Cith gealáin Sunny shower. Múirín gréine Sun shower.
Not uncommon, so its got a name. We have a lot of types of rain. 😁
From "Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun) by Manchán Magan.
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Same to you! My high school English teacher taught us PEE: Point, Evidence, Explanation. We all groaned at the time, but I still stand by it and think of it often when writing.
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
- Thomas Merton
continues to be the best Tower of Babel interpretation I've ever encountered:
"Had they, the heaven they imagined might have been found at their feet. Complicated, demanding, yes, but a view of heaven as life; not heaven as post-life."
Make a claim, support it with research, explain why it matters, and connect it to the wider argument. So much would be improved if we kept asking ourselves: why is this paragraph here, and what is it trying to do?
An afternoon of reading some unnecessarily complex papers has left me convinced that the best advice essayists should follow is this: let each paragraph do one clear piece of work.
🧵Hot off the press! @sarumcollege.bsky.social Summer and Autumn Brochure 2026 is out now. Look inside for ever-popular favourites, such as ‘Reading Scripture Together, ‘Modern Mystics, Theology Catch-Ups and Tom Clammer’s days on prayer and worship. www.sarum.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Thinking about this from Esther McIntosh, particularly given the week that it is: “when did we become so enamoured of the neo-liberal turn to individualism that we stopped theologising about the issues that do not affect us personally, issues on which speaking out might bring a personal cost?”
'You ask a hundred sonnets of me – you
That put pain not poetry upon my soul.'
Iris Murdoch was a restless writer, never standing still, mining her past for inspiration. In a unique lecture by Miles Leeson we will explore her undiscovered poetry. 31 May.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-poems
Have you had personal tutoring responsibilities in a UK HEI in the last five years? I'd love to hear from you! I'm running a short survey on interpersonal relationships & care within personal tutoring, which takes ~10 minutes to complete. Please do share: I'm keen to get a wide range of responses!
I think it does what it sets out to do and leaves the door wide open for further inquiry. I hope others take up the mantle, giving more sustained attention to other provincial contexts and the lived experiences of ordinary clerics beyond Dublin and its senior clergy.
Exactly this! Until now, we’ve had a somewhat patchy and uneven institutional history – one that too readily lends itself to simplified interpretations of decline – and the collection as a whole helpfully puts stepping stones in place that effectively problematise that.
Yes! The entire collection is incredibly good. I particularly enjoyed Joan Redmond's essay, which, if memory serves me, is up next for you. That said, Alan Ford is a second-to-none essayist too; it goes without saying.
No-one says ‘Fast food isn’t going away, so let’s work out how to incorporate it into your diet’, yet we are often treated to the same non sequitur when it comes to AI
Very proud of you all, and sending all good wishes your way. Incredibly encouraging to see solidarity between staff and students from across the disciplines. Solidarity! ✊
”We are not only fighting for our jobs, we are fighting for each other”: hear from me and other staff and students who joined picket lines at Uni of Aberdeen today 🪧✊🏻 www.gaudie.co.uk/wpress/index...
The latest of our Practical Theology collab articles is out now! This one is by the awesome @karenod.bsky.social so you know you need to read it. It's genuinely fabulous and also outlines a bit of how the FTN came to be, a tweet from a sun lounger and here we are:
practicaltheologyhub.com?p=2081
Great to see this, and to have been a small part of it with @karenod.bsky.social! Our chapter on feminist trauma theology and masculinities began as a conversation with the brilliant @revdwillrm.bsky.social, which you can find in this thread.
Do you enjoy a pint and a pipe? If so, you're sorted.
*SCREAMS "EVERY TRANSLATION IS AN INTERPRETATION" AND CLOSES LAPTOP*
Perhaps I am simply being too hard on myself, and this is just another symptom of impostor syndrome.
The worry is that it lacks forward movement and can almost feel stunted. It is as though I am getting splinters on the fence and doubling back in order to go forward, rather than moving ahead with any real energy.
Perhaps the question is not merely whether I should change the habit, but whether I am constitutionally incapable of doing so (irony intended).
At what point is it a horse you simply have to work with, and at what point is it a horse you ought to try to train? My sense is that it also reflects the way I think and reason more generally: not this, but perhaps this… building cumulatively, and with increasing nuance at best.
I have just discovered that so much of what I write relies on the same contrast architecture (that is, the question is not merely X, but Y). I wonder if this comes from preaching and presiding, because I can almost hear my own sermonic and liturgical rhythm behind it.
#WritingLife: Has anyone had a similar experience? In rereading a few drafts for different projects in quick succession, a sudden revelation of a particular quirk of your writing style appears. The more you read, the more noticeable, and the more annoying, it gets.
1 John 4:19
