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Rev. Rory Castle Jones
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❤️ Duw, cariad yw • God is love ❤️

✝️ Unitarian Christian
🌈 LGBTQ+ inclusive
⛪️ Minister, Gellionnen Chapel
🙏 University chaplain
💡Ministry & Leadership @ UK Unitarian HQ
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cwm Tawe, Cymru
⛰️ Swansea Valley, Wales
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Rev. Rory Castle Jones @rorycastlejones.bsky.social · May 6
“What lies behind us
and what lies ahead of us
are tiny matters compared to
what lives within us.
And when we bring
what is within us
out into the world,
miracles happen.”

- Henry David Thoreau,
died on this day in 1862
❤️🙏🌸
Black and white portrait photograph of Henry David Thoreau
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'Our Daily Bread' - this week's video reflection 🥖🌈🙏
'Ein Bara Beunyddiol' - myfyrdod fideo yr wythnos hon 🥖🌈🙏

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November 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Our video reflection for Remembrance Sunday / ein myfrydod fideo ar gyfer Sul y Cofio 🙏🌹🧡

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November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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'Love' - this week's video reflection ❤️🧡💛
'Cariad' - myfyrdod fideo yr wythnos hon ❤️🧡💛

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November 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Bore da / Good morning ☀️ Join us at 10.45am for a service exploring Jesus’s words to his disciples: “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” ❤️🙏 🌈
A photo of me in clerical collar and tartan scarf outside our historic 17th century white chapel on the mountain, in the autumn sunshine
November 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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A room with a view…
🍂🏔️🙏🏠😊

This week I’m up in the Peak District for the annual Unitarian Ministerial Fellowship gathering.
The view from a window, showing an autumnal garden with flowers, stone Peak District cottages and an autumnal hillside, with blue skies above
October 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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'The Magic Book' - our video reflection for Bible Sunday / ein myfrydod fideo ar gyfer Sul y Beibl 🙏🌈📖🧡

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October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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‘Reservoirs’ - #RSThomas
(Not That He Brought Flowers - Rupert Hart-Davis)
#CofiwchDryweryn
October 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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We had a very special congregational outing to Margam Abbey today, founded 1147 and home of the Mansells, who granted land to build Gellionnen Chapel back in 1692! A beautiful place, rich with faith, history & energy. Thanks for the amazing tour & very warm welcome. Diolch o galon ⛪️🙏❤️
A photo of me enjoying a coffee after our tour of the abbey. A group of nine Gellionnen Chapel members in front of the altar at Margam Abbey A group photo during the tour, outside historic Margam Abbey A photo of our tour guide telling us the history of the abbey, while seated in the choir stalls, with bright stained glass windows behind
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A beautiful Autumn morning on the mountain for our service this morning, exploring the words and lives of St Paul, William Ellery Channing and Norbert Čapek 🙏⛪️❤️
A selfie outside our historic 17th century white chapel
October 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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'Preach the gospel at all times and, if necessary, use words' - this week's video reflection / myfrydod fideo yr wythnos hon 🙏🌈🧡

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October 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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It was a joy to lead worship at York Unitarians Chapel on St Saviourgate in the heart of York’s historic centre. Huge thanks to the congregation for the invitation and the warm welcome 😊🙏⛪️🌈
Exterior of York Unitarian Chapel, a historic 17th century chapel Interior of York Unitarian Chapel, with red pews and beautiful interior decor
October 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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'What sustains us?' - this week's video reflection / myfrydod fideo yr wythnos hon 🙏🌈❤

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September 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Happy Harvest! Gwasanaeth Diolchgarwch 🌽🌈❤️🙏😊
A photo of me in clerical wear with a colourful floral stole, in a chapel Set Fawr, with a harvest display in front.
September 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Noson anhygoel / a wonderful night at the opera - ‘Tosca’ @welshnatopera.bsky.social at the Millennium Centre, Caerdydd 🎶👏❤️
Performers at the curtain call on stage, with beautiful church scenery in gold behind
September 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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'Community' - this week's video reflection 🙏🌈❤
Cymuned' - myfrydod fideo yr wythnos hon 🙏🌈❤

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September 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Today at my chapel we had the privilege of hosting Gwyl Cynnal y Fflam / Tending The Flame Festival - a celebration of Welsh Unitarianism, organised by our denomination’s ministers. We had a mixture of worship, talks, socialising and spiritual exploration 🕯️❤️🙏🌈⛪️🎶
Five Unitarian ministers in the Sêt Fawr (Big Seat) of Gellionnen Chapel
September 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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'Belonging' - this week's video reflection 🙏🌈❤
'Perthyn' - myfrydod fideo yr wythnos hon 🙏🌈❤

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September 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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'Joy' - this week's video reflection 🙏🌈❤️
'Llawenydd' - myfrydod fideo yr wythnos hon 🙏🌈❤️

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September 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Four years ago today I was ordained! A huge thank you to my congregation’s members, deacons & trustees, ministry colleagues, friends & family for all your support over the years and onwards. I am incredibly lucky and blessed 🙏❤️⛪️🌈
A collage of images from my ordination service - a programme, a photo of me, and a group shot of the congregation outside
September 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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“O God, to whom we pray for truth, be with us in our trembling lest we find it…”

A beautiful, powerful prayer today by the Welsh-American minister and civil rights campaigner, A. Powell Davies 🙏❤️🌎
The text of a prayer by A. Powell Davies, from the book ‘Fragments of Holiness’ edited by Catherine Robinson
September 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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“The land yields its harvest;
God, our God, blesses us.
May God bless us still.”

“Yna y ddaear a rydd ei ffrwyth;
a Duw, sef ein Duw ni, a’n bendithia.
Duw a’n bendithia.”

- Psalm 67:6-7
Purple lavender in the foreground, green grass in the background
August 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Today I climbed Pen y Fan for the first time in my life! With good friends, our two wonderful whippets and great weather. A blissful day 🙏⛰️🐶☀️❤️
Photo of me and my two whippets on the top of Cribyn mountain with Pen y Fan in the background
July 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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This wonderful session is coming up for all you eco-theology enthusiasts:"Caring for the Earth Through Parables" with @kieronrowley.bsky.social 🌿🙏

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Caring for the Earth Through Parables - Woodbrooke
In this session, participants will be introduced to contemporary eco-theology, particularly what the Parables have to say to us in a time of ecological
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July 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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“The most illuminating thing that Christianity presents to us is a man Jesus who appears to stand alone on the limits of existence, & to say & do the uncomfortably simple, courageous & compassionate things which are true, so that even if we cannot follow, we know that we ought to.” - H Lismer-Short
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July 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Its been a privilege to sit in on the Wisdom from #Liberal #Christianity course. Thanks to Jo, @sjlingwood.bsky.social, @lauradobson.bsky.social @rorycastlejones.bsky.social, & Sheena. What for me remains so special about @woodbrooke.bsky.social is that its a place where deep stories can be shared.
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July 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM