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Pariah priest. Married. Family man. Academic. Musician. Still on the Way. 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 🌹

Southwell, Notts
Joined October 2011
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
One of @SouthwMinster 's newest Hon Canons @revkatebottley - congratulations!
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 years
@smnpttr Yes, be happy. You never need hide. You never need waste a second worrying people might see through you. Just enjoy being the special you that you are. If anyone has a problem it is theirs not yours! Best wishes from a gay who waited till 50 and is old enough to be yr Grandad
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Jeremy Pemberton
8 months
Fifteen years ago today Laurence moved in. Now we are married, we are as happy as can be, and he's still wearing the same pinny! #luckyme
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Jeremy Pemberton
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@WriterMike85 "He fiddled with my aerial and wolfed my Gypsy Creams, but, then, that's the comprehensive system for you".
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Jeremy Pemberton
1 year
"...the dawn from on high shall break upon us" Going to @churchofengland @synod to listen to people talking about my life, my marriage and my ministry. Prayers please.
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 years
#beautifulstory The Mail on Sunday said we had 'plunged the Church of England into crisis'. We just got married. He is wonderful and I love him #beloved
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
They said we couldn't. They said we shouldn't. But we knew we had to. And such a big thank you to all family and friends who have supported us. #8years @seanjonesqc @alantlwilson @churchofengland @churchnw6 @edwardjoyner @GTurnerComposer
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 years
Six years married (and the only time in our lifetimes when Easter will coincide with our wedding anniversary). For all that has been, thanks; for all that is to come, yes! #marriage #joy #contentment @campaign_cofe @1Body1Faith @inclusivechurch
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
TV churches - every possible candle is lit at all times whenever you go in Real churches - no candles are lit except for worship (except for a sanctuary lamp) Country churches - you spend hours hunting in the vestry for the means to make fire. The matches you find are damp.
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
Forty years ordained and excluded from any Chrism mass/Reaffirmation of ordination vows. I have to do it by myself. But do it I will.
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
Holding some very deep grief today in my prayers. If you are the praying kind please for all those affected by death by #suicide
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Jeremy Pemberton
1 year
This won't mean much to lots of people, but today is 17 years since I came out to myself. It was, and remains, a life-changing event. I am sad for the hurt I caused, but so deeply grateful that I found a way to be myself.
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 years
He moved in twelve years ago. We married six and a half years ago. As we often say, " It's not wearing off, it's wearing on!" Love him to bits #ProudBoys
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
This is the very first bloom from David Austen's "Nye Bevan" - their thank you to the NHS. Part of every sale goes to NHS charities. I think it is a stunning rose.
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Jeremy Pemberton
8 months
Forty-one years ago today I was ordained priest in Durham Cathdral. I am starting to dare to hope that my being 'set aside' may not last for ever.
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
Celebrating our seventh wedding anniversary with a light lunch at Caffé Alfresco #itsnotwearingoffitswearingon
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 years
I had a strange dream last night where I rescued @revkatebottley from a very serious Christian conference and took her to a pub where we drank lots of pints of Mild.
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
How I long for a country where the basic utilities belonged to us all and nobody profited from the poverty and suffering of others. #renationalise
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Jeremy Pemberton
5 years
I go to ordinations twice a year. I sing at them. I have to dissociate from my feelings to do it because it is so painful. So, good luck to #newrevs from an excluded, rejected, gay, married priest. Just dont ask me to be happy #oldrevs
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Jeremy Pemberton
1 year
Leaving Newark for the start of my Camino pilgrimage (doing it in stages - Stage 1 Vézelay to?) #CaminodeSantiago
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
Why are @TescoShopping selling this @fascist rag?? Outrageous.
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
A top afternoon with Noah. Being a grandpa makes me very happy!
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Jeremy Pemberton
1 year
I have arrived on foot at my pilgrimage starting point: The Basilica of S Mary Magdalene in Vézelay. It is a magical place to start my #Camino
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
Unpopular opinion: I find all this standing and clapping a) a bit naff and b) if @BorisJohnson thinks it is a good idea then that is a good reason not to. I appreciate what Captain Tom did - but why did he have to? Because of our hopeless government. So I won't be.
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
@RevRichardColes Such a lovely piece. And such a lovely man; not perfect or flawless - and you wouldn't want thought of you - but lovely because the lovingness of God shines through you. May your journeying bring you unexpected joys, and consolation and peace.
