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Christopher West @christophernwest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m thrilled to have my poem close out this collection, and to be included among such remarkable company! There’s something strangely wonderful, and frankly terrifying, about seeing your words out in the world. Be gentle with mine!

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026

if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When you try to get a "tiebreaker" third peer reviewer. Happy #PeerReviewWeek to everyone (even Weird Barbie)!

Three barbies, each representing Peer Reviewer 1 (regular barbie), peer reviewer 2 (supreme court justice barbie) and Peer Reviewer 3 (weird barbie)

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh, Annie Dillard. ❤️‍🔥 "At a certain point you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself & wait, listening. After a time you hear it: there is nothing there. There is nothing but those things only, (cot'd)

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NakedPastor @nakedpastor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"I don't take sides" doesn't work anymore. Silence isn't neutral. It favours the aggressor. Time to speak up.

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Economic & Social History Society of Ireland @eshsi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Call for papers! The ESHSI Annual Conference will be held at Trinity College Dublin, 4–5 Dec 2026. All aspects of Irish economic and social history welcome! Doctoral and early career researchers especially encouraged! Deadline 23 Oct. Full details below. #IrishHistory#EconHist #SocialHist

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Centre for Autism and Theology @autismtheology.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yesterday was the Autism and Theology Podcast's 3rd birthday! We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has joined us on the podcast, and especially to Ian, Krysia, and Zoe - all of whom volunteer their time to host this valuable resource. 😍

A graphic of a badge saying 'podcast birthday' - the text alongside reads 'congrats on publishing for 3 years!' Autism and Theology podcast'

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SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Two SCM Press books are on offer at Church House Bookshop now, in honour of the season of harvest and Creationtide 1. Emma Lietz Bilecky's poetic theology of soil, Decomposing Holy Ground is 10% off: chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

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Decomposing Holy Ground Theological Compost for Shifting Worlds by Emma Lietz Bilecky - Paperback / softback - 9780334061700

Buy Decomposing Holy Ground Theological Compost for Shifting Worlds by Emma Lietz Bilecky Paperback / softback from Church House Bookshop - ISBN: 9780334061700

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Christopher West @christophernwest.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Narthex ⚓ and trauma theologian friends: A thought experiment has been haunting me lately. Suppose Christians mean the doctrine of resurrection as a description of reality. What follows?

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Christopher West @christophernwest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just finished Bloody Awful in Different Ways by Andrev Walden – devastating, witty, beautiful. “I haven’t learned to see when love begins to take effect.” We struggle to live inside love before we have the language – or the safety – to recognise it. #BookSky

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Children in Gaza watch the Lion King

Rows of children sit in a cleared area among the rubble in a scene of black and gray devastation facing a screen on which the colorful animation of the Lion King is projected

Photo by Omar Ashtawy

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Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

oddly impressed by the sheer bravado of this

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Christopher West @christophernwest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Delighted to have ‘The Parish Yews’ selected by Colm Tóibín for forthcoming Poetry Ireland Review 149 – deeply gratifying to appear alongside voices I’ve respected for years. The poem explores inheritance, pushing roots into uneasy ground. If you’re able, please consider picking up a copy!

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Issue 149 | Poetry Ireland

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Why hasn’t the government condemned this in the strongest terms? Why no reassurance to the public that this is being taken seriously, that they have no intention of letting organised fascist thugs shut down key infrastructure, and that we should expect arrests and charges to follow?

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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

They need to read up on Asquith and Ireland. The parallels are hard to ignore: a downward spiral into violent domestic unrest largely created by a cabinet wholly unwilling to take action. And we all know that we're still living with the consequences.

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Christopher West @christophernwest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Greatly enjoyed the annual SSCE conference at the wonderful Sarum College on ‘Christian Ethics as Prophecy.‘ My paper offered a Ricoeurian and eucharistic reading of the Beatitudes as a means of understanding what is handed over and prophetically re-describing Christian freedom.

A photo of Salisbury Cathedral, with its tall spire against a beautifully blue sky.

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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Your beauty is beyond compare With flaming locks of auburn hair But you don’t really care for redheads, do you? He talks about you in his sleep And there's nothin' I can do to keep From crying out a broken Jollelujah

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

A news story: "Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise"

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Christopher West @christophernwest.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A fantastic time at the Society for Liturgical Study conference at Hinsley Hall in Leeds, exploring the newly established Feast of Creation in Christ and the suite of liturgical texts produced for it.

Hinsley Hall’s ornate stone façade and central clock tower, framed by leafy green trees under a blue sky.

