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Paul Bayes

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<p>He/him. Gracehoper, husband, father, grandfather, bishop, retired and diminished and gone into the West.</p><p>alt text: My avatar is a photo of me, smiling. My header is a photo of the moment I was ordained bishop, in 2010.</p>

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    Absolutely. https://international.la-croix.com/news/religion/no-one-can-be-denied-a-blessing-says-top-family-official-in-rome/16925

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    I sat here at one time, though not for long enough to fall in love with it. I agree with Keir. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/19/keir-starmer-i-will-abolish-house-of-lords-to-restore-trust-in-politics

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    Politics has always been about stories, not facts. But here’s a fact that no story about Glorious Britain can erase.

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    Know where you stand - and don’t cave in at the first sign of personal cost. Know where you stand, and stand there. Please don’t think I’m only talking about football. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/22/england-armband-yellow-card-onelove-qatar-world-cup

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    Brilliant tour d’horizon, the best I’ve read on the US scene. Outstanding. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n23/adam-shatz/you-think-our-country-s-so-innocent

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    Moderate. Yeah yeah. Musk: “This is not a right-wing takeover of Twitter. It is a moderate-wing takeover” “Musk reinstated accounts belonging to controversial figures, including former President Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and rapper Ye…” https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3746765-musk-says-hes-done-with-twitter-layoffs/

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    On being LGBT+ in so many Christian homes in the US. Or anywhere else. Meanwhile people keep “debating the issues” as if they were in a book. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opinion/club-q-colorado-springs-james-dobson.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;amp;referringSource=articleShare

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    Happy #Thanksgiving2022 to all US friends and colleagues! Praying that this coming year you may see more and more for which to give thanks to God, and that you (like us in the UK) may have strength and skill to work for justice and dream the common good, with a thankful heart.

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    “Remoaner!” - the politics of the infant playground. Meanwhile this is the reality. The Brexit fantasy has been comprehensively shown to be a failure. Time for this nation to renegotiate and to grow up. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/26/brexit-britain-japan-trade-deal-exports-slump

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    Sorry, Mastodon, but I find you hard and a bit dry. I recognise that this may just be my age and general wetness. Anyway Post looks interesting if it’s not heretical to say so. Why not get yourself on the waiting list? https://www.thewrap.com/what-is-post-twitter-alternative-news-social-media-mastodon/

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    Today the Church remembers St John of the Cross, who met God in darkness and unknowing: &amp;quot;In that happy night, In secret, seen of none, Seeing nought myself, Without other light or guide Save that which in my heart was burning. That light guided me More surely than the noonday sun To the place where He was waiting for me, Whom I knew well, And where none appeared.&amp;quot;