Derek Lancaster

It made sense to postpone (not cancel) the local elections in places where reorganisation will mean repeating them after a year. Instead the govt is now spending £60m it didn’t need to, and has u-turned yet again. It just gives Reform Ltd at stick to beat them with. Silly.

My reflections on apologies, non-apologies, and why they do more harm than good, ahead of Synod. I think we need to be talking clearly about honesty and integrity, their presence and absence, as we think about the ordering of our common life as a church. #CofEpeeps ⚓️🕯✝️

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They might’ve watched the films. Or the trailers.

Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after

Well, they’re crustaceans. But that spoils the joke I guess.

I’m sure that’ll all go swimmingly. After all, they’re bound to have carefully worked out use-cases and high quality datasets for AIs to learn from, aren’t they.

Aren’t they?

There’s an irritating thing on this site - I go into it, and it asks me what’s up.

Nothing’s up, thanks.

And on the odd occasion something is, how did it know?

Yes true

Yes, I think our formal fees are pretty high.

I still have to concentrate to sing ‘O Lord save the King’ at Evensong!

A hoodie featuring the Christmas Chord

Merry Christmas!

Happy Christmas everyone!
Here’s to a good new year.

YouTube video by All Saints High Wycombe Parish Eucharist - Advent 2

Ever wondered what John the Baptist would look like in a Christmas Jumper?

Wonder no longer - here’s my sermon from this morning (21’ in)….

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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

Not a big scoop, just gossip

Then he took the sausages and gave thanks…..

Me neither. And only ‘he’ for Jesus. ‘God’ for God or rephrase if possible except for very trad hymns. ‘She’ for HS where necessary.

We can’t beat lovely teatowels but we do have the little china Saviour Tortoise (iykyk…).
We also have the Third Drawer Down which containeth all things necessary for salvation, such as Vocalzones.

Judge eternal throned in splendour.
The line originally said ‘empire’ rather than ‘nation’. Which is worse!

Looks like a copyright issue I guess. Blocked for UK and EU. VPN somewhere else seems fine.

We just did Creation Sunday liturgically, to celebrate the first year of our creation care group and our work towards eco-church awards.

I think someone should be safeguarding this vulnerable child.

J Hunt forgot he owned 7 flats,
G Cox failed to declare £400K, IDS forgot a company paid him £25k, T Villiers forgot she owned £70k of Shell shares, Zahawi forgot to pay £4.8 million in taxes while Johnson & Sunak forgot just about everything.

Tory hypocrisy ay 🙄

Yes exactly

Had one of those in an Airbnb I rented - terrifying!!

Three of our clergy on All Saints’ stall at Pride

Me and friends on our stall at Pride

Four more of our team carry the flag and our inclusive logo signs in the Pride March

Parishioners on the Pride March in Wycombe

Fun times at Wycombe Pride with All Saints today

Indeed

Parish Eucharist - Trinity 9 YouTube video by All Saints High Wycombe

At All Saints Wycombe my sermon today on readings from Jeremiah, on deceitful prophets & Luke, with Jesus speaking of the conflict the gospel brings.
We must:
- Speak truth humbly
- Model the Way of Jesus
- Be spiritually well-resourced

Gospel 19’30, sermon 21’30

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Yes. Probably.

Er, no. And it’s “incentivise”, or “incentivize” in American.