"And the First Reason is this, that we may lay the Foundation of making the Earth a Common Treasury for All, both Rich and Poor, That every one that is born in the land may be fed by the Earth his Mother, according to the Reason that rules in Creation." Gerrard Winstanley

Manatees are among the most wonderful of all God’s creatures.

"Rise of the International: International Relations meets History" ed. Richard Devetak & Tim Dunne global.oup.com/academic/pro...

"Living Through Capitalism: Resisting Devastation Through Communities of Life" James A. Chamberlain edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-living-...

"Whitehead at Harvard, 1925-1927" Edited by Joseph Petek, Brian G. Henning edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-whitehe...

It will be one of: +London, +Chelmsford, +Sheffield or +Bath and Wells

Should be excellent: “Late Heaney” Nicholas Allen A personal and lyrical study of Seamus Heaney's work after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 global.oup.com/academic/pro... @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Pope Leo XIV: “Our ecological conversion is no different to the conversion that orients us to the living God.”

Great.

I stand with Bergson over Einstein. Vitalism contrasted with mechanization. Creation against disembodied ratiocination. Personality over uniformity. Time as durée. A properly Christian metaphysics.

I hope to be able to go to this: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the...

Balthus "The Card Game" 1948 - 1950 Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

An important new report on religion, theology and climate change in UK institutions: lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/publications... From: @lsrioxford.bsky.social

A new book responding to Pope Francis’ social teaching on ecology and climate crisis is now available as a free digital download: lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/node/1882 From the Laudato Si' Research Institute, Campion Hall, University of Oxford

John Searle, influential philosopher in the history of Analytic philosophy with works in philosophy of mind and language, has passed away. R.I.P. (1932-2025)

1. Among my favourite works by Alice Munro is the 1986 story “Lichen”, found in the volume “The Progress of Love”. archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1985…

Paul Cezanne The Bend in the road 1905 oil, canvas

“You could have just driven away without a care in the world and forsook me. Forsooken me. Forsaken.” “Not a chance.” I have read the final page of Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" so often - I would guess many hundreds - and yet still find new things in it on nearly every read.

Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’ english.elpais.com/culture/2022...

Tony Harrison, poet and dramatist, dies aged 88 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Delighted to see this from my friend Nikolaas:

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions." -- W.B. Yeats

Very good:

"My body is at once sixty years old and several billion years old, since all of its atoms originated a few seconds after the Big Bang, and hence are as old as the universe itself." Robert Pogue Harrison, Juvenescence – A Cultural History of Our Age

This looks interesting: "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System" Dagomar Degroot www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

"Kant: A Revolution in Thinking" Marcus Willaschek Translated by Peter Lewis www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

1. Bruno Latour's political theology, in which religion acts a sort of radar to generate our attachment and sensitivity to the sacredness of the immanent world, can be seen as an outworking of 20th century Catholic "nouvelle théologie" (de Lubac, Fessard, Danielou).

"Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten" Edited by Ben Fletcher-Watson, Jo Shaw edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...

“We gaze on wrecks of ornamented stones, On tombs whose sculptures half erased appear, On rank weeds, battening over human bones, Till even one’s very shadow seems to fear.” John Clare, Crowland Abbey

Forthcoming: "The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works" David Harvey www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Great to see this: www.theology.ox.ac.uk/article/prof...

« Michel de Certeau a-t-il inspiré théologiquement le pape François ? » www.la-croix.com/a-vif/michel...

💚 Delighted to announce we just reached 73,000 new members! ✊🏽 @greenparty.org.uk is the party of environmental, social, racial and economic justice. 👉🏼 Join.greenparty.org.uk

"The Mystery of Being: Reconsidering the Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought" Erik Kuravsky www.bloomsbury.com/us/mystery-o...

“New Trinitarian Ontologies, Volume I” Edited by John Milbank, Ryan Haecker and JD Lyonhart wipfandstock.com/978166676811...

How huge London far-right march lifted the lid on a toxic transatlantic soup www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

‘Composting Christianity: A Radical Re-Imagining from the Grassroots’? Seminar exploring the ways local church can be transforming community, stewarding the earth, and rejuvenating faith. www.tickettailor.com/events/willi... TONIGHT (17/9/25) Online, Zoom

Can't wait for this important forthcoming book from an amazing scholar and friend: "Witnessing a Wounded World: A Theology of Ecological Trauma" Timothy Middleton fordhampress.com/witnessing-a...

‘It’s dying in front of our eyes’: how the UK’s largest lake became an ecological disaster Signs tout a natural paradise, but pollution from over-farming has left Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh choked by toxic algae www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science” Natasha Piano www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

"Gabriel had not gone to the front door with the others. He was in a dark part of the hall gazing up at the staircase. A woman was standing near the top of the first flight, in the shadow also . . . It was his wife. She was leaning on the banisters, listening to something."

“Ethnos of the Earth: International Order and the Emergence of Ethnicity” Jaakko Heiskanen www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

Valuable article on Hopkins' metaphysics: "It was this awareness of the cosmos as fundamentally complex, its diverse parts held together in varying degrees of subordination, that was the foundation of Hopkins’s mature thought." academic.oup.com/eic/article-... In: "Essays in Criticism" Journal

A call to put Catholic Social Teaching ‘on the streets’ A conference in Oxford to mark the anniversary of Charles Plater’s birth saw more than 120 participants join a series of discussions on Catholic social thought in action. www.thetablet.co.uk/news/call-to...

"Freedom to Know Creating Community with Ambedkar, Du Bois, Iqbal, Ramabai and Tagore" Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-freedom...