Mitch McLean

@LeighQuilter I would prefer the regions used now for organising the UK: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Greater London, South East England, South West England, West Midlands, East Midlands, East Anglia, North West England, North West England, Yorkshire and the Humber

My proposals for a restored and reformed House of Lords in summary: House capped at 650 peers for symmetry with the Commons. 212 hereditary peers - the dignified bit 👑 200 appointed peers - the expert bit 📚 200 elected peers - the democratic bit 🗳️ 26 Lords Spiritual ✝️ 12 Law Lords ⚖️ Minimum age of 35 before being able to become a member. Hereditary peers become the largest and most senior group, but still nowhere near a majority thanks to the tripartite model. They would be chosen from among the pool of all hereditary peers by hereditary peers, as was the case until yesterday. Appointed peers serve for life as now, but thanks to the cap on numbers the Prime Minister will not have many opportunities to fill vacancies, so the temptation to use rare opportunities on cronies will be lessened. This will work in a similar way to the US President nominating Supreme Court vacancies. Elected peers will be chosen via regional proportional representation, with the aim being to grant power to geography and represent the nations and regions of the UK better. Each region would have 20 peers regardless of their population. These should roughly mirror ancient regions which could provide genuine local identity and would look something like the following: (Sussex/Kent, Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria, East Anglia, Dyfed, Gwynedd, Strathclyde, Alba, Ulster). England has five regions and the other nations have five between them to balance English dominance. The idea is to avoid metropolitan dominance and so London and other major cities would not have their own regions. theradishreview.substack.com/p/a-traditiona…

@carbo_al @FrMatkin As an evangelical anglican, sorry we messed up. I would have liked it to progress to the level of intercommunion you have with the Polish National Catholic Church or Assyrian Church of the East but unfortunately the Anglican Communion has made changes rendering that impossible.

In the aftermath of the 2nd Vatican Council the Church of England emerged as one of our most serious ecumenical partners There was a time in the 1970s where it really seemed like the Catholic Church & Anglican Communion could soon be re-united Because of this a great tradition of friendliness between the Papacy & Archbishop of Canterbury came about Unfortunately the Church of England has since decided to give up on all basic Christian doctrine & prostitute itself out to the world Because of this I think ecumenism with them is no longer prudent or fruitful However, Pope Leo's photo-op tomorrow with Sarah Mullally is simply in keeping with the tradition established by his predecessors (however cringe or outdated) & in no way an endorsement of her beliefs or the validity of her orders

@monkofjustice @Catfinitygamer Functional rather than ontological

@Catfinitygamer Yep. Not even sure what to call the ecclesiology behind this statement!!

Attention, ACNA/REC clergy, theologians, chancellors, and canonists - is the following statement true or false?

@KiwiFairgo @mbird12 Marcionites were heretics that only read new testament books and thought the God of the old testament was evil. I would urge you to believe both the old and new testament, whether you use a catholic bible or a Protestant one.

@mitchmc243 @mbird12 Explain??

Why do Protestant Bibles have fewer books than Catholic ones? Many assume Martin Luther just tossed them out on a whim. Yet this misunderstanding ignores 1,000 years of history and a specific 19th-century decision. Discover the real story of the "missing" books. michaelfbird.substack.com/p/protestant-b…

@MorEdge_Insight I think the situation calls for an internationally supervised non-sovereign West Bank and Gaza.

Europe: “We demand a Two State Solution” UN: “We demand a Two State Solution” US Democrats: “We demand a Two State Solution” Australia: “We demand a Two State Solution” Canada: “We demand a Two State Solution” Arab League: “We demand a Two State Solution” Israel: “We offered it many times. We even gave them Gaza. Look what they did with it?” Hamas, PLO and PA: “We’re not actually sure why you’re all demanding a Two State Solution. And we’re not really sure why Israel offered us any proposals or gave us Gaza. We don’t want a damned Two State Solution. We want ALL of it, every inch of Israel, and we want to kill all the Jews. We’ve been pretty freaking clear about it in fact. We even did October 7 and will do it again and again and again and again until we kill them all. And then, when we’ve got all of Israel and they’re all dead and we control Jerusalem, then we’re coming for ALL the world next. Mwahahaha”…. Europe: “We demand a Two State Solution” UN: “We demand a Two State Solution” US Democrats: “We demand a Two State Solution” Australia: “We demand a Two State Solution” Canada: “We demand a Two State Solution” Arab League: “We demand a Two State Solution” And round and round we go. Cut, paste, repeat

@Dark_Justice_21 @American_Johnny Not a patriarch, and hardly any Anglicans trace their orders through Mullally or uniquely through female bishops. I can't think of a single male Anglican bishop consecrated by only women.

@American_Johnny Also, isn’t your “patriarch” a woman? 😂 that in and of itself should tell you the validity of the anglican holy order

Telling me that My Anglican priest's holy orders are "utterly null & void" because that's the political game your magisterium plays is like saying "my parents said you're actually grounded" when they're not my parents. We don't share authorities my dude. Tell your dad to chill.

@KiwiFairgo @mbird12 Isn't that Marcionism

@mbird12 Yes. The 27 books of the NT will do me!!

This was probably the best churchmanship quiz I’ve taken. theocompass.com But, golly, it’s hard being a confessing Anglican.

@SteveWoosnam @LyleShelton I think he meant baseball caps

@LyleShelton What does any of this mean?

All week voters have been rushing the One Nation poll workers. Asians, Africans, Anglo Celts - they are lining up with orange baseball bats. Young couple just walked out and the bloke said to the ON volunteer “you are doing God’s work”. The media and political elites have tried to dismiss this as grievance politics. There is certainly a grievance and the manifestation of this is called democracy, so they better stop sneering and start responding. Government in the free West is of the people, by the people. Enough snobby elitism. How does the Liberal party come back from this?

1. Anglicanism 2. South Asian United Churches 3. Mar Thoma 4. Reformed/Presbyterianism 5. Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches

@problogger I'm an evangelical/Anglican Protestant. I'm just reading the apocrypha for my old testament class; it also sometimes appears in the Anglican lectionary.

@mitchmc243 I'm learning lots tonight from my orthodox and catholic friends! Let me try to find a way to do this! :-)

A few updates on the bible tracker: 1. new it's on it's own url - chapterbychapter.app (should forward automatically from the old dev app 2. have added an option for deuterocanonical books for my catholic and orthodox friends (its in the footer)

@ScotParl Best thing Holyrood has done in ages 🥳

The result of the Stage 3 vote on the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill is: ✅Yes - 57 ❌No - 69 🟣Abstain - 1 The Bill therefore falls. You can find out more online at ow.ly/cYpp50YvBqx

@JoshuaBarzon 2 is better. 1 wouldn't make a very good anchor.

Which logo design do you like best? I’m currently working on this brand identity for Anchor Church. Both draw from the imagery of Hebrews 6:19, centering on the truth that Christ is the anchor of our soul. Would love to know which one you like best and why!

@redeemed_zoomer How Holy and Roman they are?

Shoutout if you can guess what this is a map of: darker means more, lighter means less

@joshuatheard @teachthemx3 We use a hybrid model where most learning is individualised and some is done together. Maths Pathway Instructive. It seems to work well.

@teachthemx3 We still use the industrial model where kids all progress down the assembly line at the same time. We should use the information age model where primary information is supplied at the student's pace in individualized modules. Teachers are for questions only.

The current format of schools: Teacher teaches a lesson then assigns practice. Some students finish in 10 minutes and sit for the remainder of class. Some finish by the end of class. Some finish at home or over multiple days. Some never do it. These students should not all be in the same class together.

@JoeCoolei @ryanburge efacglobal.com

@mitchmc243 @ryanburge Interesting!

There are basically two large groups in evangelicalism: Southern Baptists Non-denominationals This map shows you where the SBC is dominant (red counties) And where there are more non-denominationals (purple counties).

@WilliamJosephh @drewcollins Well the idea was if you do Eucharist on Sunday morning you're still doing MP 6 times a week and EP seven times. This is all well & good if people actually do daily services but unfortunately many churches & congregants don't actually do anything but Sunday am; so MP/EP disappear

@drewcollins Do many Anglican parishes do morning and evening prayer? Mine doesn’t. Just Holy Eucharist on Sundays.

I value Holy Communion and appreciate its frequent celebration, but the notion that Morning and Evening Prayer are "like going to a birthday party without cake and ice cream" is silly.

@BBCAfrica God bless Gafcon!

Is a permanent split in the global Anglican Church inevitable? Conservative clerics are meeting in Nigeria to elect a rival to the first female Archbishop of Canterbury. bbc.in/46DVCyW

@JoeCoolei @ryanburge That's quite an American thing. In much of there rest of the world there are Evangelical Anglicans (low-church) and Anglo-Catholics (high-church).

@mitchmc243 @ryanburge Anglicans aren’t considered evangelicals but high church Protestants, no?