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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈
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Franciscan | Anglican | #actuallyautistic | LGBwiththeT | Tutor in Pastoral Theology St Augustine's College | Currently researching Safeguarding & Pastoral Care |@younganglicantheo.bsky.social

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I imagine we can all relate to Andalgalornis here
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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PS I'm aware I'm being 'that guy', but I can't help but find it disturbing that a criminal, abuser and possible child molester, is only now having his power base threatened because there's a rumour he did something 'gay'.

As a gay man that is worrying.
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Taps the sign
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
@mikehigton.bsky.social has published this brilliant response to the Faith and Order Commission's misappropriation and misrepresentation of his work in its recent documents which informed the House of Bishops' recent decision on Living in Love and Faith. #CofEpeeps

viamedia.news/2025/11/17/c...
Cries of Suffering: A Response to ‘The Nature of Doctrine and the Living God’ - ViaMedia.News
by Mike Higton, Professor of Theology and Ministry at Durham University The Faith and Order Commission’s recent document on ‘The Nature of Doctrine and the Living God’ (GS Misc 1429) is not, in my jud...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Preparing some slides for a lecture on Saturday, and I am struck again by this comment on the CofE's commissioning of safeguarding reports & the tension between wanting to know and not wanting to know. Gardner was #safeguarding advisor in Bath & Wells when Peter Ball's abuse become publicly known ✝️⚓️
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Hot marmite. The ultimate losing-ones-voice cure.
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Death by Bodley in Cardiff for tomorrow’s mass. Lovely to be in a church that just feels like a church. Very excited to be preaching at St German’s!
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The fact that abuse of people who are not deemed sufficiently “vulnerable” according to several categories is deemed not a safeguarding matter is simply insane. Everyone deserves to be protected from abuse, not just those who fall into certain categories. #CofEpeeps #safeguarding
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Gluten free baking. When you try a tested recipe but with a new type of flour substitute… and the chemistry says no.
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My response to the third FAOC report... on clergy exemplarity and Same-Sex Marriage.

"Indeed, with the concept of ‘communally regulative understanding of doctrine’, the bishop is rendered powerless, and the bishops as a House are disempowered utterly."

⚓️✝️ #CofEPeeps

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November 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
My response to the second FAOC report, this time on the Doctrine of Marriage, which led to the Living in Love and Faith decision of the House of Bishops is out on Via Media.

⚓️✝️

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November 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Beginning and end of the day. A really superb day with superb students. Time to decompress on the train, cook dinner, and pass out in a warm bed.
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A long and hard day yesterday engaging with some horrible institutional and online homophobia. But today I am out of bed and on the train to spend the day teaching students to be joyful ministers of the Good News with integrity and hope. This is what it is actually all about. ⚓️✝️
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A Pastoral Letter on LLF (Living in Love and Faith) and the Inclusion of LGBTQIA+ people in the Church of England from The Provincial Council of the Society of Catholic Priests (SCP) Europe.

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A Pastoral Letter - LLF & Inclusion — The Society of Catholic Priests | European Province
Pastoral Letter on Living in Love and Faith (LLF) and the Inclusion of LGBTQIA+ People in the Church of England   Copied to all Diocesan Bishops in the Church of England On 15th October, t...
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November 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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The Dean received a standing ovation from the congregation for his sermon this morning
Whether you’re a believer or not, today’s sermon from the Dean of Southwark Cathedral on sexuality, love, acceptance and how badly wrong much of the C of E is going on the topic is compelling viewing youtu.be/LLM_J8YH8Fk?...
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The Dean's Sermon
YouTube video by Southwark Cathedral
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October 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This is what I need today. “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.” Somehow just repeating the angel’s words to Mary and all humanity just helps put things a little bit back into perspective.
October 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I'm meant to be teaching students how to be amateur psychologists in parish ministry... but instead have prepared slides on Cicero, Augustine and Aquinas on desire, disordered love & concupiscence. How much of parish drama is people not knowing what they really want or how to get it.
a woman in an apron says much better in a rainbow colored graphic
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October 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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If only all of our spoons could be used on things which regulate us and give us fulfilment…
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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#ToPray✝️

Sometimes the most honest prayers
we can pray are the ones that sound like;

This is hard.
I am tired.
Please help.

(Ashley Morgan Jackson)
October 14, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Back in Southwark for the licensing of lay ministers. Bernard Mizeki, pray for us. Lancelot Andrewes, pray for us!
October 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Politics defined by ones relationship to surveillance-feudalism makes much more sense.
There is no left-right spectrum. There's one's relationship to surveillance-feudalism. Either you're the billionaire, or your the product. /2
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM