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Jesse Smith
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Anglican Priest. Radical Orthodoxy. ❤️ JK Rowling. 1 Tim 4:10. Fighting the long defeat (Lady Galadriel)
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"We must develop the awareness that nowadays we are either all saved together or no one is saved!" #PopeFrancis #FratelliTutti
April 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Here is my Easter present to everyone.
Here is an avowed nonbeliever (so he says...😉) and my new friend, testifying to the truth of the Resurrection more convincingly than any Easter sermon I've ever heard or ever preached.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry77...
Tom Holland: Jesus' Disciples Saw SOMETHING. (Clip)
YouTube video by Speak Life
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April 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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I longed for our hours in the church. The words in the prayer book felt to me like escape valves. Each verse we spoke in chorus, it was as if some new guilt or hurt was released from my body.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Could I become a Christian in a year?
After two friends unexpectedly converted, Lamorna Ash discovered a new generation of young people turning to faith. As she investigated the phenomenon, one of her first steps was to spend a week on a ...
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April 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Yes, I remember it well
bestforbritain.org Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Apr 7
"I was actually here in 2017 when the then Prince of Wales visited... the year after we'd had the Brexit referendum. We weren't really allowed to mention the B-word. "Don't talk about Brexit."

Remember how we were gaslighted at the time for pointing out that journalists were avoiding the issue? ~AA
April 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Giant leap for reunion of Catholics and Anglicans (Episcopalians) in one church: Pope Francis removes final roadblocks to reunion; full communion possible by 2028 - read more:
liturgy.co.nz/anglicans-an...
Anglicans and Catholics Unite to form One Church - Liturgy
Anglican Churches (which includes Episcopalians and others) have been recognised by the Vatican as being potentially in full communion"in plena communione cum Ecclesia catholica" - i.e. they are able ...
liturgy.co.nz
March 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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"What we do to the poor, we do to God." #OscarRomero assisiproject.com/podcast
March 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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if you read one FT article this weekend make it this blistering piece by @edwardluce.bsky.social on Trump’s assault on democratic norms in America

www.ft.com/content/3741...
Trump's moves, which started on day one with his pardoning of roughly 1,500 people jailed for storming Capitol Hill four years ago, and commuting the terms of the hardest core offenders, have ticked nearly every box on the scholarly checklist of democratic backsliding. But his alacrity has also cast the system's defenders into disarray. "This is moving a lot faster than any of us anticipated," says Steven Levitsky, a Harvard scholar and co-author with Daniel Ziblatt of How Democracies Die. The capture of state institutions that took strongmen like Viktor Orbán or Recep Tayyip Erdogan many years to accomplish, "Trump is trying to pull off in months". Moreover, a hostile seizure of the key government organs has never been tried in a wealthy and established democracy like America, he says. "Trump's speed and intent is remarkable. Even when they happen slowly, such all-out assaults are hard to stop." The Republican-controlled Senate dutifully confirmed every Trump nominee, including several whose conduct and record would have caused their rapid ejection in any other era. The US now has, among others, a health secretary who doubts the efficacy of vaccines, an FBI director who has vowed lawfare on Trump's enemies and a director of national intelligence accused of parroting Kremlin propaganda. Almost no Republicans objected when Trump stripped security protections from erstwhile officials, including Mike Pompeo, his former secretary of state, John Bolton, a former national security adviser, and Brian Hook, his ex-Iran envoy. The FBI says each are on an Iranian hit list. "It's pure fear and cowardice," says Adam Kinzinger, a former Republican Congressman who served on the committee that investigated the January 6 assault and who Trump has threatened with arrest. "I've lost
March 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Inspiring
antongerashchenko.bsky.social Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Mar 18
German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz:

"The circumstances are determined above all by Putin's war of aggression against Europe. It is a war against Europe and not just a war against the territorial integrity of Ukraine⤵️
March 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Six years a slave, and then you slipped the yoke,
Till Christ recalled you, through your captors cries!
Patrick, you had the courage to turn back,
With open love to your old enemies,

malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/s...
St. Patrick: A Sonnet
Here is my sonnet for St. Patrick’s Day While Patrick is of course primarily associated with Ireland where he flourished as a missionary in the second half of the fifth century, he was not Ir…
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March 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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bestforbritain.org
Reams of letters have been sent to newspaper editors in support of Ukraine over the past week.

One of the best, in the Times.
The most sickening aspect of the bullying of President Zelensky by President Trump and JD Vance was their demand that he show them gratitude. It is the Ukrainians who are shedding blood, losing loved ones and enduring the destruction of their homes and cities. Of course they are motivated by the desire to preserve their country but their defiance is also necessary to show that military aggression and the violation of sovereign states should not succeed. If anything, it is we who owe the suffering Ukrainians gratitude for their struggle in this cause. During the Cold War, every US administration understood that necessity. Terrifyingly, that no longer seems to be the case. Michael Grenfell London NW11
March 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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My dispatch from the Black Sea and a Ukrainian patrol boat that shoots down Russian drones. I also spoke to the vice admiral who sank the Moskva warship. "When Kyiv had a university Moscow was a bog & home to croaking frogs," he said. Pix: @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘We’re here to stop Russia taking the Black Sea’: with the Ukrainian Navy as they battle for supremacy on the waves
Captain Oleksandr and his crew are on constant alert to shoot down Vladimir Putin’s swarming drones
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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There are, of course, a thousand things going on in parallel, but I think this, by @davidfrum.bsky.social, goes a long way to explaining the relish and sheer nastiness of that Oval Office meeting. ~AA
March 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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📸 No one follows more etiquette rules than the Royal Family—but notice how King Charles didn’t make any smart-ass or demeaning comments about Zelensky’s attire today.

Why? Because respect isn’t about clothes—it’s about character. And that’s something money can’t buy.
March 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Mike Myers, Canadian legend, on SNL tonight.
Mike Myers at SNL closing tonight with “Canada is not for sale” t-shirt.
March 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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bestforbritain.org
Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve:
March 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
jesse-smith.bsky.social
Making Welsh cakes for home and Church, because I'm Welsh and I love Dewi Sant /St David, and listening to Emmylou Harris, because there's so much about real America to love.
March 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Walk away
johnharris1969.bsky.social John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · Feb 28
We live in Britain, and there are now profound questions to ask our government. There's no conceivable bridge between Europe & this US administration. Whether we escape tariffs is a laughably parochial question. Yesterday is now an awfully long time ago.
February 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Ukraine had a large nuclear arsenal, but freely surrendered that resource in 1994, trusting in the promises of others - the US, the EU - to guarantee its borders.
militarynewsua.bsky.social 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · Feb 28
❗️Trump and Vance announced that they are on the side of Russia in this war, - Former Trump advisor John Bolton
March 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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An important reality check for Donald Trump.

Graph from the @financialtimes.com
FT graph: The US is not providing disproportionately large amounts to Ukraine
February 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it

understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
February 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
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Institute for the Study of War
Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine, leaving the remaining 80 percent of the country under Ukraine's sovereign control. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian f...
understandingwar.org
February 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.
February 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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“This is a once in a generation moment for the collective security of our continent”

Prime minister Keir Starmer
February 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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rorycj.bsky.social
I’ve just woken from a nightmare where the BBC Today Programme asked whether J.D. Vance had a point. When US officials are being asked to sign loyalty oaths and agree that Trump won in 2020
February 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM