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Vicar's Wife, General Synod, Black Country, normally on the Other Site. Underused blog: https://thevicarswife.blog/
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Praying tonight for the travelling, the training and the trembling. #VicaragePrayers

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Praying tonight for the weary, the wasted and the waiting. #VicaragePrayers

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Praying tonight for the baffled, the bruised and the believing. #VicaragePrayers

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Learnt a great new song in Sunday Club today. Even the Year 9 lad joined in with the actions! Get this one in your repertoire to go alongside your next recitation of the Athanasian Creed. #totallyGodtotallyman youtu.be/2Ydx9oYn4aA?...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

perceive and know what things they ought to do

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Church in the snow. And prayers for the world from parishioners from around the world. #LordsDaydelights

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Happy New Year all! I'm still mostly posting at The Other Place.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

COMMONLY CALLED CHRISTMAS DAY

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hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them

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I'm on a podcast!

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Trialling the crafts for Thursday evening's Advent Cake and Craft event (actually, turns out we're eating more than cake after some mixed communications). Pretty excited to be back with Hama beads for starters.

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Happy New Year all! #Advent #VicaragePrayers

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Reactivating this account to promote my Substack, Bleak House Revisited, writing about English law, legal history, literature and London. First post on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill which passed its second reading in the House of Commons yesterday open.substack.com/pub/bleakhou...

submitted 93 days ago • 4 comments

Today I've realised that I have more legislative experience, after sitting on a General Synod revision committee than my MP does. And sadly, that means that she thinks the Assisted Dying Bill is fine and has brilliant safeguards, and I can see all the legal holes and think it's extremely dangerous.

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The Vicar and I know how to have a top evening: him with the men's group at church discussing Romans, me at home on a Zoom briefing new Diocesan Synod members about all the exciting stuff we get up to. Thankfully it was also Open Church this afternoon and I got to lead action songs. #parishlife

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

"There is no reliable way to identify patients with less than six, or twelve, months to live ... at least, no method that would be reliable enough to act as any sort of ‘safeguard’ for the proposed assisted dying legislation". on.ft.com/49qsdIR

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On the 27th day of the month at Matins, Ps.121: "The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in : from this time forth for evermore". Jeremy Taylor's prayer accompanying this psalm is particularly fitting for these days before Advent Sunday:

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O ETERNAL Lord God, who alone spreadest out the heavens, and rulest the raging of the sea

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In Oregon, people have had assisted suicide for arthritis, diabetes, eating disorders, and “complications from fall”. That's the jurisdiction Kim Leadbeater uses as her example of best practice.

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