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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for sharing. Not come across this series before. What a great way to discover gems you might otherwise miss.

Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 4d

Led a study day today with our final year ordinands today. In the midst of *waves hands at everything* spending time with these humble, open and faithful people brings so much hope and joy. #TiredButHappy

Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · 24d

‘Climate, memory & the way the past haunts the present’

Count me in!

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Sep 6

One of the best things about my job is that my students teach me far more than I ever teach them. A great start of term weekend exploring Bonhoeffer, St Benedict and the work of God in a pretty amazing group of people. Looking forward to the year ahead.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Planning the first session of a new academic year for our final year ordinands. Bonhoeffer on community and Peterson on the vocation of telling the story of ‘command, promise and invitation.’

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Aug 29

I was thinking the same thing.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Aug 21

A lovely impromptu birthday adventure. Sea, sunshine, cake and Benedictine worship. What more does a birthday need?

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Aug 10

Downloaded to listen to on plane journey home tomorrow.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Jul 16

A long train journey means starting another pick from Take Four Books with @jdcrawf.bsky.social Looking forward to this one.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Jun 29

@hannahswiv.bsky.social saw you post about this book earlier so thought you might be interested in this.

James Crawford @jdcrawf.bsky.social · Jun 29

Listen now to my chat on Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks with Madeleine Thien about her new, time-warping @grantabooks.bsky.social novel of war, exile and refugees, 'The Book of Records' - and her three influences, including the evergreen 'Invisible Cities' by Italo Calvino...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Jun 29

A wonderful weekend celebrating those of our students being ordained priest and deacon this year. And the icing on the cake was having all but one of my curacy cohort together for the first time in four years. #grateful

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Jun 17

Some moments make you stop, breathe deeply and rejoice in the wonder of creation. The world may feel heavy at the moment but a pause on an evening walk back to the car can be long enough to let in a glimmer of hope and a promise of peace.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Jun 15

I loved this episode, an exploration of what sounds like a beautiful book about storytelling & interconnection The comment “the same water we might have shed as tears yesterday may be the same drop that fell on the head of a mighty king in Ancient Assyria” may have led to a few tears itself.

James Crawford @jdcrawf.bsky.social · Jun 15

Listen to us chat to Elif Shafak behind the scenes at @hayfestival.bsky.social on R4 #TakeFourBooks: talking 'There Are Rivers in the Sky' & 3 influences including the earliest recorded poem The Epic of Gilgamesh - along with first national poet of Wales, Gwyneth Lewis! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Jun 15

I’m so sorry to hear this Jon. Praying for the appeal.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Jun 5

Rest in peace and rise in glory - a faithful servant and inspiring theologian.

SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · Jun 5

The death of influential Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann has just been announced:
www.walterbrueggemann.com/2025/06/05/i...

Our condolences to his family.
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/authors/walt...

Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann (1933-2025) was William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary.

scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk

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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · May 29

Annual anniversary reminder that Sojourner Truth didn’t speak the way we thought. A white woman doctored Sojourner Truth’s speech so it sounded more the way white people thought it should.

Professor Nell Irvin Painter was the first to bring awareness to this:

www.thesojournertruthproject.com

The Sojourner Truth Project

Read the most accurate version of Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a woman” speech. And hear it as she would’ve sounded, in her upper New York State low-Dutch accent. Sojourner Truth’s original “Ain’t I a ...

www.thesojournertruthproject.com

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · May 14

‘Placing the biblical narratives in the streets of the city [medieval mystery plays] implied a relationship between the here and now with the there and then…making the lives of the people part of the fabric of salvation history’

Todd Johnson- Performing the Sacred

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · May 14

A sad thing to see on a Wednesday.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · May 2

Today is this sort of a day (out of shot are coffee and book - of course)

Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Apr 29

It was somewhat disconcerting to discover E.M. Forester’s book ‘The Machine Stops’ on the same day that power failures brought Spain and a Portugal to a stop.

Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Apr 23

Hermes seems to have a divine vocation to keep telling the tale “regardless of how it ends” until it changes. This act is presented to us as faith, hope, resistance…the tale might turn out differently upon the next telling, & so Hermes strikes up the band once again.
A great piece on a show I love.

Hadestown hints at so much more | Seen & Unseen

www.seenandunseen.com

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Apr 20

A joy to preach & preside today at Twyford, the church which supported me through so much of my pre-ordination journey. Old friends & new celebrating & reflecting on the breaking open of the tomb & the breaking open of our own imaginations when it comes to the gift of new life.
(Words by Ann Lewin)

Words from a poem by Ann Lewin ‘Easter Morning’

Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Apr 10

It’s taken 3 months but Lord of the Rings is finished. I loved this book the first time I read it & loved it even more this time. You emerge from the journey with Frodo, Sam, Pippin & Merry with a little more hope & determination to face the brokenness of the world & seek the good, true & beautiful.

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Apr 9

My Lent reflection on the theme of Wilderness.

winchester.anglican.org/lenten-refle...

Lenten Reflection: The Wonder of the Wilderness - Diocese of Winchester

Today’s Lenten reflection was written by Revd Helen O’Sullivan, a Tutor within the Licensed Ministry Training programme. “Surely the Lord your God has blessed you in all your undertakings; he knows yo...

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Helen O'Sullivan @helenosullivan.bsky.social · Apr 3

A brilliant end this evening to our seminar series looking at “On the Incarnation”. Finishing with students wanting to continuing reading ancient texts and discussing together because of all they have learned about mercy, hope and love and the inspiration they have found for their ministry.

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