New Video! What if living a calmer life wasn't about doing more, but about doing less? Today, I'm exploring five simple habits from the Quaker tradition that have genuinely shaped how I live and relate to other people. Let me tell you what I’m talking about... #britishquakers youtu.be/ryD6KrP-3B4

At the weekend, I'm leading my first residential weekend retreat since before the pandemic lockdowns. Nervousness is mingling with the excitement of being with participants, and anticipation of what the Spirit might do among us. #Quaker #spirituality

Book now for the popular Franciscan weekend at Hilfield Friary from 2-4 October, and celebrate the 800th anniversary of St Francis of Assisi! All info on www.hilfieldfriary.org.uk/programme/ #retreat #francisofassisi @monknunanglican.bsky.social

I’m going to be doing a video where I go to all EIGHT Cornish Quaker meetings in ONE day. Easy, you say? Mate, have you ever been to Cornwall? I’ll be doing it in the summer as well, so…

Raise the Colours claim to be “legal and lawful”, that they are saving the streets from dangerous migrants. In reality, they are hypocrites with criminal histories and a growing confidence in bullying locals. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/25/r...

✨ Woodbrooke is recruiting! ✨ We’re looking for a new Programme Coordinator – Faith and Spirituality to join our team. 📅 Closing date: 5pm, Thursday 25 June Find out more and apply: www.woodbrooke.org.uk/vacancies/

Quaker studies people, please read and circulate this CFP for a special issue of @quakerrelthought.bsky.social on Joseph John Gurney, edited by Paul Harris: qtdg.org/2026/05/20/c...

Why are these Raise the Colours thugs allowed to behave on British streets like this with impunity, harassing and attacking locals like this? Almost a year of this! Oxfordshire banned them from spreading their flag measles. High time Birmingham followed suit. It's just monetised racist thuggery

The carte blanche enjoyed by racist agitators in my neighborhood is a disgrace. They've sown a sickening climate of intimidation throughout Birmingham that won't be easily dispelled.

Bridge & his racist thugs showed up again in Stirchley last night, threatening & assaulting people, presumably as a warm up for their trip to London on Saturday. Just a reminder here that for months now they have acted without any consequences from the council & at times with police protection.

One of the pleasures of writing a PhD is delighting in the offcuts, all the glittering bits of research that didn't make the final version. 1/

At the beginning of May we hosted a book launch for Dr Henna Cundil's 'Praying by the Rules: What Autistic People Teach the Church about Prayer.' If you missed the launch, a recording will be available on YouTube at a later date. Order the book here: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Save Black Studies at Birmingham City University! Black staff at Birmingham have been targeted for redundancy. 📮 Read the open letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 📝 Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/save-black...

I get skittish around conversations concerning money. My partner has to give me a heads-up the day before he wants to have a chat about our shared finances, taxes, or financial planning. This season of Quakers Today podcast stretches me. www.friendsjournal.org/quakers-and-... @friendsjournal.org

👀 Pretty remarkable stat! The Green Party got 1.95 million votes at the local elections (excluding mayoral!) Approx 1 million more people (!!!) than best record in 2023. Join.greenparty.org.uk

New Video! I RETURN to Britain Yearly Meeting! Massive coach journey, spiritual visions, getting lost in Friends House, meeting many Friends old and new and basking in a Early Friends MASTERclass. And all in under 24 hours! Come and join me (metaphorically) for the ride! youtu.be/i69NcLyBM8c

HOPE LANDS IN BIRMINGHAM! Yesterday at the NIA we had a total of 19 @greenparty.org.uk councillors elected in Birmingham! Both of our existing councillors were re-elected and we gained 17 more! THANK YOU to everyone who did #VoteGreenInBrum! birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/08/h...

Join us this evening at 19:00 for the YouTube premiere of Stuart Masters’ 2026 Swarthmore Lecture, Tangled Roots: Navigating the Complex Legacy of Early Quakers. The recording will be available to watch at any time afterwards. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCInrgAf_ck

Modern Believing are currently recruiting for a new reviews editor; the role comes with an honorarium of £750/annum modernchurch.org.uk/vacancy-assi...

Thank you to everyone who joined us this weekend for Stuart Masters’ 2026 Swarthmore Lecture, Tangled Roots: Navigating the Complex Legacy of Early Quakers. We hope you found it thought-provoking. Photo Credit: Mike Pinches for Quakers in Britain

Paying attention to the Quaker tradition and its history can be a valuable source of learning, providing us with both inspirational patterns and examples, and a collection of cautionary tales. Tangled Roots: Navigating the Complex Legacy of Early Quakers, p.13.

