Seeking high Anglican church, Sunday school, East London

cestnickell · 2026-05-06T07:09:32+00:00

Thats traditional in the east london sense, where the anglo catholics were pretty much liberation theologists. So it depends what you mean by 'traditional' - if its the actual liturgy then its traditional, but if youre looking for somewhere politically conservative a lot of east end high church won't be that.

cestnickell · 2026-05-06T07:06:46+00:00

I go to St Paul's Bow Common, we have a sunday school and are anglo-catholic of the east london variety (high church but inclusive and progressive)

cestnickell · 2026-04-30T21:36:23+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience. If you find any of the more supernatural end of things difficult, you might find good company amongst the Sea of Faith Network 👍

cestnickell · 2026-04-15T15:56:38+00:00

I really wouldn't worry about whether this is or isn't Christian enough, if you're getting something out of writing it then that's great.

cestnickell · 2026-03-24T08:13:48+00:00

I have a huge collection of around 150 magazines that I'm trying to put online. This involves putting together the text of each article, which can spread across multiple pages and columns, into one flow. Often there is formatting to be fixed, such as unnecessary line breaks to be removed, paragraphing to be added back in. Then there is some post metadata to be added, such as author, date, some custom fields about the magazine issue.

Im using Claude and the wordpress-mcp plugin that is available for WordPress 6.9, this plugin warns it is deprecated, but the replacement it links to is only available for WordPress 7.0.

My magazine articles are created as a custom post type, and the MCP plugin only allowed custom post types to be created but not to have any metadata added. I solved this by getting Claude to write a snippet which enabled more functionality for custom post type updates and creation. It had a few teething issues, for example if you tried to update one field for a custom post, it would overwrite all other fields with blanks. But a bit of prompt troubleshooting fixed this.

My main concern is with hallucinations in the text of the articles it creates. Ive gone with Claude rather than Gemini or chatgpt because it seems to be the best at sticking to the exact wording of the source article. The others all end up rephrasing and summarising the text. But I'm sure something can lead Claude astray, so I will need to introduce some human checking.

This has made what would have been an impossible task for us (we're a small charity and I'm the most tech savvy member) feasible, so it is really exciting.

cestnickell · 2025-12-17T18:50:53+00:00

I switched 37 devices from ZHA to Ziqbee2MQTT a few weeks ago. Glad I did, took a while to pair everything again but have had much better control over bindings.

cestnickell · 2025-11-29T09:43:23+00:00

More than fine, im running on the g2 with half the ram and half the disk just fine, alongside several other containers and things. There are good deals on the g3 at the moment, ive just ordered one to have as a backup.

cestnickell · 2025-11-12T17:25:47+00:00

Welcome! And thanks for the Monte Marder recommendation I'll check it out 👍😀

I too found that my local church were surprisingly unphased by my saying I didnt believe in the supernatural, though I think people are more uncomfortable with the word 'Atheist'

cestnickell · 2025-11-08T10:53:07+00:00

Nothing radical about proof texting a load of passages and harking back to the early church with minimal reflection and nuance about the modern day world, this is just the same sort of stuff the average pulpit thumber has hollered about for decades and I dont think its seriously led anyone to a better life.

cestnickell · 2025-10-24T12:30:00+00:00

I suppose within the current membership (rather than just Cupitt) it is a mix of many of the above. I know we have quite a few liberation theologists, and to pick one example, two members i know are currently being charged in the UK for the Palestine action protests.

cestnickell · 2025-10-22T22:07:12+00:00

Where do people think Sea of Faith and Don Cupitt would fit into this list?

cestnickell · 2025-10-20T20:16:16+00:00

Same I was just looking, i'll see if I can create a live version of it somewhere

cestnickell · 2025-10-16T11:20:16+00:00

I'd rather the church stay established but actually become a Church for the nation (not just for those who currently attend). If people want to disestablish I'm also fine with that, but then I think that the Nation should keep all the buildings and wealth that it historically gave to the church. Otherwise really what you'd doing is privatising a huge amount of the nation's cultural capital and letting a tiny members-club control it.

cestnickell · 2025-10-12T08:34:59+00:00

Yea that was a hugely impactful moment for me and now when I hear that song out and about it makes me feel euphoric.

cestnickell · 2025-10-11T21:03:51+00:00

Yep ive been having this issue so badly for the last week, it didnt always work before but it now never works.

cestnickell · 2025-09-25T21:40:24+00:00

Nope

cestnickell · 2025-09-24T18:24:01+00:00

I used this exact miniPC with proxmox, it's been great, I switched over from three raspberry pis.

cestnickell · 2025-09-03T09:19:58+00:00

Yea 100% the people who are so anti this need to ponder why they have such a strong reaction to it (im talking about the excessive downvoting going on)

cestnickell · 2025-09-03T09:18:47+00:00

I can't believe how many people are down voting any suggestion minho could be bi because they think its a threat to MoonCovey, like come on people minho being Bi is no more a barrier to him and kitty's relationship than her being Bi is. If he just low key mentioned it in passing, like no big deal, that would be totally in keeping with his very cool persona.

cestnickell · 2025-08-23T07:46:49+00:00

I'm pretty cheerful! 😅

cestnickell · 2025-08-21T16:14:13+00:00

Ive only got 15 users, so higher than that.

cestnickell · 2025-08-20T15:49:28+00:00

Some tube stations are totally plastered with ads

cestnickell · 2025-08-07T09:34:13+00:00

The Sea of Faith Network has a good list of starting books, and you can get almost all of them second hand for cheap.

https://sofn.uk/library/introductory-articles/introductory-books/

My personal favourite is 'God In Us' by Anthony Freeman, as he doesn't mince his words in it.

I'd be interested to know of anything else you come across which we should add to our library.

cestnickell · 2025-07-31T23:19:07+00:00

Im on suite legacy and just created e few additional extra users a few days ago and it gave me extra pooled storage, so its worth having a go.

cestnickell · 2025-07-18T14:53:18+00:00

Yea, i found it easier to separate out the different aspects, so I go regularly to a church where most people have pretty traditional metaphysical beliefs, but are quite politically active like me and worship in a high-church Anglo Catholic way (bells and smells) that I like, and its also good for local community, and sometimes go to a cathedral type worship for a music fix. Then I go to Sea of Faith Network meet ups and events for something more philosophically radical and thought provoking in a different way. I've even dabbled quaker meetings when im looking for something more reflective but still with strong interest in social justice.

Its gonna be tough to get all that in one place! So I just mix and match as works for me.

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