Gerry Lynch
@therealgerrylynch.bsky.social
Rector in Wiltshire, postgrad in Oxford, former politico in Belfast, photographer anywhere that will let me in. I have a late-2000s style website with lots of actual content at https://www.gerrylynch.co.uk/
So too our resurrection—the same self, gloriously transformed. We are seeds. The universe, in all its glory, but the soil in which we grow. How much greater is the whole cosmos than the soil? So much greater will our resurrected existence be than our lives now. 6/7
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
So too our resurrection—the same self, gloriously transformed. We are seeds. The universe, in all its glory, but the soil in which we grow. How much greater is the whole cosmos than the soil? So much greater will our resurrected existence be than our lives now. 6/7
If this sounds woo-ey, remember how we take as given metamorphosis in the physical world: from tadpole to frog & caterpillar to butterfly. They are transformed to move in new dimensions, once beyond their conception, yet remaining the individuals they always were. 5/7
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If this sounds woo-ey, remember how we take as given metamorphosis in the physical world: from tadpole to frog & caterpillar to butterfly. They are transformed to move in new dimensions, once beyond their conception, yet remaining the individuals they always were. 5/7
Jesus tells them we’ll be transformed, something like angels, beyond the need for marriage. Our materialist age tries to reduce human beings to biorobots, collections of chemicals, controlled by electrical signals—but instinctively we know we’re also beings of soul and spirit. 4/7
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Jesus tells them we’ll be transformed, something like angels, beyond the need for marriage. Our materialist age tries to reduce human beings to biorobots, collections of chemicals, controlled by electrical signals—but instinctively we know we’re also beings of soul and spirit. 4/7
Thinking they’ve shown how ridiculous He is, they ask Jesus whose wife she’ll be after resurrection. They make the same mistake many of us do—Christian Resurrection isn’t about life extension but transformation into something different, in a state where time is somehow other. 3/7
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Thinking they’ve shown how ridiculous He is, they ask Jesus whose wife she’ll be after resurrection. They make the same mistake many of us do—Christian Resurrection isn’t about life extension but transformation into something different, in a state where time is somehow other. 3/7
They posed a bizarre story like something straight out of a Coen Brothers plot: a woman’s husband dies soon after they marry, and his brother steps in as their laws required; then she works her way through seven brothers as they die one after the next. 2/7
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
They posed a bizarre story like something straight out of a Coen Brothers plot: a woman’s husband dies soon after they marry, and his brother steps in as their laws required; then she works her way through seven brothers as they die one after the next. 2/7
If you think the idea of resurrection is absurd, you aren’t alone. It offends our scientific worldview, and even in the ancient world, the Sadducees—the smart, rationalist, high social class, scholars of Jesus’ Palestine—totally made fun of Him for believing in Resurrection. 1/7
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If you think the idea of resurrection is absurd, you aren’t alone. It offends our scientific worldview, and even in the ancient world, the Sadducees—the smart, rationalist, high social class, scholars of Jesus’ Palestine—totally made fun of Him for believing in Resurrection. 1/7
The Church of England Newspaper (@churchnewspaper.bsky.social)
has paused publication while it seeks a financial way forward: it had been supported by media entrepreneur Keith Young who died in February. Thoughts with staff
at what must be an unsettling & upsetting time. mailchi.mp/012009fa66be...
has paused publication while it seeks a financial way forward: it had been supported by media entrepreneur Keith Young who died in February. Thoughts with staff
at what must be an unsettling & upsetting time. mailchi.mp/012009fa66be...
July 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Church of England Newspaper (@churchnewspaper.bsky.social)
has paused publication while it seeks a financial way forward: it had been supported by media entrepreneur Keith Young who died in February. Thoughts with staff
at what must be an unsettling & upsetting time. mailchi.mp/012009fa66be...
has paused publication while it seeks a financial way forward: it had been supported by media entrepreneur Keith Young who died in February. Thoughts with staff
at what must be an unsettling & upsetting time. mailchi.mp/012009fa66be...
We all like a summer evening drive... Corfe Castle, Dorset, 9 July 2025.
July 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
We all like a summer evening drive... Corfe Castle, Dorset, 9 July 2025.
The Tankwa Karoo National Park as a summer afternoon turns to evening. #SouthAfrica
May 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The Tankwa Karoo National Park as a summer afternoon turns to evening. #SouthAfrica
If they do get it right, they could destroy Reform, a party which nobody is quite sure about whose leader people are very unsure about. Here’s the Danish People’s Party’s parliamentary election results: from 21.1% in 2015 to 2.6% in 2022. 4/6
May 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
If they do get it right, they could destroy Reform, a party which nobody is quite sure about whose leader people are very unsure about. Here’s the Danish People’s Party’s parliamentary election results: from 21.1% in 2015 to 2.6% in 2022. 4/6
Captured with a camera, not generated with AI...
April 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Captured with a camera, not generated with AI...
Kyiv before the war.... Lavrska Street, 11 August 2017. © Gerry Lynch.
April 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Kyiv before the war.... Lavrska Street, 11 August 2017. © Gerry Lynch.
Our next Devizes Deanery Choral Evensong will take place St Mary the Virgin, Bishops Cannings at 6 pm on Sunday 30 March.
For those who would like to sing, please feel free to turn up to the rehearsal on the day – the rehearsal will start promptly at 4.15 pm. 1/3
For those who would like to sing, please feel free to turn up to the rehearsal on the day – the rehearsal will start promptly at 4.15 pm. 1/3
March 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Our next Devizes Deanery Choral Evensong will take place St Mary the Virgin, Bishops Cannings at 6 pm on Sunday 30 March.
For those who would like to sing, please feel free to turn up to the rehearsal on the day – the rehearsal will start promptly at 4.15 pm. 1/3
For those who would like to sing, please feel free to turn up to the rehearsal on the day – the rehearsal will start promptly at 4.15 pm. 1/3
Primrose morning, Great Cheverell churchyard. #Wiltshire
March 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Primrose morning, Great Cheverell churchyard. #Wiltshire
St Thomas's in Salisbury today—a 21st Century font in a 15th Century building with a 16th Century painting of the last judgement.
March 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
St Thomas's in Salisbury today—a 21st Century font in a 15th Century building with a 16th Century painting of the last judgement.
Another one for St Patrick's Day—the High Cross at Clones, Co. Monaghan, 27 March 2009.
March 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Another one for St Patrick's Day—the High Cross at Clones, Co. Monaghan, 27 March 2009.
Hail glorious Saint Patrick, dear saint of our isle
On us thy poor children bestow a sweet smile
And now thou art high in the mansions above
On Erin's green valleys look down in thy love
On us thy poor children bestow a sweet smile
And now thou art high in the mansions above
On Erin's green valleys look down in thy love
March 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Hail glorious Saint Patrick, dear saint of our isle
On us thy poor children bestow a sweet smile
And now thou art high in the mansions above
On Erin's green valleys look down in thy love
On us thy poor children bestow a sweet smile
And now thou art high in the mansions above
On Erin's green valleys look down in thy love
Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest at a whopping 5,199 metres above sea level, shot from the outskirts of Timau in Meru County.
March 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest at a whopping 5,199 metres above sea level, shot from the outskirts of Timau in Meru County.
Afternoon light, Meru County, Kenya, 11 January 2025.
March 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Afternoon light, Meru County, Kenya, 11 January 2025.
That doesn’t mean we stop working for God’s Kingdom on Earth, but we know we’ll often fail, and when we do, we trust God will forgive us. When things go wrong with earthly kingdoms, we don’t despair, because we know our true citizenship & reward will be in the world to come. 8/9
March 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
That doesn’t mean we stop working for God’s Kingdom on Earth, but we know we’ll often fail, and when we do, we trust God will forgive us. When things go wrong with earthly kingdoms, we don’t despair, because we know our true citizenship & reward will be in the world to come. 8/9
Paul was a citizen of a mighty & seemingly eternal empire, but he didn’t tell Christians to reform the Roman state or fight for their rights, but to confess Jesus as Lord so they could be saved into their true home and reward, God’s Kingdom in Heaven in the world to come. 7/9
March 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Paul was a citizen of a mighty & seemingly eternal empire, but he didn’t tell Christians to reform the Roman state or fight for their rights, but to confess Jesus as Lord so they could be saved into their true home and reward, God’s Kingdom in Heaven in the world to come. 7/9
The trouble with seeking an earthly kingdom, even a well-intentioned one, is that all Empires fall. We saw that happen to the Soviet Empire 35 years ago. The USA is now retreating from its empire back to the motherland, leaving the UK & all Europe in a geopolitical wilderness. 6/9
March 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The trouble with seeking an earthly kingdom, even a well-intentioned one, is that all Empires fall. We saw that happen to the Soviet Empire 35 years ago. The USA is now retreating from its empire back to the motherland, leaving the UK & all Europe in a geopolitical wilderness. 6/9
After Hiroshima & Auschwitz, the Church focused on peace, justice, and reconciliation, understandably & with some success. But it started trusting that laws & treaties could contain humanity’s dark side—psychiatry perhaps even heal it—falling into Christ’s second temptation. 5/9
March 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
After Hiroshima & Auschwitz, the Church focused on peace, justice, and reconciliation, understandably & with some success. But it started trusting that laws & treaties could contain humanity’s dark side—psychiatry perhaps even heal it—falling into Christ’s second temptation. 5/9
Christians face the same temptations: using faith for worldly gain, to dodge responsibility, or as a problem-solver. The last is understandable: we want a better world. But Christianity teaches we can’t fully live our ideals—otherwise Christ’s sacrifice wouldn't be necessary. 4/9
March 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Christians face the same temptations: using faith for worldly gain, to dodge responsibility, or as a problem-solver. The last is understandable: we want a better world. But Christianity teaches we can’t fully live our ideals—otherwise Christ’s sacrifice wouldn't be necessary. 4/9