John Cooper

This morning I do the Sunday sermon in Iona Abbey. Oh my. The words look so feeble....

Here is hoping for a better tomorrow

To address the crisis of displaced people, we need not to 'stop the boats', but to 'stop the wars'. This is our calling. - Inderjit Bhogal #MethodistConf @methodist.org.uk @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social @publicissues.bsky.social @refugeestogether.bsky.social

How late will you take bookings for online participation?

appalled by news today. The continued spread of violence and war is like a virus spreading throughout the world. It's time to vaccinate ourselves by investing in nonviolence, international diplomacy & democracy. Nobody wins from the latest escalation of conflict, everyone looses.

Job alert at CCS Durham! Three year funded postdoc in Catholic Social Thought and Practice. More info here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... #catholicism #skystorians #catholic #academia

And so the tail end of another tricky week is passed. The continued militarization of faith and
society is so painful

What a wonderful image - a very happy easter to you

Magnificent! A very happy easter to you and your family.

Oh my

We tried to offer him some money, to at least let up pay for the cabling and switch he installed to make the electronics work right.

He refused. Firmly but kindly. Said he found friends here, and that was payment enough.

Why bother?

He di hi!

You are generous with your words and glad it made an impact.

Grab me one braketime to talk active travel and bikes!

A challenge and privaledge to address Churches Together in England forum today on “a call to peace”.

Very nerve wracking but seemed to go well as some fascinating conversations afterwards

Tomorrows sermon is written. Gorbachev. Jesus. Jerusalem and Couch to 5k....

Today i’ve been listening to stories about Eileen Power and Virginia Woolf. Wow!

Bless the peacemakers….

Bless the peacemakers….
#prayer #peace

Framed artwork in stained glass of a male road cyclist, featured in the front window of a shop

Street sign of Glassworks Gallery

Beautiful stained glass road cyclist at the Glassworks Gallery in Bath

#cycling #art #cyclingart

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth

All I'm gonna say is that it's recognised often that St Nick's is incredibly important to the ecosystem of the diocese, both missionally and pastorally, but we've been told unless we increase our parish share to 70k (an amount that's more than double our annual income) we won't get another priest.

Thank you

Yes!

Hear @jhoncooper.bsky.social Director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation @forpeacemaker.bsky.social speaking on Peace in Ukraine? 19.30 GMT Wednesday 28th January
livestream at us02web.zoom.us/j/4101021617...

If you live in and around Norwich, UK, check out @jhoncooper.bsky.social speaking about the possibility of peace in Ukraine. Free admission but booking recommended @forpeacemaker.bsky.social @anglicanpacifists.bsky.social @cnduk.bsky.social @peaceandjustice.bsky.social @dioceseofnorwich.bsky.social

Oh I love “you are making all things new”

What were th less regular hymns?

I love @canongate.co.uk as they always have such interesting books and their paper is beautiful to touch.

This book from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is exquisitely laid out which adds to joy! Thank you