Phil White
@revdphilippa.bsky.social
Liturgy, church music, knitting, poetry, cool saints, hymn-writing, small children. Not in that order. Sometimes also sleep.
She/her. God is love and mercy is greater than we can imagine.
She/her. God is love and mercy is greater than we can imagine.
The saints, our heavenly kindred, worked wonders with each breath,
& we like them are called by the Love that conquers death;
so, strengthened & defended by those who came before,
may we like them bring healing & like them hope restore.
Happy All Saints. May we be inspired to build the Kingdom.
& we like them are called by the Love that conquers death;
so, strengthened & defended by those who came before,
may we like them bring healing & like them hope restore.
Happy All Saints. May we be inspired to build the Kingdom.
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The saints, our heavenly kindred, worked wonders with each breath,
& we like them are called by the Love that conquers death;
so, strengthened & defended by those who came before,
may we like them bring healing & like them hope restore.
Happy All Saints. May we be inspired to build the Kingdom.
& we like them are called by the Love that conquers death;
so, strengthened & defended by those who came before,
may we like them bring healing & like them hope restore.
Happy All Saints. May we be inspired to build the Kingdom.
If you like your m/m romance with a) quite a lot of explicit sex (YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED) and b) an extremely excellent pulp thriller plot, but much more emotionally literate and psychologically plausible than my beloved Buchan et al, HAVE AT THIS.
It's my birthday, so have a present. SLIPPERY CREATURES (Will Darling Adventures book 1) is going on cheap over the weekend. 1920s pulp adventure m/m romance with plots, spies, Bright Young People, and emotional support knife, all for 99p!
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles
books2read.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If you like your m/m romance with a) quite a lot of explicit sex (YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED) and b) an extremely excellent pulp thriller plot, but much more emotionally literate and psychologically plausible than my beloved Buchan et al, HAVE AT THIS.
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Powerful letter from Clare Herbert in today's Church Times
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Powerful letter from Clare Herbert in today's Church Times
If I said 'hell's bells and Dennis Potter', would you know the reference or would you think me unhinged?
October 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If I said 'hell's bells and Dennis Potter', would you know the reference or would you think me unhinged?
1. This is, and I do not say this lightly, evil.
2. The number of people who have become politically aware because of their children/ grandchildren being unable to marry non-British partners and live in the UK is non-zero. Can I hope that this will backfire??
2. The number of people who have become politically aware because of their children/ grandchildren being unable to marry non-British partners and live in the UK is non-zero. Can I hope that this will backfire??
Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
October 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
1. This is, and I do not say this lightly, evil.
2. The number of people who have become politically aware because of their children/ grandchildren being unable to marry non-British partners and live in the UK is non-zero. Can I hope that this will backfire??
2. The number of people who have become politically aware because of their children/ grandchildren being unable to marry non-British partners and live in the UK is non-zero. Can I hope that this will backfire??
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Today we celebrate St Luke, whose Gospel and Book of Acts invite us into the story of God’s love.
As a physician, Luke reminds us that the Gospel bears healing for body, mind and spirit. May Luke’s care for the marginalized inspire us to tell the story of Christ’s compassion.
As a physician, Luke reminds us that the Gospel bears healing for body, mind and spirit. May Luke’s care for the marginalized inspire us to tell the story of Christ’s compassion.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Today we celebrate St Luke, whose Gospel and Book of Acts invite us into the story of God’s love.
As a physician, Luke reminds us that the Gospel bears healing for body, mind and spirit. May Luke’s care for the marginalized inspire us to tell the story of Christ’s compassion.
As a physician, Luke reminds us that the Gospel bears healing for body, mind and spirit. May Luke’s care for the marginalized inspire us to tell the story of Christ’s compassion.
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It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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V niche #CofE tweet. Does anyone else who was on the Shared Conversations on Human Sexuality (c2015) run into people with whom they were in the horrible small groups and have to have a professional conversation whilst thinking WE SAT IN A LITTLE ROOM AND TOLD EACH OTHER ABOUT OUR SEXUAL AWAKENINGS.
