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Jesus Christ is always at the centre of Christmas. And everyone's invited to experience it with us.
Come and celebrate Christmas at a church near you.
Find services and events in your local community at AChurchNearYou.com/christmas.
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I have written to our friends and neighbours from the Jewish community expressing our pain and solidarity 🙏🏾
@dioceseoflondon
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“the use of Christianity as a cultural dividing line has been aptly characterised as “Christianism” – an aggressive and exclusionary assertion of “belonging” that need not have any connection with actual religious belief….the Church of England….must explore ways to assert itself against such perversions of the gospel message of inclusion and compassion for the stranger.”
Good to see the ecumenical and interfaith of our own Bishop of Edmonton @TheOutsider40 Anderson Jeremiah being cited as a what is needed.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Yaxley-Lennon’s appropriation of Jesus Christ is equivalent to nailing Him back to the cross.
This is not Christianity - it is violent pagan-influenced hate. Christ is present in those they trample underfoot.
Resist. Pray. Repeat.
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It was wonderful to have @bishopSarahM preside and preach at our regular Monday Eucharist in the chapel at Fulham Palace, with the encouragement, as we celebrated St. Clare, to find those habits which help us go on making a home with God in our lives daily.
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I've written for @Theosthinktank on what it might mean for our world leaders to share the sign of peace, as they did at Pope Francis's funeral at the weekend: theosthinktank.co.uk/comment…
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Christ is risen! These words capture the entire meaning of our existence, for we were not made for death but for life. #Easter vatican.va/content/francesco…
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Good Friday. That Jesus died for us means that the God who breathed 2 trillion galaxies into existence, also looks at little old you and me and thinks ‘I will pay the highest price to be with them forever’. Whatever you think of yourself today, you matter. Will you respond..?
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Our #London event in 2 months: how #theatre relates to life or #belief? Do we #improvise our role? What part do #ethics play? #faith #performing #Creativity➡️ radiuslecture2025.eventbrite… @EucharGravina @art_xianity @TheatreChaplain @actorschurch @DLSSoc @SimplyMrPerfect
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Today is PUBLICATION DAY for my new book Unmaking Mary: Shattering the Myth of Perfect Motherhood.
Aside from my actual children, it is the thing I am most proud of having birthed. It was a long, hard slog to write it on top of working and mothering, and...
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BREAKING: Secret summit was held at Scottish castle between UK's 11 most senior Muslim and Jewish leaders
Led to signing today of historic 'Muslim-Jewish Reconciliation Accords'
I was just at Buckingham Palace where they were presented to the King
Full story on @thetimes soon
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
ALT A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Let us forcefully reaffirm today that the seeds of anti-Semitism must never again be allowed to take root in the human heart. Remembering the suffering and tears of the victims of the Holocaust, let us repeat: never again!
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This is the task of the Church over the next 4 years - speaking truth to power on behalf of our marginalized neighbours regardless of the blowback. ✊🏽
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When you worship power, a sermon on the love and mercy of Jesus sounds like “spewing hate.”
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If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have deeply, deeply misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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"They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals".
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde pleads to President Donald Trump to have 'mercy upon the US people' as he begins his second term in office.
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My colleague @hannahmerich is an outstanding researcher who has charted (local) church-society relations for years, with honesty, clarity and nuance. Her new report on churches' response to summer riots is first rate. theosthinktank.co.uk/researc…
