Supporting Manchester United is making me miserable.

Excited to announce that the paperback edition of Age of the Spirt, a #history of #charismatic #Christianity, is out on 26 September (on my birthday no less!). Pre-order here or at your preferred retailer! Thanks to OUP for making this happen. www.waterstones.com/book/age-of-...

New #Skystorians job alert! The impressive VCH Herefordshire project have been fundraising hard for some time and are now able to advertise two contributing editor roles which will work towards completing work histories of Ledbury and the Malvern Hills. Details in the link below. 1/2

www.theosthinktank.co.uk/in-the-news/... For those who missed this in August, an important open letter on the value of #Theology and #ReligiousStudies in UK #highereducation.

But I’m on my way to a conference…!?

events.baylorisr.org Still time to book for @baylor.bsky.social #Evangelical Studies Program online conference "Evangelicalism and the Holy Spirit', 1-3 October. Speakers inc @drleahpayne.bsky.social , Kerrie Handasyde, Bruce Hindmarsh, J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Priscilla Pope Levison & Thomas Kidd

Time for the first panel session at #glopent25 . It looks like a great programme.

Our Summer Conference programme has just dropped! Come join the fun this 15-17 July in Edinburgh Find a more detailed version on our website: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/25-26-summer... #skystorians #history

Announcing the 2025 #BaylorISR #Evangelical Studies Program conference: Evangelicalism & the Holy Spirit. Explores beliefs & practices in relation to the Holy Spirit across time & space, since the 18thc. Speakers include @drleahpayne.bsky.social and D. Bruce Hindmarsh. Booking: events.baylorisr.org

Glad to see my data from the World Christian Database cited in this @nytimes.com article! The Catholic Church is the most global it has ever been. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Watching the #GlobalFlourishingStudy launch. Exciting, transparent and potentially empowering global research on well-being. @gallup.com #baylor @harvard.edu

Religious Education people! Join us at the @openuniversity.bsky.social on 24 June for "Creative pedagogies for promoting religious tolerance and diversity in schools". We'll be talking about film-making and interplay approaches www.open.ac.uk/blogs/religi... #TeamRE @culhamstgabriel.bsky.social

Received our new #Baylor #Evangelical Studies Program book The Gospel in the Past, on historiographies of evangelicalism! Privileged to read these essays as prep for writing the intro ("Writing Evangelical History") & afterword. Authors inc Mark Noll, Kerrie Handasyde & Crawford Gribben #skystorians

Lots in this @biblesociety.bsky.social report of potential interest to scholars of religion: both the quantitative data suggesting some resurgence of churchgoing (and its relation to gender, ethnicity & affiliation) in England and Wales, and the discourse. www.biblesociety.org.uk/research/qui...

On 10 & 11 April, @kingshistory.bsky.social is hosting a symposium in honour of the historian Arthur Burns (1963-2023). It pays tribute to Arthur with a theme which runs throughout his own research: institutions and communities in modern Britain. Programme and booking: bit.ly/4bOC8cc #Skystorians

The Ecclesiastical History Society is delighted to join BlueSky and the #academic community here. Our Society is dedicated to the study of all things #churchhistory. We will be moving from posting on our X account soon, so please give us a follow!

Informative thread.

Our training series on #placedbased #religioushistories beyond the #parish #church will continue with a session on #catholicism. Hosted with @catholicrs.bsky.social it will feature @carmenmangion.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social & Lawrence Gregory www.history.ac.uk/events/resea...

Join us at @ihr.bsky.social Modern Religious History seminar at 5.30pm on Wednesday 26 March to hear Aleena Din (Oxford) present on "Archiving a Muslim History of Oxford: Approaches to Community History" Hybrid - please book through this link. www.history.ac.uk/events/archi... #skystorians

Bargain!!

Bargain!! If you haven’t read/listened to this brilliant book, now is your chance.

This week at @ihr.bsky.social Modern Religious History seminar.... Erin Geraghty (The Open University): "Popular Anti-Catholicism in Post-World War Two England and Wales". Wednesday 12 March, 5.30pm UK time. Book at www.history.ac.uk/events/popul... #skystorians #religioushistory

Are you doing #placebased research & want to know more about how to research the #history of #religious groups beyond the parish church? This series of free online training sessions is for you. Everyone is welcome! Might be of particular interest to @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @sogorg.bsky.social

Lay Catholic Societies in Twentieth Century Britain is out now with Boydell & Brewer! Over the coming weeks we will be spotlighting the chapters. First up is Pat Jones writing about the Young Christian Workers (YCW) movement! The book is available here:

Looking forward to this! #skystorians @vchlondon.bsky.social

Now that’s how to make a point. #makeitfair #AI

I’m looking forward to speaking at this @vchlondon.bsky.social session on researching place-based religious histories beyond parish churches. Join us online!

"By eminent physiologists".

'A useful food of a very high order' not that the British Beer and Pub Association is biased at all. #DrinkWineDay 🍷 Obviously we're not trying out this theory in the Modern Records Centre...... mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/BLR/...

Amid national backlash to diversity initiatives and Black history celebrations, Baylor has undertaken new research into its institutional history with slavery and is making changes to its campus. @emilybelz.bsky.social reports for @christianitytoday.com: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/bayl...

#skystorians, what is the most pleasant archive space you've worked in? For me, it's the old Lambeth Palace Library. The door in the wall on the street, click of the latch, sound of the fountain, visitor book (I wonder who's been in here lately?), the relaxed vibes. The new LPL is pretty cool too.

Looks like a good project to get involved in.

Excited to receive our book Teaching & Learning About Religious Diversity Past and Present. Dedicated to the colleagues & 'docutubes' students who worked on the project! Ideal for secondary classroom or HE. Works with our online RETOPEA sources #skystorians #TeamRE @religiousstudiesou.bsky.social

@ihr.bsky.social Modern Religious History seminar this evening is Grace France: ‘“The Christian Chameleon”: How Moral Re-Armament utilized mass-media to speak to a changing Twentieth Century Britain’. 5.30pm UK time, online only. to book: www.history.ac.uk/events/chris... #skystorians

From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians

As the process of appointing a new archbishop of Canterbury begins, I realise with a jolt that it is now ten years since my own book on Michael Ramsey (1961-74) was published. I can't say it set the world alight, but I'm quite proud of it still, my first book. peterwebster.me/archbishop-m...

‘In 2022 the ARINS/Irish Times survey found 27 per cent in favour of unity in the North. In 2023 the figure was 30 per cent. In our latest 2024 survey 34 per cent indicate support for unity.’ 🗞️Read more: bit.ly/4hqwTkT

How does religion and belief work as a protected characteristic in UK equality law? See our latest animation at the @openuniversity.bsky.social Religion Belief and Worldviews Hub. Ideal for schools and FE! www.open.edu/openlearn/hi... #TeamRE #ReligiousEducation @culhamstgabriel.bsky.social l

Sale on for the month of January, for 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺: #MoreThanForeigners from @scmpress.bsky.social! scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033... #BritishChinese #BritishChristianity #ChineseChristianity

📸 This week, we’re reflecting on our Curriculum in Focus week with a big question: Should RE have a place in a new national curriculum? We’ll be sharing blogs, resources, research and more — join in the conversation and tell us what you think in the comments!

🚨 One of the biggest choices of our generation. ⁉️ That’s what faces the CAAR @beckyfrancis.bsky.social 😔😟😞 KEEP a system with an *in-built* postcode lottery for pupils…? 💪 Or, BE BOLD and make it *fairer* for all pupils, by specifying a national entitlement in RE…? @counsellc.bsky.social

Excited to be speaking at @ihr.bsky.social modern religious history seminar on 12th Feb about the weird and wonderful media campaigns of Moral Re-Armament www.history.ac.uk/events/chris...

Petition · Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree - United Kingdom · Change.org search.app/mhvkW7kfKfNX...

Announcing our new co-edited book of resources for school teachers and HE educators on teaching #religious #diversity, past and present. Including material on Capitulations of Granada, Peace of Westphalia, Good Friday Agreement. Timely! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @openuniversity.bsky.social

YES.

Religious Tolerance and Diversity in Schools event, 13 March. @openuniversity.bsky.social Religious Studies, @hfleducation.bsky.social, Martha Shaw (LSBU) & Alexis Stones (@ucl.ac.uk) on creative approaches to preventing religious hate & prejudice www.open.ac.uk/blogs/religi... #religiouseducation

Denis Law, RIP. What a player.

And here it is, the third article in my Catholic feminism trifecta in a volume on Catholic lay societies expertly conceived and edited by Maria Power and Jonathan Bush. @cushwa.bsky.social @achahistory.bsky.social @ncronline.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @johnmaiden.bsky.social

A wonderful #free #online #training session organised by my @vchlondon.bsky.social colleagues: Researching Place-Based Religious Histories Beyond the Parish Church. Brilliant expert speakers - this will be incredibly useful.