Unlike, famously, the post below - which in fact includes a dean, not a bishop.

Like Sisyphus, we are damned to forever Tap The Sign

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We’re very much ‘in the trenches’ at the moment, so the promise of future moments like this make it easier to hang on!

Evergreen post from The Other Place

Good spot! Will bear it in mind when we’re next back in the capital

Strong Irish representation there!

Fair. I think his answer here, unsurprisingly, is encounter and solidarity across communities - what others would probably call movement-building and mobilisation. Similar to Luke Bretherton’s attempts to ‘theologise’ the work of people like Saul Alinsky, I suppose.

(Which, I concede, is perhaps quite far removed from the present legal consensus at the top of American jurisprudence)

Rowan Williams argues that moral consensus in society is basically the overlap between different groups’ values. In terms of guardrails (ie stopping that moral consensus becoming barbarous), the law is key, specifically in terms of holding open space for different associations to flourish

Thanks to @mattjbullimore.bsky.social for accepting it and to @annarowlands.bsky.social for making the introduction

Happy memories…!

It shows of course; nowadays all the major plot points would take place in a WhatsApp chat