Diana Hall

Damian Hall!

Praying for our new Bishop-elect as she prepares to move from Ely to @dioceseofedinburgh.bsky.social ! 🙏

This visual is the content I am here for! 👏👏👏 #bm100

Wow. 70% attrition on Loop 1… better than last year, but not much! Now to work out who’s who, maybe?!
#bm100 #brutalbimble

Now we’re serious #bm100

I’ve got you.
Mural for Alex Pretti in Seattle by Topsy

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Well this is beautiful. Finding things tough? Need some #ReasonsToStay? Read a letter just for you, here:
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A split black-and-white historical photograph featuring two portraits of Marie Curie. On the left: A formal studio portrait from 1895 showing a young Pierre Curie and Marie Curie standing side by side. Pierre, on the left, is a man with a short beard and mustache, wearing a dark three-piece suit with a white shirt, with a serious expression. Marie, on the right, is a young woman with her hair pulled back in an updo, wearing a high-necked dark dress with puffed sleeves and fur trim at the collar, gazing directly at the camera with a calm, composed expression. On the right: A later portrait from around 1920 of an older Marie Curie alone, facing the camera directly. She has gray hair styled loosely and pulled back, and is wearing a dark blouse with a distinctive patterned bow tie at the collar. Her expression is serious and resolute.

Marie Curie (w/husband Pierre) discovered radium #OTD in 1898.

It revolutionized #science & launched radioactivity, nuclear physics & cancer therapy. They won the 1903 Nobel in Physics & she became the only person to win a Nobel in 2 science categories with her 1911 Nobel in Chemistry. #WomenInSTEM

Well… I absolutely respect that. But as a single person who lives and usually spends Christmas alone, personally I really like the tradition of pausing at the end of Christmas Eve, toasting the feast, and seeing colleagues near and far doing the same. A peaceful, joyful Christmas to you! 🎄⭐️

New ministry, new flat, same bottle of malt (Springbank) as last year, I think! Merry Christmas! 🥃🎄⭐️ #ClergyMaltClub

For at the moment:

1. When it’s hard to go out: consistency beats motivation

2. When time is tight: something is better than nothing

3. Every day: Gratitude - there are people who would give anything to be able to do this.

4. If I miss a session: that’s ok. Tomorrow is a new day.

Pausingplace in a radio studio

What did you do in your holidays? I’m doing Thought for the Day! Catch me live on BBC Radio Scotland at about 07.23, or catch up on Good Morning Scotland on BBC Sounds. #GMS

There is so much to celebrate about the life of Pope Francis, and therefore also a deep sense of loss at his passing.

He truly set an example of faithfulness to Christ. And how amazing that he has died in the context of Easter with its message of hope for salvation and new life. (1/3)

Wonderful!

Patent black doc marten boots with white laces, standing on grass.

250% uplift in communicant numbers today compared to a ‘normal’ Sunday at St Anne’s Dunbar! Plus a baptism and the blessing of a civil partnership.
I think we can say ‘He is risen!’.
Oh, and a liturgical lace change, just in time for the festivities! ⚓️

😂😂😂

Tiny Jesus held by Pausingplace, with pavement in the background.

Holy Saturday, and I literally found Jesus on Dunbar High St! I thought he was supposed to be busy harrowing hell?!

Give me Holy Saturday over Christmas Eve any day. #HolySaturday

Lest we forget how far the world has still to go, I just received a delivery (at home, in Scotland) from a driver who saw my dog collar and exclaimed (in broad Glaswegian)… “A wumman minister?! That the modern world, eh?!”
Reader, the Kirk has been ordaining women since 1968! 🤦‍♀️

From the Canons: “while the lectionary is based on the New Revised Standard Version, any version of the Bible which has not been prohibited by lawful authority may again be used.
Currently, no version of the Bible has been prohibited by lawful authority.”

I saw this debated elsewhere recently. I think the answer is it’s a modern innovation… and not universally loved.
There is apparently a Chrism Mass in the 10th century Gregorian Sacramentary, but no mention of renewal of ordination vows. @thurible.net may be able to expand…

A street leading to the sea, with a yellow house on one side, a white one on the other, and beyond them, in the ocean and overhead, a rainbow.

Double half rainbow over a golf course and a shoreline.

What with all the toxic stuff going on in the world, I’ll take a rainbow whenever I can find one.

Good morning Dunbar!

This looks tremendous! 🙌

Different world… 🤷‍♀️

San Francisco gets an A+ for presentation and form.

Nine years of Oswald Doglet! 🐶❤️🎂

❓ Heard of Dunbar Debt Advice Service?

🤝 The inter-church collaboration involves St Anne's Dunbar, the Salvation Army and other churches.

💷 Visit our bio link for the East Lothian Courier article on how the Service has helped 97 clients.

💰 They support anyone in need. Google 'Dunbar Debt Advice'.

Have fun!

This is an observation of the locals, incidentally… not what I’m doing! 🙈😂