Siôn Rhys Evans @sionrhysevans Twitter profile

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

2 years

I work my socks off for the Church. I’m not lukewarm in faith, hope & love. I’m also gay, and I rejoice that 🏳️‍🌈 Christians in the future will have to face less fear than I. Don’t, from a place of privilege, chuck around Scripture like this when talking about me. Disagree better

Christopher Landau

@talkChristianly

2 years

The Bishop of Oxford's concern: "a radical dislocation between the Church of England and the culture and society we are attempting to serve" Morning prayer: the faith of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; the lukewarm church in Laodicea; prayer "to reject the world’s deceits".

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10 months

It should still be surprising that the main morning direct @tfwrail train service from the capital to north Wales looks like this, all two carriages of it. Our failure to provide something more advanced must have serious consequences for climate, economy and national cohesion

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“The Bible teaches us that LGBT+ people are a precious part of God’s creation, for each of us is ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’ & loved equally.” So glad & proud to have an ⁦ @ArchbishopWales ⁩ who proclaims this Good News ⁦⁦ @ChurchinWales ⁩

Lambeth Call on Human Dignity – Archbishop’s statement - Church in Wales

The Archbishop of Wales welcomes the Lambeth Conference Call affirming the dignity of all people.

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3 years

The @ChurchinWales , through its Governing Body, took a huge step forward today to affirm LGBTI+ people by authorizing a rite for blessing same-sex partnerships. I have three things on my heart this evening…

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2 years

Couldn’t be prouder of the team here ⁦ @Cadeirlan ⁩ after a glorious Ordination liturgy yesterday, with new Welsh music, and then placing the Cathedral at the heart of the city’s Pride celebrations last night—a great day of faithful proclamation and witness

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1 year

“No one lives alone. No one sins alone. No one is saved alone. So my prayer for another is not something extraneous to that person, something external, not even after death. In the interconnectedness of Being, my gratitude to the other can play a small part in their purification”

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5 years

There is a disgraceful letter in tomorrow’s @ChurchTimes that seeks to make an association between LGBTI+ people and child sexual abuse. It should not have been published, and I hope that @Edthornton and colleagues will recognise this

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1 year

The introduction by @JustinOnWeb on @BBCr4today to the item of the Scottish GRC just now was quietly scandalous. @JayneOzanne is right to query editorial standards that permit such commentary under the guise of journalism

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3 years

I drafted something earlier in the summer about (Anglo-Catholic) priestly responses to parochial change and diocesan strategies. I didn't do anything with it at the time, but as responses to "the picture" are raising much the same issues, here goes

The Christian Priest Yesterday

Apart from a persistent fear that I might have been chemically castrated, I think I would have liked the 1950s.

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@sionrhysevans

4 years

I’m here to see the Holy Spirit at work on @cherry_vann But I know I’m also here to see somebody “like me” openly consecrated. After all the lies and closets, here is grace and truth

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1 year

What is the King’s drink?

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4 months

Having worked with @CPASnews in the past and benefitted from their encouragement, it’s a bracing Epiphany surprise to read in their statement, issued under @BishopRuthB ’s leadership, that they think I should be full-on excommunicated!

Affirmations on Sexuality

CPAS trustees have endorsed the Evangelical Alliance’s affirmations on human sexuality. We are conscious that different evangelicals might apply some of these points in different ways, but we believe

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2 years

I love Rowan Williams saying, “I don't imagine I'd ever encountered the Nicene Creed before I learned to sing it to Merbecke in All Saints', Oystermouth, and that means it becomes part of the idiom of worship, and you inhabit it in that way, not any other way”

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5 months

Modestly Gaudete

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1 year

The absolute thrill of a Messiah at which the soloists step forth from the chorus, which is also the Cathedral Choir that has nurtured them, singing for a Cathedral community of which they’re a cornerstone and that is so enriched by their presence in turn

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3 years

Precious privilege to be on pilgrimage to—well—shall we say Britain’s Nazareth @ShrineOLW this weekend, asking Mary of Walsingham’s prayers for colleagues @EsgobaethBangor among them @BishopBangor @tracyjanejones & @RJamesTout . Next time—a Cathedral & diocesan pilgrimage, I hope

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3 years

(3) As a priest, as a friend in Christ, my concern and prayers tonight are not primarily for those with whom I agree or disagree, but for the gay teenager in my diocese, my city, coming to terms with who he is, gloriously made in the image and likeness of God…