October 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
V niche #CofE tweet. Does anyone else who was on the Shared Conversations on Human Sexuality (c2015) run into people with whom they were in the horrible small groups and have to have a professional conversation whilst thinking WE SAT IN A LITTLE ROOM AND TOLD EACH OTHER ABOUT OUR SEXUAL AWAKENINGS.
Having heard 2 consecutive Today interviews with cabinet ministers, I'd really like someone to object to Nick Robinson's premise that state spending is all a black hole. Perhaps even say supporting people in need is an objective good and one of the functions of the state. #RadicalLeftOpinions
September 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Having heard 2 consecutive Today interviews with cabinet ministers, I'd really like someone to object to Nick Robinson's premise that state spending is all a black hole. Perhaps even say supporting people in need is an objective good and one of the functions of the state. #RadicalLeftOpinions
Just had to sing Cauliflowers fluffy for the first time this year and nearly disgraced myself at the sinister line 'down in the darkness where the celery sleeps.' (in its house at Ry'leh dead celery lies dreaming?)
September 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Just had to sing Cauliflowers fluffy for the first time this year and nearly disgraced myself at the sinister line 'down in the darkness where the celery sleeps.' (in its house at Ry'leh dead celery lies dreaming?)
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Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
August 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
It is the first-worldest of first-world-problems, but I do resent paying for adult entry to soft play. I am not here by choice!
August 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It is the first-worldest of first-world-problems, but I do resent paying for adult entry to soft play. I am not here by choice!
Very much enjoying the Hugh Bonneville-read Sherlock Holmes stories on BBC Sounds. Sending me right back to teenage fandom (Holmes/ Watson is BARELY SUBTEXT and I will die on this hill).
August 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Very much enjoying the Hugh Bonneville-read Sherlock Holmes stories on BBC Sounds. Sending me right back to teenage fandom (Holmes/ Watson is BARELY SUBTEXT and I will die on this hill).
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O Lord, arise, help us;
August 19, 2025 at 7:15 AM
O Lord, arise, help us;
If all the money being poured into AI on the pretext of 'solving the loneliness epidemic' was used to pay a universal basic income to as many people as possible, I wonder a) how many people would be lifted out of poverty and b) how many people would become less lonely?
August 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If all the money being poured into AI on the pretext of 'solving the loneliness epidemic' was used to pay a universal basic income to as many people as possible, I wonder a) how many people would be lifted out of poverty and b) how many people would become less lonely?
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Blessed feast of Jonathan Myrick Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian, civil rights activist, and martyr
Died in 1965 while using his body to shield 17yr-old Ruby Sales from a racist attack
May light perpetual shine up upon him
Died in 1965 while using his body to shield 17yr-old Ruby Sales from a racist attack
May light perpetual shine up upon him
August 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Blessed feast of Jonathan Myrick Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian, civil rights activist, and martyr
Died in 1965 while using his body to shield 17yr-old Ruby Sales from a racist attack
May light perpetual shine up upon him
Died in 1965 while using his body to shield 17yr-old Ruby Sales from a racist attack
May light perpetual shine up upon him
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We're 300 followers away from 70,000. 300 more would be really nice. But you know what would be even better? 300 plus 30,000.
Bluesky: help a museum out
Bluesky: help a museum out
August 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We're 300 followers away from 70,000. 300 more would be really nice. But you know what would be even better? 300 plus 30,000.
Bluesky: help a museum out
Bluesky: help a museum out
Morning Prayer gang: re. Romans 16, if you haven't heard Fred Craddock's sermon 'When the roll is called down here,' I commend it to you. youtu.be/X20Sd8NKLsk?...
(Sorry - not brilliant quality, best I could find.)
#MorningPrayer 🕯️
(Sorry - not brilliant quality, best I could find.)
