A clergyman in the Church of England in the Diocese of London. Musings in Church and State and late Roman History (and, in fact, any history).
City of London, London
Joined August 2011
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Marcus Walker retweeted
If only the Church Commissioners had an enormous pot of money that they could use to further the mission and ministry of the Church of England...
Terrible news today that Southwell Minster could be forced to close its doors as it faces a financial crisis.
It needs more than £20m in building repairs, and is thought to have been insolvent in July.
The Reverend Canon Dr Stephen Evans, only installed as Dean in April!, has said an emergency meeting was called and a report was lodged with the Charity Commission as no accounts had been lodged with the Charity Commission (for two years prior to his appointment).
Southwell is an absolutely beautiful place and the team there, including the Dean, were so welcoming and wholesome to me during my @visualtheology conference this May.
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Very pleased to see the newest clergy appointment in the Diocese of Oxford, and I will look forward to seeing His Holiness at Oxford Diocesan Synod, and next year's training events at Church House. Oh, and is he free to cover an 8am communion on the Sunday after Christmas?
NEW from Buckingham Palace @RoyalFamily
Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex accepts honorary title at St George’s Chapel, Windsor
With the gracious approval of His Majesty The King, The Dean and Canons of Windsor are delighted to announce that His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has become Papal Confrater of the College of St George at St George’s Chapel, Windsor.
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Parking the rights and wrongs (no comment), what they’ve done here is make it functionally much more difficult for the British right to be pro-Israel.
Which seems quite foolish as both the Tory and Reform leaders were pro-Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Israel to support Argentina over the Falklands, The Telegraph can reveal.
The Israeli prime minister told diplomats to change his country’s official position and join Buenos Aires in calling for direct talks over the future of the islands.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
Visiting Hagia Sophia is now a miserable experience. You are restricted to the balcony, they have roped off the balustrades, they have covered up the icons in the centre, they hector you to keep moving. No longer is it a place to roam and muse within.
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This indeed cannot be emphasised enough.
The German Chancellory saw it as a geopolitical priority to prevent, at all costs, the restoration of the French monarchy after 1870.
They knew a republic would foster unending civil strife and permanently maim France.
Marcus Walker retweeted
100% humanities scholars have destroyed the reason for what they do by neglecting the business of stewarding beauty, creating citizens and cultivating virtue in favour of the driest sort of archivism and pseudo-empiricism
Marcus Walker retweeted
It's amusing to read that Paris looters are discovering the watches they stole from Rolex and Patek Philippe stores are worthless shop units without working movements and secondly that all the Apple phones are display technology that locked the moment they left the store.
I went to the refurbished and redesigned Istanbul Archaeological Museum yesterday. It’s a a terrible disappointment. The displays are much improved but they’ve completely got rid of the Istanbul Through The Ages section, disbursing the artefacts around the museum (like the serpent’s head) - and getting rid of major displays (like the chain from the boom over the Golden Horn).
It’s also been lanyarded - everything is now BCE / CE 😡
Marcus Walker retweeted
209 years ago today, Britain ARMED an African king. 🇬🇧
Muskets. Gunpowder. Ten thousand gun flints. Four hundred red coats. 💂
British sergeants to train his army. A salary in gold and silver, every year. 💰
Britain wanted him to win. 👑
Valley after valley. Chief after chief. Until two-thirds of Madagascar was under his rule. 🗺️
On purpose. 👀
Why? 🤔
Because on that island, chiefs raided villages and sold the people. To French slave ships. To Arab dhows. To other African kingdoms. ⛓️
Then they bought guns with the money. To raid more villages. 🔥
Guns for people. People for guns. 🔁
Britain had banned its own slave trade in 1807. But it couldn’t guard every beach on an island nearly a thousand miles long. 🌊
So a sergeant from Cork travelled 28 days, by canoe and on foot, to reach the king. 🛶
For two months they bargained. Then he made an offer nobody had authorised. 🤝
Every gun the slave trade gave the king, Britain would give him free. If he stopped selling people. ✋
On 23 October 1817, the king signed. Selling his people abroad would be punished by death. ✍️
Then Britain helped him take the island. Port after port, every one closed to the slave ships. ⚓
They teach you Britain profited from slavery. 📚
They never teach you how we got them to stop selling their own people. 🤫
Britain armed an African king. On purpose. 🇬🇧
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
Marcus Walker retweeted
شاهد | الملك يطمئن على مصابي عملية الكرك الإرهابية في المستشفيات ويتوعد منفذيها
#الأردن #عملية_الكرك_الإرهابية #هنا_المملكة
Marcus Walker retweeted
“People are allowed a glass or two” 🙄
Er…. It may not be wise, but given alcohol is (still) legal, I’m pretty sure he meant:
“people are allowed as many glasses as they bleeding well want to get through the disasters my government has created”
Is this him admitting he turned off Starlink / Starshield on a whim?
