Fr Angela Rayner
Priest ⛪️ | Bold 👊🏽 | Fierce 🐲 | Flawed 🤦🏽 | Still Hopeful 🙏🏽 | Happy to chat 💬 | Vicar of @StAugustineTooting & @HolyTrinityTooting in Tooting, South London
- “While it is incontrovertible that the love of Jesus binds us to serve the poor, it is also pellucid that the social gospel is a byproduct of the Great Commission… Jesus didn’t say, “Go and make social workers” but rather “Go and make disciples.”” livingchurch.org/covenant/958...
- The Jay report’s recommendation of adjusting C of E definition of “adults of risk at harm” to match the statutory one hasn’t yet been implemented. Did the Liverpool allegations meet the threshold for Safeguarding rather than, say, being HR matters? www.gov.uk/government/n...
- Christus natus est. Merry Christmas! #clergymaltclub
- Jesus is ready! Are you ready? Really looking forward to Ascension day shenanigans. Come by!!
- My sanctuary bell has snapped in quite an important place; it’s the bit that connects the middle to the wall strut. Does anybody know a south London craftsman/woman who can weld?
- One of the ways that those with high profile could most beautifully witness to the Christian faith on Mothering Sunday might be to spend time on maternity wards, especially with parents of babies born prematurely, offering prayer and support and kindness. Just a thought.
- This is for post-Easter, but can we find 50 C of E churches that wd agree to contribute £500 to commission a new app for £25k to replace Daily Prayer to offer improved functionality for both Common Worship and Book of Common Prayer. Anyone up for it?
- God said “go” 👏👏🏽 Angel said “hi” 😇 Mary said “yes”🤰🏾 Today’s the day! Come by at 7pm to Holy Trinity, Tooting for a Eucharist to celebrate the annunciation.
- From Erik Varden’s “Healing Wounds”. This is such a valuable insight. Sharing for all who might also need to read it today. It’s when Jesus’ hands were tied that He was saving humanity.
- Talk to me about your customs for the annunciation; any particular foods, any crafts, any music? Does anyone still practice the custom of suspending a choir boy angel from a rope inside the church? 😂
- Can anybody recommend a south London based housing solicitor who accepts legal aid, please?
- I thought this Collect was so beautiful. "All whom he met" is a high bar. GIving thanks for Edward King today, and for all whose lives have reflected such grace, tender sympathy and joyful faith.
- World politics are frightening. Naked power without the veneer of diplomacy especially so. But #Lent has us acknowledge these wounds by confronting what frightens us. If you’re in #London, come to @holytrinitytooting.bsky.social to begin the fast with joy, and anticipate the feast with ashes.
- I also rate stories where the “results” are far from spectacular, and sometimes wonder why we don’t share them more? If we’re committed to faithfulness to Christ, and standing firm, examples that sound like failure to others ought to be more standard.
- “Churches such as HTB are better at connecting on social media. I would much rather repost HTB’s beautifully curated content, with thought-provoking questions & soothing low-fi beats than C of E reels about Anglican history or what has been going on in Synod.” t.co/kbMEWEYAmv
- This work of caring for - curing - souls, it is I think /the/ work of the church, around which all else revolves. If we are not reconciled to God, then we cannot bring others into relationship with God. A poignant piece from Bex Chapman in @churchtimes.bsky.social, thank you!
- Spring is on the way!
- “The work of ministry is the work of faith deeply inhabited… We must be prepare priests for the “patient endurance” to which Christian in exile in a hostile world are called—perhaps to be the Church more in the tradition of suffering East than triumphant West.” www.markclavier.com/well-tempere...
- Both churches @staugustinetooting.bsky.social and @holytrinitytooting.bsky.social have an exciting new role for the right candidate! We're seeking a contractor for the role of Print and Digital Content Creator and Publisher! More info here: www.augustinetooting.co.uk/_files/ugd/e...
- Reading this essay by Bp Saju Muthalaly in “An intercultural church for a multicultural world”, and was really quite struck by this idea of replacing plans by feeding people, and especially that many…
- ‘Improvements in handling safeguarding complaints have revealed other shortcomings. When the complaint doesn’t meet the safeguarding threshold, have we processes which nevertheless address the misconduct which may have occurred? I’m not confident we do.’ www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
- “Whatever we’ve done, or failed to do, or had done to us, we are in it together, with those we’ve harmed and those who’ve harmed us. They may be way over there, with their backs to us, but they’re there. We cannot eject them, throw them out, discard them.” www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
- “Love God, and your neighbour in, for, and unto God. Honour your parents and your homeland—especially your heavenly homeland, and its embodiment on earth: Mother Church, into which, by the Holy Spirit, you are born, and by which you are continually fed…” adfontesjournal.com/commonwealth...
- In the wake of the resignation of another Church of England Bishop, is it possible to ask (and how?) at diocesan & general synods, whether there are other matters (even with low level detail) that it wd be helpful for us to learn about before they appear as exposés on Channel 4?
- The Bitesize EL Society @ecclj videos are excellent. I really enjoyed “what is an incumbent”? Canon C24 (largely describing what incumbents & priests in charge do) does not mention: - Buildings & Faculties - Fundraising - Practical & Administrative tasks - Safeguarding youtu.be/EW_BNBCyhXM
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- In reality, we are here due to a series of decisions across dioceses (not one Archbishop) but this is true: “The Church Commissioners’ interest is piqued by attractive-sounding proposals.” and it can undermine good investment at parish level. unherd.com/2025/01/just...
