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Michael Shaw

@michaelpcshaw.bsky.social

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nature mystic "there is a celtic wild man inside me waiting to get out" #socialjustice occasionally a Baptist Minister Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Also interested in Politics, Cricket, Rugby, folk music history, Curry and Beer/whisky

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Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · Nov 15

Blue Sky Day 2

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Dr Priest @pennypriest.bsky.social · 15d

"Peter Mandelson lost his job for being friends with a paedophile. Donald Trump, who was friends with the same paedophile, was given a state banquet hosted by a King whose brother lost his job because he was friends with the same paedophile.“

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17d

And he’s back!!

Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.

His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

DOUBLETHINK DOES DOUBLETIME

STEWART LEE

www.thenerve.news

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14d

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

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Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · 14d

I see what you are saying and my comment is not a rule of salvation

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · 20d

China has been hit with huge tariffs, why should they care about the Soya bean farmers, who voted for the man who imposed them

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Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · 23d

And, of course, many of the "fans" left before the end, instead of applauding their team

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · 24d

The Ryder Cup reveals so much about the American psyche, and explains so much

Their players struggle to play as a team and often think they are better than they are

Their fans are rude, obnoxious and ignorant, and lack basic etiquette

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Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · 26d

But Angela Raynor....

Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 26d

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament

www.theguardian.com

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · 26d

Decades? Really?

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · 26d

There are no examples in any of the four Gospels of where Jesus gave an alter call.

Jesus said, "Follow me," because he was going to model a new way of living!

He was not offering a hell avoidance scheme but a full life plan!

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Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · 27d

Dickie Bird, Danny Thompson and Ray Simpson all passed away this week.

It's a weird trinity that combines my interests in:

Cricket
Folk Music
Celtic Christianity

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · 29d

This is also true....

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · 29d

Maybe we should spend less energy on predicting the "Rapture" (which Jesus said even he didn't know the date of)

And more time extending the Kingdom of God, especially among the poor?

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · Sep 22

I find it very telling that when Christian Nationalists try to justify their actions, they selectively quote the Old Testament or Paul, but hardly ever quote the Gospels..

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Sep 22

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

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Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · Sep 22

I suspect what we do in the bedroom is more important to Christians than God.

I think God is more interested in justice for the poor

God is only interested in what we do in the bedroom, when what we do in the bedroom is abusive, coercive, and exploitative

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · Sep 21

"Fight back or you die"
Elon Musk

"Love your enemies" Jesus

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · Sep 20

There is no Woke Agenda

It's just being kind.

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · Sep 16

Funny. Right wing Christians, who for years have been telling liberal/progressive churches to stick to the Gospel, not cultural issues

Are now asking why churches weren't talking enough about Charlie Kirk!

Weird

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · Sep 15

Vote Reform get a failed Tory

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · Sep 15

It's increasingly obvious that Reform are not an anti-establisment party, but the establishment wearing a different hat (or rosette)

LBC @lbc.co.uk · Sep 15

'The Conservative Party is over': Shadow Minister Danny Kruger defects to Reform UK

Read more: www.lbc.co.uk/article/dann...

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · Sep 12

Some thoughts on Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams:

youtube.com/shorts/QOvlk...

field of dreams

YouTube video by Incarnate Michael Shaw

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Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · Sep 11

If God "saved" Donald Trump when someone tried to kill him....

Where was God yesterday, when a shooter took the life of Charlie Kirk?

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · Jul 29

Maybe if they didn't allow weapons to be available with such ease, that policeman would not have had to?

Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · Jul 29

Salvation, inclusion, good news and poverty

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Good News

As a young Christian, I was taught that the Gospel was a simple transaction: I was a sinner, destined for hell, but Jesus had died for me so I could now go to Heaven.

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Michael Shaw @michaelpcshaw.bsky.social · Jul 26

There is a clear link between racism and violence and misogyny

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse

Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse