Blimey, I was just interviewed alongside @rcquaker.bsky.social by @williamcrawley.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4's "Sunday" about the proposed 3rd option in #Quaker wedding vows to help #nontheist couples. I enjoyed the interview, 🤞 it comes across OK. We start at 26:02 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Like Spinning Plates from Amnesiac. And the crowd-interaction journey to that choice was hilarious
@timcraven.bsky.social's "Good Sons", Emilie Jelinek's "The Sky Around my Father", and Jenny Hamlett's "Sorry I forgot to pack my ears"
Yesterday I got to the @southbankcentre.bsky.social
ridiculously early (as is my want) for the Chris Thile concert with my brother and I stumbled upon the amazing National Poetry Library. Three collections on their New Works shelf captivated me, all now ordered: …
If you get the chance to go to the #GunpowderPlot reenactment @harvingtonhall.bsky.social take it: such an incredible evening. I learnt loads, in such a memorable way.
For example, here's a playlist of 12 different recordings of Britten's violin concerto. @bandcamp.com has 1 recording. It would be great to find one place I could support all the different classical artists I listen to open.spotify.com/playlist/43R...
Is there an equivalent of @bandcamp.com but for classical music, one with good coverage of the important labels?
I've a plan hatching: win the 2026 Great Bardfield horticultural soc' show 'domestic' cup. The cup's not just baking, but there are fewer categories (e.g. no Victoria sponge!) than the Hardwick baking cup I won. I probs need entries in each category, hence this crabapple jelly — forward planning
@woodbrooke.bsky.social organised #GeorgeFox400 discussions — David Boulton & I gave the nontheist view of Fox. I'm looking forward to hearing Stuart give the 2026 #SwarthmoreLecture on "the diverse mix of characteristics visible in the early #Quaker movement that produced several creative tensions"
Great news, I'm looking foward to hearing this.
When will it be?
Just stumbled on this post via @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social and I love all the ideas. I do some of them already (read a chapter aloud) and others sound such fun. I'll be trying 'candlelight' and 're-read a chapter' first.
These are brilliant!
I was at Saffron Hall yesterday, it was amazing indeed
'Found it in Spufford's Unapologetic, in the section where he argues that "guilt is often an instrument of self-discovery"
I suspect we disagree ideologically, and I am helicoptering in, but I just cannot see how this is read as 'hateful'. I found the tweet difficult to parse, but it does not seem at all hateful. How strange.
@lamornaash.bsky.social Rereading Don't Forget We're Here Forever and noticed that the footnotes are all wonky in Chapter 8 (I didn't check earlier chapters). E.g. the sentence footmarked 1 clearly refers to footmark 3, 7 should be 4, etc. Not a biggie, but may be worth fixing in the next edition
In a Christian book I read recently (or podcast I listened to) I came across the story of Field Mashal Mongomery's painful regret in later life at the lives he'd spent in WWII. But I cannot find the reference. Has anyone else come across a recent chapter/episode recounting this moral vignette?
Love the video Ollie, your excitement at spotting Paul made me smile, he's in my Local Meeting.
Darn autocorrect: "eminently" should be "imminently"!
I'm currently clerk of the Quaker Nontheist Friends Network, and I haven't yet finished the book (I have the paper copy arriving at my local village bookshop eminently and I'm just starting Part 2 on audio), but it is already proving so relevant for me. Thank you @lamornaash.bsky.social 4/4
I can't remember if I stumbled upon the book through @elizabetholdfield.bsky.social's #TheSacred, the @seenunseenmag.bsky.social newsletter, or from Justin Brierley, but it resonates so much with Elizabeth's recent call to 'choose to listen, and step outside our algorithmic echo chambers' 3/4
I'm 60 this year, so I am not the target audience, but the nuance, subtlety, honesty, and beauty of the book really helps me answer the dilemmas I am facing in my views of faith right now. 2/4
Though I'm on a different side of many a debate, or perhaps because I am, I am loving @lamornaash.bsky.social's new book about Millennials (i.e. folk in their 20s and 30s now) finding Christian faith. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dont-forg... 1/4
Can any of my #BridgeToTheStars @PhilipPullman fan friends help? Why the hour+ difference in length of these two readings? I need to replace the old CDs I had, we lost them in the downsizing move to Essex.
Such an important opener for Season 2. My own unsettling rebirth of interest in Christianity came on the heals of an even more unsettling collapse of my political identity (I just could not vote at our last election and spoilt my ballot — sorry Mum & Dad). Thank you Justin Brierley
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Thanks @timquaker.bsky.social, that's interesting and good advice. I'll pick up Matthew (I've relied on 22:21 so many times at work!) Strange synchronicity, but I just finished James after hearing how much Francis Collins relies on the passages in James about wisdom. Thanks again t'other Tim
@timquaker.bsky.social just read your piece www.quaker.org.uk/blog/how-to-... Any advice on how to read it as a whole, i.e. the route to take?
Great footnote from Katherine Rundell. Mine's "epistemological", happy to write it but I'll avoid saying it.
Just finished @naomialderman.bsky.social's latest novel, The Future. Loved it. Review (with possible spoilers) on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...