We're celebrating hitting 400 followers on Bluesky. However, that's still 3500 fewer than we had on X. So if you could re-post this to your followers to let them know we're here and doing our best to make peace happen, that would be ace - thank you. #peace

I live with two truths - I find myself distanced from Quakerism as I struggle to curb my Christian impulses, and I know acutely how dangerous Christians can be. Mark is as insightful as ever

I've written some reflections on the recent Yearly Meeting of Quakers in Britain. What if the pain caused by our theological diversity never heals? Might it be a thorn in our flesh that keeps us dependent on God's grace? jollyquaker.com/2026/05/05/t... #Quaker #theology

Heading home after a wonderful Britain Yearly Meeting in London. I've hugged old friends, connected with new friends, and felt the Spirit move amongst us. 1/ #Quaker

✨ The 2026 Swarthmore Lecture is almost here ✨ Join us tomorrow for Tangled Roots: Navigating the Complex Legacy of Early Quakers, given by Stuart Masters. 📅 Saturday 2 May 🕖 19:00 (UK time) 📍 Friends House, London & streamed live 🔗 www.woodbrooke.org.uk/swarthmore

In the Season 6 premiere of the Quakers Today podcast, @petersontoscano.bsky.social and co-host Diana Yañez discuss how their "money biographies" have shaped his spiritual lives. Watch the full episode and find our show notes at QuakersToday.org 🎧

We hold in the Light the Jewish community as they face another antisemitic attack.  Quakers say: Violence is always wrong. Attacking people because of their race is racism. The way to break this cycle is by building peace and understanding between people – connection not division.

Feeling both excited and trepidatious about attending Britain Yearly Meeting this weekend. Excited to worship, to meet old friends and make new ones, and to be in awe of those who give their service to the #Quaker community. Anxious because some Quakers say some very foolish things. #BYM2026

A deep suspicion of outward forms, creeds, doctrines, and human authorities, along with a strong focus on the inward experience of an uncontainable divine Spirit, has made it possible for Quakers to be fleet of foot, able to adapt quickly to changing circumstances.

The best way I've found to explain Pelagius is that he's the US health care system to Augustine's NHS. Augustine: "Everyone gets sick. Come get healed for free." Pelagius: "If you get sick it's your own fault."

I address God in lot's of ways in my private prayers, and no title feels more transgressive (in a transformative way) than "Goddess."

I may as well reshare it myself 😇

#EarthDay protest at the Senedd.

Turns out you can now pre order my forthcoming book on Anglo-Catholicism and trans feminism! Baffled by the link? Intrigued? Check it out! blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

I have been looking forward to reading this book ever since @cdjtheology.bsky.social outlined the concept to me over a cuppa at a convent some years ago. Very excited that it is finally here!

'If Polari was a kind of Birdsong' by Kym Deyn "Each footstep of mine is queer. My eyelash mites have only sucked lesbians – oh God!"

Seeking to expand your knowledge in Christian Spirituality & Theology? As our new term approaches, we’re running a range of short courses beginning next month. Taught as part of our ARU MAs, these courses are open to all & can be taken for credit. More details on our website: https://buff.ly/rv09RrC

Now that the thesis is submitted, the next 6 weeks are all drafting my queer Quaker introduction to the Bible. It's thrilling to be writing in a different register, one where I get to be a bit more passionate and conversational. #Writing #WritingCommunity #theology

The last of three short interviews about the 2026 Swarthmore lecture with Woodbrooke’s Senior Communications Officer, Aled Vernon-Rees.

The spiritual heritage of Quakers is both distinctive and intriguing...they express a diverse range of beliefs and practices, from Evangelical Christians to Buddhists, Pagans, and Non-theists. Their origin...suggests a Reformed orientation, but some aspects of their faith look more Catholic.

It's been a week of conferences. I had the honour of giving the post-graduate response to Prof. Robert Beckford's presidential address at SST, and then gave a very well received summary of my PhD thesis at a Quaker Studies student day. After all that I'm super tired but my spirit is full full full!

I respect anyone trying to be happy and make a living in the current global horrors, but I've got to say I get an ick at "this is Native Welsh Traditional Wellbeing" and what it primarily seems to be is...Yoga?

Looking forward to the Society for the Study of Theology conference which begins today. Karaoke is promised, but is the theological community ready for my Whitney renditions? #SST26

[The clearness Meeting is] a small group practice that aims to uphold and support a Friend seeking clearness about an issue. The purpose is not for the committee to try and come up with a solution. Instead, they seek to enable the individual to think more deeply about the matter...

🚨🎉 The Green Party BEATS Reform!!! 😮 Greens came fourth here last year. 💚 Proving once again that Greens can win anywhere. 🙌🏽 Labour tanking and Greens beating Reform! 👉🏽 Join.greenparty.org.uk

All bloody principles and practices, as to our own particulars, we utterly deny; with all outward wars and strife, and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretense whatsoever; this is our testimony to the whole world.

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

The first 2026 issue of @practicaltheology.bsky.social has landed! Thankful for continuing to attract scholars from around the world to assist us in pondering difficult issues in various contexts, challenging the abuse of power, and advancing the field of practical theology. doi.org/10.1080/1756...

Due to instability and war in the world, two ​Yearly Meeting sessions of the Religious Society of Friends have been indefinitely cancelled; Cuba YM planned to meet in February, and Middle East YM planned to meet in April. Read more: fwccamericas.org/2026/04/02/p... fwccemes.org/news/please-...