David Porter

Church Of England - Chaplain to the Bishop of Coventry

Grateful for any shares to cast the net wide! Seeking a fellow adventurer to accompany me in the season ahead in fabulous @dioceseofcoventry.bsky.social

The old Presbyterian upbringing wants to say “that’s what you get for washing your car on the Lord’s Day!” 🤣🤣

Good 20mph stats - first full year:

10 fewer deaths
26% fewer crashes
28% lower casualties

This represents a £58 Million saving to society in the first year alone - which more than pays for the £32m one-off cost of the signs!

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Storm Éowyn: Repair crews from Austria, Finland arriving as some 180,000 remain without electricity Up to 100,000 homes and businesses are likely to be without power for the rest of the week

Storm Éowyn: Repair crews from Austria, Finland arriving as some 180,000 remain without electricity

Busy day for Saints. Today the church also remembers Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah, Indian priest, evangelist with the YMCA, ecumenism & bishop. Praying for all trying to explain their faith in a local community & for all working for the unity of the Church of God.

This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.

'Britain's Deeply Unfair Two-Party Electoral System is Dying and MPs Know It' Startling new research reveals that this year's General Election was the 'most disproportionate ever' with millions of votes wasted

🔴‘Britain’s Deeply Unfair Two-Party Electoral System is Dying and MPs Know It’

Startling new research reveals that this year’s General Election was the ‘most disproportionate ever’ with millions of votes wasted, reports @josiah.writes.news

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The Paradox of Tolerance Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. - In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be un-wise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intol-erant. Credit: Karl Popper

Touching on Karl Popper’s ‘Paradox of Tolerance’

A church on its knees: the Welby legacy The Church Mouse Blog

A church on its knees: the Welby legacy | New on The Church Mouse Blog www.churchmousepublishing.co.uk/2024/11/a-ch...

Siting in departures at Birmingham airport using the time to populate my feed with friends who have fled to brighter skies.

Beyond George Blaurock and the 500th anniversary: Vincent Harding and the Transformationist Anabaptists - Young Anabaptist Radicals This article was originally published in the Fall 2024 issue of MennoMedia’s Leader Magazine. Illustration of George Blaurock generated using DALL-E by Tim Nafziger, August 26, 2024 As Mennonites and....

As Anabaptists prepare to celebrate our 500th anniversary it’s important to also tell the parts of our story of those who have disrupted the status quo and, not only abstained from war, but worked for justice: the transformationist stream of Anabaptism: young.anabaptistradicals.org/2024/08/27/b...

So been on here over a year - rarely visit - but find today a lot of old friends in this new space.

Please add me - thanks

In Wurzburg at the Community of the Cross of Nails German gathering. Great to meet old friends and make new.

Wurzburg was Christianized in 686 by Irish missionaries Kilian, Kolonat and Totnan. No better place to watch Ireland v New Zealand match this evening!

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