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1 year

Loes calon i ni ei cholli o @EsgobaethBangor , ond â’r sicrwydd y bydd yn fendith amhrisiadwy i @LlandaffDio ac i arweinyddiaeth esgobol ein heglwys—dyma ddymuno’r gorau i’m ffrind @EsgobMary ar drothwy pererindod newydd

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3 years

Thrilled to be taking on some new responsibilities in the autumn as Sub-Dean of St Deiniol’s Cathedral @EsgobaethBangor @ChurchinWales . In 2025, we'll celebrate 1,500 years since Deiniol’s arrival here, with hard, exciting work to be done in the meantime

Gweinidogaethau newydd yng Nghadeirlan Deiniol Sant ac Ardal Weinidogaeth Bro Deiniol - Diocese of...

Cyhoeddiad yr Esgob am arweinyddiaeth y Gadeirlan a Bro Deiniol

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3 years

May he know more surely this evening that he is loved. May God bless him

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1 year

A sunlit and slightly smokey church—“big boned,” Simon Jenkins calls it—silent for a while having being made glad with carols, Scripture, sacraments and care these past few days

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1 year

Fabulous work by my friend @RJamesTout for @ArchbishopWales . Looking forward to welcoming Croes Cymru to @Cadeirlan soon. This Eastertide, in the light that shines beyond the Cross, byddwch lawen—be joyful”

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2 years

It was remarkable to gather this evening @Cadeirlan to listen to Fr Jarel Robinson-Brown @ScholarPriest —the image & likeness of God revealed to us in the words of the Church, the lives of the beloved, and the awakening of our souls to justice. Video here—

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3 years

As the controversy about Scotch eggs dies down, there's some energy again about its close cousin, "the picture". While I have some sympathy with some of the objections, I think it's neat, and the reaction exaggerated - a short thread

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3 years

I wrote something short about LLF in response to some nastiness, and to celebrate something good that happened 15 years ago that shouldn't go unmarked - with thanks to @charliebelllive for being prophetic, and to @mission_priest for being honest

Fifteen years ago on Thursday: a Welsh thought about Living in Love & Faith

I’m slogging my way through the Living in Love & Faith book — slogging less because it’s long, and more because it’s struck me so far as a…

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@sionrhysevans

2 years

It’s been encouraging to hear from UK Anglican Bishops about the new relationships and global insights they garnered at the Lambeth Conference, and there’s real value in Canterbury’s affirmation that same-sex marriage is a valid, locally-discerned doctrinal position, but… 🧵

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2 years

Mor falch o’r tîm yma ⁦ @Cadeirlan ⁩ ar ôl litwrgi Ordeinio godidog ddoe, gyda cherddoriaeth Gymraeg newydd, ac yna gosod y Gadeirlan wrth galon dathliadau Pride y ddinas neithiwr—edrych mlaen i drafod y cyfan ar Bwrw Golwg ⁦ @BBCRadioCymru ⁩ am 12.30pm heddiw

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3 years

And as the soon to be Sub-Dean of St Deiniol’s Cathedral @BangorCathedral , I rejoice that its altar-table will feed LGBTI+ folk yearning for blessing as well as those who disagree—all are welcome…

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@Dunadan9

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3 years

My brave, generous Bishop @BishopBangor has—consistently—welcomed, listened, included, defended, advocated and supported…

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1 year

So grateful to those who have enabled us, these last three days @Cadeirlan , to celebrate quietly & movingly the festivals of Stephen, John & the Holy Innocents, those Companions of Christ who cluster round the Crib to speak of the depth & cost of faith, hope & love in him

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@TinaBeattie @JustinOnWeb @BBCr4today @JayneOzanne Yes. I’m old enough to remember when gay men were talked about with that tone of studied disregard. I’m appalled to see it happening to trans friends and parishioners now, and I’m sorry that I’m usually too silent about it

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3 years

Cynical soul that I am, having expected to be underwhelmed by the restored shrine of St Amphibalus @StAlbansCath I’m overwhelmed by choral music flowing from the Lady Chapel bathing the shrine of this protector-priest of long ago. “For all in Christ, the new creation has come”

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2 years

A delight to have space and liberty to be in a gallery again and to bump into @Gough_Janet and @FrPeterAnthony at the @NationalGallery Dürer exhibition this evening. An exhibition to remind you of the pain and beauty we encounter in contemplating the incarnate Christ

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3 years

(1) I’m a gay man serving in @EsgobaethBangor . I am who I am. I’m glad that, here, I don’t have, generally, to hide or be fearful…

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8 months

From anxiety & rootlessness we’re called to justice & social responsibility, to lives of beauty, truth & love. It’s such a delight to have colleagues willing to give so generously to be part of that work of restoration in this little corner of the vineyard

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7 months

I’ve only reached page xxi of “The Once and Future Parish” and a sentence begins, “Comparing the episcopal Bench to the Chinese Politburo might seem extreme, but…”

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2 years

R.I.P.

