Edward Nickell

YouTube video by Sea of Faith Network SOF In Conversation September 2025

A recent 20 minute discussion starter for the @seaoffaithnetwork.bsky.social - Exploring Human Flourishing as Secular Spirituality - linking to spirituality as understood by the late Don Cupitt. sofn.uk/event/explor...
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Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Screenshot of a reddit post asking on r/Anglicanism if its ok to have portraits of the Jacobite Pretenders on their home altar as an Anglican

Meanwhile on Anglican reddit...

It was great to be part of the discussion and offer a perspective as both a parishioner of @churchofengland.org and a member of @seaoffaithnetwork.bsky.social and @humanists.uk - there are lots of people for whom the church is significant even if they dont hold typical Christian beliefs.

Parishioner @cestnickell.bsky.social said he'd like an Archbishop to believe in a "truly national church, a service for everyone ... Lots of non-religious people like a sacred space - the music and the culture of the church - but feel they can't go because they don't believe the right things."

RMC media briefing today, 16 September 12:00 - Rosie Dawson hosts a discussion on candidates for the next Archbishop of Canterbury with @tswyatt.bsky.social @phrancismartin.bsky.social, @cestnickell.bsky.social, Susie Leafe, Rev Prof Andrew Atherstone, Rev Angela Sheard, Bishop Humphrey Southern

🚨 BREAKING | 1,339 people have now been arrested on "terrorism" charges in 2025, with almost all of them busted for holding signs at pro-Palestine protests.

This is more than any year on record, by far.

(Source: Home Office)

Whatever your views of Palestine Action, considering that we have people attempting to set alight to hotels housing people seeking asylum, attacks on minorities, backlogs for sexual assault cases etc etc, can we not agree that this is a massive overreaction by the Met?

Congratulations to Her Grace Cherry Vann and @churchinwales.bsky.social Cherry has been a member of the Sea of Faith and a SOF local group, as well as Patron of @opentablelgbt.bsky.social

Congratulations to Her Grace Cherry Vann and @churchinwales.bsky.social Cherry has been a member of the Sea of Faith and a SOF local group, as well as Patron of @opentablelgbt.bsky.social

Yea I want to have just one summer of my life to experience it and then go back to normal. But I just lack the will power.

A duck walked up to the lemonade stand and he said to the terf running the stand, “hey, bom bom bom, got any grapes?”

The terf said “no, just lemonade, but do you have a penis or a vagina? No vagina, no glass”

The duck said “I’ll pass”

The terf said “NO YOU DON’T WE CAN ALWAYS TELL”

Education for this life - Sea of Faith Network Thursday 24 and Friday 25 July in London.

Great to hear Ruth Marx talking about Scopes Monkey Trial on latest RE Podcast. Find out more about the Trial, the value of curiosity, and much more, at this year’s SOF conference, ‘Education For This Life’, with Denise Cush, Michael Reiss, Philippa Hulme and Louisa Jane Smith: sofn.uk/conference

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He was so great at Melfest weekend 😁

It’s been a while since I worked in health policy, but then question of what is going to happen to ICSs in the latest revamp of the NHS has been bothering me. Interesting to see discussion of it here

It's one of those days where you casually take a look at BBC News during your coffee break and find out your employer is being abolished... #NHSEngland

I keep meaning to print a t-shirt with the slogan 'Man-made god, man-made money, man-made borders'. If people thought of these things as changeable human creations, not natural facts, how different people's attitudes to religion, social justice and migration would be!

Love how many people on this London to Stockholm flight are clearly travelling for #melodifestivalen

Can we trust they'll think of this or should you write to them? You're the only person I've seen post this

Yea i really hope this is their answer!

The BBC are kants for this

Weird trope I've noticed in industry press-releases - use of the phrase 'penetrating the NHS' to announce they've got a contract in a hospital.

Nor have you been martyred, thankfully!

This reminds me of a line from the poem Zero Hour 'La sangria del martir se extendio como una flor de hibisco'

I think it might be a legal thing to mean it technically is 'skill based' and not gambling

Linda and Eimear gently crooning away and then in smashes Niamh with a Patti Lupone belt, love it! #eurosong

There is some weird tempo changes and clipped beats in Emmi's Laika party and I'd love to know what the reasoning is. It's really interesting. #eurosong

Top for me on #eurosong is Bobbi Arlo
Then Niyl and Samantha's My Way
Then Adgy, Emmi and Fire.
I just didn't find Laika party as much of a bop as I'd normally find that kind of song. Niyl's growth is the one that grew on me most. I think the sound mixing really did Bobbi dirty.

The sound levels are just awful on the broadcast and I'm glad Bambie called it out at the very start