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Claire Robson
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Priest after the order of Melchizedek, much nearer home.
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Privileged to hear the Archbishop of Jerusalem address #Synod. He continues to minister with such humility in the midst of brutal circumstances
July 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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June 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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#CofEPeeps be aware of this great resource!
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June 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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No email has ever found me well.
May 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Perfect.
This is as adorable as it sounds.
I just discovered owlsintowels.org. It does what it says, pictures of owls in towels.

#TinyJoys
May 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Never mind all the media hoo ha about Thursday’s local elections.
The really big news has just been announced in Humshaugh….
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May 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Me too. Anyone else?
I've signed this. If you're in the UK and support the rights of Trans people, you might like to do so (deadline is later today - Tuesday)
Trans people in the UK are (finally) getting organized!

This letter, started by a single passionate ally, has garnered nearly 1000 signatures in just a few days.

Now, two trans rights orgs are throwing their weight behind it, demanding MPs act

Sign it. Share it.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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I've signed this. If you're in the UK and support the rights of Trans people, you might like to do so (deadline is later today - Tuesday)
Trans people in the UK are (finally) getting organized!

This letter, started by a single passionate ally, has garnered nearly 1000 signatures in just a few days.

Now, two trans rights orgs are throwing their weight behind it, demanding MPs act

Sign it. Share it.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Re Operation of Single-Sex Services after the Supreme Court Ruling
Explainer: FGEN (feministgenderequality.network) and TransActual (transactual.org.uk) have thrown their support behind this letter and want to make it an official petition for a face to face meeting ...
docs.google.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Read, learn.
And inwardly digest.
Gorgeous.
A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked.

I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.
March 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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March 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Remember, man, that thou art dust.

The earl kneels, the ash of the end is written on his brow.

A captain of ships kneels, to be put in mind of a death in a far port, or at home, or on a rock of the sea…

—George Mackay Brown, “Ash Wednesday”
from TRAVELLERS (John Murray, 2013)
#AshWednesday #poem
March 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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May this #Lent be chastening, enriching, joyful, and in this Vale of Tears hopeful, O Lord, we beseech you, grant us Hope.
March 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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This was utterly inspirational. In the worst possible situation Mina’s courage & candour are beyond measure #recommend
Desert Island Discs - Mina Smallman, activist - BBC Sounds
Mina Smallman, activist, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
For those wondering what’s been going on at General Synod this is worth reading tswyatt.substack.com/p/independen...?
Independent-ish
Synod gets stuck in factionalism, but stumbles into a reasonable compromise on safeguarding reform - and in between manages to unban gluten-free Communion wafers
tswyatt.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Here's what's coming up today at Synod.

Follow along with the livestream at cofe.io/SynodLivestream.
February 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people.” I’ve had my differences with Justin Trudeau, for sure, but he rose to the occasion here.
February 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Perfect. Utterly perfect.
After mass today a chocolate reindeer was thrust into my hand: "We can't keep them beyond Candlemas, pet, that wouldn't be right."

We are liturgically sound in all aspects of church life at St Peter's 🤣

#TinyJoys
February 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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This sort of weather reminds me of my favourite cartoon - the one which says 'The weather was so bad, only the little old ladies managed to make it to church'.
January 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Can I suggest that we all get a bit seasonal and contemplate the Adoration of the Magi in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It is claimed to be the first depiction of snow in Western Art.
(If you can't find the Magi, there's some adoring going on bottom left in a rather ordinary hovel.)
January 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I love this so much! Read, or listen, just perfect.
“When the dark comes rising, six shall turn it back…”
It’s 20 Dec—Winter Solstice Eve—& the day Susan Cooper’s great, cult novel The Dark Is Rising opens.
Simon McBurney & I co-adapted a 12-part audio-drama of Susan’s novel.
You can listen along, an ep a day, here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
BBC Sounds - The Dark Is Rising - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The Dark Is Rising on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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Let’s hear it for Hilda of Whitby, Abbess, feminist and arch diplomat. Legend has it that when seabirds fly over Whitby Abbey they dip their wings in her honour
November 19, 2024 at 9:09 AM
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

Beautifully written, and a wonderful example of what we do and why we do it. The C of E at its finest.
The poignancy of preparing a service after the Queen’s death
Thursday was a curious day for us all. Anyone watching the news was treated to the complexity of commentators trying desperately hard not to say the thing that everyone watching knew was happening: th...
www.spectator.co.uk
September 9, 2024 at 7:50 AM
I am to be licensed as Associate Priest at St Andrews Corbridge on Saturday 27th January at 11am. All welcome if you’re able to come. www.corbridgechurch.org.uk/b
December 14, 2023 at 3:39 PM
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December 2, 2023 at 9:33 PM