Ian Webb 🇺🇦

We did it, together.

I’ve decided that I’ll only feature videos of Farage in my content with voice modification, like the BBC did with Sinn Fein in the 90s, to avoid giving them the oxygen of publicity or an illusion of credibility.

@2D0XPS @DrFrancisYoung Lay led presumably? I keep praying for the gift of bi-location or even tri-location but it’s not happened yet!

@DrFrancisYoung Even*𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨* probably is only ‘something cathedrals do’ (or large parish churches): most places don't have the musical resources. But there's nothing to stop every village church opening up for said Offices with congregations of 2 or 3, it's only a lack of will.

Things like Benediction and Marian devotion have become almost the sine qua non of modern ACism: Pusey, Liddon, Benson, etc would probably be horrified. Things they really cared about like regular Confession and the public celebration of the Office seem to have taken a backseat.

@2D0XPS Many congratulations and welcome to North East Derbyshire deanery Daniel 🙏

Some personal news:

Russell Brand searches for a Bible passage - with the addition of the Countdown clock music.

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

Imagine Trump’s messages read out by the prosecution at Nuremberg. (“A whole civilisation will die tonight.”) They would have hanged any one of the defendants.

(1/10) @realDonaldTrump cited me as supporting his attack on Iran and expressing regret we didn’t do it during the Biden Administration. Except I didn’t.

@markdwildman @afneil Ever since Tim Messenger took over, right?

@afneil Meanwhile in our once highly respected local paper..

In this context red carpet is a compound adjective so perfectly proper to link with a hyphen to make it ‘red-carpet style’. Simples.

🚨BREAKING: The "Board of Peace" launches its first war....

@rwilliams1947 Going forward they should literally use “contacted.”

Emphatically seconded.

Oh dear. This is sort of perfect….

Key figures in the Church of England often point to increases in attendance figures since 2020 Some suggest it's a sign of religious revival Some claim there is a growth in children and young people attending What is going on? A thread 🧵 (sources in image description text)

It's been such a privilege to work alongside some really great people who are bringing this before the @churchofengland England General @synod next month.

Dear Telegraph News pages please have a cup of tea with your Travel pages we’ll send scones. Love, the National Trust.

For anyone who would like to hear Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech in full here it is. This is what true global leadership looks like. Canada should be immensely proud today, because they are leading the fight back when others dare not. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRBDT4mB/

Trumps foreign policy predicted in comedy

My time on @churchofengland @synod allowed me to engage in something the really matters, The Working Class! Here is the @Eminem and croquet on the lawn moment I described in the chamber last February. Full conversation here youtu.be/yPnnKJBVfls?si…

@johnmilbank3 @SaveTheParish So who is then responsible for the not-merged but still open churches?

The answer to even catastrophically falling clergy numbers must not be to shut churches but to start to end the vicious circle whereby the merging of parishes makes priesthood unattractive, leading to falling congregations and then, inevitably, fewer vocations. @SaveTheParish

As the week of prayer for Christian Unity approaches, a small contribution to the unity of the CofE. Something in which - surely - all wings of the Church can find something to love. A hymn for the feast of Charles King & Martyr to a much-loved Graham Kendrick tune: