For the first time in quite a while, I have completed the #ChurchTimes crossword. Rejoice with me!

Today's post-church (and pre-SCOOP) pint is Abbot Ale, along with the #ChurchTimes crossword. #beer #ale #poker #PokerStars #SCOOP

Gordon Bennett! I just noticed that last week's issue of the #ChurchTimes has the solution to its own crossword, not the previous one.

Today's post-church pint is Abbot Ale - alongside last week's #ChurchTimes crossword. #beer #ale

Today's post-church pint is Blacks Irish Red. Another week with no #ChurchTimes so I brought a book. #beer #ale

Today's post-church pint is Cairngorm White Lady wheat beer - and as last week's #ChurchTimes finally arrived this weekend, I have a crossword to do alongside it. #beer

Today's post-church pint is Vincent Session IPA from the Butcombe Brewery. No #ChurchTimes was delivered this week so no crossword. #beer #ale #ipa

Today's post-church pint is Abbot Ale but no Church Times has arrived this week so I'm reading Jon Sopel's excellent A Year at the Circus. #beer #ale #ChurchTimes

Today's post-church pint is Flack's Blackjack Porter, last week's Church Times crossword still on the go. #beer #ale #ChurchTimes

Reminder for the Church of England (and Church Times) that royalism and establishment are not necessary components of Anglicanism and it is a shame that this book does not include prayers of repentance for having a king other than YHWH and his Messiah. #Coronation #ChurchofEngland #ChurchTimes

The Lure of the Occult

Here's an article in #churchtimes by #RichardYader about #occultism practiced within Anglo-Catholic circles during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though maybe a little snooty in tone, it gives an informed and informative overview of one of the more little known aspects of western esotericism.

#anglocatholic #anglocatholicism #magic #magick #hermeticism #goldendawn #hdogd #historyofoccultism #religionandmagic

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2018/14-december/features/features/on-the-wings-of-the-dawn-the-lure-of-the-occult

Ooh, new word of the week: tergiversate. Thank you @seatrout #ChurchTimes

I see from this week’s #ChurchTimes that #ChristChurchOxford spent £6.6m trying to remove Martyn Percy from his post as Dean. That’s three times more than was previously thought, and doesn’t include the Dean’s legal costs and payoff which the college also paid. The #CharityCommission has now issued an official warning to the Trustees.