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The Daily Prayer page on the new CofE website appears to have a bit of a formatting problem - at least on my computer. Who needs to be contacted about this?
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In the unlikely event that we ever get a West Wing reboot - it won't happen because we are not that lucky - then I think we shouldn't start being in the White House, because some of the best episodes of the show were the campaign episodes, 1/
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the Senator from California Sam Seaborne. Rob Lowe always throught he was going to be the main character so this would be the best way to bring him in I think. You could do it as a miniseries and then when the show proper starts hand over to a new cast 5/
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And in grand Sorkin tradition the new West Wing staff should probably involve some actors from previous Sorkin shows like the Newsroom. Alison Pill and John Gallagah Jr anyone?
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Read this today in honour of the occasion. The author certainly had some strong opinions about James I.
On this day in Ladybird history 5th Nov 1605 Guy Fawkes was discovered in a cellar under the House of Lords; the gunpowder plot was exposed
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On this day in Ladybird history 5th Nov 1605 Guy Fawkes was discovered in a cellar under the House of Lords; the gunpowder plot was exposed
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Today I learnt the people of Arizona vote for the State Mine Inspector. The Mine Inspector is a partisan elected position I was not ready for this information.
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Dear producers of Death in Paradise and Beyond Paradise. I love your shows. But even if you air it on terrestial over the Christmas period I think its a strech to refer to something as the Christmas special if I can watch it on iplayer before the end of November. Sincerely Me
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Oh I have just been exposed to the new Church of England website and it is horrible. I mean just bad and awful to look at and horrible. Who designed it? Why? What was wrong with the last version?
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And in so doing wreck communities and make it ten times harder to get people into church turning a gospel opportunity into a gathered congregation- those you don't lose anyway. I respect Daniel a great deal but he's wrong here. This is the rare occasion Milbank is right.
You could probably shut every church in a village with less than 5K and and everyone would still be able to get to church within 15 minutes.
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This is a good contribution as are the others mentioned. But what I haven't seen discussed - if it has been please show me - is the idea that if the money is devolved to the Deaneries "weighted for deprivation" and topped up by parish contributions 1/
Here's my contribution to the debate about Gill and Craven's report on the CofE. I think our experience of Ministry Areas offer some critical questions. @Psephizo @SaveTheParish @ThinkAnglicans @MadsDavies @ChurchTimes Link in comments.
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then this arguably has the capacity to leave some deaneries in well off areas worse off in the long run.
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I hold no personal animus towards anyone who works at diocesean level. I'm sure they all have the best of intentions and love God. But there is in my view a problem when someone goes from meeting to conference to seminar to workshop, in an endless loop 1/
I don't think its about having beef. Its entirely possible to think your senior leadership or diocesean leadership are good people with good intentions who are also incredibly out of touch.
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In my most extreme moments I think that before we start culling Bishops we need to work out preceisly which roles we need for statutory legal purposes (finance, safeguarding etc) which need to be kept and/or could be combined with other dioceses 3/
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which jobs are ideal but not neccessary (youth stuff for example) which could also be run jointly and which jobs are utterly unncessary (do we need mission enablers?). The church coped for a long time without Assistant Archdeacons for Growth and will cope if we go rid of them.
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I know I've been negative about a lot of #Narnia stuff recently (with good reason in my opinion), but I have absolutly no complaints about these new cover designs. Seriously they scream whimsical fantasy, call the mind the cover designs of earlier fantasy novels (the type 1/
New “movie-inspired” Narnia covers are set to release this November from longtime Narnia concept artist Vance Kovacs! Do you like the look of these editions? View the entire collection here: narniaweb.com/2026/10/harper…
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that Lewis himself might have read) and the constant hint at the breath of Aslan is out of his world. Really 10/10 no notes. #Narnia
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