United prepares for zero air travel demand into 2021 ft.com/content/46b6d4… via Financial Times

Today the Church celebrates the feast of the Ascension, here depicted in one of our lovely Victorian stained glass windows. This special day is also marked by our first celebration of a public service of Holy Communion since the lockdown.

The nexus of science & religion continues to be a popular area of academic research with many of the leading universities hosting research centres, such as Ian Ramsey Centre at Oxford & TheFaradayInstitute for Science and Religion at Cambridge

Every Memorial Day, this picture gets me. While some of us are at the beach eating BBQ and burgers...some spend it like this. Her fiancé was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Gut check kinda stuff. Monday, please honor our fallen men and women. They’ve earned it... #MemorialDay

Just in case you forgot why this is a 3 day weekend

this is beautiful

'Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.' John 20:29b This figure of St Thomas with Christ is from a late 13th-century wall painting in the Abbey's south transept.

Consumer Activist Outlines “The Pathway to Dignity and True Mental Health System Reform” peteearley.com/2020/07/08/con… via Pete Earley

We've teamed up with 24 other teams in our Minor League Baseball family (and the MiLB Store) to do a mystery hat giveaway! 🧢 How to enter: 1⃣Follow us on Twitter 2⃣Like & RT this tweet 3⃣Reply using #FollowBackForAHat (bonus points if you share a AquaSox memory 🐸)

Elizabeth I re-founded the Abbey by a charter dated 21 May 1560 as a Collegiate Church exempt from the jurisdiction of archbishops and bishops. More about our history: westminster-abbey.org/about-the-abbe…

Westminster Abbey has been a place of worship since the 10th century. We're open daily for services, and all who can visit us safely are welcome. For more information and service times, visit our website at: westminster-abbey.org/worship

Hildegard of Bingen, German Abbess, visionary, composer & polymath, died #OnThisDay in 1179. She founded two monasteries & wrote the earliest Medieval morality play, as well as books on medicine, natural history and her visions [A68.1/F11] #OTD

Teaching moment

Good afternoon from Pearl Harbor and Ford Island. We are honored that so many are following and retweeting. In doing so, we remember the USS Arizona, her crew and all those present on Oahu on Dec. 7, 1941. We will continue with the pre-attack 24 hour timeline. #PearlHarbor79

So true

Today is the beginning of Passiontide, the last fortnight in Lent, a season of deepening solemnity as the commemoration of Christ's Passion draws near. 'Þe kynges baneres beth forth ylad', and some other medieval texts for this season: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2012/04/vexill…

"Experiencing deep things" #ChoralEvensong streaming as live now → youtube.com/watch?v=L5Li8C… St Bride's Choir Howells' Gloucester +Goss, Leighton & Gibbons

Palm Sunday procession down the Mount of Olives and into Jerusalem happening right now. Hosanna! Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord! Southwark Diocese Richard Ian Cheetham Bishop of Southwark BishopSarah

Richard Sewell thanks Richard. Love these posts of those beautiful and holy surroundings. Keep them coming

Music for a While #84: A world of (love) songs by The New Criterion via #soundcloud soundcloud.com/thenewcriterio…