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Month: November 2025

Article, Blog

Inclusion and the Church Door: Threshold Theology

Perhaps inclusion today requires reclaiming that vocation — to be keepers of the threshold, not its guards. To open the doors wider, yes, but also to honour the courage of those who cross them.

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November 22, 2025November 22, 2025Br Andrew-Thomas, deacons on threshold, Substack, threshold theologyLeave a comment
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Being a Doula-Deacon: Helena Whitwell

 To be a Doula-Deacon is to walk with others as God creates new life, weaves hope from endings, and remains ever present in the thresholds and mysteries of this world.

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November 17, 2025doula, doula deacon, Helena Whitwell, hypnobirthLeave a comment
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The Society launches its college for distinctive deacons

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Deacons’ online retreat report: ‘the slow burn miracle of love’

The poems, all available free online (https://www.cruciformjustice.com/) and in his recent book, Lament and Hope, covered topics such as “the slow burn miracle of love”, how “Jesus is a Litmus Test for Orthodoxy” and “how love does not equate to a handout culture”.

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