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• Suspension of reality
  on Apr 2, 2011 in lying Lesley's Blog Divorce Pete Rollins pain
  I wrote about the lies we tell ourselves a little while back. There is a strange thing that happens - deep down we know the truth but we can't face it and so we carry on in denial, becoming quite defensive, especially if someone tries to point out th...
• Best and Worst Diocesan Websites
  on Apr 2, 2011 in Lesley's Blog websites
  Thanks to the 27 people who filled in my poll, grading the Church of England Diocesan Websites. The idea came out of the comments in this post. It is just a straw poll really, but the winner is Bristol that have this fabulously beautiful website:Here...
• Kids eh.....?
  on Apr 2, 2011 in Lesley's Blog kids fun
  Well I've spent the best part of four weeks mostly lying in bed as I have the dreaded kissing disease... and my kids have astounded me at how helpful they've been.... but there is just one thing that rankles and that is how stunningly untidy and dirt...
• Do you believe in life after death?
  on Apr 1, 2011 in Lesley's Blog heaven church life after death God suicide
  When I was four, my mum was forty-nine and all of her friends had grown-up children. The women of the neighbourhood would have a coffee morning once a week and I would be the only child there. I was immaculately behaved and would sit on the floor doi...
• Top Twenty Twittering Clergy in the CofE (March)
  on Apr 1, 2011 in Lesley's Blog clergy bullying twitter
  Here are the results of the top twittering clergy for March, according to Twitter Grader (details of what it bases the algorithm on are below).... if you should be in the top 20 and I have overlooked you please put a comment on the post and I wi...
• Top Twenty Twittering Clergy (March)–Mark II
  on Apr 1, 2011 in Lesley's Blog twitter Church of England
  Right then – you lot have told me that Klout is a better tool than Twitter Grader for ranking Tweeps. A good friend has done some programming today and helped me rank all 197 clergy and bishops on the Twurch list. Turns out that I missed out g...
• Are you getting the maximum usage out of your vehicle?
  on Mar 31, 2011 in Lesley's Blog fun
  h/t Estelle...
• Catholicity and Difference
  on Mar 31, 2011 in Lesley's Blog Anglican Communion catholicity Anglican Covenant
  Goodness, the discussions about the Anglican Covenant have been interesting and worthwhile in themselves and have made me think very deeply about what I mean by church and how that differs from the views of others. In particular the issue of 'catholi...
• Top Ten Posts in March
  on Mar 31, 2011 in top ten Lesley's Blog blog
  I thought it would be good to take stock a bit and find out what the top ten posts were in March. So here they are and a bit of general silliness from me.1.What happened in Wakefield? This should indeed be the most popular post - it could have been t...
• Wednesday Wacky Web Round-Up
  on Mar 30, 2011 in Lesley's Blog wednesday web
  h/t nakedpastorThis doesn't get any easier - ten of the best this week, but from a very strong field:1. Clayboy has a very funny post with some people trying to save him from Hell2. Mike Rayner is bizarre and thought provokin...
• More repenting in Lent
  on Mar 30, 2011 in Lesley's Blog christianity
  h/t Distillery ChurchI have just read Gurdur's post, highlighting Bishop Nazir-Ali's view. Gurdur pulls no punches and tells Christians what he thinks:If you refuse to honestly look at what others -- secular others -- believe and value, and why,...
• What happened at the TEC House of Bishops meeting?
  on Mar 30, 2011 in Lesley's Blog Anglican Communion Anglican Covenant
  From Bishop Chris Epting (yesterday)This morning The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops had another session discussing the proposed Anglican Covenant. Neil Alexander, Bishop of Atlanta and former seminary professor, delivered a brilliant pape...
• Repenting during Lent - telling the truth
  on Mar 29, 2011 in lying Lesley's Blog repentance Richard Rohr sin
  I mentioned in another post that I have had a lot of thinking time since I have been unwell, and it has been good for me. I am realising that I need to repent of some stuff. One of the things that has struck me are the ways in which we lie to ourselv...
• Even the Primates don't like the Covenant! #nocovenant
  on Mar 29, 2011 in Lesley's Blog Anglican Communion Anglican Covenant
  This is a Twitter stream from azbishop who is The Rt Rev. Kirk Smith, live tweeting The Episcopal Church House of Bishop's discussion of the proposed Anglican Covenant. They are joined by three Primates. You need to start at...
• Woman goes back to work after 30 years
  on Mar 29, 2011 in Lesley's Blog fun
  Only 5 seconds long but very funny.
• The Best and Worst Diocesan Websites
  on Mar 28, 2011 in Lesley's Blog Anglican Communion Church of England
  I did a post on Church Websites and Branding a while back. I think it is really important to have good internet communications in order to be successful in our post-modern world. I noticed that the Church of England website has improved even more, be...
• Internet flaming
  on Mar 28, 2011 in Lesley's Blog trolls internet blogging flaming
  One of the aspects of blogging that has mystified me is the way that some people put extremely inflammatory remarks on my blog from time to time. They are almost always using neither a pseudonym nor their own name, but they appear as '...
• The laity and the Covenant
  on Mar 28, 2011 in Lesley's Blog Church of England Anglican Covenant
  A friend of mine who is a priest and rather annoyingly prides himself on never being wrong told me that it would be the laity who save us from the Anglican Covenant. I finally woke up to the Covenant a short time ago after many slaps round the chops...
• Rowan's Theology and the Anglican Covenant
  on Mar 27, 2011 in Lesley's Blog Rowan Williams Anglican Covenant
  I notice that on this blog there are two people that I quote more than any other. One is Richard Rohr and the other is Rowan Williams. I just love the way that they phrase things and say theological things. I love the sense of surrender and vulnerabi...
• What I wish I'd known before I started blogging
  on Mar 27, 2011 in Lesley's Blog blogging
  This post started off as a comment on Clayboy's post of the same title, after he encouraged me to take part in the conversation because I've chosen a much more personal voice. I find it a difficult question to answer. The blog has caused me stre...