CFP for our postgrad seminar on "Spirituality and Human Flourishing" in November at Sarum College and online. It is a great space for students to present their first (or one of their first) academic papers. Proposals to [email protected] by the end of October.

Honoured to be giving a talk for the Franciscan Vision Global Summit on Saturday 22nd November on "The Deification of the Fraternity and Sorority of Creation". The event is free and online but requires registering beforehand via this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

One week until the first of our "Modern Mystics" webinars. Three great speakers on three extraordinary writers the next three Mondays. Bookings still open here: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...

To be human is to be spiritual! @sarumcollege.bsky.social offers an opportunity for a four-week online journey through #Ignation Spiritual Exercises accompanied by experienced spiritual guide and leading academic expert Dr Gillian Ahlgren. www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...

Want to know more about the history and development of Christian spirituality? From 13-16 October we have a brilliant 4-day course at Sarum College (@sarumcollege.bsky.social) in Salisbury with a stellar team of lecturers. The course is open to external attendees. More info and booking below. /1

Happy Feast Day of St Clare of Assisi (d. 1253). Although often remembered by the title she gave herself "la pianticella" ("the little plant") of St Francis of Assisi, Clare is far more than just Francis's understudy. /1

Very pleased to have this week submitted the manuscript of "A Companion to Angela of Foligno" to Brill. I sincerely hope that the book will help to bring the scholarship on Angela in English up to date. The book contains 10 chapters, a preface and an afterword /1 (of 2)

At Sarum College, we have one final spirituality short course (hybrid – on Franciscan women) of this academic year, and then three great short courses on mysticism (all online) in the autumn. More info and booking below. 1/6

Wonderful time in Antwerp (and Brussels) for the Mystical Theology Network's annual conference hosted by the Ruusbroec Institute. As always, great to see old and new faces. Now in Nijmegen for a colloquium on Spirituality as Process at the Titus Brandsma Institute.

Returning to Evelyn Underhill and Lucy Menzies ahead of a talk next week. One delightful thing is that they both dedicated books to each other -- Menzies in her 1928 "Mirrors of the Holy" and Underhill in her 1932 "The Golden Sequence."

Pleased to have a short piece on Clare of Assisi in The Church Times today. She was the first theologian whose texts I really spent a long time with, and I think someone who has great wisdom and insight for today. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Delighted to receive today from eBay a wonderful copy of Lucy Menzies' "Mirrors of the Holy" a study of ten female mystical theologians from the 12th century Hildegard of Bingen to the late-19th and early-20th century Elizabeth Leseur. /1

A reminder that you have one week left to submit your proposal for the Mystical Theology Network's annual conference, this year held in Antwerp from 4th to 6th June. The theme is 'Mystical Entanglements: Communities, Networks, and the (Relational) Self in the History and Study of Mysticism.'