Diana Hall

@pausingplace.bsky.social

Episcopal priest | @EdinDiocese | Broadcaster | Cross-prof Supervisor | Long, slow jogs | Spaniels | 🖤🩶🤍💜 | She/her.

There is so much to celebrate about the life of Pope Francis, and therefore also a deep sense of loss at his passing. He truly set an example of faithfulness to Christ. And how amazing that he has died in the context of Easter with its message of hope for salvation and new life. (1/3)

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250% uplift in communicant numbers today compared to a ‘normal’ Sunday at St Anne’s Dunbar! Plus a baptism and the blessing of a civil partnership. I think we can say ‘He is risen!’. Oh, and a liturgical lace change, just in time for the festivities! ⚓️

Patent black doc marten boots with white laces, standing on grass.

Lest we forget how far the world has still to go, I just received a delivery (at home, in Scotland) from a driver who saw my dog collar and exclaimed (in broad Glaswegian)… “A wumman minister?! That the modern world, eh?!” Reader, the Kirk has been ordaining women since 1968! 🤦‍♀️

❓ Heard of Dunbar Debt Advice Service? 🤝 The inter-church collaboration involves St Anne's Dunbar, the Salvation Army and other churches. 💷 Visit our bio link for the East Lothian Courier article on how the Service has helped 97 clients. 💰 They support anyone in need. Google 'Dunbar Debt Advice'.

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Farewell session with the youth at Harbour Lights Xtra this afternoon. These Friday sessions have been some of the most fun times in my ministry in Dunbar. As you can see, sometimes you can have your cake AND eat it. But I lost my pool shark crown - you can tell by T’s smile!! ⚓️ #anglican

Pausingplace (trying to eat a whole cake) and some smiley teenagers.  Cake reading ‘thanks Diana. God bless and farewell’.

1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵

Number of loop 1 finishers in under 12 hours: 2025: 6 2024: 20 2023: 30 2022: 28 2021: 12 (covid, US only) 2019: 23 2018: 14 2017: 17 2016: 27 2015: 19 One of these things is not like the other 😬 #BM100