Mark Oakley
@DeanSouthwark
Poetry - Human Rights - a Questioning faith. Dean of Southwark. Whitelands Professorial Fellow in Christian Theology and Contemporary Issues.
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Oh my. What poignant theatre in action @MaryleboneTHLDN with Daniel’s Husband. Great acting, leaving us with sorrow and anger. You have a week more to see it if you can.
‘Respair’ is a word recorded just once in the OED. It means ‘fresh hope’, a recovery from despair. I wish the world and the Church and human hearts everywhere respair in the new year. @thetimes @guardian @ChurchTimes @churchofengland
My goodness. What a brilliant production of A Christmas Carol @oldvictheatre A book to be revisited in our times. “I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will. Is its pattern strange to you?”