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At the end of a week when the institution has done a classic "Whoopsie" on the nation, we need to say it loud and clear...
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It’s Only Synod
One phrase springs to mind… The Church of England is back in the news and, once again it’s the institutional homophobia. This week, the Church’s governing Synod met in London and finally aban…
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February 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
At the end of a week when the institution has done a classic "Whoopsie" on the nation, we need to say it loud and clear...
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/i...
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/i...
Lovers of comedy and chaos, here's a Holy Fool for these days.
60 years on, might I suggest we all do one thing?
[https://huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/watch-buster-keaton/](huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/w...)
60 years on, might I suggest we all do one thing?
[https://huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/watch-buster-keaton/](huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/w...)
Watch Buster Keaton
I’m proud of my Great Aunty Em and the story of her getting so involved in her job, she’d stop doing it. Em was a lovely, musical woman. In her youth she had done one of the most creative jobs the …
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February 1, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Lovers of comedy and chaos, here's a Holy Fool for these days.
60 years on, might I suggest we all do one thing?
[https://huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/watch-buster-keaton/](huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/w...)
60 years on, might I suggest we all do one thing?
[https://huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/watch-buster-keaton/](huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/w...)
A thought about that advice the Bishops drew upon to inform their recent u-turn on Prayers of Love and Faith (PLF). It's flawed, hermeneutically...like when I bought the tea!
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FLF: The Fear of Love and Faith
The key to the advice is that it is all about thought control… In the early days of mobile phones I was leaving work when I got a text from my partner: “Please get some instant tea on the way…
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January 23, 2026 at 4:56 PM
A thought about that advice the Bishops drew upon to inform their recent u-turn on Prayers of Love and Faith (PLF). It's flawed, hermeneutically...like when I bought the tea!
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/f...
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/f...
"That is the question"
...a reflection on a great play and the way it continues to speak to us.
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/t...
...a reflection on a great play and the way it continues to speak to us.
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The Question: A Theology of Hamlet
“Who’s there?”The first line of “Hamlet”, and he’s everywhere: Riz Ahmed’s movie out in February, National Theatre Live screening their recent production. On top of that there’s the brilliant “Hamn…
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January 14, 2026 at 10:56 PM
"That is the question"
...a reflection on a great play and the way it continues to speak to us.
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/t...
...a reflection on a great play and the way it continues to speak to us.
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/t...
January 5, 2026 at 11:05 PM
That was the year that was.
Fascists, Jaws, floundering leaders, Palestine Action and a revival so quiet nobody heard it.
Here's 2025 in little pieces...
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/l...
Fascists, Jaws, floundering leaders, Palestine Action and a revival so quiet nobody heard it.
Here's 2025 in little pieces...
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/l...
Little Review of 2025
That was 2025, a year that offered up extreme right wingers being waved through by floundering national leadership. Racism, xenophobia and the rise of the fascist fringe have continued to rear thei…
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December 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
That was the year that was.
Fascists, Jaws, floundering leaders, Palestine Action and a revival so quiet nobody heard it.
Here's 2025 in little pieces...
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/l...
Fascists, Jaws, floundering leaders, Palestine Action and a revival so quiet nobody heard it.
Here's 2025 in little pieces...
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/l...
December 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
There was possibly no innkeeper!
What the actual story says, and how it might change us in our approach to warmth and welcome huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t...
What the actual story says, and how it might change us in our approach to warmth and welcome huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t...
The Warmth of Welcome
Or: why we maybe need to retire the ‘Innkeeper’ character from Nativity plays. It was my first visit to Al Aroub, a beautiful Palestinian village that is also, historically, a refugee c…
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December 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
There was possibly no innkeeper!
What the actual story says, and how it might change us in our approach to warmth and welcome huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t...
What the actual story says, and how it might change us in our approach to warmth and welcome huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t...
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Pope Leo and Hollywood: what was said.
Hollywood came to the Vatican, yesterday, with a star-studded reception hosted by the Pope, for the great and the good from the movie industry. We can now reveal some of what went on. The Pope arri…
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November 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Exclusive!
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Might the underlying problem with our debates about the BBC be to do with us, and our misguided notions about this thing called "the truth"?
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The Elephant in the BBC
A Buddhist parable tells of a group of blind men encountering an elephant. I quite like a later version that situates them in a darkened room, groping for this thing within. Each reaches for a dif…
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November 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Might the underlying problem with our debates about the BBC be to do with us, and our misguided notions about this thing called "the truth"?
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/t...
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/t...
A week today. some of us will be opposing the hate march of UKIP. This piece looks at their policies, and also the main problem underlying their new-found religious zeal.
The main problem is: it's a puddle.
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/m...
The main problem is: it's a puddle.
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Mr. Tenconi’s Religious Baloney
A terrorist attack had taken place, and the initial indications were that it was religiously motivated. I happened to be working with a wise and much-respected theologian[1] steeped, not only in Ch…
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November 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A week today. some of us will be opposing the hate march of UKIP. This piece looks at their policies, and also the main problem underlying their new-found religious zeal.
The main problem is: it's a puddle.
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/m...
The main problem is: it's a puddle.
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/m...
In the face of Right wing tittle-tattle, why are we failing to tell a better, loving and open story?
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/c...
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/c...
Caerphilly, Swing and Story
Thursday’s election results offer up implications both for next year’s Senedd elections, but also for what they have to tell us about the national picture. Firstly, Reform lost, with voters confirm…
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October 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
In the face of Right wing tittle-tattle, why are we failing to tell a better, loving and open story?
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/c...
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/c...
A thought from Thursday
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huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/c...
Caerphilly, Swing and Story
Thursday’s election results offer up implications both for next year’s Senedd elections, but also for what they have to tell us about the national picture. Firstly, Reform lost, with voters confirm…
huwnotes.wordpress.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A thought from Thursday
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In the light of disappointing news from the Church of England, mischief anyone?
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huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/l...
LLF, PLF…WTF?
On Wednesday, the House of Bishops scuppered the hopes nurtured by many of us within the Church of England, that we will be able to hold services blessing the marriages of same-sex couples.Whilst w…
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October 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In the light of disappointing news from the Church of England, mischief anyone?
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/l...
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/l...
Following today's little Hate Out in London, there is one point that just needs to be clarified, urgently and clearly:
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/w...
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/w...
We need to Say This about Mr Tamaki
In Church circles, we often give a thought about politics but it is rare that we say something is contrary to the whole Jesus and God thing. We tend to stay above political divides saying nice thin…
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September 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Following today's little Hate Out in London, there is one point that just needs to be clarified, urgently and clearly:
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/w...
huwnotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/w...