FTN advent reading group! Asynchronous, i.e. whenever in the day/week you like, so we can join together over different time zones without me messing up the clock... Totally shouting out to our members across the various oceans 😊

I’m honoured to be a guest on the fantastic Dr Selina Stone’s #podcast ‘Sunday School for Misfits’ this week. This season of the podcast is on power, and we had a lot to talk about when it comes to #disability, #neurodivergence and power in churches and #theology. open.spotify.com/episode/3DM2...

A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?

On Wednesday I’m speaking at Oxford Brookes in a public lecture. All are welcome and it will be recorded #forgiveness #trauma #theology www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...

Conference alert! Thursday 18th-Friday 19th June, 2026, London campus of Loughborough University. Online day: Monday 22nd June, 2026. Please see Call for Papers here: feministmiscarriageproject.org/conference

Looking for a #PhD in #ClimateExtremes? We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines. Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr

Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Recognising pregnancy loss as a workplace issue and in working lives is essential, writes Professor @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm... #PLRG_PLACESproject @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social

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!

An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.

I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.

We were delighted to welcome back four of our alumni earlier this week to celebrate the launch of their collaborate book In the Sacred Pause, and to reflect on how faith, presence, & Christian worship might speak into lives touched by trauma. Full article can be found on our website: buff.ly/aTMzlu0

New #CRAEresearchSummary @brianirvine.bsky.social considers the role of framing and reframing in Specialist Autism Mentoring at UK Universities

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...

A new #dissertation spotlight on AJR! Megan Wines writes about her research on masculinity and Revelation @meganwines.bsky.social #newtestament

Dr. Phyllis Tribble 1932-2025 Feminist Biblical Interpretation Scholar Assistant and Associate Professor of Religion at Wake Forest (1963–1971); founding faculty member and Associate Dean of the School of Divinity (1999-2002) and University Professor (2002-2012) www.linkedin.com/posts/wakedi...

Bit of beauty for your timeline (St. Hildegard of Bingen receiving a vision)

The Department of Religion at Dartmouth College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor of the Hebrew Bible in its Ancient Context. apply.interfolio.com/176012

There's an exciting new 4-year postdoc in New Testament at Oxford/Keble College. The deadline for applications is 28 November. I'm happy to try to answer questions/offer encouragement for those considering an application. www.keble.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/

AI, ethics, and human identity: the new religious frontier podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/a...

The Jesuit Archives are offering a new $2500 grant focused on Indigenous researchers investigating Indigenous topics. This is a very rich archive with much Indigenous language material. archivesjesuites.ca/en/indigenou...

If you're in Religion and Science, consider becoming my colleague! (Applications due by November 13.) unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Last night we launched two new resources: 🧰 Pregnancy Loss & the Workplace: A Toolkit for Employers & Employees 📖 Words at Work: Experiences of pregnancy loss in the workplace {up to 23 weeks} Available on our website-please share & use 🙏 @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry. (He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

For anyone who's weary of glib responses and superficial "answers", this book faces the pain with rigour and integrity.

Karen's excellent book, The Dark Womb Re-Conceiving Theology through Reproductive Loss, is available to order here: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033... #babylossawarenessweek #babyloss #theology

Most read in Modern Believing this week: 'Challenges for Theology in Settler Colonial Contexts' by Michael Mawson Read it freely #OpenAccess online: bit.ly/MB-Mawson @modernchurch.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social @scholarpriest.bsky.social @victoriaturner.bsky.social @alisonrwebster.bsky.social

It’s Baby Loss Awareness Week. After losing multiple pregnancies in my 20s, I eventually wrote The Dark Womb about theology and pregnancy loss. Part of that was a selection of prayers & liturgies - available here @scmpress.bsky.social #babyloss #babylossawarenessweek #theology #prayers

Listen Back: One woman’s story of isolation through her miscarriage - @quiteclare.bsky.social speaks with Shane Coleman on @newstalkfm.bsky.social Breakfast link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGS8Lr5DLXNx

For Black History Month, we have a discount on a selection of our titles relating to Black, African and/or Caribbean theology. 10% off until the end of October: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/features/bla... #BlackHistoryMonth #theology #blacktheology

Today, join us in prayer as we mark the beginning of Baby Loss Awareness Week. 💜

I’ll be speaking at Oxford Brookes on 12th Nov about trauma and forgiveness. All welcome - just book a free place www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...

I’m at the airport en route to #EABSBL, so it feels like the perfect time to send a copy of my book, Reimaging the Magdalene, on a journey too! 💛 like and 🔁 RT and I’ll draw a winner on the feast of Mary Mag (22/07, heathens) Let’s see where it ends up… #Giveaway

Join us at 7pm on 21 October for a book celebration event! In the Sacred Pause, published in July, was written by four (very) recent alumni whilst ordinands at Westcott House. Now Deacons & Priests in the CofE, they’ll be returning to talk about the book, the process of putting this together & more.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Listen to two hugely respected feminist theologians, Kwok Pui Lan and Lisa Isherwood, discuss global queer theologians: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhA7...

Pop along to @westcotthousecam.bsky.social on 21st Oct to join us in celebrating a new collection of trauma-informed prayers and liturgies by some of our former students. In the Sacred Pause 21st Oct 7pm All welcome! No need to book #trauma #traumatheology

The #SST26 call for papers is live! Deadline 14th Dec. Theme: “Theology: A Discipline of Failure” Bursary applications also open www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/...

Today we celebrate the Feast of St Francis of Assisi, 799 years after he died on the evening of 3rd October. He continues to have a pronounced influence on Christian life, thought and practice. Here is my lecture on Franciscan spirituality and its value today www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAaT...

theworld.org/segments/202... a bit from me talking about the appointment of the new Archbishop of Canterbury

2 chats w/ BBC abt doing interview on new ABC - 1st can I talk about “Eternal Truth” and whether this can change? 2nd is the CofE less popular with young people because it’s trying to be trendy? Idk folks can’t we just talk about the fact that a woman is the new ABC? Anyway, I’m not on bbc 2moro!

Delighted by the news that Bishop Sarah is to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury! I wrote this: shared-conversations.com/2025/10/03/w...

Incredible job opportunity at VST: vst.edu/about/job-op...

Since we have just edged into October, time to get excited for our next FTN event...

PhD life = stationery life. I didn’t make the rules!

Here’s my heads up: if you’re intending on submitting a PhD proposal with the hope of funding, in the UK that’s usually due around Christmas…. Now (not a week before the deadline) is when to start having those conversations with potential supervisors! It’s not too soon!

Make sure you’re signed up to the @feministtheology.bsky.social mailing list to get the link for this event - it promises to be a brilliant panel on an essential subject! mailchi.mp/a5e743737064...