When your bank holiday "just for funsies" reading arrives 😁

And off I go to the Leeds Disability Studies Conference 2026 for a panel on religion with @krysiawally.bsky.social, @naomijacobs.bsky.social and Brian Irvine. @mbrandonmassey.bsky.social , I am publicising 'Rewriting Jesus: Forgotten Pasts and Possible Futures' as promised!

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

From the Female Corporeality and Religion Conference in Leuven to finally being out there (and open access).... You can download my article 'Restricted More as a Daughter: The Interaction between Gender and Disability in the Gospel of Luke' now: poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...

And the countdown is on... FTN expert panel on publishing is next week, so add Tuesday night to your diary.

Last one from me today, promise. We have been asked to post our upcoming events calendar on here, so your wish is my command... To quote the Lego Movie, "Everything is awesome..." - I genuinely can't pick my favourite, so just come to everything!

From a friend: While the national news is focusing on protests in Minneapolis, ICE is systematically moving info smaller cities in the area, namely Shakopee, Jordan, and Savage with efforts targeted at restaurants, construction sites, schools, and hospitals.

So way back at the Female Corporeality and Religion Conference, I said I was going to turn this into an article. Just to prove I actually did...

So it "finally" arrived through my door. I am actually really proud of this chapter, purely because I wanted to open up on the fact that experience changes exegetes (even if we like to pretend it doesn't). Thank you @davidbolt13.bsky.social for giving me a soap box to stand on!

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 😊

Just finished speaking with the online crew at @sthild.org - what a welcoming learning group. Had a fabulous time and they let me get on my soap box a bit! By the end of the teaching session I was pulling book recommendations off my shelf....

Julia Watts Belser was so good at Disability and Church last weekend, I sort of had to...

That one really was for the girls 💪🏻 Second highest attendance at a rugby world cup final, men or women. 🌹

September is IIH awareness month.

For an update of our upcoming events: mailchi.mp/cam/incredib...

Tickets acquired! This disabled-led conference on disability & church is the highlight of my year (& features prominently in my book with @emjric.bsky.social). Will be lovely to reunite with old friends for the first hybrid conference & first at St Martin’s since 2019. I’m preaching on the Sunday :)

@siobhanjolley.bsky.social Guess what I got given to read on the journey home from #BNTS

When you get Eowyn's "I am no man" into a seminar question at #BNTS2025 😁

Prepping the kiddos for back to school: "If anyone says there are no zombies in the Bible, they're lying..." Well, they did walk in as I was starting to pull together a conference workshop for October, so I am not sure what else they expected 🤷🏼‍♀️

Excited to be part of this. Do take a look -

Oh we’ve got a fun few months coming up in the @feministtheology.bsky.social Sign up to the mailing list to get links to these events and more! mailchi.mp/a5e743737064... #feminist #womanist #theology #community #christianity

I am genuinely excited to be helping students ask innovative questions which challenge perspectives in our field.

Add NT studies, disability studies, a bit of feminism together, to animal studies, stir and "ta da"... Yep, I still get excited at seeing my name printed on actual paper pages 😁 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/animals-i...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... An article by the lovely @mckasp.bsky.social.

Just a reminder that if you haven’t already joined the Feminist Theology Network and want to be part of a supportive, inclusive, vibrant place for feminist & womanist research, you can do so here mailchi.mp/a5e743737064... @feministtheology.bsky.social #feminist #theology #womanist #community

When you turn up to your hospital appointment and realise you have accidentally coordinated your clothing and your reading... A hastily thrown on FTN t-shirt and the book you grabbed from the desk as the cab arrived...

Excited to share this upcoming volume. My perspective has changed somewhat with experience and David gave me space in this collection to write about it.

An SCM sale is always "dangerous"... but the kiddos might have just got me these for my birthday 😉 Ordered Tuesday, arrived today - am set up for summer reading!

Today was the first day I woke up with the knowledge that people are prepared to present your ideas as their own. Naive perhaps, but I had enjoyed the bubble of academic innocence for a while at least.

So Loose Women might get slated a lot, but I was reading Laura Bates' book at the GPs and this elderly lady struck up a conversation with me about AI and sexism on the back of her Loose Women interview: youtu.be/J8plVS73veA?...

So my profile is now up and running for prospective postgraduate students wanting to study disability and biblical studies/theology, amongst other things 😁 www.westcott.cam.ac.uk/about-us/who...

Horrifying but incredibly powerful. Absolutely needs to be read by, like, everyone. Bates is sounding a warning call before it's too late... and we really, really need to listen.

Date for your diary: 28th May 2025, 7pm BST

@melissacmtan.bsky.social , guess we best get writing that paper we proposed for BNTS in September 😉

Apologies, I forgot to add the time on the previous reminder 🙈 On Monday (14th April) we have the wonderful Dr Selina Stone speaking on "A Womanist Loves the Spirit: Womanism, Theology, and Liberation." ⏰ 7pm UK/8pm CEST/2pm EDT ⏰

Just sending this round again in case you haven't seen it.

"Don't fight back. Fight forward."

When you're presenting online and the slide sharing doesn't work... On the plus side, no one had to stare at my face either 🤣

And we're off 😁 Wish I was there in person, but I do get to listen to the fabulous @naomijacobs.bsky.social first up.

All the best to everyone attending the SocRel Chair's Response Day - Religion, Disability and Neurodivergence. FTN will be representing in-person and online today!

**Giveaway Alert** We have a sample of our brand new FTN t-shirt (only 3 currently in existence) and a copy of 'When God Became White'! Just like and follow. For an extra entry give us a re-post. Deadline 10th April 7pm GMT. Winner announced 12th April. (We can only post to a UK address though).

When checking proofs, are you supposed to let people know they are about to get cited in an encyclopedia ... 😜 @candidamoss.bsky.social and @isaactsoon.bsky.social , I couldn't not include you.(Sorry @meghanhenning.bsky.social , you are on the other page, but you are in there).

Awesome podcast episode alert: "There are these social constructs to oppress and marginalise and make certain groups invisible" - Grace Ji-Sun Kim [19:38] We also get a shout out at 22:49! Thank you @mchlmorelli.bsky.social for your kind words x

📢 Proposals for papers are invited for the British New Testament Society Meeting 2025 to be hosted by the University of Manchester from Monday 1 September to Wednesday 3 September 2025. 📅 CfP Closes 21 April 2025 🔗 bnts.org.uk/bnts-call-fo...

This was so good, especially the post-book discussion. Cannot recommend @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social's writing enough.

Going to be soooo good. I have a preview copy....

So excited that @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social is joining us for February. (Have a cheeky pre-release copy which has just leapfrogged to the top of my TBR list, as in starting in about 5 minutes 🥰) If you are not already a member of the Feminist Theology Network, sign up - mailchi.mp/a5e743737064...

Obviously all the articles are important, but Nina Worthington's paper on theatre practice and disability is a must read (I will confess to hearing it live...)