Terry Tastard

1.5K posts

Terry Tastard banner
Terry Tastard

Terry Tastard

@TerryTastard

Catholic priest. Former journalist who still loves to write. FRHistS.

London, England Katılım Ağustos 2016
51 Takip Edilen175 Takipçiler
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
English nationalism was almost unheard of. English identity (except at football) is usually subsumed within British identity. Now we see the rise of English nationalism. What is driving this? Is it populist revolt against an elite? Reaction to Celtic home rule? Multiculturalism?
English
0
0
0
50
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
@MrHistory92 @A_living_stem Most of the married Catholic priests were formally vicars and would have seen their children baptised in, so to speak, their previous incarnation.
English
0
0
0
74
Mthr Cara
Mthr Cara@A_living_stem·
Priests who have children - did you baptise your own babies, or have someone else do it? If you’re a son or daughter of a priest please also answer!
English
47
2
28
10.8K
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
@Gough_Janet I’m afraid that the problem is far wider than this instance. Quite simply many clergy and decision makers in the Church of England reject the concept of Sacred space
English
0
0
6
674
Janet Gough
Janet Gough@Gough_Janet·
For #AscensionDay let’s champion a return to public view for William Hogarth’s vast Ascension triptych - proof the English could rival the Continentals in grand-scale church history painting. Painted for St Mary Redcliffe, it now hangs hidden behind a curtain in St Nicholas, Bristol. Surely it deserves better?
Janet Gough tweet media
English
13
29
165
49.1K
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
Disappointed that in consumer conformity I bought Alexa Echo. Not good idea. Weirdly clunky. It's unable to adjust to different volumes of incoming music. Also I ask it to play English choral music and get Avro Part. I ask again, enunciating more carefully and get ... Avro Part.
English
0
0
0
21
Andy Marshall 📸
Andy Marshall 📸@fotofacade·
Built when Bede was a baby. Light and shade at the Anglo-Saxon church at Escomb in the Wear Valley which was built around 675AD. It is thought to be one of the most complete Anglo-Saxon churches in England.
Andy Marshall 📸 tweet media
English
10
180
1K
16.1K
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
I’ve been spending too much time on this website and wondered how to get off it. Well, I realised today that a lot of the stories I found interesting are fictional clickbait. They seem increasingly numerous and I guess AI generated. It will be easier now for me to stay away.
English
0
0
1
17
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
@glosswitch 45 years ago I turned down an undergrad place and chose to go to London instead, feeling like an impostor at Cambridge. I was working class, and from the colonies to boot. Do I rather regret it? Yes, I do but life would’ve been very different, not better but different.
English
0
0
0
20
Victoria Smith
Victoria Smith@glosswitch·
I thought coming back I'd be all "ha! Well I got it in the end!" but it's funny how that old feeling just comes back anyways. Anyhow, this is something I wrote about that particular disaster a while ago (which I've learned isn't that unusual) thecritic.co.uk/what-i-learned…
English
3
2
113
4.5K
Victoria Smith
Victoria Smith@glosswitch·
Wandering round Cambridge today and it's lovely but also strange because I felt such a massive impostor / failure most of the time I was here as a student. This spot by the river is where I cried my eyes out just after having failed my PhD viva >
Victoria Smith tweet media
English
17
4
411
26K
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
@edward_gillin I took many a funeral there. At the time there used to be a sign pointing to the recycling centre down the same road. I never knew whether to laugh or be appalled.
English
1
0
2
29
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
@TinaBeattie I believe it in the state of Nevada, on the ballot there is a box which you can tick saying “none of the above”. Many American states also have.write-in options - you can write in the name of someone you prefer.
English
0
0
0
23
Tina Beattie
Tina Beattie@TinaBeattie·
Having grown up in African countries where people risked everything for the right to vote, and as a woman, I know the price others have paid for this right and I always weep with gratitude when I enter the ballot box. Not this time. Democracy is experiencing assisted suicide.
Jill Foster@JournalistJill

Saying to husband on way to polling station that I used to LOVE voting. I loved putting my X next to a name, feeling like my voice counted. That I was making some difference. Now I just want to write: ‘You’re all wankers’ over my ballot paper. I didn’t. But I thought about it.

English
2
1
15
1.1K
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
I drove someone to the polling station today. I was disconcerted when he told me that the lady who processed him had said “you have at least three votes”. At least? That implied he could vote more than three times. In fact, he could vote for up to 3 candidates, as he knew.
English
0
0
1
28
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
Telesales lady: How long have you lived in the UK? Me: over 50 years Telesales lady: why did you leave South Africa? Me: because it was run under apartheid, a horrible racist system Telesales lady: I think I heard about that in history class.
English
0
0
2
22
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
From eastern Congo to northern Mozambique, Islamist extremists are killing and persecuting. Why does the world not recognise this as an emergency? And why does the African Union not act? Islamic State massacres Christians in front of their families telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
English
0
0
0
42
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
@_F_B_G_ A little odd to cite as a defender of the establishment F. E. Smith who encouraged a treasonous rebellion against the Crown by army officers.
English
0
0
1
76
Tina Beattie
Tina Beattie@TinaBeattie·
The Supreme Governor of the Church of England is grovelling to Donald Trump - if he doesn't grovel, Trump will throw a tantrum - while the Archbishop of Canterbury is talking justice and peace with the Pope. This is why the Church cannot also be a state religion with integrity.
Vatican News@VaticanNews

Pope Leo XIV holds an audience on Monday with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dame Sarah Mullally, calling on Catholics and Anglicans to continue working to overcome any differences to proclaim the Gospel.

English
3
2
6
563
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
@SimoninSuffolk Simon, I mourn every time there is mention of a church rendered unto secular use in these ways. Please don’t feel you have to let us know about each and every one of them.
English
1
0
0
11
Simon Knott
Simon Knott@SimoninSuffolk·
Late afternoon sunshine in Worcester. The tower of All Saints, still a working church, with the perky spire of St Nicholas ('cribbed from Gibbs' 'Book of Architecture' - Pevsner) beyond, now a Slug & Lettuce.
Simon Knott tweet media
English
1
3
15
528
Simon Knott
Simon Knott@SimoninSuffolk·
Late afternoon sunshine in Worcester. The banded spire of Frederick Preedy's St Mary Magdalene, 1870s, today converted into apartments.
Simon Knott tweet media
English
1
7
76
1.2K
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
Praise lately from the likes of Fergus B-G for the CoE as established church. I wonder. It long ago lost the working-class. Establishment still associates it with the great & the good & complicates the Anglican problem of defining any belief, having to be all things to all people
English
1
0
4
86
Terry Tastard
Terry Tastard@TerryTastard·
East Finchley celebrates its favourite sons, George Michael and even Jerry Springer. What does it say about our priorities that nobody (I guess) will recognise the name of the vastly more influential Demis Hassabis?
English
0
0
0
114

Keşfet

@MrHistory92 @A_living_stem @Gough_Janet @fotofacade @LawrenceOP @glosswitch @edward_gillin @TinaBeattie