Jane Charman

It was an ingenious thought but I think they’ve now resigned themselves to the fact that it wouldn’t be legal. B5 isn’t intended to enable changes of doctrine even on a temporary or experimental basis. In fairness it’s not the bishops who are holding this up. Their hands are tied.

No, no, @thetimes.com doesn’t understand. The bishops have no green light to give. They are accepting the fact that there’s no legal mechanism for taking this forward without the backing of General Synod

He was clearly feeling wide 😆

Two more sleeps to the next Archbishop of Canterbury …

Couldn’t have put it better myself 😊

The debate about whether to ‘recognise’ Palestine is a pure post modern classic. The answer doesn’t seem to depend on whether it exists or not but on how we feel about it. 🤔

Don’t let anyone tell you that cats are fastidious. I just watched one snarf down a live mouse followed by the remains of the jam tart I’d put out for the birds 🤢

I have a complete set of videos if you’re desperate!

Good morning, churchy skylarks. Is racism the fuel behind recent church growth? Is your church filling up with right wing nationalists? Is the Quiet Revival about to become noisy?

Good morning Skylarks. Is it too early to enquire about pumpkins, how they’re swellin’, will there be a glut or a shortage this year etc

This wins the internet today 😆

Good evening Skylarks. Is there anyone out there who’ll own up to having eaten a doggy ice cream by mistake? (And before you ask, no, I haven’t !)

What could possibly go wrong?

An evening stroll to the top of Sale Fell 😊

Good morning Skylarks. Week got off to a good start? Have a coffee. Week got off to a bad start? Have a coffee. #coffee

Don’t come to the Lake District, it’s horrible here. All the inhabitants have webbed feet and bad breath, the sheep are feral and two of them can bring you down, and most of the food is radioactive. I recommend Cornwall.

A spider has been spinning a web in a corner of our bathroom for the last couple of weeks. This evening I looked and there are two of them. This is a love story ❤️

I confess I thought that Sydney Sweeney was the attorney who tried to help Trump rig the 2020 election. Couldn’t understand why she would be doing a jeans advert

‘Even if we die here, we will not leave.’ Christians have lived in the village of Taybeh, Ramallah since the time of Jesus.

Palestinian statehood should not be conditional, Bishops tell Prime Minister UK has ‘a moral duty’ to recognise State of Palestine, Archbishop of York and others write

“Recognise #Palestine while there is still land on which a state could be recognised,” the @archbishopofyork.org‬ told the Government this week, urging the UK to accelerate its planned recognition of a Palestinian state

#gaza

Pub comes with a health warning 😳

This is worth a read

This made me smile

Good morning to all vicars with swifts nesting in the porch of their church. Still, I daresay it will scrape off

Posted a card first class on Sunday evening, arrived on Thursday morning. I remember when that used to be called second class 🧐

Don’t worry, they are literally embalmed in syrup!

I’ve just broached the box I was given for Christmas #marronsglaces

Two side by side photos of loo roll in a bathroom. The first says 'before' and shows the toilet hanging with the tail behind. The second says 'after' and shows the tp with the taill hanging over at the front. The CORRECT way.

In studio last week. Thank goodness I was there to fix this.

Marrons glacés, Skylarks, yes or no?

Am I the only @churchofengland.org clergy person who’ll be preaching on the beginning of Ordinary Time rather than the beginning of the End Time this morning?