Jo Browse
@lemontreemydear.bsky.social
Reader (LLM) C of E; Spiritual Director; prison chaplain; musician; lover of poetry, chocolate, babies and sleep.
Pinned
Shurely we should call it ‘the hunting of the hark’ after Lewis CAROL
Hark! the Season approaches!
As we approach The Season, a reminder of the rules of the two games available.
#HARKAGEDDON
#HARKHUNTER
As we approach The Season, a reminder of the rules of the two games available.
#HARKAGEDDON
#HARKHUNTER
November 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Shurely we should call it ‘the hunting of the hark’ after Lewis CAROL
Worship today: only 1 service today #TinyJoys Toy Service - gifts were collected for www.familysupportwork.org.
Band practice at 9; & during worship we enjoyed ‘This little light of mine’ and ‘All earth was dark’. Tea & coffee afterwards were served in church = lots of chatting 😊
✝️⚓️#CofE #CofEPeeps
Band practice at 9; & during worship we enjoyed ‘This little light of mine’ and ‘All earth was dark’. Tea & coffee afterwards were served in church = lots of chatting 😊
✝️⚓️#CofE #CofEPeeps
Family Support Work - Home
We help families in Sussex to overcome their difficulties and prevent crisis. We support families struggling with issues such as poverty, ill health, learning difficulties, bereavement and domestic ab...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Worship today: only 1 service today #TinyJoys Toy Service - gifts were collected for www.familysupportwork.org.
Band practice at 9; & during worship we enjoyed ‘This little light of mine’ and ‘All earth was dark’. Tea & coffee afterwards were served in church = lots of chatting 😊
✝️⚓️#CofE #CofEPeeps
Band practice at 9; & during worship we enjoyed ‘This little light of mine’ and ‘All earth was dark’. Tea & coffee afterwards were served in church = lots of chatting 😊
✝️⚓️#CofE #CofEPeeps
@dannybate.bsky.social I find myself wondering about ‘holler’ coming from Hlūd and cluēre 🤔
'A History of England in 25 Poems' by @cathamclarke.bsky.social has something for everyone, including nerdy historical linguists. While reading it, I seized upon an archaic H in a Middle English poem about happy animals as my chance to write about lost English sounds.
dannybate.com/2025/11/14/a...
dannybate.com/2025/11/14/a...
A Voice for the Voiceless: English’s Lost Consonants
In September this year, Catherine Clarke, professor at the Institute of Historical Research, published A History of England in 25 Poems. This chronological hike through England’s history via verses…
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November 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
@dannybate.bsky.social I find myself wondering about ‘holler’ coming from Hlūd and cluēre 🤔
Yay for #Horsham, West #Sussex! We’re a new gathering so spread the word - please share/retweet etc
⚓️✝️ #CofEPeeps #Methodist #Ecumenical #LGBTQIA #worship #allies #community #ComeAndSee
⚓️✝️ #CofEPeeps #Methodist #Ecumenical #LGBTQIA #worship #allies #community #ComeAndSee
TODAY 18 Open Table communities meet:
Bath, Canterbury, Chester, Colchester, Fareham, Haverfordwest, Horsham, Leyland, London: Bromley, Wanstead & Waterloo, Ormskirk, Sefton, Sunderland, Taunton, Warrington, Widnes & Wirral: New Brighton. FFI: opentable.lgbt/our-communities
Bath, Canterbury, Chester, Colchester, Fareham, Haverfordwest, Horsham, Leyland, London: Bromley, Wanstead & Waterloo, Ormskirk, Sefton, Sunderland, Taunton, Warrington, Widnes & Wirral: New Brighton. FFI: opentable.lgbt/our-communities
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Yay for #Horsham, West #Sussex! We’re a new gathering so spread the word - please share/retweet etc
⚓️✝️ #CofEPeeps #Methodist #Ecumenical #LGBTQIA #worship #allies #community #ComeAndSee
⚓️✝️ #CofEPeeps #Methodist #Ecumenical #LGBTQIA #worship #allies #community #ComeAndSee
@revrachelmann.bsky.social @elizabetholdfield.bsky.social @mthrjo.bsky.social @lizgloyn.bsky.social @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social @mthrjacquit.bsky.social @yrieithydd.bsky.social @suffolkvicar.bsky.social
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
I am asking to stop having to spend hours finding a replacement for the short article my admin found from a schismatic source I don’t want to promote. I am asking for an easy swap to hand queer new Anglicans when they excitedly show me a book by an author I know to be a homophobe.