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1 year

Glad to launch our Holy Week programme in this week’s @ChurchTimes with an invitation make pilgrimage to join us for @malcolmguite ’s words, @alexjosephmills ’s music, & @jackredmanmusic & Tom Castle’s singing. Grateful to @InsallArch & @_cathedralmusic for help to make it happen

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1 year

Very much value & recommend @HiraethPod for intelligent reflections on the political & civic life of Wales—and not least in opening up an under-reported Cardiff Bay world to us up north. I think I owe a hat tip to @_Greg_Walker for the reference

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2 years

That’s certainly one of my lessons from having engaged with Pride in Bangor. By, um, stretching the brand, I could seen people feeling that, in a way they’d given up thinking was possible, the hem of the garment was within reach. We should have been bolder…

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2 months

“We do not make ourselves alive in the Body of Christ; we receive” from one another. Hence St Paul’s fundamental moral principle: “What is it, in my choices, in my lifestyle, that releases, or confines, the sharing of life?”—from this year’s Bamptons

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9 months

A blessed few days on these western shores—the Eisteddfod on Pen Llŷn was creative and communitarian and inclusive and cultured and serious and fun, and a dash to Dublin for Sunday services at Christ Church with our young, committed, growing, engaged Cathedral Choir was terrific

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3 years

(2) As Diocesan Secretary, I serve a diocese that includes people who yearn for LGBTI+ inclusion and people who see God’s ways differently—I try every day to work for all my colleagues professionally…

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3 years

“I am absolutely clear that we are dealing with at least a 30-, 40-year problem, a threat to the parish. I’m very happy to call it a threat to the parish, but it’s not a 3-to-4-year threat” @PeteWilcox1564 gives vital context in important @MadsDavies essay

‘Focal’. ‘Oversight’. The C of E of the future

Madeleine Davies begins a two-part examination of the Church’s future

www.churchtimes.co.uk

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2 years

Post-carolling

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@sionrhysevans

3 years

Time for a new seasonal order of service / fearfully looking for typos / enjoying the churchwarden’s photograph / looking forward to more music / rather liking the poetry-inspired Kyries

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@sionrhysevans

4 months

@P_G_Anderson It’s an odd combination of flinty fierce combined with the continuous use of “homoerotic”, which just makes me think of green carnations, rowers in singlets and a hint of rationing in the air

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2 months

“This is the kind of being you are as a human; these are the levels and dimensions in which your life is lived; this is the sort of challenge and transformation that trust in Christ is likely to open up for you”

We learn to live in heaven by learning to live on earth - Catholic Herald

Many years ago, a youngish academic asked me with some puzzlement what you were supposed to do if you converted to Christianity. He was not hostile to the ideas and doctrines; indeed, he found they...

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1 year

Having not been particularly enamoured by the prospect of equal marriage, and certainly not having thought it achievable through Synodical structures in England, I find that arguments against it only make me more in favour. This collection of perspectives is particularly wild!

Ric Thorpe

@ric_thorpe

1 year

I hope this short theological summary of the doctrine of marriage as the Church of England has received it, and how it relates to changes in society around same-sex partnerships, can be a resource to the CofE in its ongoing discussions:

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3 years

@MadsDavies What links the campaigns against “middle managers” and for charismatic bishops is an “every incumbent for himself, every parish an island” model. That fed into decline for 70 years; and won’t work now. “Why can’t everybody be like me?” is not credible apostolic leadership today

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2 years

My pride that @ChurchinWales has striven to see saints in the LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ community is dented by the nastiness we’ve sheltered for too long. We’ve more to do to affirm the orthodoxy of the graced humanity of God’s people—but, as the 1st becomes the 2nd, we know that love abides

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@sionrhysevans

10 months

Things I didn’t get to do on work experience…Exploring our new pilgrim’s way from the Neolithic chamber at Bryn Celli Ddu on Anglesey to @Cadeirlan on the mainland, with Iestyn as my guide

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@sionrhysevans

2 years

Have taken myself on retreat to Wiltshire, to read, to plan, to pray, helped by the liturgies of @EdingtonFest . The music it offers, in the context of the liturgy, kindled & sustains Faith, Hope & Love for me. I’d intended to go before the pandemic; this feels like restoration

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1 year

An extraordinary (but by now almost ordinary) Sunday—dear colleagues celebrating beautiful Eucharistic morning worship @cadeirlan , an afternoon of outdoor preaching at a Holy Well with Dewi Pws’s banjo accompaniment, and Zadok the Priest with HM’s Lord Lieutenant this evening

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@sionrhysevans

4 years

I’ve started recording conversations with interesting people about the Church and its future. Delighted that the first was with @mission_priest —who was as bracing and compelling and faithful as ever

Gofid

@GofidChurch

4 years

A conversation about the Church with Fr Richard Peers ⁦ @mission_priest ⁩

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1 year

Delighted to have been working with @alexjosephmills on this over the last few months, and with fabulous music-making colleagues at @Cadeirlan —“My setting, in Welsh and of Wales”

‘They have inspired composers for centuries’: a first for the seven last words of Christ

Five centuries after the Passion was first set to music, Jesus’s final words are to be sung in Welsh for the first time. From Haydn to MacMillan and Muhly, composer Alexander Mills assesses a rich...

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2 years

Feeling blessed—a full day brought to its close at our new “Vigil” service—before the Blessed Sacrament—with electroacoustic & choral music, medieval Welsh praise, prayerful colleagues & Christ beside—and some Sutzkever poetry. “God is left. Or is that not enough for you?”

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1 year

A glorious May day chilled into a long, light evening, with sunset somewhere behind the @BangorUni Library

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3 years

Thomas Skeffington was @BishopBangor mainly from Beaulieu but had the west tower of @BangorCathedral built 489 years ago… and had his heart sent up here to be buried. The team @bodaccltd hard at work maintaining the tower today @EsgobaethBangor @ChurchinWales #wheretheheartis

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So proud to see my colleagues— @tracyjanejones @David_T_Morris @Gough_Janet @roblj94 —representing @Cadeirlan at the welcome to @EsgobMary at @LlandaffCath , and to have made my own little hymnodic contribution from a distance. Deiniol, Dyfrig & all the saints of Enlli, pray for us

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@sionrhysevans

2 years

“We must keep struggling to maintain our humanity though monsters of abstraction threaten and police us”—a splendid minute-long reflection on life and faith, which, in this format, feels like a lifetime’s exhalation

The Late Show

@colbertlateshow

2 years

. @DUALIPA shows off her interview skills and asks Stephen about his faith and his comedy. #LSSC

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4 years

Yma i weld yr Ysbryd Glân ar waith ar @cherry_vann Ond dwi'n gwybod mod i yma hefyd i weld rhywun “fel fi” wedi'i chysegru’n agored. Wedi'r holl gelwyddau a‘r cuddio, dyma ras a gwirionedd

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2 years

Planning to use this gorgeous Barbara Newman rendition of Hildegard’s Latin during Holy Week—“Blood that bled into a cry! / The elements / felt its touch and trembled, / heaven heard their woe. / O life-blood of the maker, / scarlet music, salve our wounds”

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9 months

“when/ at the Eisteddfod/ the brief immortality of a poet/ is being set up”—Jason Walford Davies yn rhannu chydig o R.S. anghyhoeddedig na welodd olau dydd erioed o’r blaen gyda @JonGower1 a chynulleidfa @eisteddfod • Some unpublished R.S. Thomas fresh from the archive

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2 years

Buying a paper, I’m confronted by this bleak headline on a front page. Even now, that feeling of heaviness at being excluded at the whim of the powerful weighs on me. Trans kids—you’re graced, unconditionally. For shame, ⁦⁦ @thetimes ⁩

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4 years

Things I’ve added to my vocabulary today: “we’ll cover that in the editor’s note” replaces “that’ll be an ecumenical matter”; and “I think you’ll find that the canon law doctrine of necessity can be relied upon here” will become one of my over-used phrases