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
At my advanced age I am venturing back into academic study and am hoping to be accepted to do a theology PhD. All advice on how to do it gratefully received from the battle-hardened!
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 years
Travelling to take a family funeral today. If you are a praying type would you remember me, please.
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Jeremy Pemberton
5 years
On #InternationalWomenDay2019 I am proud of my #fabulous #daughters but ashamed to be part of a church that only offers a qualified welcome to the ministry of women in case it upsets some men who can't cope. #misogyny
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
I took a big decision today after a lot of thought. I'm retiring from celebrancy at the end of the year. I get my state pension in January, and I have other things I want to do. It feels really good. I've loved it, but it time to move on more definitely into retirement.
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Jeremy Pemberton
5 months
For 2024, show us you in 2014. At our wedding reception in the Saracens Head, Southwell.
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 years
@RevRichardColes Yes - if the only measure of value is money. And yet this is presented as if such a measure is self-evidently the only significant one. It's a nasty sick world in the places where these decisions are made.
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
What a wonderful address by the King. Very moving. I am so glad he has appointed William Prince of Wales immediately.
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
Happy 60th Birthday to my inestimably wonderful husband, Laurence Cunnington.
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
There is such joy in being able to celebrate the Easter mysteries together in church this year. I will never take it for granted. Alleluia!! Christ is risen!!
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Jeremy Pemberton
5 years
Isn't it wrong to leave someone's body hanging about for a long time? This morning's funeral was for a woman who died in January 2018! No one came. No one knew anything about her, but I gave her a full ceremony. "No man is an island..." #dignity #respect #Donne
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
The Spectator speaks the truth: 'Britain is now a country led by political and moral pygmies, by weak, cowardly and incompetent featherweights all pumped up by the trappings of high office, but bereft of any sense of decency, dignity or shame.'
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
I am rather surprised, and both enormously delighted and somewhat nervous, to have had my proposal for PhD study accepted on the Lambeth Research Degrees in Theology programme. I AM an eternal student! #lifeintheolddogyet
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 years
@ZoeParamour They can stop shouting now. The vast majority of us are soooo relieved that the nightmare of Corbynism is over and that we have an electable leader in @Keir_Starmer
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 months
Every time I go to @Synod to watch LLF etc debates it takes a lot of energy. But I am very heartened by friends there and want to continue to lend them support from the gallery as they enter the eighth year of working for radical #inclusion
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
A very special day. Meeting Noah, my latest grandson, and seeing both Max and Etta and their mums. Thank you, Hephzi and Phoebe, for all three of them. #prideandjoy
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Jeremy Pemberton
5 months
Feeling the #birthdayvibe with cards, presents and my hand-turned monkey puzzle wood yarn bowl #gayestpresentever . Im 68, you know!
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
Back to doing what comes naturally this afternoon. Gosh, how I miss it
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Jeremy Pemberton
1 year
The old lags at the front of the queue @synod
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
My 92 year old father posted this on Facebook on NYE: "Let it be known that in 40 minutes time I shall still consider myself to be European.". I am proud to be his son ❤️🇪🇺🇬🇧
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
Celebrating Laurence's birthday today. Daily thankful to be married to this wonderful man. Happy Birthday! 🎉💖🎉💖🎉💖🎉
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
The most humongous birthday cake!
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Jeremy Pemberton
5 years
@Peston @BorisJohnson They are all the people who championed austerity quite needlessly. Now they want to inflict Brexit on us. None of them should be PM. But Rory Stewart is the best of a very poor bunch.
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Jeremy Pemberton
5 years
@DPJHodges Rubbish. She had two clear shots at persuading Parliament to back her. She failed. End of.
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 months
As everyone has a view about the silent disco I thought share mine. 1. Not my kind of thing, but I have no objection in the nave. 2. No difference from other cultural events in a church. 3. Please don't imagine it is anything to do with evangelism or mission - that is cringe.
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Jeremy Pemberton
7 months
The substantive motion with the Oxford amendment is passed. On we go. I'm shaking. #synod
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
How difficult to become a widow after 73 years of marriage. As we mourn the death of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, grateful that he died peacefully at home, I pray very much for Her Majesty The Queen, who must mourn privately and make this huge adjustment without letting it show.
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
Evensong last night @SouthwMinster - I nearly fell out of my stall when the Canon Missioner @pdr357 led us in a prayer for #LGBTHM22 - he cannot imagine how good it was to be prayed for positively rather than being a problem, or, worse, never mentioned at all. Thank you!
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
Hurrah for @MethodistGB who voted overwhelmingly today to allow same-sex marriages in their churches #Loveislove #methodistconf
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
A privilege to sing for @revkatebottley and Stephen Hippisley-Cox as they are installed as Honorary Canons @SouthwMinster - congratulations and thanks!!
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
I know people think sermons are boring, but I do my best to engage my audience. Wonderful to have the chance again today. #pariahpriest #PrideMonth2022
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 months
The pensioner pilgrim is off again. Limoges, here I come! (I shall be singing O Filii et Filiae as I go - alleluia!)
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
@RevRichardColes I HATE: saucepans on my plate, slates, boards, trugs, flowerpots, paper doilies under food etc. What is the matter with people? All this beautiful porcelain and china, designed to hold food, that can be warmed, retains its colour forever. Proper crockery for me! #rantover
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
Those of the gents who possess it wear morning dress on Christmas Day @SouthwMinster #keepingstandardsup
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 months
She goes up in my estimation a very great deal. I rather feared she was being played by forces beyond her - and I am delighted to see that she isn't going to let that happen. @campaign_cofe @Rgt71Robert
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
We are about to get up, pack, hand over caring to my dear sister, get in the car and vanish for six days to the north Lincolnshire Riviera! I am as excited as if I was off to France or Italy. Photos will follow. #rest #refreshment
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 years
@JimMFelton VE means Victory in Europe not Victory over Europe - perhaps Farage would like to reflect on that?
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
Please don't vote Tory if you care at all for music.
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Musicians' Union
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The Government has announced plans to impose a catastrophic 50% funding cut to arts subjects at higher education (HE) level in England, including music. Have your say in the consultation before 6 May 👇
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Jeremy Pemberton
6 months
Moon rising over @SouthwMinster this evening. I never tire of this glorious sight.
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Jeremy Pemberton
1 year
Why the deafening silence over Uganda @JustinWelby @CottrellStephen @churchofengland ? I presume you are talking to @ChurchofUganda_ - what do they have to say? Do they support the new Act criminalising homosexuality with fearful penalties? Please speak about this.
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
I was ordained deacon forty years ago today at St Mary and St Cuthbert's Church Chester-le-Street by the Bishop of Jarrow #notuntousolordnotuntous
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
It strikes me that in all the brouhaha about #Refugees , one thing that #Christians should insist on is a determination to refuse the scapegoating of the vulnerable, and to pay attention to what the asylum seekers say about themselves. So we must stand against:
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 months
I'm on cloud 9. Tonight's lodgings are in a castle, and I have access to my own ramparts. And all for the princely sum of 24€ #Camino
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
When I was young, at some point in the week before Remembrance Sunday we would buy a poppy from an RBL seller. We wore it on the Sunday. That was it. No lampposts covered with them, no inferring that those who didn't wear them were less patriotic, no weeks and weeks of it.
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
Thirteen villages, Nine churches, four PCCs. And it is house for duty. And the house being offered is on the edge of Basingstoke, so not necessarily in any of the villages of the the job in question. I am speechless - this isn't house for duty; this is a full-time job. Pay it!
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Church Times Jobs
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House for Duty vacancy in South #churchjobs
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Jeremy Pemberton
10 months
Sixteen summer holidays together and we're still happy as Larry - what a blessing.
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
A very Happy 93rd birthday to my dear father, Oliver Pemberton
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Jeremy Pemberton
7 years
'Welcome' for LGBTI people implies we're outsiders coming in. It's our church too Give us real change #synod #notakenote @LGCM @changingatt
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
I do not accept that @BorisJohnson needs to be given time to put things right. He has taken us all for fools, he makes the rules and then breaks them, he has lied and lied again to us all. If he had a shred of decency he would #resign #JohnsonOut13
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
Pleased to have got through my probationary year on the Lambeth PHd programme and to be registered for the MPhil. Onward!