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Just letting you know that, regrettably, I HAVE been to me.
I have to admit that, much as I’d like to be, I’m not still standing.
I'm sorry to say that, contrary to my belief, I cannot fly.
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Just letting you know that, regrettably, I HAVE been to me.
@countarthurstrong.bsky.social
Amazing show at Richmond Theatre thank you! My face still hurts from laughing
Amazing show at Richmond Theatre thank you! My face still hurts from laughing
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
@countarthurstrong.bsky.social
Amazing show at Richmond Theatre thank you! My face still hurts from laughing
Amazing show at Richmond Theatre thank you! My face still hurts from laughing
Woe to you who are rich (but do not share)
Woe to you who are full (but do not feed)
Woe to you who laugh (but do not comfort)
We are blessed so as to bless others. ✝️
Woe to you who are full (but do not feed)
Woe to you who laugh (but do not comfort)
We are blessed so as to bless others. ✝️
#ToPray✝️
…the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
(Gustavo Gutiérrez)
…the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
(Gustavo Gutiérrez)
November 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Woe to you who are rich (but do not share)
Woe to you who are full (but do not feed)
Woe to you who laugh (but do not comfort)
We are blessed so as to bless others. ✝️
Woe to you who are full (but do not feed)
Woe to you who laugh (but do not comfort)
We are blessed so as to bless others. ✝️
Our old stone church is freezing (heating on the blink). 8am and 10am services were moved into the Parish Room which has efficient radiators. With 30 crammed in it got quite hot, ironically! Was surprisingly loud in such a small room when we started singing - All Saints hymns are bangers! #CofE ⚓️✝️
November 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Our old stone church is freezing (heating on the blink). 8am and 10am services were moved into the Parish Room which has efficient radiators. With 30 crammed in it got quite hot, ironically! Was surprisingly loud in such a small room when we started singing - All Saints hymns are bangers! #CofE ⚓️✝️
We run a church drop-in for the Trick-or-treaters. (Hot chocolate, a chance to use the loo, somewhere warm & dry to sit for a bit). I went as ‘The Grim Reader’ #AllHallowsEve #CofE ✝️⚓️ #community #care #WarmWelcome
November 1, 2025 at 4:33 AM
We run a church drop-in for the Trick-or-treaters. (Hot chocolate, a chance to use the loo, somewhere warm & dry to sit for a bit). I went as ‘The Grim Reader’ #AllHallowsEve #CofE ✝️⚓️ #community #care #WarmWelcome
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year
Thank goodness I brought the dahlias in at the weekend
There'll be a subtle rise in temperature this week 📈
You'll mostly notice it overnight - after some chilly mornings initially, it will be slightly milder when stepping out the door later in the week
You'll mostly notice it overnight - after some chilly mornings initially, it will be slightly milder when stepping out the door later in the week
October 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Thank goodness I brought the dahlias in at the weekend
Sunday worship: chapel in the prison. The men were v attentive, although/because there were fewer than usual (due to the clocks changing? 🤷). Always a delight to lead the singing but especially when we have men with good voices. Prayer time was calm and serious, space to focus. #CofEPeeps ✝️⚓️ #CofE
October 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Sunday worship: chapel in the prison. The men were v attentive, although/because there were fewer than usual (due to the clocks changing? 🤷). Always a delight to lead the singing but especially when we have men with good voices. Prayer time was calm and serious, space to focus. #CofEPeeps ✝️⚓️ #CofE
So grateful for #WildflowerHour filling my feed with colour and joy and freshness and bountiful nature. Glory
#WildflowerHour with fruits seen this week in #Preston! Catkins coming on hazel but no flowers yet, guelder rose, sloes, rose hips, and coral berries. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Lancashire
October 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
So grateful for #WildflowerHour filling my feed with colour and joy and freshness and bountiful nature. Glory
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#WildflowerHour with fruits seen this week in #Preston! Catkins coming on hazel but no flowers yet, guelder rose, sloes, rose hips, and coral berries. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Lancashire
October 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
#WildflowerHour with fruits seen this week in #Preston! Catkins coming on hazel but no flowers yet, guelder rose, sloes, rose hips, and coral berries. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Lancashire
‘They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.’ Matt 23.4
Christofascism always means license and freedom for me binding obligations and violent enforcement for thee
Right wing american christianity is an interesting religion. It grants privileges to its adherents, but obligations to everyone else. bsky.app/profile/razz...