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1 year

Being immortalized in soft toy form, complete with sun-decanal cincture and purple socks, is one I can tick off the bucket list, thanks to a lovely Cathedral steward

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Sophie Schärer’s depiction of Beuno, my Ordination name saint, with his faithful curlew, the rescuer of his book of sermons from the waves. Praying with Beuno today for all who sustain my ministry—for colleagues @Cadeirlan & @EsgobaethBangor , those who comfort and care for me

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2 years

“The performative aspect of the liturgy is more than mere representation: it effects what it signifies—it embodies the sacramental reality in tangible form.” Louis Weil, reforming master of late twentieth century Anglican liturgy, RIP

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3 years

A fab venture from @ddinman and @GregoryPlatten , aiding the endeavour to love God with mind as well as heart, using technology, no redundant assessments, and restoring Cathedrals as seats of learning, far and wide. Prayers for its flourishing

The Cathedral Theology Network

@cathedraltheol1

3 years

The CTN aims to provide free, accessible theology for all. To explore our courses for the coming Michaelmas Term, click on the link below

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No food on the @tfwrail train from north to south Wales, despite the marketing. However, there’s wine in a mini can, so all is not lost. But it’s going to be a long five hours—and I’m sorry to be missing @cadierlan ’s new Welsh-language Evensong canticles for this… #paleros é

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“Nature is teleologically ordered to the supernatural without in any way (however inchoately or implicitly) possessing the latter. The desire for this end is a longing born entirely from lack.” Always better to know! Looking forward to more of @JordanHillebert ’s lockdown uplift

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2 years

O Fythol Dduw, Creawdwr a Cheidwad yr holl gredinwyr: caniatâ i’w Diweddar Fawrhydi y Frenhines Elisabeth II ddoniau anchwiliadwy Dioddefaint dy Fab; fel, yn nydd ei ymddangosiad ef, yr amlygir hi’n blentyn i ti; trwy Iesu Grist ein Gwaredwr. Amen.

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“O come, O come, thou wisdom strange from deep within God’s womb to range the earth at midnight’s hour of fears to make us wise beyond our years.” —A glorious, prayerful print capturing the sense of the sustaining, upholding breadth of Christ’s Wisdom in the Latin text

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“Revealing repeatedly something of the nature of God” | Some reflections from me on inclusive language and lectionaries, and their role in creating formative worshipping and teaching communities

52 Gospels and a Saviour

Reflections on gendered language, socially contextualized imagery, one-year lectionaries and sermon series

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@sionrhysevans

2 years

@FrPhilipMurray 1. Corporate union has felt beyond us for 25yrs+ & postmodernism helps diminish scandal; 2. Anglicanism should look to Methodism first; 3. There’s work to do on Anglicanism lest we become functional Baptists; 4. RC union hard to imagine without fear for female & LGBTQ+ ministry

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4 years

I don’t quite know what I think about live streaming church—I worry it might not always help encounter with God; but I’m fervent in my hope that The Church, the People of God, will have a firmer faith and a deeper devotion, the seed of Christ in us, than we seem to be assuming

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

3 years

“You’re reading this on a modern-day lychgate — a screen through which you enter other worlds.” I wrote something about the importance of developing bespoke digital worship

Screens and lychgates

There’s a terrific moment at the beginning of the first episode of Don Cupitt’s 1984 T.V. documentary series, The Sea of Faith.

link.medium.com

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

3 years

Y Gadeirlan @EsgobaethBangor yn lân a gloyw heno ar ôl gwaith caled @bodaccltd yn cael gwared â’r llystyfiant o’r muriau a’r tyrau dros y dyddiau diwethaf. “Crea galon lân ynof, O Dduw; rho ysbryd newydd cadarn ynof”

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

10 months

I’ll miss marquee at the bottom of the Deanery garden—it’s worked hard this past week to provide a home for our Midsummer Foundation Sunday celebrations, drinks for our Come & Sing musicians, the reception after the Ordinations, and tea today for our wonderful Foodbank volunteers

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

2 years

Glad to have made it across Wales and the Pennines to Newcastle upon Tyne & @nclcathedral for the @engcathedrals conference. I missed the rain & Sir John Major, but glad to be here for the session on the bold (even courageous) transformation of the building and its witness

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

2 years

1. Much of me is all admiration for @charliebelllive ’s engagement with the aridity of oppositional arguments from @Psephizo and others here. But part of me—a self-preserving part but also, I trust, a wood-from-the-trees part—is quietened. A thread 🧵

Charlie Bell 🏳️‍🌈

@charliebelllive

2 years

@lukeappleton @Psephizo @liambeadle @Jonathan_Tallon @samueljmargrave @mission_priest @synod Since when has the C of E been a club?!

