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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 7h

Oh! It's a really common phrase on this side of the Atlantic. I'm glad to have introduced you to it.

Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 1d

Reading an article I've assigned for a seminar later this term to prep my notes and going 'oh, this is perfect for what I am thinking about in that grant application' is the very definition of research-led teaching.

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 1d

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 1d

Right. Apologies for the delay. Really didn’t expect so much interest in a grumpy little Welsh owl so thank you for all the kind words - I’ve loved reading some of your own rescue stories.

Lots of you had rehab-related questions so thought I’d tackle the big ones here in one looong thread… 🧵

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 1d

Besides, I need to switch the laundry over.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 1d

Alright, stopping five minutes short of the hour, *but* I have overhauled the introduction of this application so it looks a bit more bouncy, and that's about all the brain I think I have spare before I start to worry about other things. Progress.

Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 1d

Right. I have done a bunch of life adminitrivia that just hasn't had space to happen, and now I am going to give myself an hour on this grant application, and then I will do teaching prep. All I have to to do is sound keen and enthusiastic and I am sure I knew how to do that once.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 1d

Eeeeek!

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 1d

The problem with this kind of work is that it is basically staring into thin air until the Right Words Take Shape, and that feels like such a luxury at this very moment. But there is a deadline, so wool-gathering for intellectual pleasure and profit it is.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 1d

I hope coffee says good morning to you.

a woman is holding a large cup of coffee and smiling .

Alt: A woman is drinking from a massively oversized cup of coffee and smiling. Text reads 'good morning'.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 1d

(A lovely colleague has given me some feedback on how to make it bounce more, which does involve going 'you are basically saying this is the Roman equivalent of the Godfather' and I am not quite sure how you turn that into grant application language but it is gratifying.)

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 1d

I'm putting a timer on and everything.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 1d

Right. I have done a bunch of life adminitrivia that just hasn't had space to happen, and now I am going to give myself an hour on this grant application, and then I will do teaching prep. All I have to to do is sound keen and enthusiastic and I am sure I knew how to do that once.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 1d

a knitted gnome is playing with a ball of red yarn

Alt: A knitted gnome is knitting a red heart with a ball of red yarn. When the heart is finished, it floats up off the top of the screen as the gnome starts knitting a new one.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 2d

For a time of year that is supposed to mark the return of a highly structured and clearly delimited routine, there is a surprising absence of highly structured and clearly delimited routine.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 2d

If you were asking about the year seven context, I think we were set something like 'write a short biography of an important person of faith', so I suspect my teacher got a lot about Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi, that sort of thing. Possibly the Pope.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 2d

It's a reflection for this week's newsletter. Two of the week's readings mention leprosy, because of course they do, and memory lane came calling.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 2d

I still remember with fondness the look of complete incomprehension on the face of my RE teacher, who I am willing to bet had not had a keen year seven present her with a project on leprosy before.

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SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 6d

It's October, and we have FOUR new books out this month!

Here's the first: Jenny Morgans' Christian Women at University,
uncovering the resources and strategies Christian women employ in trying to feel at home at university.

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The front cover of Christian Women at University: Faith, Feminism and Feeling at Home by Jenny Morgans. The endorsement quote form Dr Nicola Slee reads: Jenny Morgans' impressive study conveys wide and deep knowledge of young women's transition to university and the impact of this on their identity and faith. There is authority in her account of this complex transition, borne out of her research and work as a university chaplain. Every page is thick with learning, yet it is carried lightly and it makes for a compelling read. I cannot speak too highly of it.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 2d

The very same.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 2d

Stuck on "Haunt You" by Show of Hands again. Oh dear.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 2d

Who would have thought a random project I did for RE at the start of secondary about a priest who died of leprosy would come in handy for writing a parish newsletter reflection.

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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 2d

Last week Plough hosted a talk by Paul Kingsnorth on how to resist technological takeover. Watch the recording here:

Paul Kingsnorth: After the Machine

YouTube video by Plough

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