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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Opened a book to prepare for a seminar and this fell out of it. The bookmark I was given by the cathedral scribe when I became a chorister. 26 years ago is a long time!

Winchester cathedral bookmark with Thomas’ name and “Chorister September 2000” written on it.

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New ordinands on their first residential, and graduates being licensed as Readers in the Diocese of Canterbury. It’s been a good weekend at St Augustine’s!

New readers being licensed at Canterbury

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Among other things, Christian patriarchalists are heretics and blasphemers to the faith they profess. They use bits from the letters of St. Paul to justify their misogyny, but he would be nauseated by both their behavior and their attitude.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21/09/2026

This is good framing, it is RESTORE our rights.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The audible gasp in my classrooms when I tell students this about the “rapture” - amazing how many (particularly in Evangelical circles) still have this superstition as a standard part of their faith.

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

English autumn reminds me of living in San Francisco, but in reverse. Cold in the morning, hot in the afternoon… or the other way round. Either way, one needs a rucksack with a complete second outfit in it to get through the day.

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Schitt's Creek Suitcase Pack

Alt: Schitt's Creek Alexis packs too many clothes in many suitcases and tries to crush and hit one closed

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today’s to do list includes building the “Safeguarding Treasure Hunt” for our new students to do around the Abbey grounds during their induction day. Part of making fostering good safeguarding culture something people WANT to do, not just HAVE to do! ⚓️ ✝️

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Plonsters Treasure Hunt

Alt: Plonsters Treasure Hunt

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

…and when Jesus and then St Paul were saying lots of things about love being the fulfilment of the law… they were deliberately teaching in continuity with the OT / Hebrew Bible.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Stock markets: “paraphrasing Jameson/Zizek/Fisher, it is easier to imagine AI destroying humanity than not being a good use of $1 trillion”

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The public: "Create opportunities for us to engage with cathedrals and major churches on our own terms and within our existing cultural lexicon that enable us to benefit from and support them in ways that are meaningful to us." Also the public: "Don't do any of that." Cathedrals: 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷 ⚓✝️

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Before and after. A plant that was not thriving and was fleeing the neighbour’s tree cover has been removed, and about 4 wheelbarrows of passion flower that had infested the rest of the garden has been chopped back. Now surveying the drought damage in the back of the garden. 🌿

Garden without massive echium (formerly centre)

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Please pray for us at St Augustine’s as we welcome new students for induction days and study skills sessions over the next two weeks. And pray for the admissions staff still receiving applications! And for those applying to be our new full time tutorial colleague! @churchofengland.org

A crowd of students and staff on the lawn in front of West Malling Abbey.

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As someone #actuallyautistic and also as a theologian, I have made my opposition to assisted dying quite public, sharing many of the concerns of the Archbishop of Canterbury. But many of those who voted against it did so for very different reasons. Expect reworked “safeguards” in the next round.

Excerpt from BBC news website including comment by three labour MPs who voted against the bill. “They add that "none of the relevant royal medical colleges, professional groups or experts" will attest to the safety or workability of the bill.”

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Pray for all who were harmed that day, and in the wars that followed it. Theologian point: I know the prayer isn’t well written so that it sounds like we are telling God to reflect on God’s letting things happen… but just pray the spirit of the prayer! ⚓️✝️

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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A video statement from the RNLI chief exec about recent events and about the RNLI’s unchanging and single mission, to save lives at sea. rnli.org/news-and-med...

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Statement from RNLI Chief Executive Peter Sparkes

Statement from RNLI Chief Executive Peter Sparkes regarding Channel activity.

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well, today I have thrown in the towel and shaved my head, and it is SUCH an improvement. And I am also remembering a load of music I haven’t sung or heard since my childhood. Don’t know if the removal of the hair has let the music out!

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anytime you want to rave in one of our churches, this Anglican will find a way to facilitate it! [receives glowstick graciously, and processes it with verger to be placed reverently on the high altar]

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

just take a look at this pig ok

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Because we are just as capable of being venal, selfish, unkind and stupid as anyone else. And, actually, for a Christian theologian, affirming our agency to fail to do good is fundamentally an affirmation of our shared humanity.

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As a member of the University, I look forward to seeing how Cambridge respond to the exposé of James Orr’s participation in illegal activity with the Reform Party. I shall be simply astounded if he is allowed to remain an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Divinity.

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A SUPERB response to channel 4’s “Is ADHD real?” and a sense of what the research actually shows the reality to be. #actuallyautistic blogs.city.ac.uk/needs/autism...

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Autism and ADHD Under Attack: What It Costs to Be Doubted in Public | NEEDs Project

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Or those other famous gendered single-sex markers: upwards pointing triangle or downwards pointing triangle. 🔺 denotes people with big bottoms, wide hips or thicc thighs. 🔻 denotes people with large breasts or wide shoulders, or those who skip leg day.

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Holy God, the world is very loud, but far from me. You are silent, but always with me. Thank you for that. #actuallyautistic prayer for the day

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Evan was furious about a month ago. "All I want when I buy a club is the satisfaction of unwrapping the paper wrapper before I eat it... and can capitalism deliver? Why can't they just let us have these little things?"

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yet again... at the gym and young men are openly discussing using steroids and HGH. There's a real problem with male body dysmorphia and it is NOT getting better.

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Your regular reminder that limiting children's social media access and "giving parents control" does not necessarily make children safer. Only 33% of those abused before 18 report that it was strangers. Of those who report non-contact abuse before the age 18, only 14% report it happening online.

Where respondents specified their relationship
(if any) to the people who had sexually abused
them in childhood, 14% identified a friend,
11% a friend of the family, 8% another relative,
and another 8% a neighbour. Then-current and
previous boyfriends/girlfriends/partners were
identified by 8% and 7% of these respondents
respectively, while a third (33%) said a stranger
had been involved, mainly in relation to non-
contact abuse. A higher proportion of male
respondents (12%) than female respondents
(4%) said they had been sexually abused by
someone in a position of trust, while abuse
by a current or previous partner was more
commonly described by female respondents
(9% and 8% respectively) than by male
respondents (2% and 2%).

Source: https://www.csacentre.org.uk/app/uploads/2026/07/The-scale-and-nature-of-child-sexual-abuse-2026.pdf p.7

Child sexual abuse in the respondent’s own
home or someone else’s was common,
particularly in relation to rape or penetrative
abuse :39% and 55% respectively of
respondents who had experienced this
category of abuse said it had happened in
these locations. Among respondents who had
experienced non-contact abuse, 34% said it
had happened in a public place and 14% said
it had been online.

Source: https://www.csacentre.org.uk/app/uploads/2026/07/The-scale-and-nature-of-child-sexual-abuse-2026.pdf p.7

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Congratulations! And what is the magic you used to do it so I can have some?

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ok, let’s do novels now. Make a novel smaller. Modest Expectations.

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Total banger at evensong today. The only annoying thing about officiating is that you have to maintain some sort of decorum whilst screaming this schmaltz! A happy feast of St Bartholomew to one and all! ⚓️✝️

Jerusalem the Golden from the New English Hymnal

Last verse of Jerusalem the Golden from the New English Hymnal

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A sitting Conservative MP using the word Yookay. Genuinely astonishing to me that visibly there is no warning sign, at all, will be heeded by loads of people at Westminster with a *direct stake* in this type of politics failing.

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Anglican but… yeah totally! The church (at least from my generation) is a really openly neurodivergent place!

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Is it wrong to say that I am really excited to read this book?

David Fraser, Law After Auschwitz: towards a jurisprudence of the Holocaust

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Theologian: The water, cup and the one who holds them are all finite effects of the infinite goodness and perfection of God and so are precious, wonderful and luminous beyond measure, description or any attempt to diminish them.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you are an academic still on X, you are facilitating a guy who aims to destroy you

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The Royal College of Psychiatrists is unimpressed with THAT documentary about ADHD.

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One of the things I love about English culture in particular (shared I think with the Scots and surpassed by the Welsh) is the capacity to express SO much disappointment and dissatisfaction with the world in such quiet and unshakeable ways.

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Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈 @thomasmsharp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In a phase of my research where I’m spending a LOT of time immersed in holocaust studies and post-holocaust jurisprudence. Even studying death I didn’t find I needed to boundary my consumption of media as much as I do at present. If its sad/angry, that capacity is full and I wont read it right now

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