Rev. Rory Castle Jones
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Rev. Rory Castle Jones
@rorycastlejones.bsky.social
❤️ Duw, cariad yw • God is love ❤️

✝️ Unitarian Christian
🌈 LGBTQ+ inclusive
⛪️ Minister, Gellionnen Chapel
🙏 University chaplain
💡Ministry & Leadership @ UK Unitarian HQ
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cwm Tawe, Cymru
⛰️ Swansea Valley, Wales
Bore da ☀️ Join us for morning worship at Gellionnen Chapel today at 10.45am ⛪️ 🌈 ❤️
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Bore da / Good morning ☀️ Join us at 10.45am for a service exploring Jesus’s words to his disciples: “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” ❤️🙏 🌈
November 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A room with a view…
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This week I’m up in the Peak District for the annual Unitarian Ministerial Fellowship gathering.
October 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
We had a very special congregational outing to Margam Abbey today, founded 1147 and home of the Mansells, who granted land to build Gellionnen Chapel back in 1692! A beautiful place, rich with faith, history & energy. Thanks for the amazing tour & very warm welcome. Diolch o galon ⛪️🙏❤️
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A beautiful Autumn morning on the mountain for our service this morning, exploring the words and lives of St Paul, William Ellery Channing and Norbert Čapek 🙏⛪️❤️
October 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
It was a joy to lead worship at York Unitarians Chapel on St Saviourgate in the heart of York’s historic centre. Huge thanks to the congregation for the invitation and the warm welcome 😊🙏⛪️🌈
October 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Happy Harvest! Gwasanaeth Diolchgarwch 🌽🌈❤️🙏😊
September 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Noson anhygoel / a wonderful night at the opera - ‘Tosca’ @welshnatopera.bsky.social at the Millennium Centre, Caerdydd 🎶👏❤️
September 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Today at my chapel we had the privilege of hosting Gwyl Cynnal y Fflam / Tending The Flame Festival - a celebration of Welsh Unitarianism, organised by our denomination’s ministers. We had a mixture of worship, talks, socialising and spiritual exploration 🕯️❤️🙏🌈⛪️🎶
September 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Four years ago today I was ordained! A huge thank you to my congregation’s members, deacons & trustees, ministry colleagues, friends & family for all your support over the years and onwards. I am incredibly lucky and blessed 🙏❤️⛪️🌈
September 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“O God, to whom we pray for truth, be with us in our trembling lest we find it…”

A beautiful, powerful prayer today by the Welsh-American minister and civil rights campaigner, A. Powell Davies 🙏❤️🌎
September 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
“The land yields its harvest;
God, our God, blesses us.
May God bless us still.”

“Yna y ddaear a rydd ei ffrwyth;
a Duw, sef ein Duw ni, a’n bendithia.
Duw a’n bendithia.”

- Psalm 67:6-7
August 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Today I climbed Pen y Fan for the first time in my life! With good friends, our two wonderful whippets and great weather. A blissful day 🙏⛰️🐶☀️❤️
July 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“The most illuminating thing that Christianity presents to us is a man Jesus who appears to stand alone on the limits of existence, & to say & do the uncomfortably simple, courageous & compassionate things which are true, so that even if we cannot follow, we know that we ought to.” - H Lismer-Short
July 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A beautiful morning up on the mountain - we celebrated Holy Communion and it was a joy and a blessing 🙏🥖🍷❤️
July 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Preaching this morning at Gellionnen about doubt, faith and St Thomas 🙏 🌻 ⛪️
July 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“We commune too much, O God, with what defeats us…
Help us to see the good we have done and to be encouraged by it.
Help us to see the good we might have done and to be drawn towards it.”

- A. Powell Davies (1902-57), Welsh-American Unitarian minister 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇸 🙏
July 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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July 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It’s so great to see our Community Coffee Morning in Trebanos growing each week. If you’re local or in the area pop in any Thursday at 11am 😊☕️🍰
July 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Thank you to the fabulous @lauradobson.bsky.social for the wonderful session this evening on Hildegard von Bingen and what she has to say to us today - part of a great @woodbrooke.bsky.social course on spiritual wisdom from liberal Christianity ✝️ 🙏❤️
July 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Beuatiful dahlias in the garden this evening 🌸 🙏 😊
July 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Noson pizza gyda ffrindiau 🍕 ☀️ 🍷
July 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Lots of fun this morning with one of our local primary schools, learning about Noah’s Ark and God’s love for humanity and animals 🌈❤️😊
July 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“Teach us, O God, that when our fetters seem too strong to break, the time has come at last when we must break them.”

- Rev. A. Powell Davies (1902-1957) Welsh-born minister of All Souls Church, Washington DC @uua.org 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇸 🙏
July 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Rhosyn / roses ❤️🙏😊
June 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM