johntwis
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John Twisleton is a poet, priest, writer, broadcaster and carer. Member of the ancient Twisleton family, John has lived in or near Haywards Heath since 2001, a local historian keen on setting up a museum & helps as a spiritual director. Twisleton.co.uk
Pre-Christmas highlight: over 1,500 at Premier Christian Radio’s carol service at Methodist Central Hall 🎄 Staff, presenters (incl. me) + listeners. My Advent series is still available on Premier Plus: premier.plus/secondcoming
December 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Pre-Christmas highlight: over 1,500 at Premier Christian Radio’s carol service at Methodist Central Hall 🎄 Staff, presenters (incl. me) + listeners. My Advent series is still available on Premier Plus: premier.plus/secondcoming
Thirty Walks from Brighton Station – Walk 21: Southease
8.5-mile walk via Woodingdean and the South Downs Way to Southease, with views to Lewes, Seven Sisters & Seaford Head. Optional detour to Virginia Woolf’s Monk’s House. Return by train.
Map by Rebecca Twisleton.
More: twisleton.co.uk/books/
8.5-mile walk via Woodingdean and the South Downs Way to Southease, with views to Lewes, Seven Sisters & Seaford Head. Optional detour to Virginia Woolf’s Monk’s House. Return by train.
Map by Rebecca Twisleton.
More: twisleton.co.uk/books/
December 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Thirty Walks from Brighton Station – Walk 21: Southease
8.5-mile walk via Woodingdean and the South Downs Way to Southease, with views to Lewes, Seven Sisters & Seaford Head. Optional detour to Virginia Woolf’s Monk’s House. Return by train.
Map by Rebecca Twisleton.
More: twisleton.co.uk/books/
8.5-mile walk via Woodingdean and the South Downs Way to Southease, with views to Lewes, Seven Sisters & Seaford Head. Optional detour to Virginia Woolf’s Monk’s House. Return by train.
Map by Rebecca Twisleton.
More: twisleton.co.uk/books/
Grateful to James & Rebecca for pre-Christmas family hospitality on Saturday in Portslade at their new house above Brighton & Hove with a view of the Downs. Anne and I caught up over pizza with them alongside our grandchildren Tori and Robyn, Dave, Denise and John Junior.
December 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Grateful to James & Rebecca for pre-Christmas family hospitality on Saturday in Portslade at their new house above Brighton & Hove with a view of the Downs. Anne and I caught up over pizza with them alongside our grandchildren Tori and Robyn, Dave, Denise and John Junior.
Burgess Hill is scenic if we lift our eyes—to the Downs, and beyond them. “I lift up my eyes to the hills,” says the Psalmist. For nearly 200 years St John’s spire has invited us higher still: to heaven, from where Christ descended. Full sermon: twisleton.co.uk/sermons
December 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Burgess Hill is scenic if we lift our eyes—to the Downs, and beyond them. “I lift up my eyes to the hills,” says the Psalmist. For nearly 200 years St John’s spire has invited us higher still: to heaven, from where Christ descended. Full sermon: twisleton.co.uk/sermons
💍 I wear a wedding ring made of Guyana gold, blessed at St Mary’s, Yupukari on Pentecost 1988 🇬🇾
Anne and I were married there while I served in the Rupununi near the legend of El Dorado 🌿
We began married life in a mud-brick house with no phone.
📘 Journeying Together twisleton.co.uk/books | Amazon
Anne and I were married there while I served in the Rupununi near the legend of El Dorado 🌿
We began married life in a mud-brick house with no phone.
📘 Journeying Together twisleton.co.uk/books | Amazon
December 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
💍 I wear a wedding ring made of Guyana gold, blessed at St Mary’s, Yupukari on Pentecost 1988 🇬🇾
Anne and I were married there while I served in the Rupununi near the legend of El Dorado 🌿
We began married life in a mud-brick house with no phone.
📘 Journeying Together twisleton.co.uk/books | Amazon
Anne and I were married there while I served in the Rupununi near the legend of El Dorado 🌿
We began married life in a mud-brick house with no phone.
📘 Journeying Together twisleton.co.uk/books | Amazon
🎄 THE TRAFALGAR TREE 🎄
When Norway was invaded by the Nazis in 1940, King Haakon VII found refuge in Britain. London became a symbol of freedom and hope for Norwegians 🇳🇴🤝🇬🇧
Each year Oslo’s Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square celebrates that friendship — a living sign of freedom and peace 🌍✨
When Norway was invaded by the Nazis in 1940, King Haakon VII found refuge in Britain. London became a symbol of freedom and hope for Norwegians 🇳🇴🤝🇬🇧
Each year Oslo’s Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square celebrates that friendship — a living sign of freedom and peace 🌍✨
December 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
🎄 THE TRAFALGAR TREE 🎄
When Norway was invaded by the Nazis in 1940, King Haakon VII found refuge in Britain. London became a symbol of freedom and hope for Norwegians 🇳🇴🤝🇬🇧
Each year Oslo’s Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square celebrates that friendship — a living sign of freedom and peace 🌍✨
When Norway was invaded by the Nazis in 1940, King Haakon VII found refuge in Britain. London became a symbol of freedom and hope for Norwegians 🇳🇴🤝🇬🇧
Each year Oslo’s Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square celebrates that friendship — a living sign of freedom and peace 🌍✨
That iconic earthrise photographed by astronauts on Apollo 11 shows no borders—just a small, fragile world with a delicate atmosphere, set in vast space. If we can see this, what must God see?
More: twisleton.co.uk/night-sky
More: twisleton.co.uk/night-sky
December 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
That iconic earthrise photographed by astronauts on Apollo 11 shows no borders—just a small, fragile world with a delicate atmosphere, set in vast space. If we can see this, what must God see?
More: twisleton.co.uk/night-sky
More: twisleton.co.uk/night-sky
I’ve rarely seen a chocolate fountain, let alone dark and light, but there it was in Trafalgar Square earlier in the month when we browsed the Christmas market - yum, yum!
December 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I’ve rarely seen a chocolate fountain, let alone dark and light, but there it was in Trafalgar Square earlier in the month when we browsed the Christmas market - yum, yum!
Anne and I dropped by The Arc opened last month in Burgess Hill, a great expansion of sports’ facilities and evidence of the development of the town playing to the extensive engagement in sport locally. It’s near The Triangle (1999) which was as new as us when we moved to Sussex 2001
December 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Anne and I dropped by The Arc opened last month in Burgess Hill, a great expansion of sports’ facilities and evidence of the development of the town playing to the extensive engagement in sport locally. It’s near The Triangle (1999) which was as new as us when we moved to Sussex 2001
🌟🔥 JESUS IS COMING BACK 🔥🌟
What does that mean for the 🌍 world, ⛪ Church, and ❤️ YOU?
Join me for a 3-part series on the Second Coming of Christ — a message of HOPE 🙌✨
🕑 Sundays 2pm on Premier Radio
🎧 Listen again: premier.plus/secondcoming
📘 The Second Coming of Christ
🛒 £4.99 on Amazon
What does that mean for the 🌍 world, ⛪ Church, and ❤️ YOU?
Join me for a 3-part series on the Second Coming of Christ — a message of HOPE 🙌✨
🕑 Sundays 2pm on Premier Radio
🎧 Listen again: premier.plus/secondcoming
📘 The Second Coming of Christ
🛒 £4.99 on Amazon
December 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🌟🔥 JESUS IS COMING BACK 🔥🌟
What does that mean for the 🌍 world, ⛪ Church, and ❤️ YOU?
Join me for a 3-part series on the Second Coming of Christ — a message of HOPE 🙌✨
🕑 Sundays 2pm on Premier Radio
🎧 Listen again: premier.plus/secondcoming
📘 The Second Coming of Christ
🛒 £4.99 on Amazon
What does that mean for the 🌍 world, ⛪ Church, and ❤️ YOU?
Join me for a 3-part series on the Second Coming of Christ — a message of HOPE 🙌✨
🕑 Sundays 2pm on Premier Radio
🎧 Listen again: premier.plus/secondcoming
📘 The Second Coming of Christ
🛒 £4.99 on Amazon
What fun we had attending HMS Pinafore at the Coliseum - grand, comfy decor, the cheering music of Sullivan and Gilbert’s mildly amended wit with the Chancellor given a place in the script!
December 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
What fun we had attending HMS Pinafore at the Coliseum - grand, comfy decor, the cheering music of Sullivan and Gilbert’s mildly amended wit with the Chancellor given a place in the script!
Good sense from Richard Harries that ‘for anyone who is seriously religious, Christian, Muslim or Jew, nationality will not be their most important identity. I regard myself, in order of importance, as Christian by religion and a citizen of the UK, European…
www.thetimes.com/article/28af...
www.thetimes.com/article/28af...
We can affirm Christian tradition without right-wing nationalism
What should unite us as a society is our citizenship and the values on which this is based
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Good sense from Richard Harries that ‘for anyone who is seriously religious, Christian, Muslim or Jew, nationality will not be their most important identity. I regard myself, in order of importance, as Christian by religion and a citizen of the UK, European…
www.thetimes.com/article/28af...
www.thetimes.com/article/28af...
From home chemistry experiments in Yorkshire to top of my year at Oxford, my research helped shape materials now inside our smartphones. A near-fatal crash changed my course—and I became a priest. Same calling: truth and love. More: twisleton.co.uk/books/
December 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
From home chemistry experiments in Yorkshire to top of my year at Oxford, my research helped shape materials now inside our smartphones. A near-fatal crash changed my course—and I became a priest. Same calling: truth and love. More: twisleton.co.uk/books/
Scorpius sits right over the equator — no surprise to anyone who’s lived in South America! I used to shake my shoes every morning in case a real scorpion was hiding inside. At night we’d spot the Scorpion constellation easily, its curled tail bright in the sky. More at twisleton.co.uk/night-sky
December 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Scorpius sits right over the equator — no surprise to anyone who’s lived in South America! I used to shake my shoes every morning in case a real scorpion was hiding inside. At night we’d spot the Scorpion constellation easily, its curled tail bright in the sky. More at twisleton.co.uk/night-sky
Delighted to relay Professor Simon Aldridge’s festive image from the newsletter of Oxford’s Physical Chemistry laboratory where I worked years back. The snowflake-shaped molecule Ni(BeCp)6 is the first-ever hexavalent nickel complex.
December 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Delighted to relay Professor Simon Aldridge’s festive image from the newsletter of Oxford’s Physical Chemistry laboratory where I worked years back. The snowflake-shaped molecule Ni(BeCp)6 is the first-ever hexavalent nickel complex.
Remarkable that illiterate Bernadette asked her priest about the lady’s words: “I am the Immaculate Conception.” He knew she couldn’t have invented it. Only later was she told its meaning—Mary conceived without sin, celebrated today. More: whymagnifymary.blogspot.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Remarkable that illiterate Bernadette asked her priest about the lady’s words: “I am the Immaculate Conception.” He knew she couldn’t have invented it. Only later was she told its meaning—Mary conceived without sin, celebrated today. More: whymagnifymary.blogspot.com
Repent. Believe. Receive. It’s Advent. Christian renewal isn’t about reinventing the Church but practical obedience - hourly repentance, fresh faith in Jesus, and new anointing in the Spirit. Sermon: twisleton.co.uk/sermons
December 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Repent. Believe. Receive. It’s Advent. Christian renewal isn’t about reinventing the Church but practical obedience - hourly repentance, fresh faith in Jesus, and new anointing in the Spirit. Sermon: twisleton.co.uk/sermons
I liked Beatrice Scudeler’s take on Jane Austen for whom Christianity was not just conformity but the light through which she and many today saw/see the world, a moral framework that provides for many young people on the lookout out something better than humanism.
www.thetimes.com/article/821d...
www.thetimes.com/article/821d...
Jane Austen’s storytelling made me a Christian
Jane Austen is the reason I am a Christian. Growing up in rural Italy in the 2000s, cultural Christianity was all I knew. There was a crucifix on every classroom wall, but my parents were “Christmas
www.thetimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I liked Beatrice Scudeler’s take on Jane Austen for whom Christianity was not just conformity but the light through which she and many today saw/see the world, a moral framework that provides for many young people on the lookout out something better than humanism.
www.thetimes.com/article/821d...
www.thetimes.com/article/821d...
Some good news in The Times for a change with Steven Pinker revisiting Orwell’s dire 1984 prophecy and how humanity has proven itself resilient ‘for all its flaws and stains and crookedness’ evidencing ‘capacities for sympathy, justice, knowledge and truth’
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
1984 revisited: George Orwell would be relieved at how we’ve done
It’s common to suggest the great dystopian novel was full of warnings that have largely come true. But the evidence shows otherwise
www.thetimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Some good news in The Times for a change with Steven Pinker revisiting Orwell’s dire 1984 prophecy and how humanity has proven itself resilient ‘for all its flaws and stains and crookedness’ evidencing ‘capacities for sympathy, justice, knowledge and truth’
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Yesterday Anne and I enjoyed lunch in London with John and Pam Ormerod in St Martin’s crypt. Both Old Giggleswickians John and I go back to Catterall Hall 1959 and regularly meet ‘to put the world right’ over lunch. On Friday Anne and my theatre booking made it easy to make a sadly rare foursome.
December 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Yesterday Anne and I enjoyed lunch in London with John and Pam Ormerod in St Martin’s crypt. Both Old Giggleswickians John and I go back to Catterall Hall 1959 and regularly meet ‘to put the world right’ over lunch. On Friday Anne and my theatre booking made it easy to make a sadly rare foursome.
How do we understand and prepare for the Lord’s return?
Join me online or Freeview 725 Sunday 2pm for the second of a three part series setting forth from scripture hope for the world, the Church and for individuals on Premier Christian Radio
www.premier.plus/the-second-c...
Join me online or Freeview 725 Sunday 2pm for the second of a three part series setting forth from scripture hope for the world, the Church and for individuals on Premier Christian Radio
www.premier.plus/the-second-c...
Hope for the world - The Second Coming of Christ - Premier Plus
Setting forth from scripture the extraordinary love of God for the world revealed in Jesus who spoke of his return fulfilling creation and redemption so God becomes everything to everyone.
www.premier.plus
December 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
How do we understand and prepare for the Lord’s return?
Join me online or Freeview 725 Sunday 2pm for the second of a three part series setting forth from scripture hope for the world, the Church and for individuals on Premier Christian Radio
www.premier.plus/the-second-c...
Join me online or Freeview 725 Sunday 2pm for the second of a three part series setting forth from scripture hope for the world, the Church and for individuals on Premier Christian Radio
www.premier.plus/the-second-c...
Venus, brighter than any star, barely twinkles and even shows phases like the moon through a telescope. Known as the “morning star,” it appears in Revelation 22:16 as a title of Christ—the dawn of new humanity. More: twisleton.co.uk/night-sky/
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Venus, brighter than any star, barely twinkles and even shows phases like the moon through a telescope. Known as the “morning star,” it appears in Revelation 22:16 as a title of Christ—the dawn of new humanity. More: twisleton.co.uk/night-sky/
When St Francis Xavier reached Goa (1542) without the language, God supplied it—just as Jesus multiplied the bread. God meets us as big as our vision of Him: small vision, small impact; big vision, big impact. Full sermon: twisleton.co.uk/sermons
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
When St Francis Xavier reached Goa (1542) without the language, God supplied it—just as Jesus multiplied the bread. God meets us as big as our vision of Him: small vision, small impact; big vision, big impact. Full sermon: twisleton.co.uk/sermons
Thirty Walks from Brighton Station – Walk 18: Brighton Racecourse
7-mile circular via Queen’s Park & the Nature Reserve to Brighton Racecourse, returning via East Brighton Golf Course & Kemptown.
Map by Rebecca Twisleton.
More: twisleton.co.uk/books
7-mile circular via Queen’s Park & the Nature Reserve to Brighton Racecourse, returning via East Brighton Golf Course & Kemptown.
Map by Rebecca Twisleton.
More: twisleton.co.uk/books
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Thirty Walks from Brighton Station – Walk 18: Brighton Racecourse
7-mile circular via Queen’s Park & the Nature Reserve to Brighton Racecourse, returning via East Brighton Golf Course & Kemptown.
Map by Rebecca Twisleton.
More: twisleton.co.uk/books
7-mile circular via Queen’s Park & the Nature Reserve to Brighton Racecourse, returning via East Brighton Golf Course & Kemptown.
Map by Rebecca Twisleton.
More: twisleton.co.uk/books
A new month and our house in Haywards Heath has a new look with PVC Fascia instead of wood. So grateful to my neighbour Jack for helping sort things/tenders for both our houses and to Fascia Division for a job well done at a reasonable price.
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A new month and our house in Haywards Heath has a new look with PVC Fascia instead of wood. So grateful to my neighbour Jack for helping sort things/tenders for both our houses and to Fascia Division for a job well done at a reasonable price.