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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reminding myself of this today as I prepare to lead a retreat afternoon next week. From the wonderful book ‘Sabbath’ by Nicola Slee

Picture of the page of a book with quote highlighted ‘Sabbath reminds us that we are made for joy, for beauty, for glory: to shine out with the particular glory that is ours and ours alone and that will reflect, in a way that no other life can, something of the glory of God.’

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I really enjoyed this. @jdcrawf.bsky.social is always a great storyteller and this exploration of family expectations and the tension but connection between scientific and literary imagination was fascinating. It is also supported by some beautiful music choices.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Rest in peace Annie Dillard. Reading ‘Pilgrim at Tinkers Creek’ was a revelation for me as a way of paying careful attention to the creation I live alongside.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Looking forward to joining in the session on @jdcrawf.bsky.social new book from all the way down in Hampshire! Hurrah for livestreams!

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

‘So here is one answer to Pliny’s question. This is the point to which avarice will finally penetrate. To the opening up of a rift from nature so absolute that economics and vested interests float free from measurable reality.’ A taste of what looks like another great book from @jdcrawf.bsky.social

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Looking forward to this James’previous books have been excellent reads.

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Hannah Swithinbank @hannahswiv.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Happy 'Biblical Womanhood includes hammering a tent peg through the head of your enemies' day to all who celebrate in the Daily Offices. ⚓🕯️✝️

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Love Gilead and the rest of that quartet of books - Home and Jack are probably the favourites. May be time for a re-read.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

And with that the final ever LMT study day is done . It has been a privilege to teach and lead on this programme for the last four years and to see the wonderful groups of people who have gone onto amazing ministries. I will forever be grateful for this season.

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W. David O. Taylor @wdavidotaylor.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This piece of art by the Polish artist, Laura Makabresku, titled “Riders of Hope,” is so powerful. As she describes it: “Above the tempestuous sea of human sorrow, pain, and solitude, someone carries a flame of Hope.” May it be this day, O God.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A great episode. ‘Audition’ has been on my bookshelf for a few months but has now jumped to the top of my TBR.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Saw this and was reminded of a repeating feline theme on Take Four Books with @jdcrawf.bsky.social recently.

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Dr Tiggy McLaughlin @amalasuentha.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Where are all my women in PHLEGM at? Yes, I will be adopting this phrase henceforth and encouraging female students on this path.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Second hand bookshop haul in the sunshine.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I have been hovering on the edge of Substack for a year or so but this has stopped me jumping all in. I have heard others recommend Ghost as an alternative.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Life in 2026 is essentially just having full blown Gollum conversations with yourself about buying basic household items every single day But we mustn't But we wants the nice paper towels But we shouldn't But they tears so nicely precious

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A joy this morning to celebrate Easter with two of our village communities. In one church was this beautiful apple tree, rescued from burning and loved back into life. Resplendent with blossom and ready to hold people’s prayers this morning. A wonderful symbol of resurrection life.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I still don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well.”

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

That was rather wonderful and one of the most amazing things to see was the sheer joy on all the women’s faces. This means so much.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Reading this while watching the Installation of the new Archbishop feels very apt.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Random member of the public, suddenly putting two and two together: “Oh, THAT’S why the station is full of priests.”

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

A wonderful service last night celebrating our student’s academic awards and ministerial faithfulness. Wonderful stories, great singing and a sense of hope and joy for the church in this place. Love that I get to be a small part of it.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Can’t believe it’s been over 50 episodes. Congratulations!

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The vicar walked into the pulpit like "this week's Gospel reading is the longest one of the year, and I'd love to preach on it, but apparently some idiots think they're starting a holy war to bring about the second coming of Christ so I've really got to address that right now..."

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22/02/2026

Oh this is a very fun thread!

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

For anyone needing some respite from *everything* this series is a delightful listen. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

‘We live in a zeitgeist of too much information, but little knowledge and even less wisdom. A zeitgeist overflowing with opinions, biases and convictions, but starved of empathy.’ Elif Shafak open.substack.com/pub/elifshaf...

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

It’s a GK Chesterton reading season.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

On cold snowy days remembering that time at theological college we built an igloo.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I’m loving Katherine’s turns of phrase. Lovely writing to read.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Christmas fantasy reading inspired by @jdcrawf.bsky.social Take Four Books episode with Katherine Rundell. Starting with the first in Rundell’s ‘Impossible Creatures’ series and then a re-read of the wonderful ‘Wizard of Earthsea’

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

So grateful for catch ups with friends who have known you for over 35 years. Feeling very blessed today.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A beautiful, gentle read. ‘It was precisely those wandering sheep that he was after, sheep that had been overlooked…They certainly couldn’t be allowed to freeze or starve to death in those high places simply because no one bothered or dared to seek them out and bring them home.’

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Great episode. I wanted to hear more about how ‘Late’ is Rushdie’s knight’s of the round table story - I will have to have a read! This also made me think I would love to hear you interview @malcolmguite.bsky.social when the first volume of his Arthurian Epic comes out next year.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

A really interesting talk by @pmounstephen.bsky.social on Jane Austen’s Faith and the way in which it weaves through her novels in themes such as constancy, the development of Christian virtues: compassion, kindness & love, & the incarnational way she sits within & without the world of her novels.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

My annual message of appreciation to @jamiedavies.bsky.social as I riff off his teaching for my Revelation session with our preaching cohort.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Driving to work this morning as the sun rose, painting the sky pink and orange over the frozen fields and the mist lay heavy on the stream I caught a flash of iridescent blue which danced ahead of me. My first Kingfisher. Unexpected beauty in something so small and fragile - a perfect gift.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I hope this reaches you.

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Ruth Harley @ruthh.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Whatever you think the church's position on same-sex relationships should be, the decision-making of the House of Bishops shouldn't be informed by advice which tries to claim a consensus which doesn't exist, even among the theologians quoted supposedly in support of it.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I was very restrained at the bookshop this morning but excited to read both of these. One inspired by last week’s conversation between Katherine Randell and @jdcrawf.bsky.social and the other a delightful discovery ready for Advent.

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Writeups.org @writeups.org · 12/11/2025

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You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Loved this episode exploring the importance of fantasy, storytelling an imagination. ‘The Prince Caspian’ choice reminded me of Jem Bloomfield’s book ‘Gold on the Horizon’ which follows the Take Four books USP by tracing Lewis’ literary influences in Caspian and Dawn Treader.

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