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

1 year

“I gave the countertenor voice a new dimension because I could make a lot of noise. I didn’t sound with a little tiny squeak. I thought—I’ll come on and be butch.” James Bowman, RIP

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

1 year

“Many pray for a strength they do not possess. But God’s promise is somewhat different: That even when strength fails, there is perseverance. And even when perseverance fails, there is hope. And even when hope fails, there is love.” Michael Gerson, RIP

Read Michael Gerson’s sermon sharing his struggle with depression

"Fate may do what it wants. But this much is settled. In our right minds, we know that love is at the heart of all things."

www.pbs.org

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

6 months

Heb ei gwneud hi i’r Ysgwrn o’r blaen. Chwip o bererindod sydyn pnawn ma

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

3 years

For an institution with such a high cat-herding score, that seems a good @churchofengland outcome - three important priorities that all can sign up to which will help to channel substantial but finite resources, all within something not as resonant as to dominate the real Story

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

9 months

A week’s retreat, largely spent next to Sir Ralph & Lady Cheney, trying to do little more than they’ve been doing for the last six centuries—a sort of exposing contemplation of that time that is not time, when all things shall be gathered up in Christ

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

2 years

Mainstream headlines from the Conference were negative from that perspective—the Church was seen to hold fast to that hostility—and that was missionally, ecclesially, ecclesiologically, spiritually hugely costly…

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

1 year

A jolly Advent & Christmastide edition of our @Cadeirlan magazine—observances, our new sermon series, and, with thanks to super colleagues, partnerships with our neighbours. Oh. And a nice cover picture from the east window

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

2 years

And I hope that catholic voices, who value the commonweal and who would save the parish—and have been largely silent of late, with honourable exceptions such as @mission_priest @charliebelllive @frsimoncuff —will not hold their tongues in the months ahead

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

2 years

A thrilling thing about ministry just now is getting to work alongside these fab, committed young people in our Choir, led so ably by @jcprrr , alongside other great colleagues like @simonogdon & @roblj94 . Here we are, mid a busy week, celebrating Holy Cross Eve tonight #G ŵylyGrog

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

3 years

Diocesan bureaucrats are wonderful; they (we) have always existed and we’re necessary. Moreover, the challenges and changes facing the parochial Church, especially in less affluent areas, are immense (underestimated here), and demand an active, engaged, staffed episcopal ministry

Marcus Walker

@WalkerMarcus

3 years

It me.

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

2 years

We appeared a hostile Church, and it was costly. And I fear now for the Living in Love & Faith process—that it will give a platform to more hostility, that it will value internal fudge over public proclamation, that it will continue to effect our retreat from the common ground…

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

4 years

David Hockney yn dulynio’r gwanwyn | drawing the spring

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

4 years

@chinmj @patrick_kidd Our dog, Agatha, (eventually) making her progress through a modest amount in London

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

2 years

Wrth fy modd y bydd @David_T_Morris yn ymuno â ni eleni. Edrych mlaen at ei egni a’i ddoethineb fel rhan o’r tîm | Delighted that @David_T_Morris is joining us @EsgobaethBangor & @Cadeirlan —his energy & wisdom will be a blessing for us

Y Parchg David Morris yn ymuno ag Esgobaeth Bangor - Diocese of Bangor

Bydd David yn arwain y gwaith o gydlynu ein prosesau gweinidogol esgobaethol i gefnogi pawb sy’n rhannu yng ngweinidogaeth yr Archesgob ledled yr esgobaeth.

bangor.eglwysyngnghymru.org.uk

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

10 months

Our last meeting, too, with our Chapter Clerk @roblj94 before life as an Ordinand. Won’t be the same without him—who will absorb my grumpiness & answer my hour of hour texts?—but I trust his long association with @Cadeirlan and his love for its witness calls him back someday soon

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Siôn Rhys Evans

@sionrhysevans

3 years

But the irony is that, as a national strategy goes, it actually manages very neatly to be wisely comprehensive about priorities (theologically-engaged congregations, more younger people, diverse expressions) without limiting the scope for local drive

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