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 months
Is this some kind of Comms Dept joke? Extraordinary tone deafness
@churchofengland
The Church of England
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This Holy Week, we're inviting you to church. ⛪ With many services and events happening in your area, find one that's right for you at . #WatchAndPray
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 years
@DarrenEuronews @REWearmouth I love the way this man apologises for the occasion on which he was caught out, and expects us all to believe it was an abberration!
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Jeremy Pemberton
7 years
Lighting a candle for the bruised and angry
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
Thirteen years ago today I met my now husband. Our paths would never normally have crossed, and we seem, on paper, to be totally unsuited. Atheist, pop-loving banker, and C of E priest and classical musician. No algorithm would ever have put us together. Thanks GayDadsUK!
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Jeremy Pemberton
5 months
The #birthday dinner went with a bang!
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 years
Sending big hugs to the lovely @RevRichardColes - grieving really is the long haul. But we cheer you on. XXX ‘My life is not over. But it feels like it is sometimes’: the Rev Richard Coles on losing his partner
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
I am boosted! - under the mask I'm grinning. Thank you so much @NHS
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 months
I owe him and all of them so much. He was a good man, whose example of principled courage we must follw
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The late, great + Alan Wilson with the legal team in the Pemberton case. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
I am very grateful to Her Majesty for her extraordinarily long service to the nation. But whereas ten years ago I was happy to join a red, white and blue street party to celebrate, this time round all the flags and bunting make me feel queasy.
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
Lay Clerks' have a wicked sense of humour. I shall not reveal which colleague took this pic at rehearsal today #LCBants
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Jeremy Pemberton
5 years
I'm looking forward to celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary in April. This is a really insulting way to characterise what is a deeply complementary and life-giving covenant relationship. Why should I bother trying to listen to people who write off me and mine in this way?
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"A relationship between two people of the same sex, intrinsically closed to procreation, cannot be a marriage any more than a triangle can have a fourth corner, a truth can be a lie, or an elephant can be a penguin."
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Jeremy Pemberton
1 year
Stil, always, my Valentine. Thank you beyond measure, #Laurence
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 years
@BorisJohnson I don't think anyone wants to hear any more from you today thanks a lot. You have zero credibility. Better to start working out ways to shore up what is left of the lockdown before you produce a horrible spike in infections
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Jeremy Pemberton
6 months
A cold coming we had of it ... #AdventSunday
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
The end of five and a half years of celebrancy. And forty years of funeral ministry. #civilfunerals #careofthebereaved
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 months
We celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary last week and a very dear friend made us this #temari . It is a tiny box holding some special items, encased in threads until it is a sphere the size of a cricket ball, and then embroidered. 1/2
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Jeremy Pemberton
1 year
A big thank you to the College of Deans for their unequivocal support of LGBT+ people. This has almost passed under the radar with such a blizzard of responses to the bishops' LLF report. @campaign_cofe @inclusivechurch @1Body1Faith @OzanneFoundn
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Jeremy Pemberton
5 months
@David__Osland @TripeUK They are all so much the opposite of honourable - they demean the honours system.
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
Stillness. Waiting. Grieving. A year of sorrows. Remembering. #HolySaturday
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 months
Adventures in #needlework ctd. - a hand stitched chalice #pall ; whitework couched threads with a drawn thread hemstitch border. It will be used for the first time at the Eucharist in @southwellminster this coming Sunday.
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
@Love_the_80s_UK What do you mean, did? I still do. How else would I clean my shoes?
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 years
@Maomentum_ Oh yes, disastrous. He might even make Labour electable. Traitor!
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Jeremy Pemberton
2 years
A very beautiful day in #Lincoln
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Jeremy Pemberton
1 year
There is nothing about this that can or should be tolerated. @JustinWelby , @CottrellStephen , we wait to hear your response. Time to act.
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Jeremy Pemberton
3 years
Getting ready to record my assembly talk for our local High School's Diversity Fortnight about the good things about being gay! #Pride2021 @minsterschoolc1 @EmmaFrithArt @SouthwMinster
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Jeremy Pemberton
4 months
@Rgt71Robert @churchofengland He was my witness, courageously sticking his Episcopal neck out. He knew he was a kind of 'episcopal chaplain to the LGBT+ community' as he told me once. Radicalised by being appointed at the same time as Jeffrey John, he never wavered, ably supported by @rosieswiss
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