Regularly told I’m silly, that ‘nobody takes it seriously’, ‘it won’t happen here’ etc etc. because I have real concerns about the rise of the far right here in the UK.
Where our treasure is that’s where our heart is.
19.03.2025 12:34 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
THE SACRIFICE IN THE TEMPLE
I saw the preparation of my death
And life, lie crying, cradled in the arms
Of maiden motherhood. I heard alarms
And consolations with each wailing breath,
And recognised that many, wise and fools,
Would fall … and many rise; an issued sign
To bring to light the heart of the Divine,
And to lay bare the "reasoning animals."
Blood and fire and balm ascending with
A forescent; I could taste the moment; feel
The coming counteract, like sharpened steel –
For who could stand the take of such a gift?
But I, among the hoping, holding fast
The word, rejoiced to see it flesh at last.
Carolyn Whitnall
A sonnet for the Feast of the Presentation, celebrated 40 days after Christmas. #Candlemas
02.02.2025 17:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
THIS HOUSE
Oh come, oh come Emmanuel, and hurl
Our order into holy disarray:
Upend the tables where we wheel and deal,
And scatter our accrued prosperity.
Awake us, dancer on the dancing deep,
From placid slumber; rock the boat; disturb
The peace that we content ourselves to keep,
And make us see the chaos we transfer.
Confound our clarity, cut short our too long
Prayers, take back the narrative and heckle
Sermons preached to itching ears. Throw down
Each stone in every separating wall.
Do what you’re here to do … but, come what may,
Rebuild the ruins of us, please – and stay.
(Carolyn Whitnall, 2019)
Advent is coming.
29.11.2024 10:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
THIS HOUSE
Oh come, oh come Emmanuel, and hurl
Our order into holy disarray:
Upend the tables where we wheel and deal,
And scatter our accrued prosperity.
Awake us, dancer on the dancing deep,
From placid slumber; rock the boat; disturb
The peace that we content ourselves to keep,
And make us see the chaos we transfer.
Confound our clarity, cut short our too long
Prayers, take back the narrative and heckle
Sermons preached to itching ears. Throw down
Each stone in every separating wall.
Do what you’re here to do … but, come what may,
Rebuild the ruins of us, please – and stay.
(Carolyn Whitnall, 2019)
Advent is coming.
29.11.2024 10:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ahh, I wish I'd known enough to be shocked rather than enthusiastically submitting myself to those hierarchies in ways I've yet to fully disentangle myself from 20 years later!
15.11.2024 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Get out your absolute TINIEST violin: Nigel Farage is personally upset that advertisers don't want to fund his channel of division, disinformation and far-right conspiracy theories 🥺😢🎻
15.11.2024 12:05 — 👍 30 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
Urgh, platforms.
13.11.2024 20:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Christian ethicist, principal of https://www.trinitycollegebristol.ac.uk/, member of Church of England General Synod and co-founder of https://www.livingout.org/. Views my own of course!
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Episcopal priest, theologian, author of "The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ" and many other books. Wife, grandmother.
Working on the fault line between evangelical and progressive. Romans 11:32.
Follower of Jesus. Husband of Kris. Professor at Houston Theological Seminary and at Westminster Theological Centre (UK) @wtctheology. Author: https://amzn.to/4fTfwIh Cleveland Guardians fan.
Northern Irish Theological Educator living in Ethiopia. PhD in Systematic Theology (Aberdeen +Trinity College Bristol). Research Interests: Bonhoeffer, Northern Ireland, Church & Conflict.
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not Sarah, she/her • PhD researcher looking at victim-blaming in the Hebrew Bible at the University of Glasgow • Sara.Stone@glasgow.ac.uk
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Priest in Dio. of Monmouth. Queer Lone Parent. She/Her. PhD student (Queer theology/ecclesiology) Views my own.
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