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David Babbington
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Dean of Pastoral Studies at the College of the Resurrection. An evangelistic catholic and a strong advocate of Prophetic Witness, Social Justice & Radical Inclusion. Partner to Richard and founding Pastor to Emmaus LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers Support Group.
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This weekend. Book now as only a few places left.
Relaxation, Inclusion and the love of Jesus. What else do you need?
1st-3rd Aug: “It’s All About Love!” – A Transformational Weekend Retreat - Holland House
Spread the love     “It’s All About Love!” – A Transformational Weekend Retreat Step into a weekend that will stir your spirit and ignite your heart! “It’s All About Love!” is a bold, joy-filled journ...
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July 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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It’s landed! No more spiritual abuse of LGBTQ+ people in the church. Together we will be heard. Together we will change the conversation.

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July 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Thinking of a weekend retreat this summer? Why not get away from it all and get back to basics - It's all about love!
1st-3rd Aug: “It’s All About Love!” – A Transformational Weekend Retreat - Holland House
Spread the love     “It’s All About Love!” – A Transformational Weekend Retreat Step into a weekend that will stir your spirit and ignite your heart! “It’s All About Love!” is a bold, joy-filled journ...
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June 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Please pray for our leavers as they head off to be ordained this Petertide!
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May 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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This year is the 1700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, and the C of E has produced a devotional helping explore the Nicene Creed. Among the authors are our current Tutor for Liturgy, @mthrjo.bsky.social and our former principal Canon Chris Irvine.

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We Believe single copy Exploring the Nicene Creed - Paperback / softback - 9781781405154
Buy We Believe single copy Exploring the Nicene Creed Paperback / softback from Church House Publishing - ISBN: 9781781405154
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May 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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The College is delighted to welcome the Rev’d Canon Michael Wood as our retreat conductor. He has an extensive experience of urban parish ministry as well as various forms of chaplaincy and we look forward to talks drawing on his wisdom.

We are in silence til Thursday night.
Several men in cassocks. One, who is talking, is a bishop. Three people laughing in cassocks.
May 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Today we remember with thanks Walter Frere CR, sometime Bishop of Truro, liturgist, ecumenist, founding member of CR, and with Charles Gore CR founder of this College.
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April 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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It is a beautiful if breezy day this Laetare Sunday, and we are thankful for it.
A large crucifix in a spring garden. Daffodils with wooden grave markers behind them. A path down to a wooden gate, with pink flowering currant growing along one side of the path. A courtyard garden under a blue sky.
March 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Our final open day of the academic year is on Sunday 11th May! If you're in the discernment process for ordained ministry in the C of E, come and see us and find out if we're the right place for you.
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March 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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What a lovely spring day for a tutor group walk! After prayers, we headed out into the sunshine.
A group of men and women on a path through the woods. It is a fine day in early spring. A weir on a sunny day. A group of men and women on a grassy path, smiling at the camera. A view of a canal flanked by bare trees on a sunny day.
March 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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A little something for Lent 1: students from the College of the Resurrection and from @sthild.org sing the Kontakion Adam’s Lament. ⚓️✝️
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Orthodox Chant - Adam's Lament
YouTube video by College of the Resurrection, Mirfield
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March 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Congratulations to our Dean of Pastoral Studies, @frdavidb.bsky.social Fr David Babbington, who has been named as a member of the College of Archbishops’ Evangelists!

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March 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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I’m pleased to say that I have been invited to become a member of the College of Archbishops’ Evangelists. I have yet to work out what that means but I have been doing the work for 39 years so something must be right.
March 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Congratulations to our ordinand, Dr Edmund Smith, who completed his PhD thesis on Hegel earlier this year (on top of his theological and formational studies here)! Edmund is to be ordained this summer and will serve his title in 14 rural parishes in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ispwich.
A cheerful young White man holding a green hardback book. A green hardback book with gold text reading “Soul, World, God: Hegel’s Vorbegriff to the ‘Science of Logic’ in the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Edmund Smith Ph.D. 2024.”
March 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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An utter disgrace! We must be honest and true. He stands alone. We stand with Ukraine. Threaten us or bully us if you will but we must always stand on the side of the victim. It is clear that he does not care about lives. He only cares about money, minerals. You cannot worship two gods!
March 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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I no longer want anything to do with America. The President abs Vice-President are a disgrace.
February 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Having a wonderful conversation about projects to end people trafficking with a woman who is on her way to give a presentation in London. Something little spoken of but damaging to many, many lives.
February 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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How long until a General Strike in the US?
February 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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It is worrying that so many people who believe untruths are happy not to listen to mainstream media because they believe that it is that platform that pours out lies. Instead, they accept the lie that the truth is a lie and stop questioning everything. If you stop thinking, you believe anything.
February 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Can we just stop calling him the ‘leader of the free world’? It simply isn't true. It would be a better world if we told the truth and stood up to lies and distorted realities.
February 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Bishop of London: "The best safeguard is the current law. I urge Parliament to reject this Bill. It is neither safe nor compassionate. We should be focusing on providing the best possible palliative care services. Dying people should be offered hope, not fear."

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Letter from Bishop of London to The Guardian: Kim Leadbeater’s proposed amendment to the assisted dying bill has filled me and many others with grave concern. Leadbeater has described the bill as the “most robust piece of legislation on this issue in the world”. However, the removal of judicial oversight significantly weakens the safeguards, raising concerns about what other measures may be dropped through the legislative process or through the interpretation of clinicians. While it will be essential to involve multidisciplinary teams if the law is changed, this need not have come at the expense of judicial oversight. While we do not yet know who will be appointed to the proposed expert panels, concerns have already been raised that there will inevitably be a self-selection bias to the voluntary assisted dying commission. My background as a nurse and as a priest tells me that the best safeguard is the current law. I urge parliament to reject this bill. It is neither safe nor compassionate. Instead, we should be focusing on providing the best possible palliative care services. Dying people should be offered hope, not fear. Sarah Mullally Bishop of London and lead bishop for health and social care, Church of England
February 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Are you in the discernment processes? Come to Mirfield, and see if this is the right place for you to be formed for priestly ministry.
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February 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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As we watch love being dismantled and discrimination pushed to the fore, how long until we ask Russia and China to help us stop this madness? The world order is changing before our eyes.
February 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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A beautiful sermon on what the church is called to be, preached by the Rt Revd and Rt Hon the Lord Williams at the Choral Evensong for Candlemas in memory of Robert Willis, Dean Emeritus of Canterbury.

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Sermon at Choral Evensong In Memory of Robert Willis 02/02/25
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February 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Holy Week at Mirfield can change lives.

Join us on retreat this Holy Week (12th-20th April) as we enter more deeply into the Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord.

This year we have a special focus on vocation. All are welcome, 1/3
A group of men and women of a mix of ages and races standing around a font which is decorated with lots of flowers as a large candle is dipped into the water.
January 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM