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Al Barrett

@al-barrett.bsky.social

CofE vicar, dad, theologian (esp church & mission, community & ecology, class & capitalism, race & whiteness, gender & masculinities). Listening, learning, wondering. #BeingInterrupted, staying with the trouble, decomposing mastery, making kin 🌍💚✊🏽🌈 he/him

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Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · last yr.

Holding people to ransom Thames Water lenders demand govt block campaigners from legal action. Their demands: Exemption from environmental laws. No fines, prosecutions for abuses. Rocketing customer bills. Continue with sewage dumping, cash extraction. Let TW collapse. Nationalise for £1.

Thames Water lenders demand government blocks campaigners from legal action

Creditors owed £13bn say ministers should prioritise ‘environmental betterment over punitive enforcement’

theguardian.com

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · last yr.

Keir Starmer immitates Reform in his divisive speech. Accuses immigrants of causing “incalculable damage”, making the UK “an island of strangers”. Rightly faces backlash from unions, employers, MPs. Silence on class war, inequalities, profiteering, lack of public services, fuelling frustrations.

Despair at Starmer’s ‘divisive’ language as he clamps down on immigration

Backbench Labour MPs, unions and charities criticise the PM, who is urged to apologise for his ‘dangerous’ comments

independent.co.uk

Hyphen@hyphenonline.com · last yr.

🔴 The government has lost its appeal over controversial anti-protest legislation introduced by Suella Braverman. Civil rights organisation @libertyhq.bsky.social, which led the legal challenge, hailed the ruling as a major win for democracy. hyphenonline.com/2025/05/02/s...

Government loses appeal over controversial anti-protest law

Labour had fought to keep Suella Braverman’s legislation allowing police to crack down on ‘more than minor’ disruption

hyphenonline.com

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · last yr.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut

The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

euronews.com

Liz Slade@lzsl.bsky.social · last yr.

My co-host Al and I are both people who find ourselves in both the edge-places and the centre theologically, culturally, organisationally and know the good things and the painful things of church. More info on Hospicing Modernity here: decolonialfutures.net/hospicingmod...

Hospicing Modernity

The book “Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism” was published in September 2021. If you are in Canada, you can purchase the book …

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Liz Slade@lzsl.bsky.social · last yr.

I am delighted to be collaborating with @al-barrett.bsky.social on this - since starting to read Hospicing Modernity a couple of years ago I’ve been wanting to read it with people holding church-ish responsibility, and now the time has come. Open to all who feel drawn to it.

Hospicing modernity & church An invitation for those who hold responsibility in a church or spiritual community to read Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. We will learn from each other as we share our experiences and practices, feeling and thinking together. Fortnightly online gatherings facilitated by Liz Slade (Unitarians UK) and Al Barrett (Hodge Hill Church). To sign up or find out more contact Liz on eslade@unitarian.org.uk)
Al Barrett@al-barrett.bsky.social · last yr.

‘Hospicing Modernity’ is the book of the moment for me. I’m so excited to be collaborating with the fabulous Liz Slade to invite you to join us in exploring it together, and how it might transform our approaches to church and world.

Hospicing Modernity & Church. An invitation for those who hold responsibility in a church or spiritual community, to read Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. We will learn from each other as we share our experiences and practices, feelings and thinking together. Fortnightly online gatherings, facilitated by Liz Slade (Unitarians UK) and Al Barrett (Hodge Hill Church). To sign up or find out more, contact Liz on eslade@unitarian.org.uk
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2y ago

French lower house votes through wealth tax. A 2% minimum tax rate on the wealth of individuals whose net worth exceeds €100m. It is not yet law. UK needs to do similar to reduce inequalities. Instead govts penalise low/middle income families and make poor pay more for crumbling infrastructure.

French lower house votes through left's wealth tax on ultra-rich

Thanks to abstention by far-right MPs, the 'Zucman tax' was adopted by the Assemblée Nationale, on Thursday. It is unlikely to be approved by the Sénat. The Finance Ministry has been preparing a much ...

lemonde.fr

EuropeanPowell@europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Keir Starmer is on course to facilitate the far-right winning not only the next election but he is actively executing far-right policies from the neoliberal playbook. Thread www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot

The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zeal, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Grace Thomas@gracerethomas.bsky.social · 2y ago

Early morning prayers for those preparing to attend #GeneralSynod Prayers for helpful, Spirit led discussions and decisions For wisdom in navigating the difficult issues needing to be addressed Thanks to all making this commitment, may you be strengthened by the grace of God in the coming days

Lit candle next to a cross hanging on a wall, picture of the Holy trinity to the left
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · 2y ago

As the expected Christian Nationalism EO came in, I’m seeing a bunch of “this isn’t real Christianity” noise in my mentions. Nope. Christian friends. 1/x 🧵 This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +

Al Barrett@al-barrett.bsky.social · 2y ago

Re-sharing this, with an addition to reflect on some wise pushback on the 'burn it down' theme (which I wasn't actually advocating, but acknowledging in myself). Hope it contributes to a deepening honesty in our conversations about the church right now... thisestate.blogspot.com/2025/02/burn...

"Burn it down": responses to/within the polycrisis in the CofE

I remember all-too-well those first few days of the COVID pandemic. As a team locally, with oversight of our youth and community-building wo...

thisestate.blogspot.com

Emma Mitchell@silverpebble2.bsky.social · 2y ago

Having a rough time mental health-wise atm due to big difficult life things & associated overload. If your brain’s struggling too-grief, work stress, relationship trickiness, feeling v tired with the world, then this photo’s for your brain, to give it a leafy lift-a speck of precious dopamine.

A collection of delicate spring garden flowers including hellebores, primroses, cowslip, grape hyacinth, heather, anemone blanda, Scilla, saxifrage and a very small daffodil.