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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social Born 317ppm | Love London | Hate Racists
The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation — Bertrand Russell
Nat Nuttall @natalienuttall.bsky.social Curiosity killed the cat, but certainty killed curiosity. Be fully alive to this moment.
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Lindsay @revteapot.bsky.social An actual, proper, honest to God vicar.
Owned by a greyhound, member of a union, writer.
Mildly obsessive about tea.
Liberal lefty tree hugging type.
my blog - https://revteapot.wordpress.com
my book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B181VTSJ/
The Diocese of Southwark @southwark.anglican.org The Church of England in south London and east Surrey
Ian J Mobsby @ianjmobsby.bsky.social Lefty-european, contemplative, christian, dr in theology, writer, speaker, anglican, missioner, Brit in Canada
Alison_O @alisonothe2nd.bsky.social Contemplative prayer, M.E./ C.F.S, ♿️ Bach, art, trauma, nature, cats follow me around, INFP to my core (of course) 🌱🍂
There must be a different way....
James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
BibliophileVic @bibliophilevicki.bsky.social Passionate: 🏞 Nature~Soil~Well-being|xenophile~Cultures, travel| Language Families, into🖊️📔Journalling+Researching.|Avid reader, Educator, Assessor etc..
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Vernon Baseley @vernonbaseley.eurosky.social Rail operations specialist.
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social Progressive, student-led faith in action 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social We are a migrant-led national organisation empowering migrants to speak out, challenge perceptions and change public debate, in the media and to policymakers. Offices in London, Glasgow and Birmingham.
@peteward2.bsky.social @peteward2.bsky.social
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social An alliance of 500+ organisations representing over 15 million people.
Be part of what's next: togetheralliance.org.uk
Beryl Hobson @berylh.bsky.social Enjoying retirement on the south coast of the UK.
Trustee, St Wilfrid’s hospice Eastbourne https://www.stwhospice.org/
Brighton & Hove Albion fan.
Inclusive Christian.
Rev’d Jon Swales @revjonswales.bsky.social CofE Priest, heads up Lighthouse West Yorkshire, climate justice, mission to margins, MBE, M.A, MLitt Bib Studies
Www.cruciformjustice.com
🏴Mhairi Forrest🏴 🤟🤟🤟 @mhairiforrest.bsky.social M.A. Deaf Education
Here for the interactions with interesting folks. Believe that character and integrity matter.
🏴 Scottish Independence Now 🏴
‼️Deletes posts after 5 days.
#DeafEd #ASL #Immigrants #Exvangelical #ChurchAbuseSurvivors #Scotland
Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social ordinand, composer, gardener, hedge-botherer, immigrant, locavore, neurodivergent, shaver of yaks, chaser after the wind, churchwarden, high liturgy, high chaos, has a profile that's a bunch of descriptors separated by commas, she/they
Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social Presenter, The Cathy Newman Show, Sky News; Presenter, Times Radio; Insta cathynewmanc4 Agent http://bit.ly/2m6VRis
Lina Toth @linatoth.bsky.social Lithuanian-born theologian, author, and educator. Scotland.
Director of Scholars Programme, Langham Partnership. Editor, Theology in Scotland. Senior Research Fellow, IBTS.
Practical theology, history, happiness, singleness studies.
https://lina-toth.com
JustMoney Movement @justmoneymvt.bsky.social We have a vision of a world where money is used to shape a fairer, greener future for everyone 🌎 Join the Movement 👉 https://justmoney.org.uk/#sign-up
Clergy Support Trust @clergysupport.bsky.social We provide grants and services for Anglican #clergy and their families. Last year, we supported 2,900 households. 🏠
@walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social The new name for Sustrans. We are the charity making it possible for everyone to walk, wheel and cycle. Because it changes everything. Our health. Our wellbeing. Our world.
Custodians of the National Cycle Network.
Dan Simpson @iamthedans.bsky.social Policy & public affairs @ @WalkWheelCycleT.bsky.social. He/him.
