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Tim Wyatt
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Freelance religion journalist, mostly church news and analysis. Subscribe for free to my weekly church news newsletter The Critical Friend tswyatt.substack.com
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    Tim Wyatt
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    Nov 27, 2023
    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:
    Welcome to The Critical Friend
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    Tim Wyatt
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    Jan 5, 2019
    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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    Millennials shun modern liturgy for ‘bells and smells’
    Almost everything about services at St Bartholomew the Great church is old-fashioned. Purple-robed choristers process through clouds of pungent incense. The priest, the Rev Marcus Walker, brandishes...
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    Tim Wyatt
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    May 3, 2020
    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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    Tim Wyatt
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    May 31, 2018
    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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    Tim Wyatt
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    Nov 21, 2018
    '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
    Brent on his birthday
    When having fun on Twitter went awry for Brent
    From bbc.co.uk
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    Tim Wyatt
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    Mar 28, 2024
    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!
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    The Fence Magazine
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    Mar 28, 2024
    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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    Tim Wyatt
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    May 7, 2019
    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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    Tim Wyatt
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    Nov 22, 2018
    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
    Brent on his birthday
    When having fun on Twitter went awry for Brent
    From bbc.co.uk
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    Tim Wyatt
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    May 11, 2018
    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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    Tim Wyatt
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    Nov 3, 2012
    Replying to @miadegraaf
    @miadegraaf Don't bring your #SpicerConjecture here. This is a forum for verified #SpicerFacts only.
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    Tim Wyatt
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    Sep 12, 2019
    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.
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    norman smith
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    Sep 12, 2019
    Amber Rudd says she expects to fight next election as an "independent Conservative." #r4today
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    Tim Wyatt
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    Sep 2, 2020
    This is by far the greatest fake CS Lewis quote I've ever seen. I
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    Josh RR Jokien
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    Sep 2, 2020
    My favorite of The Screwtape Letters
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    Tim Wyatt
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    May 12, 2023
    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
    Soul Survivor
    Poor reporting on Soul Survivor is damaging for everyone - ...
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    Tim Wyatt
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    Feb 6, 2017
    Incredibly childish for May to call Emily Thornberry Lady Nugee in the chamber. Grow up people. This stuff is important, not a game.