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Bishop of Buckingham. history, poetry, music, film, theology, 🏳️‍🌈 equality & human rights. Justice and healing for survivors of abuse in Church

Great Missenden, Bucks, UK
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2 years
"It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you." (Tony Benn)
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they took the bullock and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves ... And it came to pass, when midday was past, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
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Presidential spiritual adviser Paula White is currently leading an impassioned prayer service in an effort to secure Trump's reelection.
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Good to be physically in COVID-safe Church this morning. They really did think of everything... #Easter2021
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“Hang on a minute, lads.... I’ve got a great idea!”
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@BirkenheadBish Thank you, Julie. I am ashamed and outraged that any bishop should take such an arrogant, foolish and dangerous point of view, so at variance with the basics of safe practice.
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Just remind me, was it Romanians called things like #Radicanu that Mr Farage didn’t want living next door because they couldn’t be British?
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@mthr_jo This is what I published in 2014, as with Tony Benn (in another context) I find that "first they say you're mad, then badm then there's a long silence, and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you"
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*tactful cough* for #BBC commentator on Royal funeral: the Book of Ecclesiastes - (“Preacher”). But this afternoon’s reading was from Ecclesiasticus - (book of wisdom of Jesus Ben Sirach)...
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Deepest respect to Anne Atkins for saying what needs to be said kindly but firmly...
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Words of wisdom and hope from the retiring lead pastor of a leading UK megachurch
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Scenes of Working Life…
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Chance to do job properly now: RT The votes are now counted. #Synod has voted NOT to "take note" of the Bishops' Report. A great result.
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Has this experiment in celebrity government given us the most disreputable leader in history?
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Letter in the Times today - Yaroo!
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Better than handwringing: we can be the change that needs to happen! To Heal and Not to Hurt: A fresh approach to safeguarding in the Church Dar...
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'I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of a committee.' -G.K. Chesterton #synod
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3 years
Is it really time to ease restrictions in the UK?
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Many thanks to four Conservative Evangelicals for this theologically grounded and thoughtful response to Jonathan Fletcher’s abuse. This, not cover up, is the way towards true repentance and healing...
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@RevRachelMann Yes. A terrible week with evidence of religious exceptionalism, stupidity, incompetence, lying, dumping responsibility at every level including the highest, and folie de grandeur. Bishops must be acccountable. This means not just to themselves. End of story.
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Many thanks and warm congratulations to @Steven_Croft for articulating an honest and godly view
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Thanks to @JustinWelby for his heartfelt words to #synod this morning in response to survivors. Especially grateful for his honesty about the need for a holistic response including (as bishop who received Cooper Report) rethinking our cultures about LGBT+ people
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Letter from senior clergy reflecting on IICSA reports on Chichester Diocese and Peter Ball | The Diocese of Blackburn - thanks for an honest statement
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So Farewell Then Mr Johnson: clown, wastrel, lazy blustering egoist who, as someone said of Lloyd George, debased everything with which he had to do. Prodigious talent for dressing up and getting in but no idea what to do when he got in or how. And earth exhales…
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4 years
Obsolete homophobic culture in Church opens our communities to abuse. It’s not just wrong-headed. It’s dangerous.
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They put us all under pressure. Maids Moreton murder: C of E views on homosexuality 'put victim at risk'
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Special Caterers to the Diocesan Conference. By Appointment. Phew! #wonderfullymade
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The Last Word from Downing Street (by way of m'learned friend Richard Cattley)
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Jo Kind’s experience on C4 News... fourth corrupt & destructive NDA that’s come to my attention since September. They seem inherently abusive; mainly used to provide a carpet under which to sweep abuse. If people really want them they should be time limited with reasons?
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@PaulBrandITV If true, shocking breach of promise and appalling news for people whose lives will be blighted by it
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Latest from the Provisional Wing of the RSPB. But they’re right. Junking environmental protections suits their chums and major donors but compromises everyone’s future…
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Really ashamed of these figures and would be even if they were out by a factor of 100... Jesus said “Feed my Sheep” not “save your face”
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Church Times
4 years
Survivors of abuse in a church context receive about £55,000 in redress from the Church of England out of an estimated £20 million spent on safeguarding annually, independent research released this week suggests
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I love the guy who looks like someone forlornly looking for the shower block on a campsite walking up and down behind her with a towel over his wrist (or big chunky maniple?)
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I’ve worked with drunks, adulterers, narcissists and crooks in a prison. But you just can’t trust a Bloody Liar if you have to work with them because there’s no basis to know where to start when they retrofit the story to truth as it comes out #cummings
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Full Fact
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A claim that a 2019 blogpost by Dominic Cummings was edited in 2020 to include a warning about coronaviruses is correct. The change appears to have been made in April. He claimed Monday that he’d warned about the virus last year.
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Brilliant article that hits the nail squarely on the head.
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Jayne Ozanne
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The harm the @ChurchofEngland is knowingly inflicting on LGBT people must stop. It is, as I say in my piece "immoral, inexcusable, and cowardly". "For it is the moral duty of a civilised society to safeguard the vulnerable – not appease the perpetrators"
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Important to stop blathering on insincerely about learning lessons, actually start learning some lessons and change. Christians call this “repentance” Churches that refuse to do this get spat out by God. Please let’s not do this in the C of E...
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@JwhiteRev Er, no.
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Feeling civically smug as I discover I paid 7 times as much income tax in 2016 as Donald Trump, Celebrity Narcisisstic Sponger and Parasite
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@NclDiocese @BishopNewcastle Thank you for your integrity about this
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Cold War Steve, we salute you!
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Phew... we don’t live in a dictatorship but a parliamentary democracy after all
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Excellent analysis of the mainly good news that Archbishop Welby has met survivors and announced further investigations into John Smyth case from @churchtimes
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@JustinWelby Many thanks. So sad this still needs clarifying but apparently it does.
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Mourning the wonderful @drbexl who was such a pioneer and inspiration. Bugger cancer. I thank God for every happy memory of her gentle wisdom and good humour #bemorebex
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@ChurchTimes 1993. I was Rector. Traditionalist asked me to publish names. I could consult my colleagues and get back to him. Ah, quoth he, what if it's non gender-specific name? I could put a biological symbol on notices, quoth I. But that would be bloody silly, quoth he. Friends for life.
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The only thing worse than not getting away with it was almost getting away with it. Time to be accountable to outside body and mandatory reporting...
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@IndependentSB_ Is this Parody Account?
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Alan Wilson
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The diocese was informed today about unacceptable messages on social media, apparently from a licensed lay minister. We take all discriminatory behaviour very seriously & are looking into this matter along with another diocese. Thanks to everyone who brought this to our attention
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A brilliant analysis of a big issue... “The Problem is not CDM, but a significant Relational Deficit”
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Cat and Tim’s wedding day dawns with a Family Lateral Flow Party. Half an hour in the garden coming up waving our wee sticks around like sparklers on Bonfire Night
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@paulbayes Doing the rounds on FB just now…
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The Church of England – a safer space for abusers than for the abused
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@charliebelllive “If you really want peace you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies…”
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@BishopWorcester Though last weekend we in Oxford managed to ask people to pray for “those who have no faith in our diocese...”
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Moving, godly and honest speech at #synod this morning from Susie Leafe: What have we let ourselves be part of?Listen to smallest voice, Speak Up, Put survivors first (tribes go out window), Conceal nothing, take responsibility... now is time of mercy and redemption if we let it
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Alan Wilson
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@ChurchTimes @AngelaTilby @InquiryCSA Scapegoating? That’s where you put the guilt for something on someone who didn’t do it. Inviting people to take responsibility for what they have done or failed to do is the exact opposite of scapegoating.
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Me2! RT @churchnw6 : Delighted 2B so honoured in company of such wonderful, godly & faithful people @alantlwilson @paulbayes @canonjpemberton
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@RevRichardColes Amidst a great cloud of condolence and moral support from thousands here and elsewhere the prayer wheels gently turn in the background... tons of love from Alan
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Worrying and inherently abusive activity. We don't allow snake handling, FGM, child witchcraft exorcisms or other sincere by misguided forms of religious abuse. Why on earth is this nonsense allowed?
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A great piece of undercover journalism on conversion therapy in the UK exposing the role of True Freedom Trust. Well done @HShukman for exposing all this... "I was first struck by the number of British organisations & campaigners decrying homosexuality"
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@charliebelllive Thank you. It’s good now to see the cracks in the dam… let justice roll (Amos 5:24)
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Much for all to learn here not only about #safeguarding procedure but also the peril of giving class and privilege free rein and the under appreciated virtues of openness and common honesty
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Open letter letter to the leadership of the Church of England. Come on, people! This isn’t going to go away. We can do better than this... and must!
