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Lindsay
@revteapot.bsky.social
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Currently a nomad in France.
Priest, writer, owned by a greyhound.
Mildly obsessive about tea.
Liberal lefty tree hugging type.

my blog - https://revteapot.wordpress.com
my book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B181VTSJ/
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Head down, heading home.
She is not a fan of the rain.
#greyhounds
A black greyhound in a visibly wet (pink) coat, walking down a rural street. I don't think you can see the rain in the photograph but you can see that the ground is wet and there is water lying in puddles.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Home.
I don't think she's going to move for a while.
Greyhound snuggled up with a soft pink thing, eyes closed.
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The day continues in a similar theme.
#greyhound
The same greyhound lies stretched out in the middle of a ploughed field.
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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She didn't sleep so well 😴.
#greyhound
A greyhound tucked up small on the sofa, face buried under the photographer's feet.
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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I've just discovered I need to read up on Nehru.
"Democracy must in essence... mean the art and science of mobilising the entire physical economic and spiritual resources of all the various sections of the people in the service of the common good of all."
Via www.instagram.com/radicalteato...
A screenshot of the radical teatowel calendar for September with the quote used in the post above.
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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This is an example of greyhounds being mystic beasts - I swear this is more than four legs...
A cluster of an indefinite number (four) of greyhound feet, from a curled up greyhound.
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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It loses the deliberately scandalous vibe of the original, but to retain it, you'd have to lose some of the imagery, I think, to stop it running too many themes, so it becomes something more like:
Scandalous God, you leave the weeds among the crop and your net catches both good and bad. Teach us your wide-branching love that we might throw down our idols of purity and possession, and be ever mindful we are gathered for heaven without discrimination nor yet division, to seek in one another that treasure that is without price, for which you have given your Son, our Saviour, even Jesus Christ our Lord.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The second half is solid. We do make purity an idol and depend on it rather than Christ.

The thing is, bringing the first half into the natural sense of the parables, robs it of its own coherence.
You'd need something like this, I think, to retain the logic and imagery of both parables & collect:
Scandalous God, whose kingdom, like yeast, is transforming all it touches, you leave the weeds among the crop and your net catches both good and bad. So teach us your wide-branching love that we might throw down our idols of purity and possession, and seek in one another that treasure that is without price, for which you have given your Son, our Saviour, even Jesus Christ our Lord.
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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It goes psalm first, then you can either OT canticle NT or canticle OT NT. (Most people do the former.) During the seasons you got a choice between seasonal Psalms or continuing just to roll through the psalter.
See pic.
The lectionary assumes you're doing ep and MP even though most aren't.
"holy communion Wisdom 1.1-7 Or Titus 1.1-9 Psalm 139.1-9 Or 24.1-6 Morning prayer Psalms 19, 20 Or 1, 2, 3 Isaiah 5.8-24 Matthew 4.23-5.12 Evening prayer Psalm 34 Or 4, 7 Daniel 4.19-end Revelation 5
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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#MorningPrayer again reminding us that there is nothing new under the sun.
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Isaiah 5.8-24 Ah, you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one but you, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land! The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant. For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah. Ah, you who drag iniquity along with cords of falsehood, who drag sin along as with cart-ropes, who say, ‘Let him make haste, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the plan of the Holy One of Israel hasten to fulfilment, that we may know it!’ Ah, you who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Ah, you who are wise in your own eyes, and shrewd in your own sight! Ah, you who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant at mixing drink, who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of their rights! Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become rotten, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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I see your snout and raise you:
Close up of a greyhound face
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Everything is fine, people.
As you were.
#COP30
Irish times headline: Last 11 years have been hottest on record as ‘alarming’ weather streak continues Exceptional temperatures are now becoming the norm. Photo: Firefighters watch as water is dropped on the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon, January 2025. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This is especially troubling when we take into account how little conscious choice there is in believing statements we see often.
From Daniel Cohen's Thinking Fast and Slow: "Anything that makes it easier for the associative machine to run smoothly will also bias beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. But it was psychologists who discovered that you do not have to repeat the entire statement of a fact or idea to make it appear true. People who were repeatedly exposed to the phrase “the body temperature of a chicken” were more likely to accept as true the statement that “the body temperature of a chicken is 144°” (or any other arbitrary number). The familiarity of one phrase in the statement sufficed to make the whole statement feel familiar, and therefore true. If you cannot remember the source of a statement, and have no way to relate it to other things you know, you have no option but to go with the sense of cognitive ease." From Daniel Cohen's Thinking Fast and Slow: "The results were spectacular: the words that were presented more frequently were rated much more favorably than the words that had been shown only once or twice. The finding has been confirmed in many experiments, using Chinese ideographs, faces, and randomly shaped polygons. The mere exposure effect does not depend on the conscious experience of familiarity. In fact, the effect does not depend on consciousness at all: it occurs even when the repeated words or pictures are shown so quickly that the observers never become aware of having seen them. They still end up liking the words or pictures that were presented more frequently. As should be clear by now, System 1 can respond to impressions of events of which System 2 is unaware. Indeed, the mere exposure effect is actually stronger for stimuli that the individual never consciously sees. Zajonc argued that the effect of repetition on liking is a profoundly important biological fact..."
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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This is positively poetic - people arriving from the rest of the world and saying, "but you're not doing it *right*".
Still, the idea of rebooting the old Clerk order is actually worth considering 🤔.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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“in the Philippines there is a commentator to tell people when to kneel down, when to stand up, when to sit. `Please all kneel down, please all stand up,’ the commentator would say.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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We have a rather nice amount of give in our regs:
Screen shot from CofE website (https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/rules) "In the Calendar of the Saints, diocesan and other local provision may be made to supplement the national Calendar. Lesser Festivals Lesser Festivals, which are listed in the Calendar, are observed at the level appropriate to a particular church."
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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#JustSaying
Is this a protected characteristic, now?
Screenshot of a guardian newspaper headline "just stop oil protesters convicted after being denied right to state climate facts" it goes on in smaller font "lawyers clarity overlaw as six-found guiltying stopped from...x
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Ah, I find this has, I think, no alt text so:
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” —Theodore Roosevelt Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I have bought more more tea.
A cupboard shelf with five tea tins and a packet of tea, plus boxes of infusions behind.
November 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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This (via @editorialboard.bsky.social) applies to so many groups. I'm tired of being told (in my case, usually them as don't think women can lead/be ordained) that they're so courteous [to women], and we can all just work together and gloss over these differences.
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"They're playing on your sympathies. They're doing what MAGA has been doing since the 90s, before they were known as MAGA. They're asking you to tolerate their intolerance, to respect their racism, to give their bigotry an audience. Are they capable of being polite long enough to trick someone into thinking they're not filled with ignorance and hatred? Sure. Do they think they're the villain? Of course not."
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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"The wine they shared to celebrate victory and peace would become a sign for Christians of the victory and peace brought through the blood of Christ’s sacrifice and its presence in the eucharistic chalice."
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3 pictures: Unknown artist : Wine set, 13th century BCE , Bronze, by an unknown artist (an amphora-type jug, sort of shallow collander and drinking bowl) Peter Paul Rubens : The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, c.1626 , Oil on panel (too small to see much detail, but Abraham is dressed in armour greeting an elderly melchizedek who is wearing a flowing golden cloak. There are soldiers in the background and the whole scene is pillared and canopied.) Unknown German artist : Paten, Chalice, Fistula, c.1230–50 , Silver, partly gilt; niello, jewels
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I'd say (c) throw it followed by (e) leave it.
woman lying on the floor forlornly
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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I was reminded this morning that Cranmer's Thanksgiving after childbirth (unfortunately subtitled the churching of women) is so much better than the modern thing, mostly because it actually remembers to give thanks for the life of the mother, but also because it identifies this as the go-to psalm.
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(extract from Psalms 116) I love the LORD because he has heard my voice and my supplications. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. Then I called on the name of the LORD, “O LORD, I pray, save my life!” Gracious is the LORD and righteous; our God is merciful. The LORD protects the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me. Return, O my soul, to your rest, for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. I walk before the LORD in the land of the living. I kept my faith, even when I said, “I am greatly afflicted”; I said in my consternation, “Everyone is a liar.” What shall I return to the LORD for all his bounty to me?
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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There's lovely.
Corner of a room with a small tv and lamp, and a picture on the wall, with red stains all over - sprayed and smeared. Caption: caption this with the second to last text you sent.
October 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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What? All gone?
#Greyhounds
A black greyhound is reaching down from a sofa into a paper bag.
October 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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It occurs to me that this week's collect (however inferior to least week's) is a good one for the week I leave Dublin for the Unknown.
Picture of a path by the sea. Text: Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us your gift of faith that, forsaking what lies behind and reaching out to that which is before, we may run the way of your commandments and win the crown of everlasting joy.
October 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM