Richard James Butt

LAMINA has now dropped!! You can check it out here; open.spotify.com/album/5usyYV5H… If you like what you hear please head to; richjamesbutt.co.uk/shop and grab a physical copy

@netflix there's no sound on your NFL steam in the UK. What gives?

@netflix Ayo!! Why is there no sound on the #nfl Christmas Game day stream. Come on guys!

@danguitarstorey @GaryLineker 🤣

@GaryLineker google.com/search?q=image… images of people who jump professionally. They have one thing in common and it's not having their arms crossed behind their back

The handball law is utterly ludicrous.

@tom_read @reachjulieroys @LibertyU 🤣 this

This is inexcusable. @LibertyU still has videos of Ravi Zacharias posted on its website. Don’t believe me? See🧵👇

Hey @britishairways just wanted to say that your staff member on the Baggage Services desk at Heathrow this morning was an absolute gem! She personally retrieved the gifts I bought for my kids, but left on the plane. I didn't get her name, but she's brilliant. 🙌🏽

@officialmuyiwa To me it's someone who makes Gospel Music that has been formed and shaped by British culture.

What makes an artists a bonafide “UK Gospel” artists?

@danryland @Apple 🤣 so annoying

When will @Apple stop hindering my productivity?! Or was this always their play to sell double the mice?

@samhailes Yes that is annoying, but I don't know if it "ages" a person like "Hillsongs" 🤣

@richjamesbutt Not as bad as when people say 'The book of Revelations'!

Does anything identify someone's age in church circles more than them referring to "Hillsongs"? 🤣

@DavidEHolden Thank you 🙌🏽 was great to be involved and the whole team did great.

I heard you were key to everything going on! An amazing job. Well done.

@DavidEHolden I got a special musical "hall-pass" and I can confirm it was superb 🙌🏽

Shame we’re not allowed to be there!

Thomas Sankara was a revolutionary African leader. He drove out French imperialism from Burkina Faso and withdrew from IMF and made the country non-reliant on foreign aid. He was assassinated in a coup led by his close ally, Blaise Compaoré supported by French imperialists As far as African leadership goes, Thomas Sankara was cut from a different piece of cloth. Here are some of his accomplishments, ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87): – He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.
– He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
– He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification
– He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid
– He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
– He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights
– He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
– He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
– He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.
– He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
– He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting
– In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).
– He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects.
– He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
– As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.
– A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard.
– He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity)
– When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”
– An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself

@raeljames @JJudahIsaac Is this even real life? It's like an advert from "don't look up".

@BCWLindsay Yes ALL of this

The problem with this is I’m sure 18 months ago a certain church leader would have been on the good pastor list. Statements like this are problematic as a) it has the potential to silence victims b) ignores the culture and structures that can enable abusers to exist. Dangerous.

@liamthatcher @yardleysarah I was going to recommend this. I can wholeheartedly endorse it 🙌🏽

@yardleysarah I hesitate to recommend my own work (or claim that it's either beautiful or poetic!) but you may enjoy this 45 minute guided reflection on the 7 words from the cross. liamthatcher.com/2021/04/02/goo…

Has anyone found any really beautiful poetic reflections for are on the cross for Good Friday? I’m looking for some fresh and modern content.

@samhailes "press" on. Well played

Lots of people sharing stories which confirm the problem exists. No one quite willing to put pen to paper just yet and write about it publicly...We press on...!

@OllyAllison @fesshole Told you! Legendary status for Bandit.

@fesshole @richjamesbutt 😅

There are very few good father role models in society. However, Bluey's Dad has turned my life around. I am genuinely a better father and husband now I pause and think, what would Bluey's Dad do.

@liamthatcher @joynessthebrave 👀

@joynessthebrave I was once told (not on Twitter, but IRL) that baking bread was an unnecessary hobby, and the fact that I made time for it showed that I was neglecting my more important duties as husband/father/leader! 😂

I miss the good old days of twitter when a group of conservative catholic guys got really made at me for tweeting about how I enjoyed bread baking. things too boring around here these days.

@liamthatcher I've never been the same since this was dropped on us 🤣

Every so often I'm haunted by the memory that I know someone who makes fish finger sandwiches by mashing up the fish fingers, mixing them with ketchup, and spreading the mush on bread.

@tom_read Worst "chocolate" ever!!!