Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him
@suffolkvicar.bsky.social
Born UK 🇬🇧 Baptised Malta 🇲🇹 Ordained South Africa 🇿🇦 Home in Suffolk. Retired Vicar, Franciscan Tertiary, Chaplain to anything with a badge 🏳️🌈Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️
If it’s songs of homeland, heartache and belonging you want, then trust us – you’re going to love Rose Betts. She was one of the first names we booked this year and we’re still pinching ourselves. Swipe to meet one of the artists we’re most excited to welcome to Greenbelt in a few weeks.
Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 11h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
So so true. And if you have a ‘grief day’ you don’t have to explain to your colleagues why you are so morose and then run the risk of telling them what happens in the book and ruin their own ‘grief’…. 😉 Anyone else slow down their reading speed when they approach the end of a really good book?
Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · 4h ago100% #BookSky
A huge thank you to everyone who has given to and shared our appeal so far. You can find out more about the Dunwich Heath Fire Appeal and give to the cause here: nationaltrust.org.uk/dunwich-heath-appeal
'The value of a Christian retreat is obvious... it provides a breathing space from the world, and it cares when one tries to turn one's attention to God' (APR archive 1971). Where might you find breathing space to reflect and pray? promotingretreats.org
sometimes there is absolutely nothing more fun than understanding works of art through people's varied professional perspectives
Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 23h agoYou can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
Who me? Watson the Greek 🇬🇷 rescue dog 🐕 playing jenga with the chairs 🪑 in The Westleton Crown
#ToPonder Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go. (Bernard Malamud - Aaron Hotchner in Criminal Minds)
#ToPray ✝️ with St Faithful’s The cross exposes us. It reveals the violence we call order. The cruelty we call necessity. The cowardice we call prudence. It shows us a world that would rather kill God than be changed by love. St Faithful’s. Havnot Faithful, not finished.
#txt4today ✝️ Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Acts 2v21) Everyone, not just those we like or those who like us. (Andrew Dotchin)
A good exhibition ranging from novices to experts. Very fair prices and a good place to pick up a unique memory of Suffolk
St Edmundsbury Cathedral@stedscath.bsky.social · 12h agoYou've only got a few days left to visit the Cathedral Art Club's 2026 Summer Exhibition in the Cloisters, which ends on Sunday 9 August. Open daily from 10.00am - 4.00pm. Free admission.
An image of the Prime Minister running near his home in Cheshire has been edited with AI to include a film crew. Clues the picture isn’t real include disembodied feet, cars blurring into each other and a microphone coming out of a bush. fullfact.org/politics/ima...
Roman Catholic Church in Spain has warned politicians against “instrumentalising” the crisis in Ceuta 🇪🇸 🇲🇦 #migrantcrisis #churchtimes
RC Church in Spain calls for ‘peace, justice, and hope’ in response to Ceuta migrant crisis
THE Roman Catholic Church in Spain has warned politicians against “instrumentalising” the crisis in Ceuta. More than 60,000 illegal migrants rushed the border last week, prompting troop deployments by the Spanish government. “We are deeply concern...
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Continuing my binge watch of ‘Spooks’ (Series 9, Episode 5) in which the President of the USA flies in to prevent the building of Israeli 🇮🇱 settlements in Palestine 🇵🇸 If only… 😔
To weave prayer beads 📿 to give to a friend who prays to God on a different day using a different name is a holy privilege 💝
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
Whispers of His Power – AUGUST 5 Our Father's thoughts to us-ward are many. We only know a few of them, but they are flowing us-ward all the time.
Whispers of His Power – AUGUST 5
Our Father's thoughts to us-ward are many. We only know a few of them, but they are flowing us-ward all the time.
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There are times Eckhart sounds Franciscan. 📚🙏 This one - So You Want to Find God? - is from "Meister Eckhart's Book of Secrets."
On this feast of St John Vianney (the Curé d’Ars) who was a Third Order Franciscan - as am I - I am using his words for the times of public prayer @stedscath.bsky.social P.S. I added an extra line at the end but I think it fits….
Even better news - it’s open access which means anyone can download the PDF and have a read! You can find it here: www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-8... (My chapter begins p. 169) Please share with LGBTQ+ Christian communities - this is a great resource.
Bisexual, Christian, European
Are there any bisexual Christians? Yes, we exist! People from Europe share their stories of faith and sexual orientation.
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The trustees are advertising 2 positions that will become available as Gill & I move on to new adventures- Retreat House Manager - Closing date: 12th August 2026 & Kitchen Manager/Chef - start in early September For job descriptions/details, please contact fellowship@srpf.org.uk
#RetirementRamblings Hard one today as I tick off the list of ‘final things’ before no longer being in paid employment in @churchofengland.org Feeling a bit like Dunwich Heath - burnt out, desolate and ruined with no one coming near me. Yet life will rise from the ashes as I wait for the rain 🌧️
Off to @stedscath.bsky.social for my final day of being Duty Canon whilst in paid employment. TBH looking forward to working for free from the end of August. As always please send prayer 🙏🏾 requests my way and I will light a candle 🕯️ for you
right, ok, enough self-pity, I need to turn my shit pub around. it's in Stratford, it's got a (small) stage, there has to be someone who has something cool they want a space for queer-run, extremely diverse venue (we even let mumbling old white geezers in) what I'd call 'mostly accessible'
#ToPonder Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. (Vladimir Nabokov - Emily Prentiss in Criminal Minds)
#ToPray ✝️ with St Faithful’s The Limits of God are not really the limits of God. They are usually the limits of us. St Faithful’s, Havnot Faithful, not finished.
