Eager to add more women’s history, science, medicine and religion to your reading list? Explore acclaimed historian and #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 judge Helen King’s #BookloverSpotlight shortlist with @Bookshop_org_UK below. bit.ly/3WDpJRJ

"If we don't look hard at history, we're like kids who prefer to believe the stork delivered them." Sara Lodge (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlisted author, on how history shapes the world. Learn more about Sara Lodge in our interview.⬇️ bit.ly/3L1Cm6C

The second instalment of Fr Thomas Sharp walking you through those FAOC Living in Love and Faith docs viamedia.news/2025/11/11/a...

The Widow’s Last Meal: Choosing Who Deserves to Eat open.substack.com/pub/misogyno...

www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/2560198... Blessing boats = absolutely fine. Blessing same sex couples’ relationships, not.

Is doctrine “something generally static, generally serene, a quiet lake in which even its dynamism is limited to the occasional wave breaking on the shoreline of its boundaries”? Er, no, says Fr Thomas Sharp viamedia.news/2025/11/10/a...

And on the legal advice to the House of Bishops, here’s Peter Collier KC’s view viamedia.news/2025/11/08/w...

I’ve tried to bring out the key points from the load of documents about Living in Love and Faith which Synod members received on Wednesday… shared-conversations.com/2025/11/08/w...

Another November dahlia #bloomscrolling

#bloomscrolling - November and the dahlias are still going strong

#CofEpeeps What is church? What could it be? viamedia.news/2025/10/29/w...

Did a podcast with the excellent Fr Alex Frost youtu.be/KdnwcpoPKQ0?...

Wrote something about where we are now on Living in Love and Faith - and where we could be shared-conversations.com/2025/10/28/l...

Mark Oakley’s sermon today… m.youtube.com/watch?v=LLM_...

I’m getting into the new Philip Pullman and am delighted to find a scintillating scotoma reference - I feel seen!

#CofEpeeps honoured to be publishing this piece by the Dean of Canterbury viamedia.news/2025/10/22/w...

#CofEpeeps those of you who’d like to support the liberal/inclusive/progressive campaign for the next Synod elections, head to www.justgiving.com/campaign/inc...

Grateful for the opportunity to share a few thoughts about the latest developments in the LLF process, and what it might mean to really pay attention to power in this context. viamedia.news/2025/10/20/l...

Superb title for the next book in my reading pile…

Wow, this is where some of America is now.

C of E peeps - there’s an excellent article by Simon Butler over on Inclusive Evangelicals. A handy reminder that not all who’d describe themselves as ‘evangelicals’ think the same way on LGBTQIA+ inclusion. www.inclusiveevangelicals.com/post/crumbs-...

Together trustee Charlie tells Radio 4 that the HOB decision is political, not theological. LGBTQ+ Christians have waited years for progress - only to face yet more hurdles. 📻: Listen in full here, from 02:38:50 - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 📸: Anna Shvets, Pexels #EqualMarriage #BBCRadio4

CofE peeps… On that Alliance document with its plans to make sure PCC members are ‘sound’ in their opposition to civilly-married gay clergy and to blessings for same sex couples: shared-conversations.com/2025/10/16/t...

Today I am #bloomscrolling another unbelievably gorgeous one from Waterperry Gardens in Wheatley, where the gardeners were pruning them in hope of yet more blooms!

Just remind me how much in cost in money - and tears - for the C of E to spend 9 years thinking about sexuality just to reach this point? www.churchofengland.org/media/press-...

Lots of anger in the media re new exhibition at Canterbury cathedral (not open yet, so rants from JD Vance and Elon Musk rather premature). There is currently just one piece of graffiti (not real graffiti, not actually painted direct on to the building, obvs!) by the entrance - thought it was superb

So tomorrow I’m excited to be off to Canterbury to interview Mary Kells at her book launch for ‘God Beyond Gender’!

When I am #bloomscrolling I am always aware of the long history of women doing botany - and of the weird idea that this is somehow endangering their purity! Which I wrote about on oro.open.ac.uk/92600/

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

What’s really going on in the Church of England? I go back to this much-read piece from Via Media News viamedia.news/2023/12/30/p...

For #bloomscrolling today, it’s a late pink rose with the most beautiful scent and two more buds still to open…

Today’s #bloomscrolling offering is a simple but lovely dahlia I met today

A great pleasure to talk all things Archepiscopal with Andrew McGowan on David Johnston’s podcast youtu.be/Fp3Gg5ECWOg

Bishop Sarah Mullally has been named the next Archbishop of Canterbury. What gifts does she bring to the role? What does this mean for the Church of England and the Anglican Communion? Helen King ( @helenking.bsky.social ) & Andrew McGowan ( @praxeas.bsky.social ) share their thoughts ⚓

Go on,let’s have another dahlia for #bloomscrolling

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...

#bloomscrolling With a dahlia, ‘Copper boy’

We're excited to reveal the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist, celebrating the finest historical non-fiction works from the past year. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors! 👏📚 www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...

The #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist will be announced TOMORROW, highlighting the most exceptional historical books from the past year. Which titles are you hoping to see on the list? 📚 We’ll be unveiling the six books in the running for the 2025 prize at 9am.

World Contraception Day tomorrow… so how old is the IUD? mistakinghistories.uk/2017/07/18/i...

Well, there you have it. Allocated 15 minutes, rants for 50. What does that tell us?

Let’s keep #bloomscrolling through as dahlia season continues

Honestly if we ever needed #bloomscrolling then we need it today

Read, mark and prepare to act

This needs saying. viamedia.news/2025/09/11/t...

Charlie Bell on Charlie Kirk: the cost of political violence viamedia.news/2025/09/11/t...

I’ve been invited to speak at this conference next month: safeguarding is improving across the CofE but there’s a long way to go yet

#cofepeeps I’ve been thinking about how the House of Bishops works, or doesn’t, as a House on its own or as part of General Synod shared-conversations.com/2025/09/04/i...

And it's live! www.history21.com/owit-module/...

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