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@FinallyHuman

2 years

I dream of a Christian summer conference where we just say the Daily Offices together and then spend the day hiking or reading or something.

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2 years

Praying the preachers of England will have the strength to resist the temptations to ask in their sermons on the Wedding at Cana, whether it was a work meeting or a party. 🙏

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It’s true. All of it.

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2 years

I just read the words “Associate Archdeacon Transition Enabler” in some diocesan comms and I am *this* close to adding whiskey to my morning coffee.

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1 year

Church unity in the UK is rooted in the prayer of Jesus in John 17 and in these œcumenical teacups.

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4 months

Inside you are two wolves.

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2 years

If you're scandalised that the wound in Christ's side is being compared to a vagina, wait til you see what they do with the big candle and the font on Easter Vigil.

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@FinallyHuman

6 months

Solemn Mass on a Sunday morning in an Anglo-catholic parish is just amazing. Imagine all this opulence, artistry, like a living painting you see in the National Gallery but it’s all for poor inner city people. Treating them to ritual and religion you’d think was only for the rich

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6 months

Advent II: On Jordan’s banks the Baptists cry If I were Baptist so would I They drink no beer, they have no fun I’m glad to be an Anglican.

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10 months

My condolences to anyone who was told this morning that Jesus needed to be taught not to exclude others and that actually his messianic work was for the whole world after all. This clearly makes a mockery of John 1 and the Nicene Creed.

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@FinallyHuman

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I’d like to live the kind of life that ends in a death like St. Bede’s.

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@FinallyHuman

2 months

Because of this Community Note, an awful lot of Evangelicals are just now realising that never reading the Deuterocanonicals is a Victorian innovation.

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@bluemontauk

2 months

I had a long call with my sister tonight. She has a Bible from 1764 that she picked up in a shop in the UK, where she lives. She read me one of the Chapters, called "Belle and the Dragon." It is a story that includes teleportation, dragons, of course 💃, and Persia and forgotten

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It’s been almost 20 years since the publication of Common Worship: Daily Prayer. It’s time to stop trying to make the pause-on-the-red-diamond and the modern-language Lord’s Prayer happen. No one wants these things.

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@FinallyHuman

2 years

@2D0XPS Bring back “proper Vicars” from the minor aristocracy who have been to Oxbridge who will preside at every local organisation and committee, and in addition will sustain several eccentric hobbies.

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@FinallyHuman

3 months

I’m begging people to just go to church.

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@FinallyHuman

6 months

I absolutely love Alpha Course and Christianity Explored but I am wondering if the "open discussion" approach to Evangelisation these employ is suitable for the emerging generation. I meet younger people who are approaching the Church looking to hear Doctrine "neat" so to speak?

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@FinallyHuman

3 years

The Ordinariate: Come on over, we have the dignified worship and wholesome words of the Book of Common Prayer. Anglicans: Come on over, we have the elegant and ancient Traditional Latin Mass.

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@FinallyHuman

6 months

Man if only my prayers went this hard.

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@nakedpastor

6 months

This doesn’t look like a healthy parent-child relationship, right? I didn’t think so either. So why do we act like it is when the context is God? #religioustrauma

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2 months

The theologians will argue about whether the same people who cried “hosanna” also cried “crucify” but I can assure you they are the same. It’s me. I did that.

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@FinallyHuman

6 months

Yeah this was a big part of Anglo-Catholic mission in the Victorian era. The most beautiful churches in the most deprived neighbourhoods. God with us.

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@FirstGentleman

6 months

Poor people deserve a little pomp and circumstance as a treat...is a wild thing to say

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@FinallyHuman

6 months

The Lord Jesus Christ was laid in a manger because He is food.

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@FinallyHuman

2 months

Happy Annunciation. Christians hold that life begins at conception because this is the day we celebrate the beginning of the Incarnation.

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@FinallyHuman

7 months

Evening prayer at @barukalas gaff. The Deacon of Weird Anglican Twitter.

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@FinallyHuman

7 months

The “deconstructors” are potentially more annoying than the Rad Trads, Calvinists, and New Atheists.

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@michaelgungor

7 months

I am currently sitting in a worship service and the guy is singing about the “precious blood of Jesus Christ.” I just came because I wanted a space to be in my heart and be in prayer/peace for the world. Can we not give the bloodlust a rest even here?

