For all my brothers and sisters celebrating in their homes, for those clergy celebrating in empty churches, and for the few braving legal trouble to celebrate together.

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New ref for my dnd oc, Wilhelmina! She's an elven grave cleric of Melora bc she granted her protection in exchange to be part of her clergy, bc Mina pissed off the Raven Queen.

Pls like her as much as i do ;3;

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in 1968, clergyman, iconic figure in the African American civil rights movement, Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated on the balcony of room 306, Lorraine Motel in Memphis TN, age 39. MLK National Historic Site, Atlanta https://t.co/QLIAmC0L44

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“I want your hidden look, your real smile — that lonely, mocking smile your cool mirror knows.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, from Two English Poems Selected Poems: 1923-1967

📷 Germaine Dulac - The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)

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Ben’s been wearing that godh dang red tie since I was 13 and as much as I pretend its a Tally Hall reference its My Chemical Romance

(they’ve moved away from that outfit thankfully! I like to think they only wear their sunday best when they used to rob clergy as a dumb teen) https://t.co/qdpySN4CoI

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1768: Death (54, in London) of Co Laurence Sterne. CofE clergyman & novelist e.g. 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy', & sermons/memoirs https://t.co/f2Ma3s0wIe https://t.co/6kSVdoxVZV

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"A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife."

Artist & writer Kate Greenaway, born 1846; she is remembered for her wonderful literary art.

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A selection of woodcuts from a book entitled 'The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents', published in 1658.

Most of this three-volume compilation is comprised of the zoological works of the English clergyman Edward Topsell. More here: https://t.co/gkMFmBqWj2

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Long live 😭🤘🏻🖤👻 Ah, finally 😍 The Clergy has a new Papa. Papa Nihil is Dead. Cardinal Copia got a promotion being now I really love his new outfit. All this looks better than ever, can't wait!! 🔥

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Sworn to extol the virtues of the most powerful entity he can find, be they good or evil, it's the flag-wielding Clergy Knight! Shovelry is no match for his Papacy!

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Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, English logician, photographer, clergyman and author in 1832
Golden age illustrations by John Tenniel, Arthur Rackham, Mabel Lucie Attwell and A.E. Jackson

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"Devilish mollusk, have at thee! The clergy will forever immortalise me for striking at your wickedness!"

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Faith, Hope and Charity - large carved figures rescued from the Hatchard pulpit at church, near Battle, East Sussex, after a fire in 2010 and now installed in the sedilia and clergy stall niches of the beautifully restored chancel.

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French Revolution - Estates General of 1789 

The Estates General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second Estate), and the commoners (Third Estate)...

https://t.co/9E0FVPFqng

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During the 1921 Volga famine Lenin used the mass starvation and cannibalism as a pretext to seize church property "with the most ferocious and merciless energy" and to shoot clergy and resisters. The valuables, it seems, were never used for famine relief.
https://t.co/Of69CHhrPt

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In his essay "How to Organise the Competition?" Lenin called for cleansing Russia of "insects" and "vermin". In early Soviet graphics, the clergy were depicted as insects to be destroyed--as one caption had it--"in accordance with any...sanitary standard" https://t.co/Of69CHhrPt

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"Devised in ritual by the most educated members of the clergy; armour and weapon alike are cast off in favour of mortal body and religious zeal alone."

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4 I think there’s a significant problem with how Christians in general understand the parables, and with how Christian clergy tend to preach them. The parables get treated as if they’re Aesop’s fables: allegories that have a single, straightforward moral.

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