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Mike Starkey

@MikeStarkers

Writer ❧ Broadcaster ❧ Priest ❧ Flâneur

London Katılım Haziran 2023
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
In 2017, New Age writer Deepak Chopra emailed the paedophile Epstein: ‘God is a construct Cute girls are real’ My feature from a couple of years ago, in which I write that Chopra’s big idea of the ‘True Self’ is a tool for manipulation and marketing. flaneurnotes.com/post/on-not-ha…
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
@MadsDavies A French Catholic bishop recently invited me and a Lutheran minister to a licensing. He told the packed service how strongly he valued our traditions, and asked us to pray for his new priest. He never once screamed in our faces that we were heretics with invalid orders 😆
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Madeleine Davies
Madeleine Davies@MadsDavies·
The Very Online Catholic men have entered my chat on here post the enthronement. The 🤢 emoji etc It’s all a bit silly & unserious and a world away from the Catholics among my friends and family.
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
Great to hear Radio 4's Moral Maze highlight Nelson St Church, Rochdale, as a vibrant, growing church that impacts its community. A privilege to have helped create this new church in a former Chinese restaurant. I love the way its angel mural watches over the heart of the town.
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Scott Barber
Scott Barber@thescottbarber·
I think I know how tankers can pass through the Strait of Hormuz unharmed.
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
@holland_tom And in other news, Shaggy from Scooby-Doo offers his verdict on the Great Schism of 1054.
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Tom Holland@holland_tom·
“The Western world has been on a bad trip, a 400-year bummer.” Timothy Leary on the Reformation
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
@roddreher The old farthing coin had a cute wren on. British culture somehow survived.
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Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher@roddreher·
It’s not why they did it, but THAT they did it. All the English ppl I’ve talked to about it in Oxford this week are furious. “No Churchill, but badgers?!?!” is the basic stance. Feels to them like cultural erasure, whatever the reason. They’re right.
Steve Loftus@LoftusSteve

I made a mistake yesterday that I think others have fallen for too. The BoE is not replacing Churchill and other historical figures so not to cause offense to certain groups. The notes change every 10 years and those involved in voting chose Wildlife. That's it.

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DiaperDiplomacy@DiaperDiplomacy·
“I’m Not a Big Fan of Prime Minister Starmer” — Sen. John Kennedy on UK 🇬🇧 Leadership & the War in Iran 🇮🇷
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
At the offices of The Observer, listening to the great nature writer Robert Macfarlane discuss his new book Is a River Alive?
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
@Christianitymag @LoisMcLatch Good article from Lois on the UK Green Party. I'm an ex Green voter, because their focus shifted from the environment to extreme positions on drugs and gender, not to mention leaving NATO and licensing state-supported brothels.
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Terry Tyler
Terry Tyler@TerryTyler4·
@MikeStarkers @theliamnissan That's not how the chapter reads to me. Not saying I'm sold on the rapture idea, just pointing out that the idea isn't unbiblical.
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Liam Nissan™
Liam Nissan™@theliamnissan·
We should probably stop putting people who are preparing for the rapture in charge of anything
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
@TerryTyler4 @theliamnissan The image here comes from the ancient world: citizens welcomed a visiting king by going out to meet him and escorting him to the city. The point of the verse is not that believers stay in the air with Jesus, but that he comes to earth to reign, and they welcome him properly.
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Terry Tyler
Terry Tyler@TerryTyler4·
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the lord. Looks fairly biblical to me.
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
@1goodtern Yep, insanity. And I'm saying that as a priest too.
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Insanity. And I'm saying that as a priest.
Clash Report@clashreport

U.S. commanders across more than 30 military bases told troops the Iran war is part of “God’s plan” and linked it to “Armageddon.” A commander said Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon.” The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) says it has received over 110 similar complaints describing the war as “biblically-sanctioned” and a sign of the Christian “End Times.” Source: Jonathan Larsen / Substack

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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
@MarkMantis Imagine being a church leader outside the USA, as we watch the word ‘evangelical’ become a synonym for cruelty, lying, bigotry and abuse. Whatever those MAGA evangelicals got from the deal, I hope it was worth it. Because it’s poisoned the well for the rest of us.
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Metal Mark 🇺🇸
Metal Mark 🇺🇸@MarkMantis·
MAGA Christianity has ruined any chance anyone ever had of converting me. I was close at times too… during my recovery journey… but that shit has been completely voided by those phony, cruel, virtue signaling, “Christ is King,” hypocritical monsters. I know not all Christians are like that, but I’m just speaking my truth. Not going anywhere near that shit myself.
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
@BMcGrewvy I have similar moments – and I’m a Church of England vicar! I just see it as a helpful reminder of why the different traditions need each other.
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Bethel McGrew
Bethel McGrew@BMcGrewvy·
When I sit down with a good Anglican it's like "Oh yeah, this is my people." Then I sit down with a good Baptist and it's like "Mmm, yeah. My people." I'm so confused.
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
@shebringsjoy Even exile can be a place of creativity and hope. ‘Seek the peace and prosperity of the city… for in its welfare you will find your welfare’ (Jeremiah on being in Babylon)
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Sarah St. Onge ن ♀🦬@shebringsjoy·
Had to go back to work today. As much as I say New York is worth saving I do sometimes hate being a Christian in pagan Babylon.
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
As the blossom starts to appear again, my little piece from three years ago. Written not long after I'd moved from Manchester to southwest London – with a nod to Japanese haiku poems and cherry blossom ceremonies. flaneurnotes.com/post/on-the-ar…
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
@Jebadoo2 It harms your argument when you use the misogynistic phrase 'grow a pair' (ie of testicles). It implies the absence of male genitalia means weak or inferior. It assumes maleness is superior to femaleness when it comes to being decisive.
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
@SamanthaTaghoy There's no suggestion that this case is anything to do with paedophilia.
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Samantha Smith
Samantha Smith@SamanthaTaghoy·
If we are going to condemn the predatory ideology of Islam, we must also be willing to call out evil within our own ranks. There’s a special place in hell for pedophile priests.
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Mike Starkey
Mike Starkey@MikeStarkers·
@daisyldixon Unwell, unhinged and unintelligent. Then again, those appear to be preconditions for high office in the USA these days.
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