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Paul Parker @rcquaker.bsky.social · 5d

For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer, and non-violent action are expressions of our worship. When this is criminalised, our religious freedom is under attack.

@quaker.org.uk

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The Church of England @churchofengland.org · 16d

Join our free Digital Labs webinar, for a introduction to Canva’s key features and tips for creating engaging content, with tips on customising our 2025 Advent and Christmas resources.

Register now at cofe.io/IntroToCanva. and join us today at 12pm. A recording will be sent to all who sign up.

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · 19d

Nuanced messages about nationhood are on display from the people of Tamworth, with Aethelflaed, Queen of Murcia in the 900s, flying a Union Jack

A photo of a statue in the middle of a roundabout with a Union Jack hung from her arm; a sign in the foreground is titled ‘Aethelflaed’ and describes the history of her

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · 21d

New books arrived and a) I am happy with the accurate picture they give of my nerdy interests, and b) thanks to whoever here I picked up the recommendations from

Photo of the covers of ‘The Quiet Before (the unexpected origins of radical ideas)’ by Gal Beckerman and ‘logistics and power: supply chains from slavery to space’ by Susan Zieger

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · Aug 19

How do we Outgrow the death cult of #Modernity – opening the doors to a future we’d be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn?

accidentalgods.life/co-evolving-

#Accidentalgods #Podcast with Tim Logan
#OutgrowingModernity - Vanessa Andreotti's new #book

OUT NOW!

#BooksofBlueSky #Thrutopia

Co-Evolving Humanity: Outgrowing Modernity with Vanessa and Giovanna Andreotti – and Tim Logan

How do we Outgrow the death cult of Modernity - opening the doors to a future we’d be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn?

accidentalgods.life

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Aug 19

An amazing weekend in Doncaster with ArtBomb festival at the Unitarian churching hosting the debut of Hey! Festival for poetry in the market square and all sorts of unexpected delights

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Aug 13

Trae Stephens “was an early employee at [Peter] Thiel’s software company Palantir & is currently a partner at his venture capital fund.” His wife, Michelle Stephens, is the “cofounder & executive director of ACTS 17,” which stands for “Acknowledging Christ in Technology & Society.” 8/11/25… 1/

‘Wouldn’t It Be Funny if We Tricked a Bunch of People into Going to Church?’ - Christianity Today

Michelle Stephens of Silicon Valley evangelism organization ACTS 17 talks caviar bumps, Peter Thiel, and Christianity.

www.christianitytoday.com

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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · Jul 31

Together For Palestine, OVO Arena, Wembley, September 17, 2025

Executive Producer of this evening is Brian Eno with Khaled Ziada, Khalid Abdalla and Tracey Seaward

Pre-sale: togetherforpalestine.org

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jul 30

Final sign-ups: looking forward to being in conversation about ‘the God shaped hole’ tomorrow and being asked some good questions to reflect on my decade or so of leadership in spiritual community

Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jul 20

And the nice folk at The Raft are using this essay as a jumping off point to host me in an online session on 31 July exploring my decade or so of church-ish explorations - come along :) www.tickettailor.com/events/risin...

Select tickets – The God Shaped Hole – Zoom

“The need for the spiritual – or whatever words you want to give it – is a human universal which does not wait until more ‘basi...

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jul 20

And the nice folk at The Raft are using this essay as a jumping off point to host me in an online session on 31 July exploring my decade or so of church-ish explorations - come along :) www.tickettailor.com/events/risin...

Select tickets – The God Shaped Hole – Zoom

“The need for the spiritual – or whatever words you want to give it – is a human universal which does not wait until more ‘basi...

www.tickettailor.com

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · Jul 29

Escaping the Trap of ‘Impact’ Measurement
guerrillafoundation.org/escaping-the...

in complex systems it is impossible to rigorously identify “your” impact
Using data for performance corrupts it
Campbells law

Escaping the Trap of ‘Impact’ Measurement – Guerrilla Foundation

Act. Affect. Change.

guerrillafoundation.org

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jul 26

Important message from former diplomat @carneross.bsky.social on the ways in which the UK and other governments’ contravention of the Genocide Convention

Carne Ross @carneross.bsky.social · Jul 24

Is our government complicit in genocide? The Genocide Convention is very, very clear. youtu.be/rLN7SrfTeZ4?...

Is our government complicit in genocide?

YouTube video by Carne Ross

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · Jul 24

Our partners at Faith for the Climate are looking for a new trustee to support their work empowering diverse faith communities to take action and protect our planet.

Find out more and apply here: faithfortheclimate.org.uk/about-us/joi...

Join us as a Trustee - Faith For The Climate

Could you be a Trustee for Faith for the Climate? We are seeking new trustees to join our Board and help our charity achieve its goals and aspirations. Faith for the Climate exists to encourage, inspi...

faithfortheclimate.org.uk

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jul 20

And the nice folk at The Raft are using this essay as a jumping off point to host me in an online session on 31 July exploring my decade or so of church-ish explorations - come along :) www.tickettailor.com/events/risin...

Select tickets – The God Shaped Hole – Zoom

“The need for the spiritual – or whatever words you want to give it – is a human universal which does not wait until more ‘basi...

www.tickettailor.com

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jul 20

Glad to have my 2017 essay on ‘The God-shaped hole’ featured as Dark Mountain’s long read this week - and in a timely way it describes taking part in a workshop based on the work of Joanna Macy, who left us yesterday
substack.com/@darkmountai...

The Dark Mountain Project (@darkmountainproject)

This week’s archive post is a long read from Dark Mountain’s 12th issue, SANCTUM that revolves around the theme of ‘the sacred’. Elizabeth Slade investigates the space left by the collapse of institu...

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jul 16

Such slow progress - it really shows how far there is to go… the offensive ‘Issues’ publication has been replaced by one that says clergy should only have sex inside a marriage, when the Church of England won’t marry same sex couples.

(For reference, Unitarians affirmed LGBTQ ministers in 1977)

Open Table Network @opentablelgbt.bsky.social · Jul 16

CHURCH OF ENGLAND governing body #GeneralSynod has voted almost unanimously to withdraw a key teaching document on #sexuality which has caused harm to people exploring a vocation, particularly LGBTQ+ people: bit.ly/IHSvote0725

Issues In Human Sexuality: A Statement by the House of Bishops - cover image of the 1991 teaching document

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jul 15

I recently took my EV on holiday to the rural south west of Ireland and was never more than about a half hour drive from a charging station

Terence Eden @edent.tel · Jul 15

New blog post: Petrol Stations 🆚 Car Charging Locations

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/petrol-stations-%F0%9F%86%9A-car-charging-locations/

Journalists love context-free numbers - things that sound large and scary, but without any helpful information to allow you to judge their significance. …

Petrol Stations 🆚 Car Charging Locations

Journalists love context-free numbers - things that sound large and scary, but without any helpful information to allow you to judge their significance. Here's a good example from a BBC article about Electric Vehicle subsidies: There are around 1.3 million electric cars on Britain's roads but currently only around 82,000 public charging points. Bloody hell! That's rubbish! Bring down the…

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jul 14

Punched in the gut by the news of Andrea Gibson’s death.
I saw them perform in London twice and both were extraordinary and transcendent experiences.
Huge gratitude for their words and their being

Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · Jul 14

Andrea Gibson. Poet. Powerhouse. Beacon of hope. Lover of life and the world. You will be missed forever 13/8/1975-14/7/2025

Good Grief

Let your
heart break

so your spirit
doesn’t.

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Upaya Zen Center @upaya.bsky.social · Jul 3

Beloved elder & teacher, & dear friend of Roshi Joan, Joanna Macy is currently in hospice care at home. She is surrounded by her family, resting, & held in great love.

We invite you to visit this page to view four powerful teachings she has shared with our community.

www.upaya.org/person/joann...

Joanna Macy, PhD

Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, Ph.D., is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship…

www.upaya.org

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jul 4

Clearing the way for non-conformists to take our rightful place in the sun 😊

Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jun 22

“Freedom isn’t the absence of restraint, it is the presence of love…. We must be both a rallying cry and a refuge” Rev Dr Nicole Kirk in the closing service at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly in Baltimore

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jun 13

Yesterday was a day of beautiful encounters with Quaker friends in the wild - first with the @quaker.org.uk team at Christian Aid’s 80th anniversary at Westminster Abbey, and then @alastairmci.bsky.social “preaching” at Kairos - perhaps the only bar in town last night to hear the Lord’s Prayer

Me and Oliver Robertson, the Quakers’ Head of Witness and Worship smiling with Westminster Abbey in the background as we were in the very long queue to join the Christian Aid anniversary service

Me and Alastair McIntosh in a dark corner of Kairos, London’s ‘alternative members club for the climate crisis’ - where I am flagrantly breaching their strict ‘no phones’ policy to take a selfie

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jun 12

Revd Professor Jerry Pillar: hope relies on the twin sisters of anger and courage

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jun 12

Diana Kichengo again - “the church must feed the hungry, but if we are not asking why people are hungry, we are failing” - and a call to write sermons and hymns that inspire this action

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Liz Slade @lzsl.bsky.social · Jun 12

William Bell, Christian Aid’s Middle East expert is brilliant on the need to listen better and be prepared to be uncomfortable - and to lean in to discomfort when concerned about perceived ‘risk’ to our organisations in speaking out, as it’s nothing compared to the risk of people who are suffering

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