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Church Of The Day - Sophie on Instagram: "📍 Norbury, St Mary and St Barlock, Derbyshire . 🖋 Last November and December I visited seven beautiful churches in the Midlands, most of which I never got around to posting. As I’m now on my Christmas break, I thought I would try to commit to sharing them all… so here is the first and possibly the most spectacular! Set in a beautiful location in rural Derbyshire, a church has stood on this site since at least 1086, when it was recorded in the Domesday Book. The present building dates mainly from the late 13th century, commissioned by the Fitzherbert family, who were lords of the manor here for over 700 years. The church is famous for its early 14th-century stained glass, some of the finest surviving medieval glass in England. Installed in 1306 the chancel glows thanks to the rare grisaille glass, which envelops the impressive alabaster tombs of the Fitzherbert family. The elaborate carvings of Nicholas Fitzherbert and his family are truly incredible in their detail. At the west end of the nave are two 10th century cross shafts, showing that Christian worship here goes back even further than the current building. One of the shafts features the carving of a man with a horn held to his lips A remarkable church, Norbury is full of exquisite details, of which this post only captures a flavour! Images my ©️ do not repost Church Guide 👇 - The church was founded as a Catholic and is now an Anglican church - The church is an active parish church with regular services - The church is usually open daily to visitors"

1,641 likes, 32 comments - churchoftheday on December 19, 2025: "📍 Norbury, St Mary and St Barlock, Derbyshire . 🖋 Last November an...

Norbury, St Mary and St Barlock, Derbyshire . 🖋 Last November and December I visited seven beautiful churches in the Midlands, most of which I never got around to posting. As I’m now on my Christmas break, I thought I would try to commit to sharing them all… so here is the first and possibly the most spectacular! Set in a beautiful location in rural Derbyshire, a church has stood on this site since at least 1086, when it was recorded in the Domesday Book. The present building dates mainly from the late 13th century, commissioned by the Fitzherbert family, who were lords of the manor here for over 700 years. The church is famous for its early 14th-century stained glass, some of the finest surviving medieval glass in England. Installed in 1306 the chancel glows thanks to the rare grisaille glass, which envelops the impressive alabaster tombs of the Fitzherbert family. The elaborate carvings of Nicholas Fitzherbert and his family are truly incredible in their detail. At the west end of the nave are two 10th century cross shafts, showing that Christian worship here goes back even further than the current building. One of the shafts features the carving of a man with a horn held to his lips A remarkable church, Norbury is full of exquisite details, of which this post only captures a flavour!

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At around 10am on Dec 12 a group of four Left-wing extremists parked up in California’s Mojave Desert and went to work. As they unloaded their cars, stickers saying “free Palestine” lay scattered on two small trestle tables, along with bags of charcoal powder, sulphur and suspected potassium nitrate. Members of the pro-Palestinian activist group Turtle Island Liberation Front had driven out into the Lucerne Valley to practise making pipe bombs as part of “Operation Midnight Sun”, a New Year’s Eve terror plot to target two US companies, according to a criminal complaint. But just as they had assembled a tent to protect the bomb materials from the winter sunlight, wiped down the inside of the PVC pipes and begun to discuss grinding precursors to use as an explosive powder, FBI agents swooped in. They arrested Audrey Carroll, also known as Asiginaak, Zachary Aaron Page, whose nickname was AK, Dante Gaffield, 24, known as Nomad, and Tina Lai, whose alias was Kickwhere. Meanwhile, Micah Legnon was on his way to New Orleans with guns and body armour in his car when he was arrested by police, according to court documents. Officers believed Mr Legnon, 28, was planning to “carry out an attack” in the vein of the 1993 siege at Waco, Texas, which resulted in the death of four federal agents, a religious leader and 76 of his followers. This far-Left group is called “Turtle Island”, the same title used by some indigenous groups in North America. According to its Instagram page, the group is dedicated to “liberation through decolonisation and tribal sovereignty”. One post on the group’s social media account shows a person identified as Mary, who appears to be at a protest with her head wrapped in a keffiyeh.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/decolonising-female-genital-mutilation-british-paper-condoning-abuse-of-women/ The authors also say there is a “double standard” in the West, since, for example, “cosmetic surgery in which the female genitals are pared and reshaped is gaining popularity,” although readers are likely to question this comparison. And they claim that anti-FGM “narratives inherently downplay or denigrate the ceremonial and cultural importance of the practices, an importance which often supports the self-esteem of the women who experience it.” This, of course, begs the uncomfortable question—is the self-esteem of those already victimised more important than working to reduce the number of future victims? The Women’s Rights Network campaign group said it was “shocked” by the paper because “FGM causes nothing but pain and harm to women and girls. There are no benefits at all.” It is pure hatred of the female sex and has no place in a world that too often fails to treat girls and women as human beings. Tory MP Katie Lam described the academics’ claims as “dangerous, disgusting and deranged.” Journalist Róisín Michaux added that it was the latest example of “the ‘decolonising’ of FMG,” which she said “continues apace.” Most seriously, Janice Turner wrote in The Times that rather than help to “end a hideous form of child abuse,” the paper uses “abstruse language to muddy the ethical waters” and “sophistry to turn those fighting abuse into the bad guys,” meaning—“voilà!—the problem magically disappears.”