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Read this today in honour of the occasion. The author certainly had some strong opinions about James I.
On this day in Ladybird history 5th Nov 1605 Guy Fawkes was discovered in a cellar under the House of Lords; the gunpowder plot was exposed
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On this day in Ladybird history 5th Nov 1605 Guy Fawkes was discovered in a cellar under the House of Lords; the gunpowder plot was exposed
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Today I learnt the people of Arizona vote for the State Mine Inspector. The Mine Inspector is a partisan elected position I was not ready for this information.
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Dear producers of Death in Paradise and Beyond Paradise. I love your shows. But even if you air it on terrestial over the Christmas period I think its a strech to refer to something as the Christmas special if I can watch it on iplayer before the end of November. Sincerely Me
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Oh I have just been exposed to the new Church of England website and it is horrible. I mean just bad and awful to look at and horrible. Who designed it? Why? What was wrong with the last version?
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And in so doing wreck communities and make it ten times harder to get people into church turning a gospel opportunity into a gathered congregation- those you don't lose anyway. I respect Daniel a great deal but he's wrong here. This is the rare occasion Milbank is right.
You could probably shut every church in a village with less than 5K and and everyone would still be able to get to church within 15 minutes.
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This is a good contribution as are the others mentioned. But what I haven't seen discussed - if it has been please show me - is the idea that if the money is devolved to the Deaneries "weighted for deprivation" and topped up by parish contributions 1/
Here's my contribution to the debate about Gill and Craven's report on the CofE. I think our experience of Ministry Areas offer some critical questions. @Psephizo @SaveTheParish @ThinkAnglicans @MadsDavies @ChurchTimes Link in comments.
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then this arguably has the capacity to leave some deaneries in well off areas worse off in the long run.
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I hold no personal animus towards anyone who works at diocesean level. I'm sure they all have the best of intentions and love God. But there is in my view a problem when someone goes from meeting to conference to seminar to workshop, in an endless loop 1/
I don't think its about having beef. Its entirely possible to think your senior leadership or diocesean leadership are good people with good intentions who are also incredibly out of touch.
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In my most extreme moments I think that before we start culling Bishops we need to work out preceisly which roles we need for statutory legal purposes (finance, safeguarding etc) which need to be kept and/or could be combined with other dioceses 3/
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which jobs are ideal but not neccessary (youth stuff for example) which could also be run jointly and which jobs are utterly unncessary (do we need mission enablers?). The church coped for a long time without Assistant Archdeacons for Growth and will cope if we go rid of them.
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I know I've been negative about a lot of #Narnia stuff recently (with good reason in my opinion), but I have absolutly no complaints about these new cover designs. Seriously they scream whimsical fantasy, call the mind the cover designs of earlier fantasy novels (the type 1/
New “movie-inspired” Narnia covers are set to release this November from longtime Narnia concept artist Vance Kovacs! Do you like the look of these editions? View the entire collection here: narniaweb.com/2026/10/harper…
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that Lewis himself might have read) and the constant hint at the breath of Aslan is out of his world. Really 10/10 no notes. #Narnia
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You know someone like Jeremy Irons was right there. Why cast Streep if you aren't going to be able to tell its Streep. Other than as stunt casting designed to get people talking #Narnia
Although Meryl Streep will voice Aslan in Greta Gerwig's upcoming Narnia adaptation, multiple sources tell us that the performance is distinctly masculine. Earlier this week, Relevant Magazine reported on Aslan's voice in its coverage of the recent IMAX sneak preview event. A source described as someone "involved with the film who has seen it and asked not to be named" told the magazine that Aslan doesn't sound like Streep and has not been gender-swapped. NarniaWeb can confirm those claims and have also received multiple independent reports indicating Streep will give Aslan a deep, gravelly sounding voice. Read more: narniaweb.com/2026/10/meryl-…
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Even if you want to argue that this film doesn't need to feel like Narnia because Narnia doesn't exist yet, the trailer is also at odds with the tone of the book. The book is a very unsettling, quiet book, grounded in the silence surrounding Digory's mothers illness #Narnia 1/
Everyone saying "Read the books, Narnia doesn't exist yet." That's not what this person means. They mean the Magicians Nephew trailer doesn't feel like the Narnia series should feel. Which it doesn't. And this movie did.
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From the uncomfortable silence of Uncle Andrew's study, through the soporific stilness of the Wood Between the Worlds, the eerie quiet of Charn and the nothingness of the unmade Narnia all of which are thrown into sharp relief by Aslan's creation song #Narnia 2/
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To turn this into a bombastic roller coster ride through a Wonka meets Doctor Who esque Charn to a rock and roll soundtrack is to create something utterly at odds with the book you are supposed to be adapting. #Narnia.
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Everyone saying "Read the books, Narnia doesn't exist yet." That's not what this person means. They mean the Magicians Nephew trailer doesn't feel like the Narnia series should feel. Which it doesn't. And this movie did.
this is my narnia I do not claim that narnia at all
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The amount of discourse around The Magicians Nephew trailer should be a seen as a prime example of why you need to be really careful when adapting beloved franchies and yes the reason Netflix dropped millions on the rights is because they knew it came with an audience #Narnia 1/
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is neccessary. And as far as I can tell Gerwig hasn't done that. Just something about how the children of the 50s became the adults who created the music she likes. That's not a good reason. Adaptions should respect the text even if they do make changes. #Narnia 5/
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You wouldn't make a version of the Hobbit where the Shire is all tower blocks and concrete because it wouldn't respect the text. And on intial viewing this adaption of The Magicians Nephew doesn't either. #Narnia.
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