JPuddlegoose @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social Disabled, Neurodivergent (autistic, adhd, tourettes)
Practitioner, speaker, writer
Trustee @togetherforthecofe.bsky.social
Member #CofE #GeneralSynod + Nazareth community
Tomato-grower, knitter-of-hats
Sue Pinington @suejanep.bsky.social Reader in the Church of England and Warden of Lay Ministers in the Diocese of Peterborough. Still working (just), loving my family, chocolate and travelling.
CartoonChurch.com @cartoonchurch.bsky.social Cartoons by Church Times cartoonist @davewalker.bsky.social. Licences available to use the cartoons in your church magazine and elsewhere. https://cartoonchurch.com/
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social Writer and independent scholar.
Used to be a vicar.
Writing in Spelt, Black Bough Poetry, BB journal, Frost Magazine, The Clearing,The Pilgrim, Landlines for Nature ,The Church Times.
Fellow of the Linnaean Society and the Zoological Society of London,
Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social Communist theologian. Angelologist. “Too angry and gratuitously crude” - Church Times
Diocese of Manchester @manchester.anglican.org A Church for a Different World 🌱⛪️🌍 @churchofengland.org in Greater Manchester and Rossendale.
Philip Smith @piphilthims.bsky.social Team Vicar South Chilterns. Married to Lucy, Father, Pastor teacher, drummer, song writer, Fulham FC, Grandpip, poet, joker, and follower of The Way x
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Beth Allison Barr, PhD @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social James Vardaman Professor @Baylor_History; USAToday and NYTimes bestselling author @brazospress;
Medieval &Women’s historian
co-host @alltheburiedwomen
Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission @morecambebayptc.bsky.social MBPTC unites people experiencing issues related to poverty with people in local positions of power to co-devise solutions with a lasting impact for the wider community
The Poverty Truth Community @povertytruthscot.bsky.social A movement for change led by people living with poverty.
Mr Joe Jenkins @mrjoejenkins.bsky.social Charity leader, hubby, dad, spare human for pup; and everything here is all me
Brigid Russell @brigidrussell51.bsky.social All about working relationally, learning, listening, & coaching. Exploring how working collaboratively & leadership can develop in practice. What does it mean and what does it take to be alongside?
#SpacesForListening
Chris Carnall @cjcarnall.bsky.social Interests include History, Words and Language, Politics, Space, and the Green Bay Packers! Lay Minister in the Church of England.
Unable to receive DMs as not age verified 🙂
Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social #LectionaryPrayers guy. Church of Scotland minister.
https://peterwnimmo.co.uk
https://about.me/peterwnimmo
https://mastodon.scot/@Peternimmo
https://buymeacoffee.com/peterwnimmo
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Chris Topping @chrisptopping.bsky.social Husband, Dad, Grandad, Lawyer,Preacher, Runner. Passionate about access to justice. Human Rights Lawyer of the Year 2016. President of Liverpool Law Society 2018. Fed up of the other antisocial media sites.
Matt Lunn @mattlunn.bsky.social Methodist Ordained Minister (Rev) in the New River Circuit, London District. A lover of coffee. Like football, rugby league, running & cycling. Married to Helen
Paul Kerensa @paulkerensa.bsky.social Writer/Comedian/Broadcast Historian
Also posting BBC history things here as bbcentury.bsky.social, so follow that too, or don’t. And breathe.
paulkerensa.com/oldradio
John Cooper @jhoncooper.bsky.social Methodist.charity director. All views my own.care about peace, justice, co-ops & climate
Darren Evans @dmevans.bsky.social Professor of Ecology & Conservation. Director of Expertise - Ecosystems in School of Natural and Environmental Sciences @newcastleuni.bsky.social, UK. Researching network ecology/environmental change. Senior Editor
@animalecology.bsky.social. Views my own
The Revd Dr Sara Batts-Neale @sarabn.bsky.social Priest. Preacher, writer, thinker, creator of lists, prayer of prayer, wearer of waders, wader-in.
Sojourners @sojo.net Putting faith into action for social justice. Read sojo.net.
