Barry Sloan

As a member of a new monastic community it was great to hear from @BarrySloan last night on Pilgrimage in the footsteps of Saint Columbanus and the Celtic monks #onthemove

This woman knows what she is talking about, get her elected.

The Methodist Church in Ireland is appalled by the call for ‘anti-immigrant’ protests planned across Northern Ireland on Saturday 3rd August. → Read more: bit.ly/4drmyTl

Take it in. The first female chancellor. The first housing secretary who's actually lived in social housing. The first education secretary who was on free school meals. An energy secretary who actually believes in aggressively fighting climate change. Not a bad afternoon.

I show the assembly rooms, Ross's Mineral Factory, the Old Town Hall and all of North Street to people on my tours and they are horrified that these beautiful buildings have been left to rot. Tribeca et al are absolutely criminal in their neglect, they need to be stopped

@mmiofsky Thanks Matt. Also - my understanding of regionalization is also about the US becoming one of those 'regions'.

We are hearing from the standing committee on central conference matters. They make a compelling case for contextual ministry and a new, simpler, global book of discipline that allows parts to be adaptable to differing contexts. This is what regionalization largely about #umcgc

Falls nochmal jemand über “die Mitte der Gesellschaft” reden will. Das ist die Mitte der Gesellschaft. Und sie lehnt die AfD und den Faschismus ab.

So apparently the @BBCNews chose not to broadcast the prosecution case in the genocide trial of Israel, then chose to broadcast the entire Israeli defence. This is a travesty for a public broadcaster. How can this not be bias? To make a complaint go here bbc.co.uk/contact/compla…

Christmas is about believing what a woman said about her sex life. Christmas is about a family finding safety as refugees. Christmas is about a child in need receiving support from the wise. Christmas is about God identifying himself with the marginalized not the powerful.

Merry Christmas @carolvorders and @GaryLineker thank you for rattling the tories this year and calling them out! We need more like you Repost and leave you Christmas messages below if you support them!

@SJAMcBride I have the utmost respect for the vital and excellent work you do. Wishing you well. Respect👏

A small section of the abuse - much of it sectarian - after my Sunday Independent column yesterday criticised Sinn Féin: "colonial planter", "bitter orange w****r", "sour-faced c**t", "bigot", "c*****h journalist", and on and on. This is now routine when SF are criticised.

#Portuguese vs. #English vs. #German, by MatMesk (@matmesk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tiktok.com/@matmesk) #Language

This photograph was taken seconds before the red car explodes, killing 29 people including the photographer. The camera was found afterwards in the rubble. The man and child in the photo both survived. The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The bombing killed 29 people and injured some 220 others, making it the deadliest single incident of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

📸 The big reveal 😍 Completed Mural at the @TownhouseArt building, formerly #GoodVibrations record store The #GreatExpectations Project is planning for the future of Great Victoria Street, with a nod to it's vibrant past! Thanks to partners & co-funders @belfastcc

Today in 39th anniversary of losing my Dad in the Brighton bomb, I commit to create a year long activities for the 40th anniversary, focusing on shared humanity, empathy, listening, peace building and positive changemakers, flooding the world with love and kindness. #hope #love

This is the moment an old Palestinian woman is evicted from her house by Jewish squatters. The house, which had been in her family for generations, was given to Jewish immigrants fresh off the plane from Eastern Europe, people who had no connection to Palestine.

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

So bizarre when you realise that something that you just assumed belongs to everyone (likes Lough Neagh) actually belongs to a minted young aristocrat who is never here, inherited it and wants money for it rather than proactively cleaning it up. Mad world. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Is the German public aware of this? zdf.de/nachrichten/po…