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Tim Wyatt
@tswyatt
Freelance religion journalist, mostly church news and analysis. Subscribe for free to my weekly church news newsletter The Critical Friend tswyatt.substack.com
Joined March 2011
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    I've started a newsletter! It's called The Critical Friend and the first edition is arriving tomorrow morning. It will be a weekly email about the church - what it's doing right, what's going wrong, & what might happen next - from a churchgoing journalist:
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    Millennials shun modern liturgy for ‘bells and smells’ I've got a piece in @thetimes looking at the curious resurgence of interest in traditionalist Anglican worship among the young
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    Attention Anglican Twitter: some of you love your church buildings and are devastated you cannot be in them right now. Others of you don't care as much. It's OK to be in either camp. Can we please stop tearing the other side to bits over it in public? Please.
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    Thanks for a great chat - I really enjoyed our conversation. Keep an eye out on the @BBCNews website for the article soon...
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    'Do you want a badge for doing the laundry?' Privileged to be able to share @Being_Brent's experiences of Twitter, the good and the less good, in this BBC story
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    You've probably never heard of Martin Sargeant, but he is at the centre of an astonishing scandal in the Church of England. For the first time, we're telling the full story of how he stole millions and also ruined lives of innocent clergy across London. Please read and share!
    For over a year, @tswyatt has been interviewing the victims of a convicted fraudster, Martin Sargeant who swindled £5 million from the Diocese of London. Sargeant then made a host of lurid allegations, which have had fatal consequences. the-fence.com/in-the-shadow-…
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    Very pleased by the sudden slew of new bishops announced today, all of whom are women. Joanne Grenfell will be next Bishop of Stepney in London, Dagmar Winter will be Bishop of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, and Sarah Bullock will be Bishop of Shrewsbury in West Midlands.
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    In case you missed it yesterday, I've written for the BBC about @Being_Brent and what it's like having Down's Syndrome on Twitter
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    Genuinely thrilled to log into Twitter today and discover that my hard work creating the @churchtimes's 404 error page has finally paid off.
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    Replying to @miadegraaf
    @miadegraaf Don't bring your #SpicerConjecture here. This is a forum for verified #SpicerFacts only.
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    Interesting actual MPs still totally unaware the Electoral Commission will not allow this. Despite the Independent Group coming unstuck for the same reason literally only months ago.
    Amber Rudd says she expects to fight next election as an "independent Conservative." #r4today
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    This is by far the greatest fake CS Lewis quote I've ever seen. I
    My favorite of The Screwtape Letters
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    I've written for @Christianitymag about problems in the media coverage of the allegations against Mike Pilavachi and Soul Survivor. Vital we don't allow religiously illiterate axe-grinding to obscure the severity of the safeguarding concerns here
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    Incredibly childish for May to call Emily Thornberry Lady Nugee in the chamber. Grow up people. This stuff is important, not a game.