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Psalms Book 1 (1-41): Chanted in Hebrew by Rabbi Dan Be'eri

 —  James Oakley

At Trinity Church, we’ve been preaching through Book 1 of the Psalms (that is, Psalms 1-41) from Easter until the end of August. We won’t have had time to preach on all of them; we’ve had 18 weeks, so there will have been time to preach on just under half of them. Nevertheless, we thought it would serve the church better to preach selected psalms from the first book, rather than a selection dotted across the whole psalter.

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KDE Plasma 6.4 and Screen Locker error

 —  James Oakley

Just a quick post in case this helps someone.

My PC (Fedora 42) has just updated to KDE Plasma 6.4.

Immediately, every time I locked the session (Super key + L), an error appeared on the screen

Screenshot of error message

The screen locker is broken and unlocking it is not possible anymore. In order to unlock it, switch to a virtual terminal (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F1), log in to your account and execute the command:

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What Coffee am I drinking?

 —  James Oakley

As those who know me will know, I love my coffee. In fact, I love speciality coffee, which is more than just a way of saying “really good coffee”. It’s a term in the industry for coffee that is farm traceable, graded by calibrated standards of taste and quality to be of a certain standard, and then brewed with care and precision. You might like to read about the “third wave” coffee movement. Coffee drinking has progressed from mass-produced instant coffee, to fresh coffee that is mass produced and then packaged long before it's brewed, to the kind of coffee I'm talking about.

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Papal Funeral Mass and the Real Issue with Roman Theology

 —  James Oakley

As the funeral of the late Pope Francis is held in the Vatican today, the liturgy has notable points of difference from the Anglican liturgies. Those differences expose some deep differences between Roman and Anglican theology, and the surprise is that the biggest problem is not actually transubstantiation.

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A Time to Live ... and a Time to Die? Presentation on Assisted Dying

 —  James Oakley

On 4th February, at Trinity Church Scarborough, I led a teaching evening on the subject of assisted dying. I won't rehearse the reason in this blog post, as it was all covered in the presentation. Suffice to say that the UK government is currently debating a private member's motion to legalise assisted dying.

Not everyone could come to the evening, so we produced a video version of the resource. This material may well interest people wider than our church in Scarborough, so I'm sharing it here.