#MorningPrayer 🕯️
When The Roll Is Called Down Here
YouTube video by mshane Qn
youtu.be
July 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Morning Prayer gang: re. Romans 16, if you haven't heard Fred Craddock's sermon 'When the roll is called down here,' I commend it to you. youtu.be/X20Sd8NKLsk?...
(Sorry - not brilliant quality, best I could find.)
#MorningPrayer 🕯️
(Sorry - not brilliant quality, best I could find.)
#MorningPrayer 🕯️
Connected to a lot of complicated feelings about breastfeeding, but my experience was that when I was breastfeeding in public people would stop to tell me how much better I was than Those Formula Feeding Mothers, and it was bottle feeding in public that drew hostility.
I have actually never been confronted while breastfeeding in public! I suspect I give off ~vibes~
but in case you need this info, it is illegal under the EA2010 to harass or bother a woman breastfeeding in a public space in England. devolved nations have their own laws but same gist applies
but in case you need this info, it is illegal under the EA2010 to harass or bother a woman breastfeeding in a public space in England. devolved nations have their own laws but same gist applies
July 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Connected to a lot of complicated feelings about breastfeeding, but my experience was that when I was breastfeeding in public people would stop to tell me how much better I was than Those Formula Feeding Mothers, and it was bottle feeding in public that drew hostility.
If you were my passport, where would you be?
May 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you were my passport, where would you be?
There was someone on Anglican Twitter (RIP) who had written a series of novels online about the Church of England of 2050, focused on a woman bishop (Ruth?) and her chaplain Tom. Is she here? Or does anyone remember the novels and can link them? (Trying to send to a friend but never bookmarked!)
May 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
There was someone on Anglican Twitter (RIP) who had written a series of novels online about the Church of England of 2050, focused on a woman bishop (Ruth?) and her chaplain Tom. Is she here? Or does anyone remember the novels and can link them? (Trying to send to a friend but never bookmarked!)
I bow to nobody in my respect for Eric Milner-White, but the line in the Nine Lessons and Carols bidding prayer 'because this above all things would rejoice his [Jesus's] heart ..' has me HOPPING MAD for exactly this reason. He ISN'T DEAD.
There's something profoundly sad about some Christians, esp. clergy, saying "IF Jesus were here…" or "Jesus WOULD..." My point isn't a semantic gotcha, but that we Christians have to talk about Jesus like He's actually alive (because He is!) and not just a Good Moral Example locked in the past.
May 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I bow to nobody in my respect for Eric Milner-White, but the line in the Nine Lessons and Carols bidding prayer 'because this above all things would rejoice his [Jesus's] heart ..' has me HOPPING MAD for exactly this reason. He ISN'T DEAD.
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Transphobes spent decades like "my exclusive theology allows me to discriminate no matter what the law says" well uno reverse card, fools! Because my firmly held religious conviction is that to be trans and to transition is to follow God's call upon my life and is therefore my duty as a Christian.
May 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Transphobes spent decades like "my exclusive theology allows me to discriminate no matter what the law says" well uno reverse card, fools! Because my firmly held religious conviction is that to be trans and to transition is to follow God's call upon my life and is therefore my duty as a Christian.
Frightening and convincing.
'An unspeakably dismal choice is being made before our eyes and without our consent: machines over humans, inanimate over animate, profits over all else.... sacrificing this world’s real and precious resources and creativity at the altar of a vampiric, virtual realm.'
'An unspeakably dismal choice is being made before our eyes and without our consent: machines over humans, inanimate over animate, profits over all else.... sacrificing this world’s real and precious resources and creativity at the altar of a vampiric, virtual realm.'
The rise of end times fascism. An essay by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Frightening and convincing.
'An unspeakably dismal choice is being made before our eyes and without our consent: machines over humans, inanimate over animate, profits over all else.... sacrificing this world’s real and precious resources and creativity at the altar of a vampiric, virtual realm.'
'An unspeakably dismal choice is being made before our eyes and without our consent: machines over humans, inanimate over animate, profits over all else.... sacrificing this world’s real and precious resources and creativity at the altar of a vampiric, virtual realm.'