Tapani Simojoki
@tapanisimojoki
Pastor of @OSLC_UK. Editor of The British Lutheran. Finn. Simul sanctus et sanctificandus. "Lousy ancestor" http://simonpotamos.wordpress.com
I’ve yet to hear a pensioner objecting to my children paying their pensions.
Nobody's capping the number of children anyone has; taxpayers are just objecting to footing the bill for other peoples' children.
Some splendid singing at tonight's evening service at Corpus Christi
Hey, @toddwilken, these good folks loved the @IssuesEtc Making the Case last year, but not enough not to travel all the way to Prague this year for this year’s Corpus Christi conference — even though you had @HansFiene there. Send us some more next year!
“You are hearing once again a sermon about the many good works which Christians who believe and have confessed the Gospel are to do, so that we can perceive their faith from its fruits.” Luther, Epistle Sermon, Trinity 5
"The Creeds are not found in the Bible." No, but the Bible is found in the Creeds.
Here you are
Will there be vibrato in heaven, though?
'A crackle of electricity has always been the hallmark of Norrington’s music-making'. As a tribute to Sir Roger Norrington, who has died at the age of 91, this is Richard Osborne's tribute to the conductor from the Awards 2023 issue of Gramophone.... gramophone.co.uk/features/artic…
Bible study on Isaiah 29 oslc.org.uk/2025/07/isaiah…
Thoughts on the authority of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew:
Excellently put on educational blank slateism from the great and powerful @CptHastings1916 thecritic.co.uk/bridget-philli…
I found it necessary to add a footnote.
Vermigli denies miraculous properties to the resurrected body of Christ, but a few sentences later ascribes miraculous properties to our own resurrected bodies, and I'm afraid that dog won't hunt.
A thread on the two-child benefit cap, pointing out at least 10 ways in which it is stupid and wicked.
This is both wicked and stupid (but I repeat myself).
I like @ToniaAntoniazzi but am happy to stand against decriminalisation of full-term abortion for many reasons - including safety of women whose health is put at risk, but also because the baby is alive too. And this talk of "reasons" is absurd idealistic special pleading.
If even the leading abortion provider thinks this is a problem, it really is a problem bpas.org/about-bpas/pre…
10. It would hardly be a surprise if policies such as this had a significant effect on abortion, especially in impoverished communities. Unintended, perhaps, but not unforeseen.
The great master Augustin and the great Augustinian disciple