dr stephen lane

"It's beyond you to comprehend that God is infinitely in love with you in the frailties of your ways." —James Finley, "Turning to the Mystics" buff.ly/mjJDHCu

Even when we feel weak, God’s love meets us in our frailty. How does this truth resonate for you?

The people running Reform and the pure essence of entitlement that's been mildly inconvienced by a welfare state and not enough forelock tugging.

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Tories caught lying? Who’dathunkit

Between them Tice, Farage, Jenrick and Badenoch really are competing for some kind of trophy, huh.

By integrating sharia law into our legal system? Not bothering with democracy?

It’s still wild to me I was raised singing “Jesus loves the little children / all the children in the world / red yellow black and white / they are precious in His sight” and my right wing family wonder how I became a social justice Christian against the empire.

Because I actually believed it?

This is hilarious

Yaxley rallies

Small state Tories, back again

Otherwise the plan would be this. All UK citizens, all legal permanent residents, all legal visa holders & all tourists would need to provide facial ID to the government.

And the facial recognition system would need a zero % false positive rate. And then you simply flag anyone not in the system 3/n

The next general election is going to be unbearably awful isn’t it

Just parties lining up to outdo each other in awfulness

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

In sheer desperation to outFarage Farage, the Tories continue their lurch towards fascism by embracing fascism wholeheartedly

Another important thread

This thread is incredibly important

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

So my current fixation is Richard Rohr. My question now is, how far does he reflect the Franciscan consensus?

Amen

May the Lord bless Dame Sarah Mullally, the Archbishop of Canterbury designate, as she leads the people of God. God bless the Church, God bless all people, and may God's love and mercy continue to sustain creation.

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Oh. Him.

Has anyone checked for the mark of the beast on him?

To whom are you referring?

I’ve definitely seen that expressed in comments. It’s so brainless.

“Woman named” is a wonderful collection of worlds in this headline

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Where was this?

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Matthew 22:37-39 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ c 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself so long as they can verify neighbourship by birth”