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Helen King is a British classical scholar and advocate for the medical humanities. She is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies… more

Helen King
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by Helen King

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She didn’t sign the ‘44 bishops’ letter, www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/44-bishops-c... But I know of others who didn’t, because of the situation in their diocese or area, but who are in favour
44 bishops call for clergy to be allowed same-sex civil marriages | Thinking Anglicans
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by Helen King

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A great pleasure to talk all things Archepiscopal with Andrew McGowan on David Johnston’s podcast youtu.be/Fp3Gg5ECWOg
The Next Archbishop of Canterbury: Hopes, Challenges, and the Future of Anglicanism
YouTube video by All Things Necessary
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by Helen King

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I’d say usually in the UK we use the first name
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by Helen King

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Go on,let’s have another dahlia for #bloomscrolling
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Bishop Sarah Mullally has been named the next Archbishop of Canterbury. What gifts does she bring to the role? What does this mean for the Church of England and the Anglican Communion? Helen King ( @helenking.bsky.social ) & Andrew McGowan ( @praxeas.bsky.social ) share their thoughts ⚓
The Next Archbishop of Canterbury: Hopes, Challenges, and the Future of Anglicanism
YouTube video by All Things Necessary
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by Helen King

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I am always honoured to be noticed by you as your Synod blog was so useful before I came back on!
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by Helen King

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Yet more examples of the micro aggressions of which Archbishop-Designate Sarah has already spoken…
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Classic!!!
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by Helen King — Reposted by: Lesley A. Hall, Karen O’Donnell

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Delighted by the news that Bishop Sarah is to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury! I wrote this: shared-conversations.com/2025/10/03/w...
White smoke day: the new Archbishop of Canterbury
Because I am on General Synod, friends and family assume that I have some sort of hot line to the process by which the new Archbishop of Canterbury is chosen. Well, in a word, no. I have been as mu…
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by Helen King

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#bloomscrolling With a dahlia, ‘Copper boy’
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Reposted by: Helen King, Katherine Brickell

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We're excited to reveal the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist, celebrating the finest historical non-fiction works from the past year.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors! 👏📚

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...
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by Helen King

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Very useful - I’ve not had these approaches but am now warned!
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The #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist will be announced TOMORROW, highlighting the most exceptional historical books from the past year.
Which titles are you hoping to see on the list? 📚

We’ll be unveiling the six books in the running for the 2025 prize at 9am.
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by Helen King

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Yup some sermons are worth hearing!!
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by Helen King

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World Contraception Day tomorrow… so how old is the IUD? mistakinghistories.uk/2017/07/18/i...
IUD or not IUD? Did the Hippocratics invent the first intrauterine device?
“Around 400 B.C., writers from the Hippocrates school discussed a contraceptive similar to the intrauterine device (IUD) of today. This particular apparatus was a hollow tube filled with mutt…
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by Helen King

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Like word limits on assessed coursework!
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by Helen King

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YES!!!
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by Helen King

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Now that looks like fun!
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by Helen King

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Who needs context when we are talking about this level of arrogance and entitlement?!
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by Helen King

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Well, there you have it. Allocated 15 minutes, rants for 50. What does that tell us?
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by Helen King

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Let’s keep #bloomscrolling through as dahlia season continues
Large pink/orange dahlia
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by Helen King

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Honestly if we ever needed #bloomscrolling then we need it today
Pink begonias and cheeky pink and purple geranium trying to get into the picture
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by Helen King

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Lovely to see, and you do suit the collar! X

by Helen King

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Read, mark and prepare to act
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Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...
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Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...
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by Helen King

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This needs saying. viamedia.news/2025/09/11/t...
The Cost of Political Violence: After Charlie Kirk - ViaMedia.News
by Charlie Bell, Fellow in Public Theology and Medicine at Girton College, Cambridge, Associate Vicar of St John the Divine, Kennington, in the Diocese of Southwark, and member of the LLF Vocations an...
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by Helen King

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Charlie Bell on Charlie Kirk: the cost of political violence viamedia.news/2025/09/11/t...
The Cost of Political Violence: After Charlie Kirk - ViaMedia.News
by Charlie Bell, Fellow in Public Theology and Medicine at Girton College, Cambridge, Associate Vicar of St John the Divine, Kennington, in the Diocese of Southwark, and member of the LLF Vocations and Ministry Working Group The truly horrible killing – in front not only of thousands of young people but also of his own
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by Helen King

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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
Poster for Oxford conference on safeguarding LGBT+ people in the church
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by Helen King

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#cofepeeps I’ve been thinking about how the House of Bishops works, or doesn’t, as a House on its own or as part of General Synod shared-conversations.com/2025/09/04/i...
Is there a quorum in the House of Bishops?
Just when you’d have thought that the dust had settled from Dr Ros Clarke’s Private Member’s Motion calling for an independent governance and culture review of the House of Bishops, finally the min…
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And it's live! www.history21.com/owit-module/...
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