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Mark Clavier

@MFMClavier

Archdeacon of Brecon Vicar of St Mary's Brecon Public Speaker Obsessive Hillwalker and Trekker and Servant of Spaniels

 Brecon, Wales
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Joined March 2018
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After many years of writing & editing, I can finally offer my Anglican introduction to Scripture, the sacraments, and Christian living. It's free for download to any churches that wish to have a course for study groups. @Swanbrec @ChurchinWales @AnglicanWorld Link in comments.
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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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Liturgical help: can anyone tell me what the refrain from the RCL readings is for Psalm 34 for the Eucharist on All Saints?
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I confess that when I became vicar of St Mary's, I didn't much care for our famous Petts window (I much prefer the one at 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama). But since we got the grey Perspex removed, it has really begun to grow on me.
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So pleased to hear @RoryStewartUK praising the Bartimaeus Sequence of children's books by @JonathanAStroud on @RestIsPolitics. One of my fondest memories is reading these to my son and then returning to them myself. Twenty years later, I still have all the books.
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A hard piece to write. But it's conversation we need to start having. We need to recognise the cost to our ecclesiology of even necessary policies and procedures. Thanks to @OSacrumCorIesu for getting me thinking. @ThinkAnglicans @SaveTheParish @MadsDavies Link in the comments.
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"Augustine says of flies that 'it was for the taming of our pride these things were created to be troublesome to us'. Perhaps that’s why he also created...eccentric Anglo-Catholics, clap-happy Evangelicals, cantankerous conservatives, and smug progressives." Link in comments.
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A longer piece for my Well-Tempered today. But it's not everyday one is appointed an archdeacon! @SaveTheParish @ChurchinWales @Swanbrec @MadsDavies @ThinkAnglicans @WalkerMarcus @FrontPorchRepub @talkChristianly @Psephizo Link in comments.
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The money quote from @George_Osborne on today's @PoliticalCurre1, describing the AI conference in Scotland: "like the one convened by the Pope, only by the Head of our own Church." 😂
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Well-Tempered now has subscribers from 47 U.S. States. I'm looking at you Alaska, Montana, and Delaware. 🇺🇸 markclavier.substack.com/
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What if we stopped treating stipendiary and SSM clergy as different kinds of priesthood. My reflection on Save the Parish, giving, and the future of parish ministry. @SaveTheParish @WalkerMarcus @Psephizo @MadsDavies @prayerbook_soc Link in the comments
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What if we stopped treating stipendiary and SSM clergy as different kinds of priesthood. My reflection on Save the Parish, giving, and the future of parish ministry. @SaveTheParish @WalkerMarcus @Psephizo @MadsDavies @prayerbook_soc Link in the comments
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A different sort of accent reading Wendell.
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Listen to Ralph Fiennes read Wendell Berry's Sabbath poem, “2007, VI.”
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Following the news of Wendell Berry's death, I've spent this early morning writing a reflection about a man who came to influence my thinking deeply. Link in the comments.
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One of my most cherished memories is of spending a couple of hours with him on his front porch setting the world to rights. I shall miss his voice and wisdom.
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Rest well, Wendell Berry. You did well.
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