Harrowing truths from Azeem Rafiq today, my full solidarity with you. Your story resonates deeply with all of us, sadly for all the wrong reasons. Today’s testimony must be a marker for change not only for cricket but the endemic racism within our institutions Muslim Council of Britain

The first training session of the Youth Policy Development Group with Department for Culture, Media and Sport is complete!!!! Thanks to ALL of the UNREAL YPDG members for participating 💪 #WatchThisSpace this week to have your say in the topics discussed 👀👀👀

"Hanukkah, a term from the Hebrew term for “to dedicate,” is an annual Jewish festival in late November/early December." Read more about the festival, which started 28 Nov. in Hanukkah by Chris Seeman buff.ly/2ZzFaQP

‘We have to remember that the answer to the prayer was not a new and wonderful world order but Bethlehem and the Cross; a life of complete surrender to God’s Will; and we must expect this answer to be worked out in our own lives in terms of humility and sacrifice’.

📖 As we enter the second week of Advent, we pray that we might hear, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest the Word of God in such a way as to receive the fruitful grace given in Jesus Christ, Our Lord. #Advent #BCP #bcp1662 #PBS #prayerbooksociety #churchofengland

‘Again and again it is discredited by our popular rationalisms and naturalisms, and again and again it returns, and claims its rights within human life; even in its crudest, most naive expressions retaining a certain life-changing power’. (On prayer in The Spiritual Life)

Our Prayer Calendar March-June 22 is now available to download as a booklet. ow.ly/q5rB50HF9XG

‘It is so much better just to be able to say ‘send me’ without having to add ‘where I shall have my position properly recognised, or opportunities to use my special gifts’. It is God whom we want to get recognised; not us’. (Mixed Pastures)

📖 In this week's collect we are able to acknowledge our weakness faced with the trials we see around us; and we pray that, through endeavour, failure, and danger, Jesus Christ, our manifest and acknowledged Lord, will continue at our side, and save us. #bcp1662 #PBS

#LentJourney2022 Day3 “Love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great…be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful” Lk6:35-36 Conquer enmity with love, greed with generosity, cruelty with mercy, and darkness with light.

On this World Book Day I am reading War and Peace, starting just before the invasion of Ukraine. I nurture a love of Russia and it's culture and history. May God save Ukraine, may God save Russia.

Superb from Bishop Rowan

A privilege to attend the blessing of a bench in memory of the late Fr Lawrence Smith, at St Botolph's Northfleet, with mayor Peter Scollard and current priest Fr Cyril. Gravesham Council @SeeOfRochester

Morning Prayer in the Medicata chapel at St Aidan's today. We are blessed with lots of natural light here and this chapel has a stillness just right for morning time. @SeeOfRochester

Gravesend's Indian heritage contributes to the town's identity, shown brilliantly in this picture! @visit_gravesend Gravesham Council @SeeOfRochester

Good luck to all our GCSE students who are receiving their results today. No matter your result, believe in yourself. We most certainly do! Image: Pixabay #GCSEs #GCSEs2022 #students #exams #URC @urcyouth URC Youth in Wales URC Youth EastMids Synod Youth

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A symbol of shame became a badge of honour; a sign of defeat became a banner of victory; a tool of death became a vehicle of resurrection and life The Cross is the epitome of Christian contradiction: Joy from sorrow Light from darkness Life from death A blessed #FeastOfTheCross

For the first time in a long time, I felt moved to write. Off by heart: A love letter to the BCP. thewomanfredi.blogspot.com/2022/10/off-by…

“We cannot have two ways of looking at the world. One religious & one secular. If we follow God then we must also care for each other & the world.” His All Holiness the Oecumenical Patriarch speaks today at a breakfast with London Church Leaders.