Marie Cecilie
@mariececilie.bsky.social
Nature, God, parenting and politics. (She/her) 🏳️🌈
Read this before going to this morning‘s Ash Wednesday Eucharist, which was beautiful and where my vicar invited me to administer the ashes to him, and honestly, I have thought about the line ‘Courage is visible. Hope has taken flesh. “I am coming to the cottage.” a lot today.
GUYS
GUYS OMFG
my favorite LGBTQ Catholic site published a Lenten spiritual meditation on “Heated Rivalry” and it’s genuinely so beautiful I cried??? it’s all about how queer identity/self-acceptance and queer community and queer love (including, yes, all the onscreen queer sex) are sacred things
GUYS OMFG
my favorite LGBTQ Catholic site published a Lenten spiritual meditation on “Heated Rivalry” and it’s genuinely so beautiful I cried??? it’s all about how queer identity/self-acceptance and queer community and queer love (including, yes, all the onscreen queer sex) are sacred things
Finding God at the cottage: A meditation on "Heated Rivalry" - Outreach
In the television show "Heated Rivalry," viewers are invited to contemplate how hope takes flesh in one's own life as a beloved child of God.
outreach.faith
February 18, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Read this before going to this morning‘s Ash Wednesday Eucharist, which was beautiful and where my vicar invited me to administer the ashes to him, and honestly, I have thought about the line ‘Courage is visible. Hope has taken flesh. “I am coming to the cottage.” a lot today.
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GUYS
GUYS OMFG
my favorite LGBTQ Catholic site published a Lenten spiritual meditation on “Heated Rivalry” and it’s genuinely so beautiful I cried??? it’s all about how queer identity/self-acceptance and queer community and queer love (including, yes, all the onscreen queer sex) are sacred things
GUYS OMFG
my favorite LGBTQ Catholic site published a Lenten spiritual meditation on “Heated Rivalry” and it’s genuinely so beautiful I cried??? it’s all about how queer identity/self-acceptance and queer community and queer love (including, yes, all the onscreen queer sex) are sacred things
Finding God at the cottage: A meditation on "Heated Rivalry" - Outreach
In the television show "Heated Rivalry," viewers are invited to contemplate how hope takes flesh in one's own life as a beloved child of God.
outreach.faith
February 18, 2026 at 3:35 AM
GUYS
GUYS OMFG
my favorite LGBTQ Catholic site published a Lenten spiritual meditation on “Heated Rivalry” and it’s genuinely so beautiful I cried??? it’s all about how queer identity/self-acceptance and queer community and queer love (including, yes, all the onscreen queer sex) are sacred things
GUYS OMFG
my favorite LGBTQ Catholic site published a Lenten spiritual meditation on “Heated Rivalry” and it’s genuinely so beautiful I cried??? it’s all about how queer identity/self-acceptance and queer community and queer love (including, yes, all the onscreen queer sex) are sacred things
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Absolutely right. Like Chris, I resent the framing that European governments are learning this from the US. It’s totally routine for hundreds of black African people to drown in the Mediterranean when trying to reach Europe. The EU, and its homegrown structural racism, enabled that all by itself.
Rather obviously so. European governments are closer to the Trumpists in practice than people would like to think.
EU’s deportations plan risks ICE-style enforcement, rights groups warn
Crackdown on undocumented people could lead to home raids, surveillance and racial profiling, 75 organisations say
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Absolutely right. Like Chris, I resent the framing that European governments are learning this from the US. It’s totally routine for hundreds of black African people to drown in the Mediterranean when trying to reach Europe. The EU, and its homegrown structural racism, enabled that all by itself.
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‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban
‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban
Members warn NFWI decision has opened up toxic culture that deters younger women from joining
At least 12 Women’s Institute (WI) groups are closing or considering closure after the organisation barred transgender women from membership.
Members say more groups are likely to close, and that the federation’s decision has opened up a toxic, traditionalist culture that will deter younger women from joining. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:08 AM
‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban
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This entire 'debate' is so maddening. We have been promised that a groundswell of rushed, dissatisfied detransitioners was about to emerge for nearly a decade.
Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This entire 'debate' is so maddening. We have been promised that a groundswell of rushed, dissatisfied detransitioners was about to emerge for nearly a decade.
Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
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Yesterday I went to a fringe meeting previewing some qualitative research from Theos about young people joining the Church of England. Mix of church traditions. But while there are more men than women, they talked about valuing church as a space for faith in Christ and also for sharing emotions⚓️ 1/4
February 12, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Yesterday I went to a fringe meeting previewing some qualitative research from Theos about young people joining the Church of England. Mix of church traditions. But while there are more men than women, they talked about valuing church as a space for faith in Christ and also for sharing emotions⚓️ 1/4
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“[Christians] should ask themselves if they are not perhaps perpetuating the same dubious situation [as the Inquisition]: for instance, by making their prime aim the attainment of positions of worldly power—in order to spread the Gospel more effectively, of course.”
February 11, 2026 at 9:14 PM
“[Christians] should ask themselves if they are not perhaps perpetuating the same dubious situation [as the Inquisition]: for instance, by making their prime aim the attainment of positions of worldly power—in order to spread the Gospel more effectively, of course.”
My daughter’s horse boo says love horses, fuck colonialism, which is very valid.
February 11, 2026 at 9:32 PM
My daughter’s horse boo says love horses, fuck colonialism, which is very valid.
Please fill this in, what the government is proposing is cruel and unnecessary and reading through all the different questions really lays that bare.
Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking
the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about
February 11, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Please fill this in, what the government is proposing is cruel and unnecessary and reading through all the different questions really lays that bare.
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anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...
media.amnesty.org.uk
February 11, 2026 at 8:49 AM
anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...
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filled out the horrible settlement consultation and I’m sorry, the question that is framed as a negative so that you have to ‘strongly disagree’ with something not happening?? This has enraged me
February 11, 2026 at 8:15 AM
filled out the horrible settlement consultation and I’m sorry, the question that is framed as a negative so that you have to ‘strongly disagree’ with something not happening?? This has enraged me
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The ancient praise-shout, "Hallelujah,"
February 10, 2026 at 7:40 PM
The ancient praise-shout, "Hallelujah,"
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Soft, pink branding, hard-right politics
The far-right, anti-migrant Pink Ladies in Kent are attempting to present themselves as a grassroots initiative concerned solely with women’s safety.
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/soft...
The far-right, anti-migrant Pink Ladies in Kent are attempting to present themselves as a grassroots initiative concerned solely with women’s safety.
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/soft...
Soft, pink branding, hard-right politics | Searchlight
Kent 'Pink Ladies' out in Swanley The far-right, anti-migrant Pink Ladies in Kent are attempting to present themselves as a grassroots initiative ...
searchlightmagazine.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Soft, pink branding, hard-right politics
The far-right, anti-migrant Pink Ladies in Kent are attempting to present themselves as a grassroots initiative concerned solely with women’s safety.
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/soft...
The far-right, anti-migrant Pink Ladies in Kent are attempting to present themselves as a grassroots initiative concerned solely with women’s safety.
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/soft...
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thank you also for those disappointments and failures
February 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
thank you also for those disappointments and failures
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America! I hear you're excited about some #SuperbOwl today. Let me suggest these superb owls instead:
milkweed.org/book/the-com...
milkweed.org/book/the-com...
The Company of Owls | Milkweed Editions
milkweed.org
February 8, 2026 at 7:47 PM
America! I hear you're excited about some #SuperbOwl today. Let me suggest these superb owls instead:
milkweed.org/book/the-com...
milkweed.org/book/the-com...
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Almighty God, who hast knit
February 6, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Almighty God, who hast knit
TV peaked when every planet on a sci-fi show would look like [SOMEWHERE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA].
This is why I loved Tracker.
I cant remember the protagonists name, but John Tracker will go across the US finding missing people, so long as they're location looks vaguely like Vancouver or Washington, or a City Block in Seattle that looks like [INSERT US METROPOLITAN AREA]. Nevada? Hell no.
I cant remember the protagonists name, but John Tracker will go across the US finding missing people, so long as they're location looks vaguely like Vancouver or Washington, or a City Block in Seattle that looks like [INSERT US METROPOLITAN AREA]. Nevada? Hell no.
February 3, 2026 at 3:53 PM
TV peaked when every planet on a sci-fi show would look like [SOMEWHERE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA].
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Apologies for crashing the thread, but seeing you here reminded me that ‘Tomb with a View’ and ‘Steeplechasing’ were two of my absolute favourite reads last year, the way you balance history/architecture/the present human dimension is beautiful.
January 30, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Apologies for crashing the thread, but seeing you here reminded me that ‘Tomb with a View’ and ‘Steeplechasing’ were two of my absolute favourite reads last year, the way you balance history/architecture/the present human dimension is beautiful.
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Poetry recommendation: read Simon Armitage’s Pearl // Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in a weekend an loved them - utterly beautiful but also really thrilling to read.
I am now reading Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner that Held Them (90% through) & it is a fun but also surprisingly moving read.
I am now reading Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner that Held Them (90% through) & it is a fun but also surprisingly moving read.
January 30, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Poetry recommendation: read Simon Armitage’s Pearl // Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in a weekend an loved them - utterly beautiful but also really thrilling to read.
I am now reading Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner that Held Them (90% through) & it is a fun but also surprisingly moving read.
I am now reading Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner that Held Them (90% through) & it is a fun but also surprisingly moving read.
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The thing is, if you think Jesus *is* just a human teacher, then the Jesus you arrive at (having stripped out the supernatural bits, since you have to do that if you think he's merely human), isn't very likeable.
Young people have been culturally conditioned to read the Bible for moral lessons— “abstract ‘shoulds’ that strip stories of their theological depth and emotional power” — a new study reports.
Young people troubled by ‘mansplaining’ Jesus, study finds
‘Unequal power dynamics’ alleged, with Christ seen as judgemental, gullible, or guilty
www.churchtimes.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 AM
The thing is, if you think Jesus *is* just a human teacher, then the Jesus you arrive at (having stripped out the supernatural bits, since you have to do that if you think he's merely human), isn't very likeable.
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Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
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I'm sorry, but the reaction to Brianna Ghey being murdered by people she knew offline *because she was transgender* becoming 'we should stop teenagers from being on social media' rather than 'we should deal with the recent horrifying rise of transphobia in the UK' is unbelievably fucking bullshit.
January 28, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I'm sorry, but the reaction to Brianna Ghey being murdered by people she knew offline *because she was transgender* becoming 'we should stop teenagers from being on social media' rather than 'we should deal with the recent horrifying rise of transphobia in the UK' is unbelievably fucking bullshit.
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This is utterly ridiculous, but it’s not imo *more* ridiculous than any of the other Shakespeare conspiracy theories, tho’ I see that as always it depends on classist (& laughably wrong) assumptions about what a provincial grammar school education meant back then.
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/shak...
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/shak...
Shakespeare was actually a black Jewish woman, new book claims
Feminist historian identifies Tudor poet Emilia Bassano as true author whose identity was hidden by literary establishment
www.standard.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 11:55 AM
This is utterly ridiculous, but it’s not imo *more* ridiculous than any of the other Shakespeare conspiracy theories, tho’ I see that as always it depends on classist (& laughably wrong) assumptions about what a provincial grammar school education meant back then.
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/shak...
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/shak...