Busola Sodeinde

Kindness alert 💛 My special thanks to @YouVersion for placing our content on its platform. bible.com/en/reading-pla… Do read , watch and share this link 👆🏽; let’s spread the joy of loving our neighbours

Hugely grateful to HM The King for his encouraging words & CBE award 'For services to the Church of England' - which I joyfully accepted on behalf of @HTBChurch & for his many memorable visits to support us, @stmellitus, our church planting, refugee & persecuted church ministries

Spring has sprung and Easter's here, spreading joy and cheer! 🐣🌷 Hop into the festivities with us as we embark on an egg-citing adventure! 🥚🎉 #EasterFun #EggHunt #SpringVibes #FamilyTime #EasterEats #JoyfulMoments #EasterCelebration #SpringFeast #HappyEaster

He is alive! Jesus is risen! The tomb is empty. Death is conquered. There is life after death. There is hope for the world. And Jesus is with you today! #HappyEaster    #HeIsRisen

Happy Easter to all who are celebrating! Take a look at our Easter-themed activities: bit.ly/4cvyUKB

With a thousand hallelujahs We magnify Your name You alone deserve the glory The honor and the praise Lord Jesus This song is forever Yours A thousand hallelujahs And a thousand more Credit: 🎶 Brooke Ligertwood's 'A Thousand Hallelujahs'

Happy Easter 💛 "Brooke Ligertwood's '🎶 A Thousand Hallelujahs' is my Easter anthem, Its melody echoes with a thousand hallelujahs in my soul, reaffirming the essence of the season." Thank you Jesus for the cross ✝️

On behalf of all Scouts, we wish HRH Catherine, Princess of Wales a full and speedy recovery at this challenging time for her and her family. The Princess is an inspiration to our movement and a constant champion for young people. We are grateful for her continuing service.

🚨BREAKING NEWS 🗞️ Internet outage hits #Nigeria as undersea cables near Côte d'Ivoire suffer damage. Telecoms and banks impacted, with transaction processing issues reported. MTN users experiencing slow data. Stay tuned on dysh for updates. #telecoms #MTN #WhatsApp #data

I, like many others around the world, am shocked and saddened by events in Nigeria over the past few days. I join calls for the immediate release of the hundreds of schoolchildren, some as young as 7, kidnapped by gangs. There are more than 18 million Anglicans living and worshipping in Nigeria, and I stand with my brothers and sisters in that land of amazing abundance, whose lives are currently being destroyed by conflict and kidnappings. It goes without saying that children should be free to live and learn without fear of being taken from school by armed gunmen. School should be a place of complete safety, and not one of fear and uncertainty as to whether you will go home to your family that night. In his teachings, Jesus warns against causing children harm for the Kingdom of God belongs to them. With this in mind, let us strive to protect them from evil, and instead cherish and protect them, allowing them to live enriching lives.

🔴 @Arsenal are top of the Premier League for the first time since Boxing Day!

Read my article about the church commissioners response to the transatlantic slave trade. “Jesus teaches us in the scriptures that forgiveness has no limits...At the heart of the Christian gospel is the call to be reconciled - to each other and to God.” archbishopofyork.org/news/latest-ne…

On Mothering Sunday, let's offer a heartfelt prayer for mothers and their families impacted by the abduction of young girls in Nigeria. Grateful to the BBC for shedding light on this important story. bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

Kai Havertz scored the winner for Arsenal. They are now top of the Premier League table. Arsenal 2_ 1 Brentford FT #ARSBRE #Dyshsports

This #InternationalWomensDay, read Teresa and Emma's story. They're two inspiring women who were determined to set up Explorers in their community and make sure 14–18 year olds could continue their Scouts adventure. Read their story in our blog: bit.ly/3TpkzHY

@Rgt71Robert Thank you for this 👇🏾 So Marcus turns the proposal to ‘apologise for the destruction of African religions’ to mean apologizing for the ‘bringing of the gospel’. But they are not the same thing.

So given the social media posts Marcus is certainly right that apologizing for the destruction of African religions has proved controversial!! There has really been quite a lot of what I can only describe as ‘faith fury’, mostly from white men, as far as I have seen, so I wonder what’s going on here? Firstly, I think that the ‘faith fury’ responses tend to exaggerate what is being proposed here. So Marcus turns the proposal to ‘apologise for the destruction of African religions’ to mean apologizing for the ‘bringing of the gospel’. But they are not the same thing and that easy equation needs to questioned. The reality of the bringing of ‘Christianity’ anywhere is much more historically & morally complex than this. So secondly, the British Isles, for example, the reality of ‘Christianization’ is much more complex than the ‘destruction’ of the religious practices that missionaries found here. The reason why there are so many St Mary’s Churches along the Thames is that they were built on pre-existing temples to Isis. The interesting issue here is does this constitute a an incorporation or a supercession of the prior religion!? Was the cult of Isis abolished or was it baptized? Where are the borders of what constitutes ‘the gospel’ when many ‘pagan’ practices are simply incorporated into an emerging form of Christian expression in these islands? Thirdly, the history of Christian expressions of faith in these islands points to the reality that there simply isn’t a pure’ form of ‘the gospel’. The tradition of Celtic Christianity also fuses together the more cosmic economies of the relationship of the human person to the natural world that was found in pre Christian expressions of faith with ‘the gospel’. This contrasts really quite sharply with the more anthropocentrically orientated forms of western Christianity that have come to dominate. Fourthly, the reality of the Christian missions to Africa & other parts of the world is that the construction of ‘the gospel’ that was brought is generally very closely intermingled with colonialist world-views & their barbaric practices. These themselves were inimically anti-gospel & anti-Christ in that they treated other human beings and their lands as property to be owned, exploited and abused. If the ‘light of the gospel’ that is brought includes the enslavement of other human beings, and refusing to see them as people made in the image of God, that is really quite some gospel indeed. Fifthly, we really need to deal with both the historical realities of the Christian missions & the really quite morally ambiguous & complex impact that they had on the bodies of real African people before we use terms such as ‘idolotary’ as @2D0XPS brings into play in his response. The biblical conception of ‘idolotary’ is very much tied up with the offering of human sacrifices to gods other than Yahweh, the single creator of all life. (And we may also ponder the development of Yahweh from tribal deity into the Lord, the Creator of All itself…). Given that we in the colonial-missionary period failed to treat every human as if they had a common Creator, sold them into slavery, abused and killed them we need to be quite clear that the Christianity that we brought was a deathly idolatry itself. An idol that consumed human lives & demanded human sacrifices. Sixthly, I think that we would all do well to ponder these historical realities before we make easy judgements. We need to do an awful lot more church history in theological education than at present seems to be being done. For the real embodiment of ‘the gospel’ in any historical period & its impact on real people, communities and other faiths, always asks deep questions of our own easy constructions of faith. So with the Church Commissioners I completely welcome this report which @RosemarieMallet group has produced & the conversations that it and the responses to it have now opened up for the entire @churchofengland.

The Church Commissioners for England has warmly welcomed a report advising on its response to historic links with African chattel enslavement. The Oversight Group’s report will shape the new Fund for Healing, Repair and Justice. Read more at cofe.io/OversightGroup….

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@cliveatsynod Some of us don’t need the lyrics anything thrown at us will do. I’ll be open for a Saturday night fever .

Starting to think ahead to General Synod York 2024, how about a silent disco in the Chamber on Saturday night ? What would different Synod "characters" ask the DJ to play? Please be funny not cruel.

@NicolaDenyer1 I was yesterday , I literally couldn’t process after some time. I had the pleasure of participating online today, and felt a bit rejuvenated. Still a busy week catching up on work 😟

Anyone else who was at #synod feel seen by this??? 😂🤦‍♀️😩

@Rgt71Robert Hahaha 🤣

These two are leading me astray…..♥️