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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SSCE Postgraduate Conference Spring 2026 – Society for the Study of Christian Ethics
www.ssce.org.uk
Are you a postgraduate student or early career researcher? Free on 6 May? Interested in pilgrimage, neighbourliness, and encounter in Christian Ethics? Good news – there’s still time to submit a paper proposal for the SSCE PG Conference. Submissions close on 6 February. Please share! #CallforPapers
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Call for papers!
Theology in Scotland's Autumn 2026 issue will focus on #migration, #displacement, and #belonging: vital themes for Scotland and the world.
Full details/submission info: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...
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Theology in Scotland's Autumn 2026 issue will focus on #migration, #displacement, and #belonging: vital themes for Scotland and the world.
Full details/submission info: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...
Follow us at @theoscot.bsky.social for more news, calls, and updates
February 6, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Call for papers!
Theology in Scotland's Autumn 2026 issue will focus on #migration, #displacement, and #belonging: vital themes for Scotland and the world.
Full details/submission info: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...
Follow us at @theoscot.bsky.social for more news, calls, and updates
Theology in Scotland's Autumn 2026 issue will focus on #migration, #displacement, and #belonging: vital themes for Scotland and the world.
Full details/submission info: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...
Follow us at @theoscot.bsky.social for more news, calls, and updates
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In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:50 PM
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
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Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, and post the second sentence.
“That was how I learned of it, by way of the lead’s travelling through the people’s blood.”
“That was how I learned of it, by way of the lead’s travelling through the people’s blood.”
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, and post the second sentence.
"Here we see the Lord in conversation with the highly placed ecclesiastic, who, after the manner of his kind, is cautious and dipomatic."
"Here we see the Lord in conversation with the highly placed ecclesiastic, who, after the manner of his kind, is cautious and dipomatic."
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, and post the second sentence.
“Into every thing we do we bring our full selves.”
“Into every thing we do we bring our full selves.”
January 21, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, and post the second sentence.
“That was how I learned of it, by way of the lead’s travelling through the people’s blood.”
“That was how I learned of it, by way of the lead’s travelling through the people’s blood.”
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Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord;
January 17, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord;
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Burnout is genuinely life-destroying and I really can't say, on this website, what I think should happen to managers who not only let it happen to one individual worker but who systemically make it happen on large groups of workers.
January 14, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Burnout is genuinely life-destroying and I really can't say, on this website, what I think should happen to managers who not only let it happen to one individual worker but who systemically make it happen on large groups of workers.
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This year I'm working on giving up Pelagianism in hopes that this will earn more favor with God
January 12, 2026 at 3:24 PM
This year I'm working on giving up Pelagianism in hopes that this will earn more favor with God
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So much good stuff coming up in @feministtheology.bsky.social over the next few months kicking off with our first event on 20th Jan which is our panel on publishing in feminist and womanist theologies. Get the dates in your diary & join the mailing list for online links feministtheologynetwork.org
January 9, 2026 at 1:41 PM
So much good stuff coming up in @feministtheology.bsky.social over the next few months kicking off with our first event on 20th Jan which is our panel on publishing in feminist and womanist theologies. Get the dates in your diary & join the mailing list for online links feministtheologynetwork.org
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Head to @carcanet.bsky.social’s website and get 20% off all current and former Carcanet @tseliotprize.bsky.social shortlisted and winning poetry collections.
A great way to stock up and also but my last collection Eleanor Among The Saints at a discount. Simply use the code.
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A great way to stock up and also but my last collection Eleanor Among The Saints at a discount. Simply use the code.
www.carcanet.co.uk
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One of the outstanding literary publishers of our time, Carcanet Press has a special emphasis on poetry from around the world.
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January 9, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Head to @carcanet.bsky.social’s website and get 20% off all current and former Carcanet @tseliotprize.bsky.social shortlisted and winning poetry collections.
A great way to stock up and also but my last collection Eleanor Among The Saints at a discount. Simply use the code.
www.carcanet.co.uk
A great way to stock up and also but my last collection Eleanor Among The Saints at a discount. Simply use the code.
www.carcanet.co.uk
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Please buy my new Lent book Gravity Defied … buy lots of copies for your Lent courses … you will have a great time watching #Wicked and spending time studying it.
Do consider using my friends at Church House Books as your supplier:
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Gravity Defied A Lent Course based on Wicked, the movie by Rachel Mann - Paperback / softback - 9781917362160
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January 9, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Please buy my new Lent book Gravity Defied … buy lots of copies for your Lent courses … you will have a great time watching #Wicked and spending time studying it.
Do consider using my friends at Church House Books as your supplier:
chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978191...
Do consider using my friends at Church House Books as your supplier:
chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978191...
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1/2 Fresh snow fell again overnight, leaving campus quietly covered in white. ❄️
With more inches of snow settling across Old Aberdeen, familiar buildings and paths look very different this morning, softened by snowfall and early winter light.
With more inches of snow settling across Old Aberdeen, familiar buildings and paths look very different this morning, softened by snowfall and early winter light.
January 8, 2026 at 12:44 PM
1/2 Fresh snow fell again overnight, leaving campus quietly covered in white. ❄️
With more inches of snow settling across Old Aberdeen, familiar buildings and paths look very different this morning, softened by snowfall and early winter light.
With more inches of snow settling across Old Aberdeen, familiar buildings and paths look very different this morning, softened by snowfall and early winter light.
Are you a postgraduate student or early career researcher? Free on 6 May? Interested in pilgrimage, neighbourliness, and encounter in Christian Ethics? Good news – there’s still time to submit a paper proposal for the SSCE PG Conference. Submissions close on 6 February. Please share! #CallforPapers
SSCE Postgraduate Conference Spring 2026 – Society for the Study of Christian Ethics
www.ssce.org.uk
January 8, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Are you a postgraduate student or early career researcher? Free on 6 May? Interested in pilgrimage, neighbourliness, and encounter in Christian Ethics? Good news – there’s still time to submit a paper proposal for the SSCE PG Conference. Submissions close on 6 February. Please share! #CallforPapers
Are you a postgraduate student or early career researcher interested in Christian ethics? Would you like to join a reading group with asynchronous opportunities and a supportive environment?
Reply here or send me a message, and I’ll share the details! ⚓
Reply here or send me a message, and I’ll share the details! ⚓
January 5, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Are you a postgraduate student or early career researcher interested in Christian ethics? Would you like to join a reading group with asynchronous opportunities and a supportive environment?
Reply here or send me a message, and I’ll share the details! ⚓
Reply here or send me a message, and I’ll share the details! ⚓
During my undergrad, I joined a murder mystery club. We took turns hosting dinners and acted out our characters all night. Some attendees were complete strangers whose names I never knew, only their characters - I was studying off campus, so rarely crossed paths with other members IRL.
December 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
During my undergrad, I joined a murder mystery club. We took turns hosting dinners and acted out our characters all night. Some attendees were complete strangers whose names I never knew, only their characters - I was studying off campus, so rarely crossed paths with other members IRL.
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I read this early in the year & saved just for now!
December 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I read this early in the year & saved just for now!
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
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A reminder that Christmas is a great time to become some sort of nutter that people avoid talking to, for fear of what you might start ranting about
December 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A reminder that Christmas is a great time to become some sort of nutter that people avoid talking to, for fear of what you might start ranting about
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The holidays can be a really tricky time for so many people.
Whether you’re alone or with others, know you can speak with someone if you’re feeling sad or low. You matter, and your feelings are valid.
Need someone to talk to? A range of helplines, both voice and text open 24 hrs:
Whether you’re alone or with others, know you can speak with someone if you’re feeling sad or low. You matter, and your feelings are valid.
Need someone to talk to? A range of helplines, both voice and text open 24 hrs:
December 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The holidays can be a really tricky time for so many people.
Whether you’re alone or with others, know you can speak with someone if you’re feeling sad or low. You matter, and your feelings are valid.
Need someone to talk to? A range of helplines, both voice and text open 24 hrs:
Whether you’re alone or with others, know you can speak with someone if you’re feeling sad or low. You matter, and your feelings are valid.
Need someone to talk to? A range of helplines, both voice and text open 24 hrs:
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Santa, baby, slip a saber under the tree, for me..."
"Ho ho ho," laughed Santa. "I think you mean 'sable', little girl."
"No," she replied in a whisper, her own naughty and nice list clutched so tightly her knuckles whitened. "Some folks got to get got."
"Ho ho ho," laughed Santa. "I think you mean 'sable', little girl."
"No," she replied in a whisper, her own naughty and nice list clutched so tightly her knuckles whitened. "Some folks got to get got."
December 20, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Santa, baby, slip a saber under the tree, for me..."
"Ho ho ho," laughed Santa. "I think you mean 'sable', little girl."
"No," she replied in a whisper, her own naughty and nice list clutched so tightly her knuckles whitened. "Some folks got to get got."
"Ho ho ho," laughed Santa. "I think you mean 'sable', little girl."
"No," she replied in a whisper, her own naughty and nice list clutched so tightly her knuckles whitened. "Some folks got to get got."
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What would really be the implications of taking Santa Claus seriously?
It's the time of the year to review the current state of the physics of Santa Claus
1/12
It's the time of the year to review the current state of the physics of Santa Claus
1/12
December 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
What would really be the implications of taking Santa Claus seriously?
It's the time of the year to review the current state of the physics of Santa Claus
1/12
It's the time of the year to review the current state of the physics of Santa Claus
1/12
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these are two slightly different things but the point is that academia runs on two things: helping others and holding grudges. often at the same time and for the same people. we cannot lose this
December 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
these are two slightly different things but the point is that academia runs on two things: helping others and holding grudges. often at the same time and for the same people. we cannot lose this
You just died.
The sixth photo in your phone gallery is what killed you.
Ain't mad at it.
The sixth photo in your phone gallery is what killed you.
Ain't mad at it.
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
You just died.
The sixth photo in your phone gallery is what killed you.
Ain't mad at it.
The sixth photo in your phone gallery is what killed you.
Ain't mad at it.
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This is genuinely revolting and might possibly qualify as the sin against the Holy Ghost.
She compares the boat strikes to Jesus breaking the sabbath to heal someone.
December 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is genuinely revolting and might possibly qualify as the sin against the Holy Ghost.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow