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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 46m

I mean there's some high church Anglicans who very much don't go for the feminism and gay rights. I'm in the "liberal catholic" bit, but it very much does exist and is thriving.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 57m

There's a lot of nuance but it's basically all of the aesthetic, none of the guilt (and a shovel-load of feminism and gay rights).

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, I'm just "high church CofE, which means I love me a candle and an icon and various other stuff people think of as "Roman Catholic".

I'm actually one of the (really annoying) Anglicans who will say "I'm not Protestant, I'm reformed Catholic" when asked if they're protestant.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1h

If you ARE Christian then I recommend you get yourself an icon, or a cross if you prefer, and a candle. 10/10. Love me something to focus my gaze on as I contemplate in semi-darkness. Don't make it tooooo cluttered, though. You want a focal point, not a distraction.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1h

"but I'm not Christian..." Neither are most of my friends. Make space. Make a clear physical commitment. You'll find that what you need will soon come.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1h

My friends are like "I can't connect with/find time for my faith right now, do you have any advice?" and I'm like "make a space for prayer/meditation in your home. Don't care if it's a room or a corner or just part of a shelf. Put physical space aside for it, and the mental space you need will come.

A prayer corner under an eaves roof, there's a flock of paper doves on the back wall, in front is a table with two books, an icon, and two lot candles on it. Hanging over the wall is a wooden cross. There's a kneeler below.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

In @thetimes.com letters page today

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1d

I have a huge amount of time for the current Dean, David. He used to be Dean of Leicester and this conviction and boldness is very much his thing.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1d

Ah but John it's in a Weird Font that reminds them of Youths and Crime and obviously if it's not a question that's been written in copperplate and then sung at them by a team of choristers hand picked from the best private schools then God's not involved.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1d

Let's not even get into that facet of it because yeah... Once again it's conservative reactionaries with no idea about the ancient Cathedrals they support to love.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps it's because I'm in a city centre church where we've literally had people graffiti theological questions on our notice boards in pencil and felt tip pen, or perhaps it's just that colliding the worlds inside and outside of ancient churches is my ~thing~, but I do legitimately love this.

A chapel in Canterbury cathedral. Graffiti style graphics with theological questions are on the walls and columns

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1d

People online are losing their absolute minds at this art installation at Canterbury Cathedral and all the ridiculous reasons they're giving as to why it's bad kind of prove the point of why it's good, actually.

A photo of steps at Canterbury cathedral, on the wall a graffiti-style graphic in red and black reads "god, what happens when we die?"

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think burning any book should be a crime, for the record, but that doesn’t mean I’d turn out to support someone who burnt the holy book of my neighbours.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.