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I shall stick with my @quiresandplaces.com 'Word' chord long-sleeved t-shirt. Classy, understated and comfy under a cassock. I also have an Advent one!

@wonkhe.bsky.social you're usually better than this. Where's the critical analysis?

For me, the act of rembrance means bathing without the act of commitment to work for peace which we have in the Anglican liturgy. It is one of the reasons why I wear the white poppy.

It must seem utterly bizarre.

I don't think it does in the context of debates in the CofE. He will have irritated all the right people, while affirming many, many LGBT people. The latter especially is important.

No. Partner in this sense recognises the relationship in law. Boyfriend would be far more casual.

I saw Dean Mark's sermon the other week: courageous, sincere and scriptural.

He is not, however, married to
his partner. They are in a civil partnership (not the same in law as either church or civil marriage).

The CofE is in a pickle about this and of course he should be able to marry.

And countless other wonderful medievalists!

The article also indirectly highlights the problems with things like the Nobels that lionise supposedly superstar researchers at the expense of the collaborative research on which discoveries depend. 2/2

I admit to struggling, paraphrasing somewhat, with the paradox of 'C and W didn't nick the research ' and 'C and W didn't ask permission to use the data'.

That they were able to do that was undoubtedly down to the exclusion of women & other groups from informal networks and it still happens. 1/

The article still reads as an apologia for the exclusion of women in science.