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Christopher West @christophernwest.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

New from me on the Practical Theology Hub: “After Hegemony.” The decline of ecclesial authority is not the end of hegemony. Power relocates. What might that mean for the future of practical theology in Ireland – and for the power the discipline itself exercises?

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After Hegemony: On the Future of Practical Theology in Ireland - Practical Theology Hub

Friends now tire of me talking about the future of practical theology in Ireland. I suspect some have begun carefully changing the subject whenever they see me approaching it. Unfortunately for them, ...

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Christopher West @christophernwest.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Someone recently asked me how Scripture *actually works* in Christian traditions, and I thought for a moment and said: “As a repertoire for contemplation.”

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 17/08/2026

No one, ever, in all of history, has believed everything written in a religious text or performed all of the actions dictated therein, not because people are imperfect but because that is simply not how religion works, anywhere, ever, for anyone.

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I would go further and say that, in every case, it is impossible to predict the nature of any community’s religious beliefs and practices from the content of their sacred texts.

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Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'll listen to opinions about 'academic standards' when people have the same energy for what closing rank around immoral and criminal behaviour does for the standards of the academy. I’ll believe the press care about public interest when they report on powerful white men with the same impunity.

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Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Jason Arday was hounded to death by a bitter racist and the complicit media in this country. His accuser was sacked for racism, the media were warned repeatedly about the risks of their persecution and now a man is dead because they cared more about clicks than his life.

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Christopher West @christophernwest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Content note: suicide and suicidal thoughts. I’m sharing this evidence-informed guidance because I’ve encountered a great deal of unhelpful – and sometimes potentially harmful – discussion about suicide.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 15/08/2026

We must never forget that the original publicizing of his alleged academic misconduct was by a man who calls himself a "race realist" and targeted Arday because he believed Arday was proof of weakened standards for "DEI."

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/08/2026

I don’t care what he did or didn’t do; he was a human and deserved dignity and humane treatment and not to be sacrificed on the altar of culture wars and I’m so angry and sad for him.

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Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

👏👏👏 “…to be a qualitative researcher means to be a certain kind of intellectual subject who is both methodologically and theoretically reflexive. Someone who is enmeshed in multiple bodies of theory and social worlds, who can be surprised, and who can analytically leverage this moment of surprise.”

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Pub? Pub.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Within an hour He began to see stars, burning their way through the black; memories of galaxies forming before His eyes."

In the Pit Beneath Caiaphas' House
From the vanishing song by jay hulme

The night before the crucifixion He sat
alone in the darkness; chest harnessed
by ropes, arms bound in chains.

When the pit was sealed and He opened
His eyes the dark went on forever.
Within an hour He began to see stars,
burning their way through the black;
memories of galaxies forming before His eyes.

That night He prayed in the quiet, knowing
tomorrow He'd lie in the earth again;
in a sandstone tomb designed, like this, for men.

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SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The author of Sacramental Trans Feminism (out next month - with 20% throughout August) @cdjtheology.bsky.social has written a blog (see quoted post below) on scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

The front cover of Sacramental Trans Feminism: Ritualism, Liberation and Trans Rites by Chris Clare Dingwall-Jones, published by SCM Press. The cover shows a black-and-white Victorian cartoon with two individuals in High Church Anglo-Catholic clerical vestments on the left, a smaller person in a dress carrying a candle and a man on the right looking dismayed at this. The bottom of the image has the colours of the trans flag: baby blue, baby pink and white.

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Christopher West @christophernwest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Long thread incoming. Content note for discussion of abuse. Yesterday evening, I finally watched the BBC Spotlight programme on safeguarding failings in the Church of Ireland, particularly the Diocese of Down and Dromore.

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Christopher West @christophernwest.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Increasingly, I’m convinced that so many of my convictions can be summed up thus: practical theological qualitative research should not merely tell us what follows from people’s lives; its form should allow those lives to exceed what the researcher asks of them.

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Have you discovered something fascinating in the National Library of Ireland's Reading Rooms? 📚 We're inviting registered readers to propose a 15 min Twilight Talk inspired by the NLI's collections. Successful speakers will receive a €100 honorarium. 🌙 ⭐ Apply by 23 Aug: ow.ly/SoSL50ZrgOf

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 19/07/2026

Ian McKellen as the sole human, except he’s playing Chaucer à la Dickens of Christmas Carol

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Dearie me

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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A computer can no more 'know' that it exists than the minute hand on a clock 'knows' it's telling the time.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

You don't need the perfect opening sentence. You need the second sentence. And the third. The opening can wait.

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