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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good *Lord*. It's really good!

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mine inhaled it (has now moved on to inhaling Alex Rider) and I can see why!

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What What Ok I guess What WHAT WTAF

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 Oct - a proper book. Macfarlane is an extraordinary writer & this is an extraordinary book in its scope & reach & prose. I liked it more than The Old Ways, which I liked a lot - it is more human (despite its vast scale). Very bleak, very true-feeling, and not without hope.

Front cover of Robert Macfarlane, 'Underland: A Deep Time Journey.'

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

27 September - the second in the above series. I need to stop reading these or I will read literally nothing else. And part of my aim this year was to read _less_ YA urban fantasy, not more...

Front cover of Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire by Derek Landy

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I did not think that question through!! Thank you.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh! You are the person I need (I don't have library access any more...) Were vesting prayers a thing in C16-17 Anglicanism? Thinking about Herbert's _Aaron_, which is a vesting prayers in its own way, and wondering if that was part of H's context.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My hunch is that a lot of people (perhaps a majority) want it to be the way it was before we left. But I agree there's clearly a plurality of ideas.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Michaelmas. Never more needed.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Still let them succour us, still let them fight, Lord of angelic hosts, battling for right; Till where their anthems they ceaselessly pour, we with the angels may bow and adore.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who like the Lord? thunders Michael the Chief Raphael, the Cure of God, comforteth grief; and as at Nazareth, prophet of peace, Gabriel, the Light of God, bringeth release.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

😬😬😬😬😬 you have GOT THIS.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Flourishing, thanks! And likewise.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh - thank you ! I kept Lancelot Andrewes, but it passed me by that it was the 400th anniversary. What a writer.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

20 September - apparently having a 9yo means he recommends books to me as well as the other way round? And they're really good? Wow.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I say this with all respect: are you thinking about this more than Lewis did?

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When I first read Lewis as a young teenager, I thought he had amazing insight into the human condition. Reading him again in my thirties, I wonder if what is actually going on is that my particular vulnerabilities to temptation are rather like his. (Possibly a bit of both to be fair.)

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wow! a brilliant achievement, and clearly testament to some creative thinking and a lot of will towards mutual aid (and still: only achievable because Covid!)

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well quite, so I thought it worth making the point that the space and money they have is largely taken up with doing what they're for!

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The boundaries are _so weird_.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Which doesn't make it easier to deal with!

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Would that be superable (to coin a word)? Yes. But not easily and not in a way that doesn't leave the institution vulnerable. And institutions don't like being vulnerable.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And - a problem I ran up against in a previous life - colleges are full of vulnerable adults, and have a genuine requirement to safeguard those vulnerable adults, which makes it prohibitively complicated to use their estate for refugees/ asylum seekers/ local homeless people.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cf still more local asylum centres: it is genuinely challenging to say 'I don't want this here because it's treating people like animals and that's wrong' without its being elided with 'I don't want the nice place I live/ work to be full of asylum seekers.'

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People!! I guess one of the things to think about is what's behind the question. In my context it's often that change in church and non-church settings mean people feel disenfranchised from life in general, and pin that on 'easy' things to blame like clergy or hymnody.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

(also, while introducing a new hymn should be done carefully, when a 'new' hymn has been sung several times a year for five years, it is no longer reasonably for people to say they've never heard it before in their lives...)

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I had a complaint a bit ago that I chose hymns which the complainer (aged 70+) 'didn't sing when he was a boy chorister'. Sometimes people don't realise that unless you only ever sing 20 hymns, not everyone is going to be super familiar with all of them all the time.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 🎉 🎉

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

14 Sept - the long awaited @cdjtheology.bsky.social book, as excellent and thought-provoking as we all expected. Particularly appreciated the emphasis that 'one of the effects of sacramental practice is to reveal the full extent of the destruction wrought by the powers of sin and death.'

The front cover of Sacramental Trans Feminism: Ritualism, Liberation and Trans Rites by Chris Clare Dingwall-Jones.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I bought a navy blue velvet fedora my first year of university, and someone stole it from the English department. Possibly a lucky escape.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes, and, 'further up and further in' still gives me chills.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes. Absolutely this. I read it at eleven, it was so clearly true, and everything I have done since has been a gloss on it.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Annual appeal for chaos with Ed Miliband, please.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I had to turn this off. It was truly horrible.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

(sorry - if tone didn't work, was *not* saying you're wrong, just that it was still a thing less than two decades ago. Which have been a pretty important two decades in understanding safeguarding. I doubt there's anyone living in and seeing undergrads in their set now.)

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My Director of Studies (m. 2005) lived in his large set at Trinity. Supervisions in the office-cum-living-room, with his bedroom off it. Granted this was unusual by then, but he wasn't the only one.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I mean, I would say the distance between coffee in a public cafe and an intimate relationship was reasonably significant, but what do I know?

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's probably an institutional policy response to recent changes in SG legislation.

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

AFAIK it's *recommended* to do 1:1s in public cafes! (Which makes pastoral ministry kind of tricky.)

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Phil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

His word: it was ME wot converted and civilised the pagans.

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