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'It is hard to increase vocations when people see we haven’t got money for stipends... Accessing grant money is enormously time-consuming & appointments have to be time-limited The Holy Spirit cannot be forced to move within our time-scales' Bishop Guli #synod #GeneralSynod

This is so good Can’t believe they did it in one take The whole world needs this kind of fun👍

Praying for my Christian brothers and sisters in Gaza and for their neighbours of whatever belief - for an end to the senseless and evil violence their communities face day by day, for a blessing on all who seek peace and for their flourishing 🙏🏽☦️🇵🇸✝️🙏🏽

Dr Jay Watts Why is the BMA not pushing back on this GPs do not need that sort of unethical pressure If their patients are deemed too ill to work, then they should be given a fit note We already have self certification if it's short term

Today we are celebrating the Solemnity of our Patron Saint Mildred 😇🥳 She was the 2nd Abbess here at Minster Abbey You can read more about her in this wonderful blog by Eleanor Parker aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2011/07/st-mil… Pic is an icon of St Mildred, written by Amanda De Pulford

Ever heard the expression wanting to rub your face in it, well that exactly what Thames Water 💧 are doing not only to their customers but the entire country. For months now they've been pleading poverty to govt and regulators saying they can't afford the possibly £130m in fines

This is amazing. I'm learning to accept that I fundamentally just don't care about that much battles, diplomatic treaties etc. But if I can read about birth rates or why people started drinking coffee or whatever I'm transfixed

Today's Gospel is the Parable of the Good Samaritan, in which we are invited to treat everyone with love, especially those considered foreign, different or "other." No one, no matter what they have done, deserves the treatment below. Everyone has dignity. This is an evil.

When two groups of penguins pass each other, stopping briefly to exchange information, one of them gets mixed with the wrong group, a friend goes after him to bring him back..🐧🐧🐧🙂😅

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Whatever we do to reshape our welfare & health systems, the cost will continue to rise dramatically until we learn to invest more in children born into poverty. Only this will enable them to become lifelong contributors to our society & economy rather than an ongoing cost to it.

Keir, you keep going on about ‘working people’. It’s getting really divisive. What about disabled people? Unpaid Carers? Pensioners? Many need driveways for Motability vehicles or wheelchair access. Working people can become sick people. Society isn’t just workers 🪡

In the background of Synod was the fall in vocations and rise in vacancies. +Hereford spoke of benefices advertising 4 times; 18% in one diocese by no means highest vacancy rate; 660 clergy retired last year while 329 entered training. ‘This too is a crisis’.

Here’s to the start of a new week. What ever you’re doing and where ever you are, I hope this brings you joy

No one who works full time should need Universal Credit to make up shortfall between what they earn, and what they actually need to survive. This is the real problem.

In this remarkable self-portrait from 1878, we get a sense of James Tissot's character. His name today rings softer than those of his friends Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas but he rose with them to stardom with his incisive observations of 19thC society.

Six children were killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting for water yesterday, according to BBC News. Last week, eight children were reportedly killed while queuing for nutritional supplements outside of a clinic. These children have names, they had hopes and dreams for

Your toddler is watching you like a hawk. And picking up even the smallest of details. This video, shared to IG by regiane_pantoja0, might be my favorite new example. This little guy seems to like the look of a family member’s glasses as he checks himself out in the mirror.

Learning that the CEO of the C of E Pensions Board, John Ball, read every single story shared by the Clergy Pensions Action Group (2000-strong) does not surprise me. He strikes me as a very kind man, with a real Christian vocation for his role.

Working people defined as those who get a payslip bit.ly/4o4xQDt leaving people relying on pensions, dividends, capital gains, trading, savings interest, rents, annuities, inheritance, benefits, self employment, as potential targets for higher taxes