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@FinallyHuman

2 months

I love the pious American tradition of (blood) red church doors. It is a bit like a Rood screen. We enter the Holy of Holies by the blood of Christ.

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@barukalas

2 months

Today we learned how to paint Church doors.

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@FinallyHuman

8 months

You couldn’t make it up. I’m literally unlocking the door to church and there’s this lad standing on the steps “I need to pray and I need to talk to the priest”.

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@FinallyHuman

10 months

You’d think these sorts of things are made up but last night we had a procession past some bars, and when we popped into one of those bars after Mass a group of young people who were hanging out there were excited and intrigued by what they saw and had a good chat about it.

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@FinallyHuman

2 years

Ideally: Will centre on a gorgeous church on the edge of a market town with a good coffee scene Beds and bathrooms, please no camping Incredible views One, maximum two talks per day BCP daily office beginning with the Sentences and saying All The Things.

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@FinallyHuman

9 months

In a better era people would have been more shocked that I prayed a rosary than that I prayed for the unborn. My baptist pastor mate I’m on the phone with now is horrified that I seek the prayers of Mary.

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@FinallyHuman

1 year

Massive W for the Church of God and an L for heresy, sin, and Satan. Congratulations @2D0XPS . A new Priest!

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@FinallyHuman

7 months

Visited the Prayerbook Cross today, commemorating the first use of the BCP in (what would become) the United States. @prayerbook_soc @BradleyBarnham

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@FinallyHuman

7 months

Unironically “the youth” of today like these hymns too.

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@FinallyHuman

1 year

Moving day again (my fifth since leaving America in ‘21) and happened to be packing this about noon. It’s a terrific prayer book and I’ve been nothing but disappointed by its derision by Weird Anglican Twitter. Great design, carefully broad, & actually authorised by a province

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@FinallyHuman

6 months

I’m not good at praying. But tonight @carver_street I loved spending half an hour in silence before the Lord.

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@FinallyHuman

8 months

Made it just it time to belt out ‘The Church’s One Foundation’ @prayerbook_soc

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@FinallyHuman

10 days

These banners are pretty sound tbh

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@FinallyHuman

7 months

Evening Prayer after an incredibly rich weekend of God’s abundant blessings. “Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” Luke 17:18

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@FinallyHuman

3 months

@dcsandbrook I, also, am amused by the same jokes you tell each other over and over tbh.

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@FinallyHuman

10 months

Of course the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven makes theological sense, but for the skeptical it is worth remembering that nobody claims to know where her body is entombed. We do have these claims for every other New Testament saint.

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@FinallyHuman

2 months

Incorrect it is Friday in the Octave of Easter. Enjoy your bacon and praise the Lord.

Don't Eat Meat Today Bot

@NoMeat_Friday

2 months

Don't eat meat today!

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@FinallyHuman

6 months

I feel like @JusBrierley @glenscrivener and @AJWTheology are uttering prophecy. Many (particularly male) unchurched people are quite literally walking though the door saying exactly what the podcasts say about meaninglessness, empty relationships, and need for a better option.

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@FinallyHuman

3 months

We need to figure out a way to keep churches open in the evenings. People in the midst of an existential crisis are currently unable to access the spooky nave of their local Gothic parish church after business hours and it’s keeping them from conversion/plot development.

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@FinallyHuman

6 months

Wild watching some people have a little meltdown over Christmas being on a Monday. “What do you MEAN I have to be in Church twice in 48 hours?!” I dunno man guess the Lord Jesus Christ is interrupting your family life.

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@FinallyHuman

9 months

Wishing all the SSC fathers out there a happy Holy Cross Day. You can always spot them from the gold cross they wear.

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@FinallyHuman

2 years

I am once again here to show you that midcentury modernist churches are beautiful.

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@FinallyHuman

5 months

What if we planted a new Anglo-Catholic parish in a storefront of a brutalist housing block?

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@FinallyHuman

6 months

Liturgically correct Advent Calendar that begins on Advent I rather than 1 December.

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@FinallyHuman

9 months

The Patronal Festival for @carver_street was so good but my lasting impression is the number of young people who stopped and stared and took photos of our procession.

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@FinallyHuman

11 years

Apparently the answer to “are you a legs or tits man” is not “sorry I’m not a sexist”. #everydaysexism

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@FinallyHuman

8 months

Imagine paying £23,000 to wear a C*ssock-A*b every day.

Fr. Brandon ⚓️

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2 months

More important than getting all your Holy Week printing done is to pray and pray earnestly for those who will attend, serve, sing, greet, preach, and preside that Jesus Christ will be glorified and that hearts will be radically converted to the Gospel.

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@FinallyHuman

9 months

If you believe abortion is evil and should never happen, wouldn’t you pray for it to end? Why wouldn’t you pray for an end to abortion?

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@FinallyHuman

1 year

Eastward facing but in a cope so no one is entirely satisfied. Normal Church of England

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@FinallyHuman

1 year

Happy April 25th to all who celebrate

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@FinallyHuman

9 months

Really amazed that I’ve only met up with one @OurCofELike follower on this march. Where are we, Church of England people?

OurCofELike

@OurCofELike

9 months

Rallying for the march with @LlewelynLawton @March4LifeUK We belted out some rounds of “how great is our God” with some total strangers.

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@FinallyHuman

10 months

I don’t see how we can claim Jesus is “God from God, Light from Light” and then say he had serious moral and/or intellectual faults he needed to be taught to overcome. That would be a form of adoptionism wouldn’t it? That Jesus somehow attains his status by being exemplary?

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@FinallyHuman

6 months

Too bad we’re in the business of conversions.

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@RyanTurnbull20

6 months

This is peak WASP.

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@FinallyHuman

8 years

If you think that vicars not being able to wear skinny jeans was what was keeping people out of church, you’re completely deluded #synod

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@FinallyHuman

1 month

Unironically blesséd thought.

Politics For You

@PoliticoForYou

1 month

BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 Kate Forbes claims Jesus will tell her whether or not to run for SNP leader.

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9 months

A lot of people have talked about my posts from @March4LifeUK and have come to all kinds of conclusions. No one has asked me why I chose to attend it.

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@2D0XPS

9 months

Strange to see the flack @OurCofELike is getting for going to #March4LifeUK . The CofE's position is that unless one of these criteria is met abortion is wrong, which means she opposes 98% of abortions in the UK.

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@FinallyHuman

5 months

An open return Sheffield-London costs about £92. Unreal. It’s filthy.

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@FinallyHuman

9 months

We did it.

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@FinallyHuman

1 year

Gonna tell everyone on St George's Day that the reason we don't see dragons today despite them being depicted in almost every culture is because the Saints and brave knights killed them all.

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@FinallyHuman

8 months

Hanging out with a mate who is shortly going to get Baptised and Confirmed and he’s telling me about joy of the various rules and codexes for Warhammer. Cant wait to teach him about the Liturgy of the Hours. He’s gonna be thrilled.

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1 year

St Stephen’s Day follows Christmas Day so we never forget that announcing the coming of the new King really can get you killed.

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@FinallyHuman

5 months

This is evil. Murdering the disabled in the womb. It is a sin which cries out to heaven and God will avenge their deaths.

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5 months

The rate of Down Syndrome births in Europe is about half of what it would be due to abortion. Many of the parents go on to have a healthy child instead, or maybe two. So you get just as many lives but more health. There are actually people who think this is a bad thing.

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@FinallyHuman

7 months

Satan took a massive L today.

St Matthew's Church

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7 months

Many congratulations to the candidates who were baptised this morning and to those who were confirmed. Molly, Bianca, Ted, Oliver, Hayley, Morgana, James and Isabella. Bishop Stephen also commissioned our new additional parish nurse Louise. @DioceseofSheff #sheffield

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@FinallyHuman

7 months

Great morning with @barukalas people. And look at that spread! Brunch Lasagne!

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@FinallyHuman

1 year

Over a cup of tea after the Daily Mass yesterday a Millennial woman shared how she had recently become a Christian and how r/DankChristianMemes had been a part of her journey to discover the Faith. Time to go burn every book on evangelisation and Missiology I own.

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@FinallyHuman

5 months

Checking in to say I am safe from having to sing “I the Lord of Sea and Sky (Here I Am Lord)” when one of the Lessons was 1 Samuel 3.

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I have always chosen to not engage with posts on @OurCofELike which I believed did not reflect the Christian faith. I was surprised that others did not similarly ignore things from that account they didn’t approve of.

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Crib under the altar appreciator.

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@FinallyHuman

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“Modern liberal democracy”

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@FinallyHuman

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Sorry to have a Bespoke Opinion here, but I take exception with Module 3. Are we living in a “modern liberal democracy”?

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@FinallyHuman

8 months

Many blessings today at Mass but the most delightful thing I saw was the Priest taking the Host and making the sign of the cross over an infant in the womb and blessing that child. May they always know the love of Christ!

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@FinallyHuman

5 months

With American Christendom marking the March for Life today I'm remembering fondly (and gratefully) that the UK has theirs in the middle of summer!

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@FinallyHuman

5 months

Canonically obliged to watch this on the Feast of St Thomas Becket

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@FinallyHuman

1 year

It’s like the anxiety around religious ceremony in our parish churches isn’t it? Feeling embarrassed about how out of touch you feel you dispense with all the fussy things hoping to win over those who have no intention of going to church, while punishing those who do.

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Did you know we care for the Bishop of Durham's coronation cope in our collections? While not being used for the coronation of King Charles III, the cope has been worn at the last four coronations of British monarchs.

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@FinallyHuman

9 months

The punchline of today’s Gospel is how Jesus treats tax collectors and Gentiles. Matthew himself knows.

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@FinallyHuman

8 months

Worried about the state of the Church today? You’re not alone! Like St Francis you too can renounce all wealth, titles, and inheritance to preach the Gospel boldly and gather around you brothers and sisters who will live courageously for the conversion of the world.

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@FinallyHuman

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Sound. The blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church. Alban, protomartyr of England pray for us!

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The Church of England is the established Christian church in England. Our roots go back to the time of the Roman Empire, when the church came into existence in what was then the province of Britain. Find out more about our history at .

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@FinallyHuman

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Those who are frustrated about the obligation placed on them to attend Divine Service on the Lord’s Day when there is something else they’d quite like to watch that day may find themselves poorly equipped to handle all the other things the Faith asks of them.

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@FinallyHuman

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@OurCofELike This is one of the most important posts I’ve seen on this account. Lots of clerical families struggle financially and it goes unspoken so often. Well done.

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@FinallyHuman

2 years

I was confirmed in the Church of England on Christ the King Sunday 2015. Other communions of Christians are available, but I chose this one. I chose it because this is the Church of this land with Apostolic foundations, and by honouring it I honour them.

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@FinallyHuman

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Trinity Sunday 2021 was the first Mass I attended after moving back to England. “For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness. He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.” Psalm 33

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@FinallyHuman

2 years

@FrMatthewLC “You can help by expanding it”

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@FinallyHuman

9 months

The BBC show The Woman in the Wall has it all. Dark comedy. Catholicism. A noir detective. Horrors unspeakable. Shot beautifully. Acted astonishingly.

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@FinallyHuman

10 months

You don’t need to make the episode of the Canaanite Woman a lesson in how to not be a racist. Tons of other texts and types you can go to for that. The fact that a gentile will press in and recognise the Saviour despite being an unwelcome outsider tells us about the Kingdom.

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@FinallyHuman

1 year

Walking past a football stadium just now seeing these dads and uncles pouring out of the working men’s clubs and pubs with their sons as young as 6 in tow. Are these kids going to be ushered off to another part of the stadium to watch their own separate football match?

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Wild I’ve just spied a Baptist church dedicated to Coverdale from this train. MILES COVERDALE TRANSLATOR OF THE PSALMS ORA PRO NOBIS

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@FinallyHuman

10 months

American tourists: What’s the fastest way to the Tower of London? Me: Treason usually.

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@FinallyHuman

8 months

I have a Nigerian godson. It makes me absolutely furious to hear the self-proclaimed defenders of Traditional Christianity expressing racist views. It must be resisted. The world, the state, the nation, the ethnic tribe are not our home. Our home is with the Saints in light.

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@niall_gooch I’ll never forget the Spaced condemnation of that film: “boil-in-the-bag perversion for sexually frustrated accountants”

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I've got a niggling scruple about depicting the Father in devotional Art. Or rather, to depict Him as an old man with a beard. I am quite happy for Him to be depicted in some way with a shorthand like triangle or hand making a square or blessing, but to depict His face?

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Young, Restless, and Reformed except like this and not in weird windowless conference rooms with rock bands and light shows.

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@FinallyHuman

8 months

St Augustine being really normal about the Lord’s Prayer this morning in the Office of Readings. How many times I’ve made obscure what is really quite simple!