David Bunce

Serbian Orthodox Church excommunicates prominent theologians Both men are outspoken critics of Church’s growing support for the Serbian President

„Critics of the government have warned that ousting professors deemed politically unacceptable has become a trend.“
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

This potentially warrants equal, if not greater, attention at the moment.

Eltern mit Frühchen besser absichern und begleiten! Karenz, Kinderbetreuungsgeld & Hilfsmittel an Frühgeborene anpassen / Weiterentwicklung der Frühen Hilfen zu allgemeinen Kinder-Hilfen

Insgesamt kamen in Österreich zuletzt 5231 Frühgeborene zur Welt. Das entspricht einer Frühgeborenenrate von rund sieben Prozent.

www.diakonie.at/news-stories...

“And I say this through the night: Let us not forget there is hope.”

- Jesse Jackson, 1992 DNC speech, “You Do Not Stand Alone”.

Wichtige Forderung! Danke @diakonieat.bsky.social

At the beginning of the Semesterferien I suspect many teachers might also consider themselves aging!

Also not drunk them frequently for years, not least because they are getting harder to get in post-Brexit rural Alps. But sad to see the spiral at the company, not least employer behaviour. Hope a buyer can turn the ship around.

Fresh snow to start the week

The infamous family tree of Scottish Christian denominations.

Friends fear he's had to look up something on this diagram again.

Practical theology for ministry right there

Mehr Torte ist besser als weniger - großartige Einstellung fürs Leben 🥳

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

I’m on this talking about my book, which has a section on how Remainiacs came into existence and its role in the anti-Brexit world (meta!)

Surprising (but good!) to have the Lord’s Prayer in Cornish at Synod morning worship. (Following invitation to pray in the language closest to our hearts.)

Bishop Marinez Rosa dos Santos Bassotto, a small woman in a purple shirt, addresses Synod. Her interpreter is standing behind her.

Synod is being addressed by the Primate of Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil – IEAB and the Bishop of the Amazon, Marinez Rosa dos Santos Bassotto. Bishop Marinez speaks through an interpreter- it’s not true that the Anglican Communion only speaks English, or only a child of the British Empire.

Time to bring a twitter series to Bluesky: Given the incredible number of 20th-century churches in Northrhine-Westphalia (the topic of my dissertation), I’m going post one or two every day. None of these images are mine, they're all credited in the alt text, and I'll take any down if asked

Gute Laune einfach überall!

Urs Küry, Christian Oeyen, Die altkatholische Kirche Zwar ein altes Buch, aber genau deshalb interessant. Führt in die Geschichte und Lehre der altkatholischen Kirche mit dem Stand der 1970er-Jahre. Inkl. der ökumenischen Bemühungen. Für Interessierte zu empfehlen.

Urs Küry, Christian Oeyen, Die altkatholische Kirche

Zwar ein altes Buch, aber genau deshalb interessant. Führt in die Geschichte und Lehre der altkatholischen Kirche mit dem Stand der 1970er-Jahre. Inkl. der ökumenischen Bemühungen. Für Interessierte zu empfehlen.

I mean personally yo puedo hablar Espanol pero la primera idioma I learnt at school in France was English, entonces it only feels fair that la gente aqui does the same, thank you very much

excellent line

I am, in a very Lutheran Theologia crucis kind of way, a solitary green dot near nothing of interest or influence.

Very much the Linz of Bluesky

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

The presence of a vegetable that isn't cabbage is rather exotic ;-)

It was very good

That looks excellent.

We also had a shared buffet today - some excellent roast pork (it is rural Austria...) and also some good beetroot and feta couscous (we have Scots in the church too)

On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was

"frightful evil can and does arise from an apparently good root, the desire to benefit the world and others — speedily and according to the benefactor's own plans — is a recurrent motive." Tolkein

An arresting and sobering passage on the (mis)use of power with apparent good motivations

Keir Starmer’s position has not improved, but it has stabilised a bit because Labour MPs have looked into the abyss, and the abyss has looked back and said “you remember that the HMRC investigation into Angela Rayner is still ongoing, right?” Then they’ve looked at the abyss some more and it has continued: “and you do know that Wes Streeting has a much closer personal and political connection to the disgraced Peter Mandelson than Keir Starmer?” The abyss, growing quite chatty at this point, has added: “and come on, Shabana Mahmood is not going to win a leadership election. Labour members are not going to pick the border-tightening home secretary, are you nuts?”

I hope the abyss in @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter becomes a returning character

Das habe ich öfter in der Jugendarbeit in Ö so wahrgenommen (und ist auffällig in Vergleich mit meiner Schulerfahrung in UK, wo solche Textskills seit New Labour fixer Bestandteil des Lehrplans sind)

Guten morgen