Bp Robert Innes writes–‘The consecration brought together bishops, clergy and lay people from many different countries, as well as local Roman Catholic and representatives. On the right of the photo is Bishop Antony Ball, Ashley’s predecessor, who is now the Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. North Africa is a neighbouring diocese to Europe – it is only 125 miles from Tunis to the coast of Sicily – so I was pleased to be able to support their ministry personally as well as on behalf of the Anglican Communion.

Bishop Ashley Null is a serious scholar who retains an academic post in Berlin, and is a world leading authority on Thomas Cranmer. He had designed the liturgy to reflect Cranmer’s theological insights. Dressed in a Canterbury cap (one needs a hat in the North African sun), Bishop Ashley could quite easily have been mistaken for a reincarnation of Cranmer himself. 

The consecration was the centre-piece of a celebratory weekend in Tunis, that included concerts and visits to the ancient sites. Of course, as Archbishop Samy reminded us in his sermon, Christian ministry in the Islamic context of North Africa is hard, and the consecration is really just the honeymoon ahead of likely sacrifice and possible suffering.’

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Congratulations to the Rt. Rev. Dr. Ashley Null: the new Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of North Africa! pic.twitter.com/Xlxz0IsYie

— Richard Tarsitano ⚓️ (@GodRemembrancer) May 13, 2025

Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;
Death is strong, but Life is stronger;
Stronger than the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right.
Faith and Hope triumphant say,
Christ will rise on Easter-Day.

While the patient earth lies waking,
Till the morning shall be breaking,
Shuddering ‘neath the burden dread
Of her Master, cold and dead,
Hark! she hears the angels say,
Christ will rise on Easter-Day.
And when sunrise smites the mountains,
Pouring light from heavenly fountains,
Then the earth blooms out to greet
Once again the blessed feet;
And her countless voices say,
Christ has risen on Easter-Day.

Up and down our lives obedient
Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant,
Till those garden lives shall be
Fair with duties done for Thee;
And our thankful spirits say,
Christ arose on Easter-Day.

–Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)

The end & the beginning: Resurrection & Annunciation at the second level of Grünewald's astonishing Isenheim Altarpiece, 1515. Today is his day. pic.twitter.com/P1CfIsU8Vc

— Dr. Peter Paul Rubens (@PP_Rubens) August 31, 2024

Are we helping create the tools of our own obsolescence?

If that sounds like a question only a depressive or a stoner would ask, let us assure you: We are neither. We are early AI adopters.

We stand at the threshold of perhaps the most profound identity crisis humanity has ever faced. As AI systems increasingly match or exceed our cognitive abilities, we’re witnessing the twilight of human intellectual supremacy—a position we’ve held unchallenged for our entire existence. This transformation won’t arrive in some distant future; it’s unfolding now, reshaping not just our economy but our very understanding of what it means to be human beings.

We are not doomers; quite the opposite. One of us, Tyler, is a heavy user of this technology, and the other, Avital, is working at Anthropic (the company that makes Claude) to usher it into the world.

Both of us have an intense conviction that this technology can usher in an age of human flourishing the likes of which we have never seen before. But we are equally convinced that progress will usher in a crisis about what it is to be human at all.

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An epic essay just up in @TheFP by Tyler Cowen and Avital Balwit.

AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready?

Read it here:https://t.co/wfwh9gwyAN

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) May 12, 2025

Christ Church, Mount Pleasant Holds Prayer Walk

On Saturday April 26, the parishioners of Christ Church Anglican in Mt. Pleasant joined members of the Building Committee for a Prayer Walk on the property where the new church will be built. Approximately 50 parishioners of all ages heard a Bible reading, recited a psalm, and offered prayers by crosses which had been placed in key locations corresponding to the future campus.

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The Latest Edition of the #Anglican Diocese of #SouthCarolina Enewsletter https://t.co/9PWacX8pwQ #parishministry #lowvountrylife #parishministry #faith pic.twitter.com/sQFVzy4jNU

— Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) May 13, 2025

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Or you may download it there.

The ruins of Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire pic.twitter.com/TeBUyxN1ca

— Grizzlegutweed the Bear (@Grizzlegutweed1) May 13, 2025

Loving God, we bless thy Name for Frances Perkins, who in faithfulness to her baptism envisioned a society in which all may live in health and decency: Help us, following her example and in union with her prayers, to contend tirelessly for justice and for the protection of all, that we may be faithful followers of Jesus Christ; who with thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

#OtD On This Day, March 4: Francis Perkins Named Secretary of Labor https://t.co/2BTOnivHlr pic.twitter.com/A25k6FH9Rd

— IL Labor History Soc (@ILLaborHistory) March 4, 2025

O Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of turning; who abidest steadfast as the stars of heaven: Give us grace to rest upon thy eternal changelessness, and in thy faithfulness find peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

–Daily Prayer, Eric Milner-White and G. W. Briggs, eds. (London: Penguin Books 1959 edition of the 1941 original)

🌸🌿🌼 Guten Morgen 🌼🌿🌸
Man liebt nicht nur etwas, weil es schön ist, sondern etwas wird auch schön, weil man es liebt.
(Robert Musil)
Einen wunderschönen Dienstag wünsche ich euch allen. pic.twitter.com/5zJeCO6NvZ

— Brigitta Neurauter (@BrigittaNeurau2) May 13, 2025

He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent. For in him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

And you, who once were estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him, provided that you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Colossians 1:15-23

Hardly A Cloud. 16°C and a pleasant afternoon. Swifts have arrived. pic.twitter.com/ZPYzB6z3UZ

— Yorkshire Wolds Weather (@WeatherWolds) May 13, 2025