‘I count myself a cultural Christian.’ Christianity is ‘a fundamentally decent religion.’ Now he tells us - having spent decades bent on its destruction! spectator.co.uk/article/does-r…

Not really, because secularism & Dawkins’ own brand of evangelical atheism are both expressions of a specifically Christian culture - as Dawkins himself, sitting on the branch he’s been sawing through and gazing nervously at the ground far below, seems to have begun to realise.

Happy St Cuthbert’s day.

Swore my oath of consent today, so now it’s fully official that I’m a priest in the Episcopal Church (USA). Feeling very grateful to the Bishop, clergy and people of the diocese of Rhode Island.

POV: You just discovered a hidden library in St Paul’s Cathedral and it’s all yours for the night.

Booking opens March 12 at 10am GMT airbnb.com/hiddenlibrary

More Than Words Can Say... Come and join me on Wednesday!
Feb 28th in Durham. Book here: tinyurl.com/dcad-maggie-da… or just pitch up at 5:00 pm (seat cancellations mean there will be some open seats!)

Picked up today for 50p: 1867 parliamentary inquiry into Anglican public worship. Astonishing - both that there was one, and in the wealth of primary data about church practices.

Well the people have spoken.

Dolly for President.

Noteworthy honorable mentions with multiple nominations in the “other” category are Beyoncé, Michelle Obama, and the Rock.

It’s true: I’ve been doing this for some 40 years. Once you wear black, you’ll never go back spectator.co.uk/article/once-y…

Such a moving and lovely day to celebrate a really wonderful bishop, pastor, and friend Paul Butler. When he laid down his crozier on the altar, I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house. Durham Cathedral Diocese of Durham

A Bad Moon Rises Over UK Higher Education hitchcockian.medium.com/a-bad-moon-ris…

So, an Oscar nomination for Ken, but not for BARBIE… and no nomination either for Greta Gerwig, who more or less wrote this exact script in her movie…

I have thrown away so many good words today. Some of them were *really* good words, I liked them a lot. But there were too many of them. The waste paper basket is the writer's best friend.

Oh, this is pure gold: cyber-coenobites.blogspot.com/2024/01/church…

“What actually afflicts the C of E, and indeed pretty much all of Western Christianity, isn’t a management crisis, but a narrative crisis.” thecritic.co.uk/the-failure-of…

Listened to Radio 4's 'The Great Post Office Trial' podcast this weekend. This was interesting - anonymous account by a senior post office manager on Paula Vennells, and the culture at the Post Office

Seems the thing is to post a pic of oneself from 2014. I’m intrigued to find I only have 3 pics of myself from that entire year! But here’s one of me blessing the opening session of the Beecher Lectures 2014, Yale Divinity School with the inimitable Otis Moss, III

. . . this was the moment
When a few farm workers and three
Members of an obscure Persian sect
Walked haphazard by starlight straight
Into the kingdom of heaven.
(from BC:AD, by U.A. Fanthorpe)

marquandchapel.yale.edu/news/haphazard…