a little overenthusiastic

German aesthetics being about 20 years behind sounds about right

hold pop-up bars in local churches to reach out to where the people are at – church pub...

along with Dock Lawn and ShapeShifter

oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

A little blog post I wrote on AI in the classroom www.uni-erfurt.de/en/katholisc...

Call for papers for a special journal issue I'm guest editing together with @tanyariches.bsky.social on faith and spirituality in the wake of ecclesial harm

at least there are fewer places for them to hide. It took me several years to get them under control because they would lay their eggs under the edges of the carpet.

UK academic job advertisements are currently at the rate of roughly 2 per year in any field anywhere close to mine worth applying for.

Faith and spirituality in the wake of scandal – implications for youth work Naomi Thompson: faith, abuse, church, safeguarding, youth work, young people.

In this very interesting article for "Youth and Policy" Naomi Thompson reflects on some of the outcomes of an international Symposium about ‘Faith and Spirituality in the Wake of Scandal’ that's been held at our faculty in June.
www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/fai...

Better blacklist their future film appearances

This event really makes the connection between the worship music industry and Christian nationalism pretty unavoidable

Cowes college New rules on toilet use and time between lessons has upset parents and pupils at an academy school.

So the schools on my island have gone from cutting back on extracurricular music as I grew up to now using music in a way that can be compared to "the TV drama Squid Game, where contestants play lethal rounds of musical statues" leaving an autistic student petrified

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"we noticed how depressing your writing seems to be at the moment"

Such a tempting way to buy an ebook

Theoretically I'm behind projects like Libreoffice. In practice, I need it to stop doing things like this before it feels usable.

"we're your bank, please talk to our AI about your personal data" just seems an incredibly bad idea.

I'm wondering whether the reassignment of the property may not have been the best idea

I'm trying to figure out 1) why their expenditure went up so heavily in recent years 2) what exactly was going on between them and the Graham Dacre foundation.

I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird YouTube video by Benn Jordan

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

probably a few vicars that would still benefit from reading this

Hoffnung angesichts der Klimakrise? Was kann Theologie an Antworten liefern zu den allgemeinen Krisen? Braucht es ein neues Verständnis von Hoffnung?

#Podcast: Wie kann man eigentlich noch hoffen trotz der vielen Krisen in der Welt? Für "Hörenswertes im Bistum Erfurt haben wir Elisabeth Höftberger, Dominique-Marcel Kosack und @markporter.co.uk interviewt, die zu Hoffnung angesichts der Klimakrise forschen.
bistum-erfurt.podigee.io/206-hoffnung...

There's an England/Spain extra time/bishop of Fulham mashup meme to be done somewhere.

Disappointed in whoever reverted this wikipedia image edit

New book chapter…

Is Ocado some kind of undercover vampire conspiracy?

cc @scmpress.bsky.social

In a polarizing world, Porter offers a thoughtful and timely contribution that moves beyond finding the “right answers” and instead focuses on finding contextually appropriate responses. […] He convincingly argues for the value of considering this diversity in practice, resisting efforts to reduce musical innovation into uniformity. […] For the practitioner, Porter offers an overview of musical responses to the climate crisis. For the academic working on ritual, liturgy, and/or hymnology, the work provokes further consideration of power relations in music and the meaning of ritual within contexts where action and transformation are desired.

Another lovely review of the book in @readingreligion.bsky.social

readingreligion.org/978033406568...