Niv Lobo

Turns out Salman Rushdie is impossibly smooth:

Well worth listening—characteristically thoughtful and challenging (leaving me wanting a jihad in the best Butlerian sense). Good words of warning for pastors who might seek help from AI:

The more you consider the details of this, the more outrageous the police action becomes. The Muslim woman was (voluntarily) at a public awareness stall, engaged (voluntarily) in conversation. She was asked a reasonable question about Islam. Instead of answering (and perhaps she…

Niv as a child, 'What kind of person seriously asks a mirror on the wall questions about who is the fairest one of all?' Adults in 2025, 'Grok, how many people blocked me/viewed my profile?'

Powerfully said: Here's heaven leaking through the cracks of our careful theology, and thankfully, we're small enough to catch the overflow....

I find Luke 10:21a impossible to read without breaking into at least a smile. What a thing to eavesdrop on—the Son’s praise of the Father in the joy of the Spirit!! May we have humbled hearts to receive what is hidden from the wise and learned.

Might God be directing you, or someone you know, to join our happy team here at Christ Church, Cambridge? We love praising God on Sundays (volume guaranteed) and there's plenty of ministry to do! We're so open to flexing around the right candidate—so get in touch!

Prayer being a work common to the Church as well triumphant as militant, a work common unto men with angels, what should we think, but that so much of our lives is celestial and divine as we spend in the exercise of Prayer? — Hooker, Laws V.23

If I’m to understand correctly, judging from all the tweets, Matthew Barrett is now considered apostate… and all his family with him?

a tweet that reminds me why I like reading Leithart so much. We miss so much by not reading what the text actually says. And what comes back *seems* strikingly fresh, only because our paradigms have been stale.

Good to see this from the House of Bishops: churchofengland.org/media/press-re… 'The change *does not alter the Church’s doctrine or canonical requirements, which remain in place*, but is intended to ensure the discernment process is both theologically robust and pastorally sensitive.'

As a church, we're trying to memorise Psalm 103 over the summer. What a delightful gift this psalm is!

The atmosphere of Luke 1 is pure Old Testament: righteous couples, miraculous births overcoming barrenness, Yahweh's covenant fidelity. Obvious observation: Zechariah's unbelief (v20) corresponds to Sarah's (Gen 18); both are confronted uncomfortably, and resolved in birth-joy

Academics in the new creation will *all* be like this!

Lewis: 'Gratitude exclaims, very properly: "How good of God to give me this." Adoration says: "What must be the quality of that Being whose far-off and momentary coruscations are like this!" One's mind runs back up the sunbeam to the sun.' Praise the Lord, my soul!

Today's Collect brings together a number of themes that run through the Prayer Book: peace, joy, godliness and quietness. These we cannot find in our own hearts and lives except as gifts of God. May he pour these and all his blessings abundantly into our lives and the world.

Thou shalt not

I wrote this: quite a heavy piece, provoked by very heavy circumstances, on the kinds of questions we're prepared to ask in the wake of abuse: e-n.org.uk/comment/we-all… @EvangelicalsNow

I was very impressed by this excellent speech in Parliament.