Helen King
@helenking.bsky.social
Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
Another November dahlia #bloomscrolling
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Another November dahlia #bloomscrolling
#bloomscrolling - November and the dahlias are still going strong
November 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#bloomscrolling - November and the dahlias are still going strong
I’m getting into the new Philip Pullman and am delighted to find a scintillating scotoma reference - I feel seen!
October 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m getting into the new Philip Pullman and am delighted to find a scintillating scotoma reference - I feel seen!
Superb title for the next book in my reading pile…
October 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Superb title for the next book in my reading pile…
Today I am #bloomscrolling another unbelievably gorgeous one from Waterperry Gardens in Wheatley, where the gardeners were pruning them in hope of yet more blooms!
October 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Today I am #bloomscrolling another unbelievably gorgeous one from Waterperry Gardens in Wheatley, where the gardeners were pruning them in hope of yet more blooms!
Open until January!
October 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Open until January!
Lots of anger in the media re new exhibition at Canterbury cathedral (not open yet, so rants from JD Vance and Elon Musk rather premature). There is currently just one piece of graffiti (not real graffiti, not actually painted direct on to the building, obvs!) by the entrance - thought it was superb
October 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Lots of anger in the media re new exhibition at Canterbury cathedral (not open yet, so rants from JD Vance and Elon Musk rather premature). There is currently just one piece of graffiti (not real graffiti, not actually painted direct on to the building, obvs!) by the entrance - thought it was superb
So tomorrow I’m excited to be off to Canterbury to interview Mary Kells at her book launch for ‘God Beyond Gender’!
October 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
So tomorrow I’m excited to be off to Canterbury to interview Mary Kells at her book launch for ‘God Beyond Gender’!
For #bloomscrolling today, it’s a late pink rose with the most beautiful scent and two more buds still to open…
October 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
For #bloomscrolling today, it’s a late pink rose with the most beautiful scent and two more buds still to open…
Today’s #bloomscrolling offering is a simple but lovely dahlia I met today
October 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Today’s #bloomscrolling offering is a simple but lovely dahlia I met today
Go on,let’s have another dahlia for #bloomscrolling
October 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Go on,let’s have another dahlia for #bloomscrolling
#bloomscrolling With a dahlia, ‘Copper boy’
October 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
#bloomscrolling With a dahlia, ‘Copper boy’
Let’s keep #bloomscrolling through as dahlia season continues
September 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Let’s keep #bloomscrolling through as dahlia season continues
Honestly if we ever needed #bloomscrolling then we need it today
September 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Honestly if we ever needed #bloomscrolling then we need it today
I’ve been invited to speak at this conference next month: safeguarding is improving across the CofE but there’s a long way to go yet
September 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I’ve been invited to speak at this conference next month: safeguarding is improving across the CofE but there’s a long way to go yet
#bloomscrolling a white chrysanthemum of a kind I’ve never seen before
August 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
#bloomscrolling a white chrysanthemum of a kind I’ve never seen before
There’s a new book out today which I recommend - on power in the Church. Selina Stone, A Heavy Yoke. Reviewed on viamedia.news/2025/08/28/a...
August 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM
There’s a new book out today which I recommend - on power in the Church. Selina Stone, A Heavy Yoke. Reviewed on viamedia.news/2025/08/28/a...
Slava Ukraini! The party’s over but the sunflowers remain
August 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Slava Ukraini! The party’s over but the sunflowers remain
Continuing to read Monica Furlong’s “C of E: The State it’s in” and her description of 2000 could be 2025. An ‘undervalued and under-used’ laity; depressed clergy; ‘a controlling clerical oligarchy’; denial; guilt; and ‘If only the Church could lead the battle against prejudice for once…’
August 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Continuing to read Monica Furlong’s “C of E: The State it’s in” and her description of 2000 could be 2025. An ‘undervalued and under-used’ laity; depressed clergy; ‘a controlling clerical oligarchy’; denial; guilt; and ‘If only the Church could lead the battle against prejudice for once…’
While we wonder who will be the next Archbishop, here is Monica Furlong on ++Michael Ramsey on the CofE: late 1960s. Would CofE survive into the next century? “Well, you know, that is not certain, not certain, not certain, at all”
August 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
While we wonder who will be the next Archbishop, here is Monica Furlong on ++Michael Ramsey on the CofE: late 1960s. Would CofE survive into the next century? “Well, you know, that is not certain, not certain, not certain, at all”
#Bloomscrolling today involved hot orange flowers for a very hot day
August 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
#Bloomscrolling today involved hot orange flowers for a very hot day
Honoured to have a chapter in this new book, about Maude Royden. You don’t know about her? First woman to preach in the Church of England… and far, far more. “Sex is not a dirty thing”, she wrote.
August 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Honoured to have a chapter in this new book, about Maude Royden. You don’t know about her? First woman to preach in the Church of England… and far, far more. “Sex is not a dirty thing”, she wrote.
This is a great exhibition in a great museum in a great city: ‘Unseen’ at the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden!
August 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is a great exhibition in a great museum in a great city: ‘Unseen’ at the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden!
Another V&A Storehouse moment
August 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Another V&A Storehouse moment
Loving the new V&A Storehouse in east London. The juxtaposition of objects from different eras/cultures is very striking
August 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Loving the new V&A Storehouse in east London. The juxtaposition of objects from different eras/cultures is very striking