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It may be an #autistic thing or a theology thing, but... ... what warped thinking judges shooting rubber bullets at and attempting to arrest unarmed civilians to be less effort than talking with them?

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The traditional after mass KFC after preaching and concelebrating Pentecost with Rachel Revely. Thanks be to God!

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So bored of the whole “being visibly inclusive is exclusive because it makes people who want to exclude people feel excluded” thing.

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Due to a tism, I was two hours late for a meeting, coming in just as it ended. However, I then had the most wonderful twenty minutes of conversation with holy people, and it was utterly worth it!

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It pleases me immensely that one of the saints associated with our college is St Gundulf (engineer and bishop who built amongst other things the tower of London and rochester cathedral). Every time we refer to the St Gundulf room I have Lord of the Rings music in my head.

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One small idea: Universities should commit to preserving library access for students and researchers who have to leave academia because of funding cuts. Anything to blunt the harm of losing a generation of researchers.

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After the aphid-ocalypse, finally the ladybirds are breeding mightily. Their larvae are black and spiny. You can tell them apart from caterpillars because they have the undercarriage of a ladybird at the head end. 🌱 All soap spraying against the aphids now ceases as the natural predators are on it!

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This really is such excellent news!!! Congratulations to the Diocese of Sheffield!!!

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Makes one proud to be british.

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Lunch break at the London Jesuit Centre as we explore what Christians understand Pastoral Care to be and what further study needs to be done.

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If your bank holiday monday is a bit grey and wet, have some green. 🌱

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Below is a photo of the Memorial for the Victims of the Nazi Euthanasia Program. This is where eugenics leads. Where categorising people by intelligence, ability, or worth ends up. Never again.

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St Francis receiving the stigmata BL Yates Thompson 13; 'The Taymouth Hours'; 14th century; f.182r

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The Nigella are out!

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The sigil was drawn in salt and ash, the candles lit at the pentagram points, the incantation declaimed. There was a shimmer - a demon appeared. "Curious. What ritual is this?" "I got it from ChatGPT. I included all protections in my prompt!" "I see," the demon said and stepped out of the sigil.

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Hi tech filming with hi tech production values. Good to stand on firm dominican foundations though!

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When a tutor is stuck on a train and you have to improvise a 35 minute lecture on the theological development of Baptismal Liturgies at no notice. Feeling very alive and a little bit hyper, and affirmed that I am in the right job!

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The predators of the dreaded aphids have finally arrived! 🌱 Two lady birds, though not sure if any of the larvae I’ve just released will make it to adulthood with all the ants defending their aphid farms.

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Translation: all they hear from is the times and the telegraph on this issue they never actually talk to trans constituents as working MPs

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My east prussian forebears would be horrified, but I’m having a go at southern german noodles but wheat free for evan. I have absolutely no idea what extraordinary texture these will have after the chemistry I have wrought, but thats the fun!

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Working in the cloister outside the St Augustine’s office. I’m basically Whoopi Goldberg at this point.

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Augustinians getting a pope five centuries after they got Luther is a monastic example of a Grand Slam.

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Today we are contemplating the significance of the medieval garden for contemporary ecclesiology. And all I can think of is the Dean of Canterbury’s cat during pandemic morning prayer.

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Hurrah! Exciting! And very much needed. Looking forward to directing my students to this!

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People hate disabled people when they fear their own dying, and the disability that comes to us all through being mortal. Euthanasia and the silencing/erasure of disabled people are both symptoms of the same fear of our inevitable disability. Even you are not immortal. You will one day be like us.

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You’ll never stop having meltdowns. You can have less of them.

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On this day in 1933, just 3 months after Hitler had taken power, the Institute of Sexology in Berlin was occupied by Nazi youth. The Institute was a world leader in studying gender and sexuality and its founder, Magnus Hirschfeld, a leading advocate for gay, lesbian and trans rights. 1/2

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According to Conclavoscope, I match with Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi, who is Progressive. What about you? conclavoscope.com/cardinal-fin... Though I find it hilarious that on Interreligious Dialogue I matched with Cardinal Sarah!

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I find doctors and opticians both soooo much more helpful and engaged with me now I have a doctorate. Though the surgeon who did my minor surgery this week did need reminding, when she started using jargon, that my doctorate is in theology and that she had lost me! It made her laugh.

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Dear publishers, please, for the sake of accessibility even if you do not love God, just use footnotes and abandon to hell the impossibility that is endnotes. Every time I have to flick through 20 pages of a PDF to find the note, I lose my train of thought!

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If you’re wondering why your friends and colleagues in various minorities are worried about their legal protections being rolled back… remember that after the Supreme Court said you “can” discriminate in a way, lots of people chose to. We don’t trust society to include us without being made to.

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The jasmine I put in a pot by the door and strung up with old string has put forth its first flower, and it smells delicious!!! 🌱🌿

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One year’s difference. Amazing. 🌱

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Got an access to work appointment (FOR AUTISM) with only 48 hours’ notice (IT IS FOR AUTISM) and another email making demands of me with less than 6 hours to go (FOR A MEETING TO DISCUSS SUPPORT I MIGHT NEED AS SOMEONE WHO IS AUTISTIC). Not having all the above would be a start.

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Garden coming to life. 🌱 Dill, parsley, tarragon and oregano in the ground. Can’t decide where to put the chives and the thyme.

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If like me you are already having these uncomfortable ally conversations, solidarity. I am a committed ally of my trans friends, and my trans friends and fellow servants of the gospel. Actually, of my trans fellow humans!!

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He is with his first love. By which I mean really good neo-Gothic architecture, not me.

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