Feels like everybody has the wrong number of jobs right now, either too many or too few.

So often the conclusion reached is something like "more leadership is required". Makes me curious. Is it really more "leadership"? I wonder if what's needed are more spaces for connection, and for valuing all the capabilities and ways of knowing we hold collectively between us?

Glasgow West End sights this afternoon

Thinking of Baptist ministry in the UK? We have a free online event on 24.11.25 8pm where you can explore what this might look like, with plenty of time for questions and conversations. www.eventbrite.com/e/explore-yo...

Going more slowly. That's not a bad thing. Actually, I feel it's essential. Going faster and faster and faster achieves what exactly? I think it means we miss out on so much. The meaningful warmth of connection for one. The beauty all around us for another.

Littlest and I excitedly ran to the door with our box of sweeties. (Guisers never come to our house). Alas, it was the post lady, who obliged by holding our parcels to ransom till we gave her a sweetie!

Next up on the FTN calendar... yes, we know we are spoiling you with such excellent speakers: this week it was Dr Holly Morse and next month we have Dr Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones. Make sure Wednesday 19th November goes in your diary!

My goodness. Please don’t send in ghosts. They are very frightening. We only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: theodore.goldenvelt)

The more polarised and performative the 'debates' about deeply important issues become, the less space there is for genuine curiosity, openness, and mutual understanding. Where's the space for not knowing, grappling with the differences, and learning? Such space is essential.

Is there a way to make a personal feed on here, that's basically just your pals?

Necessary leaf kicking on a visit this morning

Women's Voices Conference 2025 at @lutherkingtheology.bsky.social. 100% worth the 8hr round trip from Glasgow to Manchester but would love to see a Scottish Ecumenical version. Who's in?

In all the rush and the noise and the harshness, I hold on to the beauty of connections and friendship and taking our time. And savouring moments like this one.

A backlit St Boniface, while the clouds are drawn in the blue. The old kirk this evening, Papay, island of the Papar.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

Never thought this would cross my mind during my lifetime.

Primary Carw Chaplaincy Scotland are doing a 120 challenge fundraiser. An amazing small charity doing such good. Please sponsor us! www.justgiving.com/page/bridgec...

🎨 Apply by 29 Sept 2025 for a £10,000 Artist Residency at Mount Stewart, Co. Down! Part of the Historic Houses, Global Crossroads research, the 6-week residency (May–June 2026) invites artists to explore global plant networks & reimagine the site’s ecological legacy🌿See link in thread.

Trump apparently thinks domestic violence is not a crime. That makes sense | Moira Donegan

I think I've found my spot for the afternoon. #PhDlife

Small beautiful things I found on the beach when I went there to help my poorly brain yesterday. I’ve collected and arranged precious beach finds like this since I was really small. The process quietens & calms my noisy negative anxious thoughts.

Less “You’re so strong” and more “That looks heavy. Let me help you carry it.”

This #book is life changing I have been gaslit into believing that sleep is “lazy” That sleeping as little as possible is virtuous, a sign of working hard #WhyWeSleep has shocked me, explaining why less sleep diminishes our ability to perform to our best….& literally KILLS US #BookSky #Books 📚

“This almanac highlights incredible acts of defiance in the face of power and shows us all on whose shoulders we stand.” @erininthemorning.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...

Learning happens in all sorts of places, sometimes unexpected, and development rarely follows a straightforward path.

Only in Mungo's miraculous city... Hector MacAlister writes: 'Dad always said there was a guy lounging on a nearby bench with an inconspicuous bottle in a brown bag when he took the photo. The chap sat up and said “f8 at 1/125 of a sec”, so that’s what he did.'

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

With a piece from me in the Arts and Creatives section

“Emotional freedom techniques” are based on the pseudoscientific idea that your “energy field” can be manipulated and “balanced.” It’s grift. And it’s unethical when marketed as a treatment for mental health concerns.

A plaque in Professors' Square on Glasgow University's Gilmorehill Campus marking the graduation of Madge Easton Anderson, the first woman to practice law in the UK. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #glasgowuniversity

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🚨 BREAKING: Kim Leadbeater has urged MPs to back our palliative care amendment to the assisted dying bill. The amendment would require a full assessment of current palliative and end of life care provision within 12 months of the Bill passing. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

Normalise telling your friends that you love them ❤️

If this asshole understood fucking anything he’d know we have very strong statistical techniques that make placebo testing unnecessary and we know vaccines work so leaving people unprotected is profoundly unethical Dude has the understanding of someone who half watched a YouTube video on controls

Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum rising above the newly re-clothed trees of the surrounding park. #glasgow #kelvingroveartgallery #kelvingrovepark #architecture #architecturephotography #trees #park #glasgowtoday

I fear I’m doing friendship wrong: why do we lose the art of just hanging out? | Carolin Würfel

So, I have a philosophy book, Metaphysics and the DC Universe, that is kind of limbo because I need more contributors for it, so if you or anyone you know is interested in sending me an abstract let me know. Women and BIPOC folks are particularly welcome!

Is there any better sound than listening to the rain on a velux roof window?

Published another thing. This time on trauma, domestic violence, and creative expression in theological reflection. www.baptist.org.uk/Groups/44116...

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

"If the goal is for women’s history to be recognized as mainstream history—and as far as I’m concerned that is the goal— then we need to have men writing women’s history. More importantly, we need to have men reading women’s history." This!

“We’re currently caught in a bewildering swirl of truth and alternative fact and manipulated language disguised as information... "We have an advantage with the arts in that we can speak that language of allegory [and] now is the time to double down on exactly that"

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We have an hour together every week as a team. Sometimes the first 20-25min is taken up with going round & hearing how everyone is & what's going on with everyone. This isnt just 'chat' before the proper work of the meeting begins. Hearing how everyone's doing, & caring, is foundational to our team.

Littlest wants to go to World Book Day as the adjective 'Black'. I darent ask him why that particular adjective. He doesn't seem depressed....

Like most other 90s kids, I spent a good amount of time planning how I would survive if stranded in the wilderness, but it was pretty bold of me to assume I'd be able to catch fish with my bare hands, considering I can't even manage to stab the last olive in the jar with a fork.