Jill Segger @quakerpen.bsky.social Quaker.Writer.Editor.Slow poet. NUJ. FRSA.Some recent work at archival site of @ekklesia.co.uk
https://www.ekklesia.co.uk/author/jillsegger/
My book #WordsOutofSilence is available here https://www.ekklesiapublishing.co.uk/books/words-out-of-silence/
Martyn Joseph @martynjosephwales.bsky.social ‘One of acoustic music’s most original voices’ Q Magazine. ‘A Welsh national treasure, authority and authenticity’ MoJo. ‘A profound experience’ Boston Globe.
www.martynjoseph.net
Fr Edward Barlow @edwardrhbarlow.bsky.social Scenery-chewing suburban vicar.
#DoctorWho Fan. Knitter. Dad to #SEND/PDA child. Husband. Non-Driver. #Philosophy graduate. Former RE Teacher. #AcousticNeuroma. Liability.
#Bexley
He/Him
All stunts my own.
kategray @revkategray.bsky.social Activist. Practitioner Pastor. Dr. Theologian. Researching faith responding to poverty in the UK & trauma theology. Interest in politics, climate crisis, overcoming exclusion, faith capture & fascism. #Manchester #UnitedReformedChurch
Clare Bryden @clarebryden.bsky.social Born at 325ppm
clarebryden.co.uk
For an intro, see the pinned post
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
— Mary Oliver
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
— John O’Donohue
Shermara Fletcher-Hoyte @shermarafh.bsky.social Life is brighter when we love people and commit to radical hospitality.Exploring theology, politics, arts, and culture through speaking,writing,and broadcasting.
Ecumenist & Principal Officer at https://www.cte.org.uk. Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk Church Musician, Choir Director and Harpist. Composer of Responsorial Psalms (among other things), Reader (LLM) and Member of CofE General Synod.
Iain Porter @iainkporter.bsky.social Senior Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
@jrf-uk.bsky.social https://www.jrf.org.uk/
Prof Tim Jackson @timjackson.org.uk Ecological Economist and Playwright. Author of »The Care Economy« (2025), »Post Growth« (2021) and »Prosperity Without Growth« (2009/2017). Director of @cusp.ac.uk.
🌐 https://timjackson.org.uk
Danny Sriskandarajah @dhnnjyn.bsky.social Chief Exec of @neweconomics.bsky.social
Author of "Power to the People" (Headline Press, 2024) https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/danny-sriskandarajah/power-to-the-people/9781035414277/
Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social Published January, 2026: The Global Casino: How Wall St Gambles with People and Planet. Check out my newsletter: System Change, https://annpettifor.substack.com/
Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social Author of Doughnut Economics, Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, Senior Teaching Fellow at Oxford Uni Environmental Change Institute. doughnuteconomics.org
Jo BM @jobm.bsky.social Stuff. Nonsense.
Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social Research Fellow in English 2025-29 at St John's College, Cambridge. Book history, reading, writing.
/When the Music Fades/ 2026 @canterburypress.bsky.social
https://lucysixsmith.wordpress.com/
Christine Gh @christine-gh.bsky.social Wife - Mum-of-four - Ordinand in the Church of England (Diocese in Europe)
I love crochet, cooking, clothes mending, swimming, podcasts & audio books, watercolour sketching, verbal processing, sustainable transport
Robb Sutherland @robbsutherland.bsky.social Faith | Music | Photography | Travel
Chaotic Good.
Electronic guitarist.
www.robbsutherland.com
Fiona Tweedie @fjtweedie.bsky.social making numbers mean something at Brendan Research and “statistical genius in chief” at Church of Scotland. maps, graphs, infographics, cartograms... Jogs long ways in the hills. Views my own. she/her
Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org An @UrbanMonastic.org founder and Monastic · Author · Preacher · Liturgist · Linguist · Mystic · Pacifist · Artist · Egg Photographer · In Paris · From MPLS · All are Welcome
About Me: https://paulprins.net/profile
RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social Research, reports, and citizen science from the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science
Charlie Bell @charliebelllive.bsky.social priest, psychiatrist. he/him. devotee of John XXIII.
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.
Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social I help not-for-profits write things. I also write other stuff.
https://shellydennison.co.uk/
Irim Sarwar @irimtated.bsky.social Pragmatic idealist, mystic, former churchwarden, at sea. Hybrid vigour in all things, not least faith. She/her
Nick Jowett @jowettnick.bsky.social Retired Vicar in Sheffield. Writes novels (2nd just completed), stories, hymns, also material for Church Action on Poverty. Loves Haydn.
@lucygobag.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social
Simon Cade @simoncade.bsky.social Living in Cornwall, becoming Christian
Laura Bushell Hawke @revlaurabh.bsky.social Personal account. Priest in the Diocese of Truro. Passionate about Leadership. Mum of 2, wife of 1.
Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Books incl:
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
Emergency Dream
Swimming The Seasons
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
Manchester Cathedral @mancathedral.bsky.social The mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's parish church. Inclusive and diverse, bearing witness to the Christian faith through worship, service and discipleship
www.manchestercathedral.org
Religion News @religionnewsblog.com Religion News Blog: Hand-Selected News about religions, cults, sects, and related issues.
If you have experienced spiritual abuse, see: bit.ly/SpiritualAbuse
Finding Faith @kylejhoward.bsky.social “Finding Faith” is a project hosted by theologian & trauma care provider Kyle J. Howard. Its goal is to provide resources, support, & language for Black & POC survivors who have endured spiritual & racial abuse, especially at the hands of evangelicalism.
Mike Neelley @mikeneelley.bsky.social Pastor to a church without walls, spiritual director, writer, hiker
Coventry Haven Women's Aid @covhavenwa.bsky.social Our mission: To ensure the safety and empowerment of women and children who are subjected to Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) in any form.
www.coventryhaven.co.uk
thrivin’ together @thrivintogether.bsky.social Offering #choicevoicechange to UK women impacted by #gambling - led by #women with #livedexperience
www.thrivintogether.org.uk
The STAR Centre @starcentreayrshire.bsky.social The STAR Centre offers free and confidential support to anyone in Ayrshire (13+) that has experienced any type of sexual violence at any time in their lives.
Vida Sheffield @vida-sheffield.bsky.social VIDA have been working for over 30 years to tackle domestic and sexual abuse, and in particular violence against women & girls https://vidasheffield.org.uk/
Woman's Trust @womanstrust.bsky.social We are the mental health specialists within the #VAWG sector, with unrivalled experience providing specialist (and free) mental health services for survivors of domestic abuse. www.womanstrust.org.uk
Liverpool Domestic Abuse Service @ldaservice.bsky.social Community-based organisation that specialises in the support of women and girls who have experienced domestic abuse to live safe and independent lives
Lizzie Longhurst 🏳️🌈 (she/her) @ldoglonghurst.bsky.social Deacon and Priest in the CofE, rector @handsworthstmary.bsky.social, 🌈🌈🌈, trans rights are human rights, own views.
Mthr Sian Clare Parker @sianclare.bsky.social Seeing through a glass darkly; trying to see face to face | erstwhile medievalist | interested in ecopoetics, theopoetics, and common or garden poetics | curate in Llandaf Diocese | Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg | queer | she/her
Tim Sweeting @timsweeting.bsky.social Dad, husband, Jesus follower, Diocesan Secretary for Diocese of Norwich. Sharing about faith, life and mission in Norfolk and Waveney.
@bishopoflynn.bsky.social @bishopoflynn.bsky.social
The Salvation Army UKI @salvationarmyuk.bsky.social
Diocese of York @dioceseofyork.bsky.social A family of nearly 600 churches and 122 schools in 442 parishes committed to the praise of God through Jesus Christ and service to others. Living Christ’s story day by day through our faith and work led by the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell.
Diocese of Bristol @bristoldiocese.org Transforming Churches. Together at over 200 south-west churches including Bristol, Swindon and Chippenham
linktr.ee/dioceseofbristol
Diocese of Norwich @dioceseofnorwich.bsky.social We are the Church of England in Norfolk and Waveney. Serving 550 parishes and 108 schools. Our vision is to be Transformed by Christ: Prayerful, Pastoral and Prophetic.
Diocese of Salisbury @salisbury.anglican.org We're the Church of England across Dorset, Wiltshire & the Channel Islands. Follow us as we live out our vision to Make Jesus Known.
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