhearted clergy. Cannot recommend it highly enough. #booksky
Book called ‘A psalm for the wild-built’ by Becky Chambers.
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
*PRIZE*👇 #cofepeeps
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Packing up the nativities in St Clare’s shop and thought I’d send one out as a gift to someone. Repost this post for a chance to win this Fair Trade nativity set from Peru.
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Nativity, Peruvian ceramics
This wonderful little ceramic nativity set has been crafted and hand painted in Cusco in Peru and features Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus alongside some cute stable characters – with a Peruvian …
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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Incredibly sad to hear Geoffrey Tattersall has died. He was one of those people who, with his various post-nominals and immense experience, could have easily had no time for someone like me (who knows basically nothing). But he was always so kind, patient, and generous in my time with him on Synod
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Nooooooo…….
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing” George Bernard Shaw
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Doing a massive sort of the tools in the garage. Turns out we have 28 screwdrivers including two electric ones, yet there was only 1 we felt if was safe to get rid of. 😳
A big pile of mixed tools including many screwdrivers.
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Liz Hassall @farliz.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I just read @revcharlottegale.bsky.social 's book "Simple, Generous, Open". It's a remarkable story of faithfulness to God's calling and a determination to live out the vision of every person being valuable as they are. If you haven't read it, I suggest you do. #CofEpeeps
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Lying in bed at 10 am on a Sunday, listening to church bells ringing. Clergy heaven. (Well, it is after the initial Pavlovian response that you’re supposed to be there) #cofepeeps
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Word of the day is a favourite for this time of year. To be ‘crambazzled’, in old Yorkshire dialect, is to be prematurely aged by excess drinking or partying.
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
See what you’ve done @snim2.org I guessed all the words (51 out of 51) in today's Squares puzzle. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Can you guess this puzzle? squares.org
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Squares - Daily Word Game
Play the Squares game! Connect letters in a grid to create words. A new puzzle is available every day!
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Happy Boxing Day. Favourite day of the year of clergy everywhere. #cofepeeps
View from a sofa, of feet in Christmas lounge wear watching a Christmas movie.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
A few potential words of the day: Joblijock: a disturber of domestic peace (small children, cantankerous uncles, etc). Yule-hole: the furthest notch in your belt that you need to resort to at Christmas. Confelicity: joy in other people’s happiness. Merry Christmas.
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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A gift for Christmas Eve from a member St Clare’s. #cofepeeps #narthex
Image of a winter scene with a woman walking towards houses and a star with the following poem.

The Magi’s Blessing

When the journey nears its close
But your feet fail
When the night bites fast and cold
When your head hangs too heavy
To lift and see the star

May those little lights spilling out
Over thresholds and onto street
Fill your downturned gaze
May they light the path before you
Paint it with gold
While meals to gather friends together
Fill the air with fragrant incense
Flying high to heaven 
May kind words like anointing oil flow forth
As a blessing on your brow
And may joyful voices wrap you warmly
Even as they lead you home

A. Clarke
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