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The harrowing of Martyn Percy (part ii): Church of England colludes in bullying
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@canonjpemberton @JayneOzanne My great grandpa was a practising Scotsman. Some people didn’t like it but he carried on practising anyway and kept it up for over seventy years. Incredible.
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Proud day out at #sussexgrad celebrating Stu's First!
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@giles_fraser So sorry Giles. Rationally why allow someone who cannot take responsibility for what they say credibility. But a cowardly bugger like this gets under our skins and worms their way into our heads and takes up residence in the wee small hours. How to evict them. Love and prayers…
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Alan Wilson
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@seaofcomplicity I was there. Last day second hearing. I was so appalled I took it up with him afterwards. In justice he wasn’t representing his personal views but doing his job. The whole tribunal should be on the stage one day. Where is David Hare when you need him?
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Poor #Priti ! Now down to only *One* Jumbo Union Jack on TV! One! Mark my words, this does not bode well for her future in the Junta!
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"A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world." Tony Benn
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#bishoplibby off for a glorious time in York: http://t.co/BwZxdLxO0I
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Please reassure me… the bloke telling us night club superspreader events between now and September are OK isn’t called Michael Kill? This whole thing is getting silly…?
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@RevRichardColes Having found out the hard way I know the bush he peed on...
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Excited last night to hear rumours our Glorious Dear Leader has gone to the Moon. We wake up to find he hasn’t, he just *says* he’s going to the moon... Oh Dear... if an offer is too good to be true, it probably isn’t true...
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@Rgt71Robert @RatchelG @dioceseoflondon @bishopSarahM @bpedmonton one of those occasions on which it’s very hard to press the “like” button. As a church we need constantly to align our theoretical values with what people experience on the ground.
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. @BorisJohnson , this isn’t a game! Delays to food and medicine imports will put our lives and livelihoods at risk. In these conditions, #NoDealBrexit would cause huge suffering. Please act now to stop this disaster. Please extend the #Brexit transition period and do a deal.
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@GlosDioc @BishGloucester @bptewkesbury Many thanks - I have been supporting LGBT+ friends into LLF on a promise it’s safe. Couldn’t believe it when this exploded in my inbox out of the blue. LLF had potential for good, and I believe we can get through this, but only with honesty and courage you’re showing here.
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That’s the way to do it!
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@BishopWorcester "strange indeed that God Almighty should make a being with such a nature… and at the same time make a decree that if that being whom he had formed, should at any time follow the dictates of that Nature… he should be punished" Matthew Tomlinson, Yorkshire Farmer, 14.1.1810
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@MartynPercy It’s in the risk assessment....
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Vital report
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Ozanne Foundation
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This damming report shows the horrific significant safeguarding risk the @churchofengland attitude to homosexuality causes. “Negative attitudes towards homosexuality and homosexual practice in the Church of England reinforce internalised homophobia …”
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Lighten atmosphere at #election polling station by pointing out how much slotted ballot box looks like a shredder...
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Really thought provoking distinction between Social and physical Distancing by @BishGloucester . Thank you! via @wordpressdotcom
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Interesting definition of #Homophobia : "The fear gay men will treat you the way you treat women..."
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Classic old school Private Eye cover: #taxcredit #cuts
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Brilliant post from @thirtyoneeight on how to make sure #safeguarding reviews are genuinely independent (and thus can lead to repentance and hope) rather than just window dressing
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Whether opinionating about others’ sex lives or othering survivors much #synod this week reminds me of John Cleese’s verdict on Basil Fawlty: “He’s intelligent but emotionally he just doesn’t function well because he’s operating on a map of the world that just doesn’t work.“
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@canonjpemberton Grossly insulting, ignorant and abusive. If same sex marriage is impossible, as he asserts, how can it possibly be wrong? And why is birth control OK for him? As the Bedouin say “the dogs bark but the caravan moves on...”
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The culture change we need in the light of abuse scandals | Psephizo via @ @psephizo
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Average age of CofE congregations = 61. Average age of Rolling Stones = 69. #somaybethereshope
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