This is the Christian faith, anything else is simply smoke and mirrors. From the introduction to Dante’s Divine Comedy. 👇

An astonishing film, by a genius director, based on one of the 20th Century's greatest novels. You're not the only one getting excited.

A beautiful setting of the text from the Orthodox service of Bridegroom Matins, one of the solemn services of Holy Week. youtube.com/watch?v=uogfvk…

A beautiful setting of a Good Friday meditation. youtube.com/watch?v=uFe1Tq…

Praying for Pope Francis Chorus angelorum te suscipiat, et cum Lazaro quondam paupere, aeternam habeas requiem. youtube.com/watch?v=89IvA_…

Not gonna lie, this unexpectedly brought me to tears. If Christianity isn’t like this — then it should be. And so it must be, then, that this *is how God is, because He must be far more beautiful & good & generous than we could ever imagine or want Him to be.

Unfortunately the evidence to date suggests the investment and regeneration will be contained within the self-contained bubble of Peel's estate. Hoping for a bit of trickle down or trickle out is a poor prescription for the problems of North Liverpool.

I will retweet this clip every single time I see it until the end of time.

Monstrous that UK Government Ministers can still party in London, celebrating the British contribution to Israel's Gaza Genocide, even as starvation stalks 2 million civilians & Netanyahu publicly makes clear that he intends ethnic cleansing for the entire Palestinian population

Help save Britain’s hedgehogs with ‘hedgehog highways’! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/RMKMjDgZ4G via Change.org UK

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I love Wendell Berry and nearly everyone of his sentences is imbued with almost Biblical poetry and wisdom, like this one - "We can grow good wheat and make good bread, only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone."

A colleague texts me: ‘The government should issue a formal apology to Harold Shipman. He was just ahead of the curve. A pioneer, really.’

One of these is our foreign secretary and the other one thinks he is.

Genius idea.

Syrian Christian woman at the church bombing site: "If they tell me to take my kids and flee to Europe, I won’t. I raised them here, and here I will die. I will never abandon my land, my faith, or my Christianity. Our religion is peace. We don’t know violence or hatred….”

For many in the North the memory that haunts them most is British soldiers carrying out killings such as Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy massacre with impunity and the BBC upholding the British ethos and covering up their crimes

Only as a space for the ineffably beautiful does X find its justification. youtube.com/watch?v=zIJzTW…

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Absolutely spot on analysis and reflections from Joe Brolly. How the grief over the death of Diogo Jota sheds a light on a disconnected and atomised society.