🦉A Rebellion Of Care 📝 Poet & Writer
Asheville, NC
Joined March 2009
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One last thing:
In the light of Justin Welby’s negligence around abuse, for over a decade, there needs to be an investigation into what he knew about Mike Pilavachi and when he knew it.
It is inconceivable that he found out when the Telegraph published their first article.
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Newsnight just listed all the Bishops who are keeping their heads down. It was shaming. This can’t go on tomorrow. It’s not a question of if but when. And the sooner the better.
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A reminder that Smyth is not Justin Welby’s only safeguarding failing. He was guilty of another serious failing whilst Dean of Liverpool (investigated by IICSA). His refusal to resign shows that he doesn’t take either seriously
Wow! “it is our understanding that another failure of safeguarding occurred while you were Dean of Liverpool Cathedral, in which a retired priest who was a convicted sex offender, continued to minister while the complainant was barred from the cathedral” churchsociety.org/resource/a…
Oh mama, I'm just having fun
On the stage in my heels
It's where I belong down at the…
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Justin Welby, a 🧵
Q. Are you going to resign?
A. It would only be a matter of resignation if I knew or had grounds for suspicion about Smyth before 2013.
1/11
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Rewilding the land that the Church of England owns is an important part of our mission, our care of the earth our common home and the poorest among us.
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio… via @38degrees
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His final comment in the piece is that, “All I want to do is introduce people to Jesus.”
I don’t have much hope in the Jesus he wants to introduce people to, because that Jesus seems more interested in Russell Brand than in any of the women who say that Brand hurt them.
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94% of police use of force in DC is against Black people, study finds wusa9.com/article/news/crime…
