This is a nice story. I hadn't realised they were doing work on these paintings.
I'm amused by the comment that "the North Wing was built in 1732 to help run the hospital and raise money for it, but fell into decline as the hospital prioritised clinical areas" like they prioritised the wrong thing!
From Downame's sermon defending the office of bishops, on those Reformed churches without episcopacy:
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
I don't think anyone who's salivating at the prospect of mass political violence or civil war has the foggiest idea of how bad these things are in real life. It's beyond their memory and their imagination.
From PECUSA BCP 1928, A Prayer for The President of the United States, and all in Civil Authority:
Shabana Mahmood is the new Home Secretary (with Yvette Cooper becoming Foreign Secretary).
As I wrote last month, she won plaudits for managing fiendish Justice brief + long admired inside No 10 for political antennae. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
@laudablepractice.bsky.social
St. Bartholomew's Day, a day to give thanks for the restoration of good order to the Church of England after "the late unhappy confusions".
"You have ... no better way to appease and quiet the Quarrels in Religion which have been too long among us" - Jeremy Taylor on Conformity.
A letter from Archbishop Tait to Queen Victoria asking permission to go to Switzerland for several weeks.
Apparently, 19th-century Archbishops of Canterbury sought the Monarch's permission to leave the UK. Here, Archbishop Tait requested Queen Victoria's approval for a trip to Switzerland. I have no idea how long this custom lasted. 1/2
All the Bluesky advice threads are like when someone at a restaurant explains how “we do it a little differently here” and it’s just tapas
When it does settle on niche spheres, count me on 18th century Anglicanism, the economics of the 1950s, vernacular architecture, and obscure laws. I'm going to get stuck in.
My own observation of this new place is:
1. People are following any old familiar face, even if they didn't on the old place (I am guilty).
2. A great deal of the commentary is on generalist things - dogs, food, and weather phase - and not yet settled on incredibly niche interest spheres.
OTD 1558, the accession of Elizabeth.
At early Communion, in quiet recognition of the wisdom of the Elizabethan Settlement, we had one of the great gifts of her BCP 1559: the bringing together of the 1549 and 1552 words of administration.
It feels like Bluesky is in its full-on Migration Period now, with skeetlords carving out starter packs as fiefdoms, now blossoming into embryonic kingdoms
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