Not in Edinburgh? No problem. You can sign up to attend the Gifford Lectures with Prof Paula Fredriksen online! 🔗 cahss.ed.ac.uk/20252026-pro... *Please note that the @RoyalSocEd seminar on 12 May has a different booking portal*

An important issue of ”Theology in Scotland” is coming soon… Articles, reviews, and creative works on the theme of mental health and theology. All open access. Follow @theoscot.bsky.social for updates!

'believe survivors' doesn't mean 'believe the victims only when they're women' or 'why would they want money for damages' or 'his music was really good though' or 'but he had a hard life too' or or or or

Delighted to have been asked to contribute the reading notes for this brilliant project, Preaching for God’s World, for those who might be preparing sermons for this Sunday ⚓

Not uncommon, so its got a name. We have a lot of types of rain. 😁 From "Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun) by Manchán Magan.

Get yourself a bargain in the @scmpress.bsky.social sale! 📚

@modernchurch.bsky.social reviews A Heavy Yoke: 'The book is very easy to read and will ring true for victims and ex-evangelicals. [Stone's] concentration on abusive theology is timely and appropriate. Readers will find her faithfulness exemplary' Order here: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them." - Thomas Merton

continues to be the best Tower of Babel interpretation I've ever encountered: "Had they, the heaven they imagined might have been found at their feet. Complicated, demanding, yes, but a view of heaven as life; not heaven as post-life."

An afternoon of reading some unnecessarily complex papers has left me convinced that the best advice essayists should follow is this: let each paragraph do one clear piece of work.

🧵Hot off the press! @sarumcollege.bsky.social Summer and Autumn Brochure 2026 is out now. Look inside for ever-popular favourites, such as ‘Reading Scripture Together, ‘Modern Mystics, Theology Catch-Ups and Tom Clammer’s days on prayer and worship. www.sarum.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Thinking about this from Esther McIntosh, particularly given the week that it is: “when did we become so enamoured of the neo-liberal turn to individualism that we stopped theologising about the issues that do not affect us personally, issues on which speaking out might bring a personal cost?”

'You ask a hundred sonnets of me – you That put pain not poetry upon my soul.' Iris Murdoch was a restless writer, never standing still, mining her past for inspiration. In a unique lecture by Miles Leeson we will explore her undiscovered poetry. 31 May. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-poems

Have you had personal tutoring responsibilities in a UK HEI in the last five years? I'd love to hear from you! I'm running a short survey on interpersonal relationships & care within personal tutoring, which takes ~10 minutes to complete. Please do share: I'm keen to get a wide range of responses!

No-one says ‘Fast food isn’t going away, so let’s work out how to incorporate it into your diet’, yet we are often treated to the same non sequitur when it comes to AI

”We are not only fighting for our jobs, we are fighting for each other”: hear from me and other staff and students who joined picket lines at Uni of Aberdeen today 🪧✊🏻 www.gaudie.co.uk/wpress/index...

The latest of our Practical Theology collab articles is out now! This one is by the awesome @karenod.bsky.social so you know you need to read it. It's genuinely fabulous and also outlines a bit of how the FTN came to be, a tweet from a sun lounger and here we are: practicaltheologyhub.com?p=2081

Great to see this, and to have been a small part of it with @karenod.bsky.social! Our chapter on feminist trauma theology and masculinities began as a conversation with the brilliant @revdwillrm.bsky.social, which you can find in this thread.

#WritingLife: Has anyone had a similar experience? In rereading a few drafts for different projects in quick succession, a sudden revelation of a particular quirk of your writing style appears. The more you read, the more noticeable, and the more annoying, it gets.

I’m delighted to have my work featured in Amethyst Magazine: an experimental piece that plays with line formatting and the use of blank space to gesture towards the cut-out silhouette of Christ in the installation at Down Cathedral 🕯️⚓

Call for papers! Theology in Scotland's Autumn 2026 issue will focus on #migration, #displacement, and #belonging: vital themes for Scotland and the world. Full details/submission info: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI... Follow us at @theoscot.bsky.social for more news, calls, and updates

Cry aloud,

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

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Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, and post the second sentence. “That was how I learned of it, by way of the lead’s travelling through the people’s blood.”

Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord;

Burnout is genuinely life-destroying and I really can't say, on this website, what I think should happen to managers who not only let it happen to one individual worker but who systemically make it happen on large groups of workers.

This year I'm working on giving up Pelagianism in hopes that this will earn more favor with God

So much good stuff coming up in @feministtheology.bsky.social over the next few months kicking off with our first event on 20th Jan which is our panel on publishing in feminist and womanist theologies. Get the dates in your diary & join the mailing list for online links feministtheologynetwork.org

Head to @carcanet.bsky.social’s website and get 20% off all current and former Carcanet @tseliotprize.bsky.social shortlisted and winning poetry collections. A great way to stock up and also but my last collection Eleanor Among The Saints at a discount. Simply use the code. www.carcanet.co.uk

Please buy my new Lent book Gravity Defied … buy lots of copies for your Lent courses … you will have a great time watching #Wicked and spending time studying it. Do consider using my friends at Church House Books as your supplier: chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978191...

1/2 Fresh snow fell again overnight, leaving campus quietly covered in white. ❄️ With more inches of snow settling across Old Aberdeen, familiar buildings and paths look very different this morning, softened by snowfall and early winter light.

Are you a postgraduate student or early career researcher? Free on 6 May? Interested in pilgrimage, neighbourliness, and encounter in Christian Ethics? Good news – there’s still time to submit a paper proposal for the SSCE PG Conference. Submissions close on 6 February. Please share! #CallforPapers

Are you a postgraduate student or early career researcher interested in Christian ethics? Would you like to join a reading group with asynchronous opportunities and a supportive environment? Reply here or send me a message, and I’ll share the details! ⚓

During my undergrad, I joined a murder mystery club. We took turns hosting dinners and acted out our characters all night. Some attendees were complete strangers whose names I never knew, only their characters - I was studying off campus, so rarely crossed paths with other members IRL.

I read this early in the year & saved just for now!

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

A reminder that Christmas is a great time to become some sort of nutter that people avoid talking to, for fear of what you might start ranting about

The holidays can be a really tricky time for so many people. Whether you’re alone or with others, know you can speak with someone if you’re feeling sad or low. You matter, and your feelings are valid. Need someone to talk to? A range of helplines, both voice and text open 24 hrs:

Santa, baby, slip a saber under the tree, for me..." "Ho ho ho," laughed Santa. "I think you mean 'sable', little girl." "No," she replied in a whisper, her own naughty and nice list clutched so tightly her knuckles whitened. "Some folks got to get got."

What would really be the implications of taking Santa Claus seriously? It's the time of the year to review the current state of the physics of Santa Claus 1/12

these are two slightly different things but the point is that academia runs on two things: helping others and holding grudges. often at the same time and for the same people. we cannot lose this

You just died. The sixth photo in your phone gallery is what killed you. Ain't mad at it.

This is genuinely revolting and might possibly qualify as the sin against the Holy Ghost.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

!! Ireland has a unique opportunity to end foxhunting on Dec 17th when the Dail will vote on a proposed ban. Please contact your TDs and ask them to support a ban. #speirgorm Print used with kind permission by @katelouisepowell.bsky.social, find her lovely work here: www.etsy.com/ie/shop/Kate...

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living.

I am thrilled (and a little overwhelmed) to share that my book God's Ghostwriters was award the 2026 Grawemeyer Award in religion. I am deeply honored to join this group of distinguished award winners. lpts.edu/friends/graw...

Christian: Of the Father’s heart begotten; Secular: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas