Christopher West
@christophernwest.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. Researching how the performance of symbolic actions in liturgy impacts the espoused theology of participants. Opinions are my own, except where they are not. He/him.
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The SSCE Postgraduate Conference 2026 invites abstracts (up to 250 words by 6 Feb 2026) exploring pilgrimage, neighbourliness, and ethical encounters in Christian thought and practice. Email: [email protected]. Please share and register here. #callforpapers #cfp #theology #ethics
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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I have complained as well. Perhaps others might wish to complain as well, fwiw?
I strongly suspect I'm pissing in the wind, but here's my complaint to BBC News about their use of this language to describe a *teenage victim of crime*. I even said I want a response, like someone who is *determined* to suffer.
Complaints form is here: www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
Complaints form is here: www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I have complained as well. Perhaps others might wish to complain as well, fwiw?
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Janet Soskice: “We are still called to name God newly.” I can think of no one more creative in taking up this challenge than Bryan Wren with this hymn: 🕯️📕
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Janet Soskice: “We are still called to name God newly.” I can think of no one more creative in taking up this challenge than Bryan Wren with this hymn: 🕯️📕
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This has to be the funniest @churchtimes.bsky.social headline of the year, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This has to be the funniest @churchtimes.bsky.social headline of the year, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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I am often to be found caring for the unknown dead, who emerge, shattered, from their ancient and forgotten graves. Collecting them, burying them, praying them back to their rest. It makes me think, sometimes, of the transphobic refrain that in a thousand years our bones will somehow betray us.
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I am often to be found caring for the unknown dead, who emerge, shattered, from their ancient and forgotten graves. Collecting them, burying them, praying them back to their rest. It makes me think, sometimes, of the transphobic refrain that in a thousand years our bones will somehow betray us.
[kindness]
we keep turning
the same experiment
upon ourselves
still testing
for kindness
still stopping
at kin
we keep turning
the same experiment
upon ourselves
still testing
for kindness
still stopping
at kin
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
[kindness]
we keep turning
the same experiment
upon ourselves
still testing
for kindness
still stopping
at kin
we keep turning
the same experiment
upon ourselves
still testing
for kindness
still stopping
at kin
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It's here! The brand new Sarum College Brochure for Spring 2026! We are launching exciting new courses and bringing back well-loved favourites! Check it out here: www.sarum.ac.uk/wp-content/u... Book early for discounts1
November 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It's here! The brand new Sarum College Brochure for Spring 2026! We are launching exciting new courses and bringing back well-loved favourites! Check it out here: www.sarum.ac.uk/wp-content/u... Book early for discounts1
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And so... my next book manuscript has been submitted to @scmpress.bsky.social! I'm accompanied by some fantastic scholars, poets, and ministers sharing reflections and research on masculinities and trauma in church and theology. Published Summer 2026!
More info: revdwillrm.com/fornothingishidden
More info: revdwillrm.com/fornothingishidden
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
And so... my next book manuscript has been submitted to @scmpress.bsky.social! I'm accompanied by some fantastic scholars, poets, and ministers sharing reflections and research on masculinities and trauma in church and theology. Published Summer 2026!
More info: revdwillrm.com/fornothingishidden
More info: revdwillrm.com/fornothingishidden
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🚨 🌈🎓 🚨
The University of Edinburgh is recruiting for a funded full-time post-doc researcher to help with the "Rain within the Rainbow" project exploring LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention through the life course in the UK.
Apply here by November 21st: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH708/r...
The University of Edinburgh is recruiting for a funded full-time post-doc researcher to help with the "Rain within the Rainbow" project exploring LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention through the life course in the UK.
Apply here by November 21st: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH708/r...
Research Fellow (Rain within the Rainbow) at The University of Edinburgh
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November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🚨 🌈🎓 🚨
The University of Edinburgh is recruiting for a funded full-time post-doc researcher to help with the "Rain within the Rainbow" project exploring LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention through the life course in the UK.
Apply here by November 21st: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH708/r...
The University of Edinburgh is recruiting for a funded full-time post-doc researcher to help with the "Rain within the Rainbow" project exploring LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention through the life course in the UK.
Apply here by November 21st: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH708/r...
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The only Legitimate Concerns about asylum seekers are concerns for their well being and safety. For a rich country like ours to incessantly whine about these people as if we are their victims is perhaps the single most pathetic spectacle in British politics over the past quarter century.
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The only Legitimate Concerns about asylum seekers are concerns for their well being and safety. For a rich country like ours to incessantly whine about these people as if we are their victims is perhaps the single most pathetic spectacle in British politics over the past quarter century.
AKA The Beatific Vision?
Okay but hear me out:
An independent bookstore that doubles as a bakery, triples as a café, and quadruples as a pet rescue.
An independent bookstore that doubles as a bakery, triples as a café, and quadruples as a pet rescue.
November 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
AKA The Beatific Vision?
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we picked the wrong time to close Religious Studies programs
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
we picked the wrong time to close Religious Studies programs
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AI Chatbot Obviously Trying To Wind Down Conversation With Boring Human https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-obviously-trying-to-wind-down-conversation-w-1850146151/
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
AI Chatbot Obviously Trying To Wind Down Conversation With Boring Human https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-obviously-trying-to-wind-down-conversation-w-1850146151/
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In a world full of chaos, I think we can all at least take some solace in the fact that Dolly Parton exists.
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In a world full of chaos, I think we can all at least take some solace in the fact that Dolly Parton exists.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
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florence pew: thread
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
florence pew: thread
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📣 I’m teaching a National Gallery online course about Saints this December!
💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun.
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0
💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun.
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
📣 I’m teaching a National Gallery online course about Saints this December!
💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun.
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0
💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun.
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0
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See: the church
There are a lot of people who keep toxic, abusive, predatory systems going who insist to themselves & others that they are one of the good ones, when if they & others with power tried to stop the most monstrous, they could have. People rewrite history & what's happening in front of them all the time
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
See: the church
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It ys onlye Gen AI if it ys from the Gen AI regioun of Fraunce, otherwyse it ys just sparklinge plagiarism.
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It ys onlye Gen AI if it ys from the Gen AI regioun of Fraunce, otherwyse it ys just sparklinge plagiarism.
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"[U]niversities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically."
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"[U]niversities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically."
Excited to share that my review of Being the People of God has been published in Practical Theology (@practicaltheology.bsky.social). Read the full article here:
Being the people of God: missional ecclesiology for uncertain times
Published in Practical Theology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Excited to share that my review of Being the People of God has been published in Practical Theology (@practicaltheology.bsky.social). Read the full article here: