@2D0XPS Is it greed and ignorance that causes us to use plastic or just that supermarkets tend to unnecessarily wrap everything in plastic?
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Timothy Newton
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Did Jesus ‘tread gently on our common home’? What does it mean?
God's command is for us ‘subdue the earth and exercise dominion over its creatures … to tend and keep it’ (Gen 1:28, 2:15), shouldn't we be praying that we do that to God's glory and earth's flourishing?
Archbishop of York@CottrellStephen
Today is #EarthDay 🌍 I invite you to join us today in this prayer, written by @bishopnorwich. We are part of God’s creation living in the earth, but with a special responsibility to care for creation, to mind its well-being and its flourishing. Make us more like Jesus we pray.
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@PuseyHouseLib @PuseyHouse @downingcollege @PuseyCentre @CUAPress @Cambridge_Uni @BlackfriarsOx @EFLOxford @OU_TheoReligion As in a new Christian or a book with Christian themes?
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For the next few days, we will be highlighting the fantastic speakers who will be presenting at the conference on ‘What makes a novel Christian?’ (13 May) @puseyhouse
Prof Bonnie Lander Johnson is Fellow and Associate Professor in English Literature at @downingcollege 1/
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What is extraordinary about Eucharistic ministers?
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@johnmilbank3 The result of so called confusion re metaphysics and biology is to preserve the sanctity of life. On your view, abortion is permitted according to degrees of wrongness based on the age of a foetus?
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@TimothyNewts Because it is so obviously infanticide. At earlier stages even the Middle Ages debated the issue — whether all abortion was outright murder as opposed to wrong in various degrees. (I don’t hold the full very modern Catholic view that for me confuses metaphysics with biology.)
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Abortion up to birth is plain infanticide. No one, whatever their creed or lack of it, should support it. Women do not have ‘choice’ over the lives of those who are already others. Denying this is of course at bottom an anti-feminist desire to turn women into ‘autonomous’ men.
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30 January: from 1663 to 1858, special prayers and readings were added to the Book of Common Prayer for services to commemorate King Charles I. Removed by Royal Warrant on 17 January 1859. Photo: All Saints’ Oatley West (NSW, Diocese of Sydney; credit @matthewmoffitt)
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@johnmilbank3 @SaveTheParish Is there a T20 Bazball equivalent causing damage in the Church as it is to cricket?
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Save the pub, save the parish, save local libraries, save cricket — it is all one struggle. @savetheparish
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Cardinal Mykola Bychok taking part in the Traditional Latin Pontifical High Mass celebrated by Bishop Columba Macbeth-Green in the Carmel of Elijah, Australia
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@johnmilbank3 @petercarrell Probably right, and seeing as a camel's top speed is about 60kmph they might have managed it fairly quickly
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@TimothyNewts @petercarrell Persia to Israel in December? Surely not. Certainly not in TS Eliot!
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Can confirm that it doesn’t really matter when you take your Christmas decorations down … :)
john milbank@johnmilbank3
Robert Herrick makes clear when you should bring your decorations down — and the disaster that follows if not. The answer is Candlemas Eve and the danger is of increased goblin population.(Candlemas was the real end of Xmas before modernity: after 40 days) english-heritage.org.uk/christmas/leav…
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@johnmilbank3 @petercarrell The wise men surely traversed lands in Advent heat
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@petercarrell I’ve always thought that the entire calendar should be reversed south of the Equator. I just couldn’t live in areas with Christmas in the summer.
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The Naming and Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ (January 1) in An Australian Prayer Book (AAPB, 1978). A feature of AAPB is its use of Sentences: an opening sentence to lead into worship, and one after communion, to introduce prayer and reflection, or be used as an anthem.
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@tomalin_joshua Words on screens bring about a zombie like gaze
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This is a bizarre take on all counts.
1. There's nothing more holy about cash vs contactless.
2. Microphones and speakers are invaluable especially for those of us, like myself who are deaf and avail themselves of a good loop system to hear the Word of God proclaimed.
3. Having words on screens actually helps the congregation look up when singing and boosts rather than hinders worship.
4. Similar to point 1, but nothing more holy about LED vs normal lighting vs candlelight.
5. Having chairs vs pews helps for many reasons, allowing the church building to be used more widely during the week, and quite frankly if you need an uncomfortable pew to stay awake during a service, the chairs aren't the problem!
Adrian Hilton@Adrian_Hilton
I went into an old church (CofE) a few months ago, and was met with contactless apps for donations, microphones and speakers for hearing, screens on pillars to facilitate viewing, LED lighting, and padded blue chairs instead of pews. I walked out. It all felt like a desecration.
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True or false: If truth and goodness come into tension, it's better to be good.
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The Society curates at Walsingham for some IME and fellowship. A wonderful few days!
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@JamieFranklin40 Surely Scripture and tradition aren't so easily separable. How is it that we even have a canon of scripture?
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This is true. Anglo-Catholics need to understand this and decide whether they want to be Anglican or Roman Catholic.
Anglochog ⚓🇦🇺@anglochog
"The difference between the Anglo-catholic and the popular Romish doctrine of tradition is this: The former only admits tradition as confirmatory of the true meaning of scripture, the latter asserts that it is also supplementary to scripture, conveying doctrines which...
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‘At the Reformation the Church of England became protestant in order to become more truly and perfectly Catholic.’
Do I pray for reunion with the Roman See? Yes… and when she repents of her errors she will be welcomed back with open arms.
Christianity On The Spectrum@ChristianityOn
Anglo-catholics are the most protestant of the Anglicans because they are really trying to be catholic and are still not in communion with Rome. The other Anglicans make sense to not be in communion with Rome, why would they be? But Anglo-Catholics, that takes serious prot energy to try so hard and still be rejected.
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@pallnandi You equate instinct with what is natural. What is natural is what we were made for, and our true nature is obscured by original sin
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@JimFellows1 @RadleyCollege More farm shop breakfasts to come!
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