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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sigh. These right-wing loons with their weird, unbiblical, vision of Jesus are, at best, irksome. At worst, they're dangerous. The Christ was a Palestinian Jew, not He-Man.

Kintsugi Christ, as painted by Alex Merry. Shown as the Palestinian he was.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A government that promises to restore hope has, by its own grammar, admitted that hope has gone. Today, the King read his speech. Meanwhile, the PM lost control of his Party. On visible and real power, & where the pilgrim places their hope. apilgrimspath.substack.com/p/the-door-t...

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The Door That Slams

On The King's Speech, The Slammed Door, And The Throne That Does Not Change

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Spent a lovely afternoon in Parliament catching up with old friends and colleagues. Fascinating to see various MPs in huddles or circling PCH. We certainly live in interesting times!

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

You don't need to command people to do things they want to do. I wrote about sabbath, Venice, and what we're afraid we'll hear in the silence. open.substack.com/pub/apilgrim...

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Still Water

Why We're Afraid to Rest: A Reflection from Venice

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The fitness industry promises to extend your years. The beauty industry promises to disguise them. Social media lets you build a fantasy of yourself. Then a priest dips a thumb in dirt & says you'll die. Why millions queue up for that truth every year, a link 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/apilgrim...

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Dust and Glory

Remember You Are Dust: Why Ash Wednesday's Hardest Words Might Set You Free

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I find "your kingdom come" difficult to really mean. If I genuinely wanted God's kingdom to come, I'd have to surrender control, release security, and trust God's justice over my interests. That's uncomfortable. Which is probably why we need to pray it. apilgrimspath.substack.com/p/the-pilgri...

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The Pilgrim’s Prayer Part 3: “Thy Kingdom Come”

When God’s Dreams Invade Reality

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

There's a Methodist preaching station on my village green— a stone pulpit in a cottage wall. Did Wesley preach from this ledge whilst doubting his own salvation? New post on the faith that keeps walking when feelings fade: apilgrimspath.substack.com/p/fellow-pil...

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Fellow Pilgrims: John Wesley

John Wesley's Doubt: The Preacher Who Struggled With Assurance

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The priest warned me: "This one's different." The woman we visited had chosen Medical Assistance in Dying. She wanted to talk to a priest. That was Toronto, 2018. Now the UK debates its own assisted dying bill. What I learned then matters now.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"I can't pray to someone called Father. It makes my skin crawl." An honest struggle with the Lord's Prayer. What do we do when the word "Father" carries trauma? Can we redeem the language Jesus gave whilst honouring real pain? Sitting with these questions: apilgrimspath.substack.com/p/our-father...

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The Pilgrim’s Prayer Part 1: “Our Father”

The Most Dangerous Word

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Christian Aid @christianaiduk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Let us unite in prayer and advocacy this Week of prayer for Christian Unity. Where there is war, pray for the restoration of peace. Where we are divided, draw us together. Where suffering is ignored, stir us to act. Together we can shine a light on injustices around the world 🙏

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

John of the Cross called it the "dark night of the soul"—not God's absence but God's presence felt as absence. Julian of Norwich wrote "all shall be well" from isolation during plague. They knew: winter is formative, not failure. Rest Stop: open.substack.com/pub/apilgrim...

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Winter's Deep

Rest Stop #19: Spiritual Dryness in Dark Months

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The church in Acts 2 shared everything. "No one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common." My former church owns millions in property and assets. What happened in between? 🧵

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Augustine of Hippo's "Confessions" is the anti-self-help book. Instead of "10 steps to your best self," he offers: "I tried everything and still couldn't change myself. Then grace broke through." New post on Augustine and why you can't change yourself. apilgrimspath.substack.com/p/augustine-...

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Tommy Robinson's numbers tell the story: September rally (crosses, nationalism): 110,000 December carol service (actual worship): 1,000 When nationalism met Christianity, 99% left. This movement weaponises faith; it isn't faithful. #ChristianNationalism apilgrimspath.substack.com/p/atlantic-c...

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Atlantic Crossing

How American Money and Ideas Are Reshaping British Faith: Signpost #13

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

We're waiting for something spectacular. Divine intervention we can't miss. But incarnation never worked that way. God tends to arrive in unremarked places. Tonight, watch the margins. That's where He shows up. New Rest Stop: apilgrimspath.substack.com/p/on-the-thr...

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On the Threshold: Christmas Eve's Holy Waiting

Rest Stop #16

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

What if God becoming flesh 13.8 billion years ago means God assumed not just human nature but stardust, cells, evolutionary history—the whole cosmic story? Deep incarnation theology that connects Christmas to creation care. New on A Pilgrim's Path. apilgrimspath.substack.com/p/stardust-a...

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Stardust and Spirit

God With Us: Part 4 – Deep Incarnation and All Creation

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Incarnation is God's most political act: entering through refugees, announced to the unclean, having a mother who sings about rulers falling. We spent centuries making Christmas safe. God intended it to be subversive. Finding dangerous Christmas again: apilgrimspath.substack.com/p/the-revolu...

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The Revolutionary Baby

God With Us: Part 3

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Sunday evening: video arrives in WhatsApp. Trafalgar Square, September. Wooden crosses held high. Thousands chanting "Christ is King." A bishop declaring Britain is "at war." Monday morning: three friends ask, "Is that what Christianity looks like now?" We need to talk Christian Nationalism. 🧵

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Yesterday, the darkness arrived at half past three. By four, I'd switched on every lamp in the house. By five, I was pacing restlessly past windows that had become black mirrors.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Advent week 2: When God stops explaining. We want theodicy—reasons why suffering exists. God offers something different: presence. Not explanation from outside but solidarity from within. New post in the God With Us series 🕯️ apilgrimspath.substack.com/p/when-god-stops-explaining

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When God Stops Explaining

God With Us #2 - The Incarnation and the Problem of Suffering

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Part 1 of an Advent to Epiphany series is live. This week, the scandal of particularity. open.substack.com/pub/apilgrim...

An image of hands holding a budding plant with the words "God With Us: An Advent to Epiphany Series" and "Why This Person, This Place, This Time?"

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Your church is reading Paul's instructions about women, slavery, and head coverings. Someone asks: "Do we follow all of this or none of it? How do we decide?" The room goes quiet. 1/5

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Your church is splitting over who gets to decide doctrine. Traditionalists say you're abandoning apostolic teaching. Progressives claim that the Spirit is leading us into a new truth. This exact fight broke out in 1054. We never fixed it. 1/x

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The Sound of Rain on Windows: a Rest Stop. open.substack.com/pub/apilgrim...

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

A Pilgrim's Path: where I try to make theology accessible without dumbing it down. Comments welcome—especially if you know I've got something wrong. 😅 #CofE open.substack.com/pub/apilgrim...

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Signpost #6

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

If you care about religious institutions navigating decline, post-colonial power dynamics, or how organisations handle irreconcilable differences, this one's for you. open.substack.com/pub/apilgrim...

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Signpost #6

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I've written a long-form piece examining +Sarah's impossible inheritance: the demographic collapse, safeguarding failures, global schism, and why three previous Archbishops all failed in remarkably similar ways. It's theology, history, and institutional tragedy. open.substack.com/pub/apilgrim...

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New on A Pilgrim's Path: the first crunch of autumn leaves underfoot, and what they teach us about letting go. 1/5

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Delighted to see +Sarah as the next Archbishop of Canterbury. She's a pastoral, thoughtful, intelligent, and wise person who will drive forward much-needed change in #theCofE. Exciting times!

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Simone Weil loved Christ with burning intensity. She had mystical experiences where "Christ himself came down and took possession of me." Yet she refused baptism and died outside the church at 34. Her story asks hard questions. 🧵 1/?

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

"Is the Holy Spirit God's ghost?" An 8-year-old asked me this after hearing someone pray "in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." Turns out adults aren't much clearer about the most mysterious person of the Trinity. New post exploring who the Spirit really is 👇 1/7

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I'm probably too angry to be writing this, but the travesty of Labour swinging to the right, some thoughts: 1/26

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Prayers for the passing of Pope Francis and a good and faithful servant as his successor. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Χριστός ἀνέστη. Happy Easter, everyone.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

It blows my mind that there are a dozen or more bishops who are just not at #Synod. Or at least they aren't voting. #CofEpeeps

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Not usual for a bill to come out of committee worse than it went in, but the #AssistedDyingBill is an absolute mess. It needs to go into the long grass until it can be done properly.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Exciting times! Our @paulheatonsolo.bsky.social tickets arrived today. Less exciting is that we went to this gig pre-xmas. It was a superb night, though!

Photo is of 2 tickets to a paul heaton concert from December 16th, 2024.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy Christmas to brothers and sisters in the #ClergyMaltClub. I wish you all joy, peace, and rest.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Vespers, and so the feast commences. Happy Christmas 🎄 to you all.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

5 years of @gustheclergydog.bsky.social for Rosie and I. Happy doggyversary Gus.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I love the O Antiphons. It is such a special way to turn our minds toward the great feast of Christmas.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I'm not sure a 90 year old man quitting leading services is as big a news story as the BBC thinks it is.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Being atheist is ok. Being atheist & shaming religion is not ok. Being a Christian is ok. Being homophonic, misogynistic, racist or hateful in the name of Christianity is not ok. Being a reindeer is ok. Bullying & excluding another reindeer because they have a shiny red nose is not ok.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I don't know how I've managed 40 odd years without olive forks in my life.

A photo of olive forks on olive wood cheese with mouse.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This will be regretted very quickly. I'm hoping for some amendments in the Lords now.

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

There's no date on this ridiculous petition. So it'll be a really short debate as a minister confirms there will indeed be another general election. In 4.5 years.

A screenshot of the wording of the petition for another general election which says "I would like there to be another General Election."

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Another long day over and another 200 miles of driving done. Driving in snow is less fun than sledding.

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Vampire Step-Dad @handle.invalid · 16/11/2024

Oh no, this echo chamber I'm stuck in is full of amazing art, generous, kind people, and joy. What ever shall I do?

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Rob Slater-Carr @revrobsc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Had enough of Elon Musk. So here I find myself.

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