Rector of 5 parishes in rural Wilts. @ChurchTimes radio critic. @UniOfOxford DPhil student. Ex-@AllianceParty Exec Director & Dio Salisbury Director of Comms.
Potterne, Wiltshire, England
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I was at a training supervisors' meeting in @SarumCollege today and I counted 104 candidates for ordination currently training there on the photos on the wall. Must be an appreciable percentage of all those currently training in the C of E; indeed in all of English Christianity.
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Probably going to be completely overlooked by the media but today is the 200th birthday of photography as a medium and that’s pretty cool
The world celebrates the 100th anniversary of photography.
100 years ago today, on October 6, 1826, Nicéphore Niépce took the earliest surviving photograph, “View from the Window at Le Gras.”
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First Past the Post breaks down really badly under the conditions of political fragmentation that seem to apply in nearly all democracies these days.
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@deptinfra have won their appeal to the A5 court ruling. The Court of Appeal have ruled that the plan should proceed.
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Not just an American story: how the dinner party stopped being a staple of bourgeois life. As well as bowling alone we started dining alone. Great article by @DKThomp. derekthompson.org/p/the-deat…
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Ghana grows the cocoa; Switzerland makes the Toblerone. The wicked tenants at least had a winepress. Yesterday’s sermon on the rent we owe the landlord, and why everyone should get a share of the chocolate: gerrylynch.co.uk/2026/10/03/…
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Unpopular opinion. There are many webcams in Irkutsk and Shelekhov, going through those, I'm not worried, life and business seems to be as usual, there are plenty of people around. If people disappear from the streets or men in trucks with hazmat suits show up, I let you know.
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📻 Review: Gerry Lynch on dangerous scriptures and dangerous leaders #ChurchTimes #Radio #Reviews @gerrylynch churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2…
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Built in 1932 as the Northwestern Bell Telephone Building, the Lumen Technologies Building is one of three genuinely handsome Minneapolis buildings from the golden age of skyscrapers. Photographed here just after sunrise on 30 April 2026.
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God gave the wicked tenants a winepress, not just a vineyard, which is more than Ghana gets for its cocoa. My sermon on paying the rent, St Francis, and who gets to share the Toblerone: gerrylynch.co.uk/2026/10/03/…
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Definitely some Irish intonations in her old Cornish accent. Sadly, the advent of radio and TV has homogenised accents to the extent that no one speaks like Emanda Billings did.
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Offensive linemen still getting no credit from NFL commentators, even when they literally make touchdowns.
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Two members of Messiah were ordained yesterday at St. Mark's Cathedral, Minneapolis.
Deo Gratias.
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A privilege to baptise Daisy at Holy Cross, Seend, this morning. The seventh of the impressive, thoughtful, and mostly young adults we've baptised since last November.
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