Evening all, We are delighted to share our new issue - on Evil and Suffering. It's a bumper edition of articles and reviews. We will be going to press shortly and, as always, our digital version is open access: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS Thanks for following and for sharing. More soon.

The new issue of Theology in Scotland is out now. Some fantastic articles on the theme of evil and suffering (plus my first editorial!) and all open access. Read it here: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI... And please follow us at @theoscot.bsky.social for news and updates!

Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt

🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford! We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History. This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance” Deadline: 17 Dec 2025 Please share widely!

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.

You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵

Oaks near Sheepstor last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍 📜

'Research and Development (R&D) delivers enormous economic and societal value, yet universities struggle to earn public trust or support for what they do.' 1/3

The Valley Girl’s prayer

Excellent thread on Barbara Castle and the introduction of the breathalyser! It's an episode with an important moral: that having the courage to do the right thing, even if it's unpopular at the time, can save lives and bring public opinion with it over time.

We can't wait for the next seminar in our CMS Research Series, taking place tomorrow at 4pm! This week Professor Sarah Hamilton (Uni of Exeter) will be giving a paper on 'The Liturgy of the Road: Masses for Travellers at St Gall, 900-1100'. We are very excited!

I don’t read Ethiopic (tusk tusk). Can anyone assist?

Well, the sun is out and I’m on a train to Cornwall, which is a Fine Thing.

Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.

We lived in a pub when I was growing up and when I was 3 (50 years ago!) we had someone in to draw the pub for a business card. I sat next to him and watched him draw every line. I was transfixed and it was a huge inspiration for me. I’ve dreamt about owning that drawing for years…

Whatever you think the church's position on same-sex relationships should be, the decision-making of the House of Bishops shouldn't be informed by advice which tries to claim a consensus which doesn't exist, even among the theologians quoted supposedly in support of it.

Any #CofEpeeps following the sorry saga of #LLF should read this powerful response by Professor Mike Higton to the "misappropriation" of his work in the recent Faith and Order Commission paper on doctrine, intended to inform the House of Bishops decision-making. viamedia.news/2025/11/17/c...

Really interesting and important thread

He is said to have been a man of tact and charm, who brought the king and the nobility to do what was right through a mixture of kindness and gentle mockery/ cheek. Though possible having the swan in the background also helped….

Anyway, we could do with more bishops like him (not necessarily the attack swan thing, although….) St Hugh, pray for us!

Today is the feast of St Hugh of Lincoln, bishop, advocate for justice for the dispossessed, for peace and against pogroms. Rebuilder of churches, encourager of education. Also the man who made friends with a swan, which loved and wanted to protect him, and seems to have hated every else…

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections. Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... 📆Closing date: 5 January 2026 #UofGLibraryFellows

'Bird Watching' plate by UK based artist Vicky Lindo, known for her quirky, highly decorated ceramics #WomensArt

Watercolour painting from the 'Leafscape' series, by Jessica Rosemary Shepherd, contemporary ethnobotanical artist #womensart

Sybil Andrews, The Gale (1930) Linocut, Art Deco style print from the Modernist Printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Weakening sanctuary for refugees and asylum seekers via temporary status ignores all the terrible lessons of the C20th about the vulnerability of these people and the readiness of governments to treat them as less than human. 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Arrived into Frankfurt after a long Eurostar journey and delighted to be working with Revd Dr Kai Funkschmidt from the Institute for Ecumenical Studies and Research this weekend for the Many Cultures, One Body conference representing @churchesengland.bsky.social #intercultural #ecumenical

After living through the Nazi & atomic bomb eras, Tove Jansson writings would often encompass fearful ideas about loss of a familiar world. However she would balance this with characters who encompassed #kindness & #community, even in the darkest times #WomensArt #WorldKindnessDay

“More and more, the nature of high-profile public service is repelling the best and the brightest. That is the great tragedy of our age – and the great opportunity for those who were never in it to serve the public in the first place.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The second instalment of Fr Thomas Sharp walking you through those FAOC Living in Love and Faith docs viamedia.news/2025/11/11/a...

'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.' Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2

This is a very fine department and the suspension of the single honours programme in Theology and Religion is an extremely serious blow. Please consider signing this petition.

Perhaps the BBC could offer Trump one of his beloved deals: they'll apologise for broadcasting sections of his speech, if he apologises for trying to overthrow an election, lying about the result, pressuring election officials, urging a crowd to "fight like hell" & pardoning those who did just that.

"It would be precocious to say that the Generation of the Somme would condemn our hagiographic ritual, or support it. All that can really be said is that they would recognise our discomfort with what remembrance looks like."

The University of Nottingham's latest round of financial restructuring involves suspending our Theology & Religion BA course with a view to its permanent closure. Please support our staff and students by signing this petition c.org/MQVjrMwXq8

Is doctrine “something generally static, generally serene, a quiet lake in which even its dynamism is limited to the occasional wave breaking on the shoreline of its boundaries”? Er, no, says Fr Thomas Sharp viamedia.news/2025/11/10/a...

The bursary for RE teacher training will be withdrawn for 2026-27, worsening the national RE teacher shortage. #TeamRE Please support our campaign to reverse this decision. Full details: natre.org.uk/news/please-support-our-campaign-to-reverse-the-decision-to-remove-the-itt-bursary-for-re/

it’s officially book promo time! so, hey, i wrote this book; it comes out in a week! would you mind signal boosting and asking your library to buy it? if you’d like a copy, the code AUFLY30 will get you 30%off.

In other news I seem to have inadvertently taught my child to ask their Religious Studies teacher how things relate to the outcomes of the council of Nicaea if they don’t know an answer or want to stall for time. So that’s fun.

Please repost: We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

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Slide through for a simple breakdown of the latest LLF update. 🚨PLEASE SHARE - setbacks like this show that we need as many people pushing for inclusion as possible #churchofengland #livinginloveandfaith #equalmarriage

#NAPS North American Patristic Society folks! Can you remind me if there’s a meeting in 2027 as well as 2026? (I’ve lost track of decisions about the “fallow year” and am trying to plan ahead! 😀 )

“Perhaps Kemi would be a better leader if she’d dropped engineering for religious studies or psychology.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." #HannahArendt

The Department of Theology at Loyola University Maryland invites applications for the position of assistant professor, tenure-track, in the area of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. loyola.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Female Kingfisher sat up nicely while hunting along Hannafore beach yesterday. #Cornwall #birding #birds #Naturelovers #birdphotography #Naturephotography #Wildlifephotography