Ordinand in the Church of England, training at @WycliffeHall in Oxford.
Joined March 2012
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“‘Existential gratitude’ was associated with higher “spiritual well-being”.... This finding is important considering that gratitude and spirituality have been shown to be protective factors against both anxiety and depression.”
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NEW: At their peak, Sure Start centres prevented 13,000 hospitalisations a year among 11- to 15-year-olds – leading to savings that offset around a third of its cost
Nuffield-funded @TheIFS research @Sarah_Cattan @Gabri_EllaConti @ckfarquharson @RitaGinja
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I’m very nervous about Christians being bounced into a “works” gospel on climate change: eat less beef, drive less, don’t go on holiday etc. All of these things are necessary and good, but won’t save the world. Massive, structural change and miracles are what’s needed.
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Such a crucial article. Where are all the youth workers, will lead to a church with no young people. We must reverse the decline. We’re losing a generation again? Churches are desperate for youth workers. So why can’t they find any? premierchristianity.com/opin… – at South West, England
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. @peterfranklin_ in @unherd...
"...we’re going to see the most retrograde parts of the Right do everything they can to divert the Government from its climate agenda…they’re going to try and turn the environment into a culture war. But it isn’t."
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"How many millions will be forced to uproot themselves from everything they have ever known so that the world’s richest can enrich themselves even further, insulated from the consequences of their consumption?"
Essential reading from @arisroussinos
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“Sooner, rather than later—and far sooner than most of us are used to imagining—we’re going to live through a set of apparently sudden tectonic lurches in how our nations, institutions and communities work, in their fundamental material structures.” Powerful @AlexSteffen words
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Christians: The crisis is not that you are politically homeless. The crisis is that we ever thought we could make a home in politics at all.
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"They want to drink as directly from the well as they can". @DouglasKMurray on why his peers are converting to ancient forms of Christianity.
Watch his full Big Conversation with @profntwright youtu.be/VN8OUi9MF7w
David Reed retweeted
If you're like most people, the strongest behavioral incentives you'll ever have in life are fundamentally social, which is why choosing who to surround yourself with and who to become particularly close to are the closest things you'll ever have to choosing who you are
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A church built through consumer strategies will have a culture that becomes transactional rather than covenantal.
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Welcome renewed focus on using church assets for social purposes. Requires courage, willingness to forego short to medium term gain in favour of longterm benefit, and investigate why it is more difficult to do now what we used to do some 20 yrs ago.
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This might be unpopular but if you're worried about the long-term financial viability of the Church of England then probably the best thing to do, rather than trying to blame managerialism or consumerism or whatever else, is to give money to your parish church.
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Last week, at a hospital appointment, while taking my history, a nurse questioned why I hadn't terminated my pregnancy after my daughter was diagnosed with Down's Syndrome. The words 'risk of a Downs' were used. This is Betsy. The child she was referring to. Loving life ❤️
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The Church of England has been a bedrock of faith, love, hope and compassion in this country for centuries through wars, plagues and pandemics — we still are, and we will go on being just that:
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“We are supporting families where babies aren’t having the floor space to learn to crawl.”
Sophia Parker from @LittleVillageHQ says “these are unacceptable circumstances for children to be growing up in” bbc.in/3aSjbpN
#Newsnight
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The church doing what the church should be doing.
Quite a sight to behold as Lichfield Cathedral is converted into a COVID-19 Vaccination Centre #COVID19 #coronavirus #CovidVaccine
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Hamworthy Churches (St Michael's Hamworthy and St Gabriel's Turlin Moor) have provided school with funding to purchase five laptops. This is very generous, and we are very grateful for their continued support. Thank you to @hamworthychurch and members of its congregation.
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This is very good from @_F_B_G_ on the quiet deflection of social welfare services back to the Church of England, by Tories who were once the backbone of that Church and now treat it more as a handy backstop for a shrinking welfare state
'The Conservative Party might currently appear to be run by horny, malign Beano characters, yet Toryism’s mutation from shire-reaction to libertarian front is an episode with religion at its core.'
A morning must-read from @_F_B_G_
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