October 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
‘They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.’ Matt 23.4
We must be prepared to risk all for the sake of truth and mercy. ✝️⚓️ #CofE #CofEPeeps
What's more 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants, saying, "What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral." religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
After clergy arrests, religious pushback to ICE expands in Chicago
(RNS) — More than 210 mostly Chicago-area clergy, representing a range of liberal and conservative traditions, have signed a letter criticizing ICE titled ‘Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview.’
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October 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We must be prepared to risk all for the sake of truth and mercy. ✝️⚓️ #CofE #CofEPeeps
Writing which is full of truth, but which at the same time demonstrates how hard it is to grasp.
“Perhaps the sheer difficulty of silence indicates it is one of our deepest vocations.”
– @revrachelmann.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/voices/silen...
– @revrachelmann.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/voices/silen...
The silent, suffering God
I’ve spent weeks in the hospital this year. I keep waiting for God to...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Writing which is full of truth, but which at the same time demonstrates how hard it is to grasp.
A joyful all-age service today with a baptism. Lots of great singing and smiles on everyone’s faces 😊🙂😊
We served coffee and tea in the church for the first time with our new tables and chairs. (Normally we
decant to the hall bc no water in church). Much more hospitable/pastoral #CofE #CofEPeeps ⚓️✝️
We served coffee and tea in the church for the first time with our new tables and chairs. (Normally we
decant to the hall bc no water in church). Much more hospitable/pastoral #CofE #CofEPeeps ⚓️✝️
October 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A joyful all-age service today with a baptism. Lots of great singing and smiles on everyone’s faces 😊🙂😊
We served coffee and tea in the church for the first time with our new tables and chairs. (Normally we
decant to the hall bc no water in church). Much more hospitable/pastoral #CofE #CofEPeeps ⚓️✝️
We served coffee and tea in the church for the first time with our new tables and chairs. (Normally we
decant to the hall bc no water in church). Much more hospitable/pastoral #CofE #CofEPeeps ⚓️✝️
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#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
October 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
Reposted by Jo Browse
The Archdeacon of Wandsworth, the Ven Bridget Shepherd, leads us in the opening prayer for #PrisonsWeek, which celebrates its 50th year by remembering once again that, no matter your circumstances or the place in which you stand, God’s word is not chained.
https://youtube.com/shorts/379ubM27dec
https://youtube.com/shorts/379ubM27dec
#PrisonsWeek 2025 Day 1 Prayer
The Archdeacon of Wandsworth, The Venerable Bridget Shepherd, leads us in the opening prayer for #PrisonsWeek. Prisons Week celebrates its 50th year by remem...
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October 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The Archdeacon of Wandsworth, the Ven Bridget Shepherd, leads us in the opening prayer for #PrisonsWeek, which celebrates its 50th year by remembering once again that, no matter your circumstances or the place in which you stand, God’s word is not chained.
https://youtube.com/shorts/379ubM27dec
https://youtube.com/shorts/379ubM27dec
✝️⚓️ Successful service today in my home parish for Prisons Week. Spoke about the strong faith of many prisoners and we prayed using the #PrisonsWeek resources.
Positive comments afterwards, many had their preconceptions challenged. www.prisonsweek.org #CofE #CofEpeeps
Positive comments afterwards, many had their preconceptions challenged. www.prisonsweek.org #CofE #CofEpeeps
Prisons Week |
www.prisonsweek.org
October 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
✝️⚓️ Successful service today in my home parish for Prisons Week. Spoke about the strong faith of many prisoners and we prayed using the #PrisonsWeek resources.
Positive comments afterwards, many had their preconceptions challenged. www.prisonsweek.org #CofE #CofEpeeps
Positive comments afterwards, many had their preconceptions challenged. www.prisonsweek.org #CofE #CofEpeeps
Reposted by Jo Browse
The Copts get a child to draw straws.
October 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The Copts get a child to draw straws.
#inktober #inktober2025 how do I find the list of days/subjects? ✍️
October 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#inktober #inktober2025 how do I find the list of days/subjects? ✍️
Harvest Festival in Chapel at the prison. Lovely prayerful atmosphere, great singing by the men. They filled in a slip, & it placed in the offering box - items to be bought in Tesco by a volunteer next day, using donated funds. The shopping is then given to a food bank. ⚓️✝️ #CofEPeeps #CofE #Narthex
September 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Harvest Festival in Chapel at the prison. Lovely prayerful atmosphere, great singing by the men. They filled in a slip, & it placed in the offering box - items to be bought in Tesco by a volunteer next day, using donated funds. The shopping is then given to a food bank. ⚓️✝️ #CofEPeeps #CofE #Narthex