Alison Atkinson

Do pubs in the midlands really celebrate Burns Night? Seems unlikely to me. #TheArchers

There's Poppy, Will Grundy's daughter. Someone mentioned her tonight which is probably why she's in your mind #TheArchers

Ian was a meddling nuisance and should have minded his own business.

No, Helen recognised Saskia as the woman who'd been with Rochelle in the cafe, so the police looked back at the CCTV from the cafe to identify her. #TheArchers

Lecturer and Programme Leader – Theology, Music & Worship (0.8 – 1.0 FTE) at London School of Theology Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

Lecturer and Programme Leader – Theology, Music & Worship (0.8 – 1.0 FTE)
London School of Theology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP801/l...

I'm sure I remember Joy and Ruth speaking once about places they knew

*Special episode with Richard Herring and Mark Steel in partnership with Cancer Research UK* <p>This very special episode is brought to you in paid partnership with Cancer Research UK. </p><br><p>At the end of last year, myself, Richard Herring ...

Full marks to Matt Forde, Richard Herring and Mark Steel for this honest, hopeful and personal discussion about cancer. castbox.fm/vb/777473054

Shout out to my fellow Scots on St Andrews Day

Trying to make a damn bit of sense of the assisted dying debate Everything you need to know about a profound change in the law

Wherever you stand on assisted dying, I’d urge you to read this superb, thoughtful, evidence-based piece from @iandunt.bsky.social.

A couple of points to add, from my perspective as an atheist palliative care doctor who opposes legal change at this time 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Verse of the day: "Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to those through whom they come." Luke 17:1

Verse of the day: "No-one can serve two masters .. you cannot serve both God and money." Luke 16:13

The Question    Erm, well – I begin, shifting nervously in my chair –  if it’s true there is no heaven and no hell,   no eternity or long hereafter,   no divine plan or offstage direction from an invisible hand,  then how do we make sense of it all,  how do we make our way through this life, this glorious, ridiculous, ramshackle world of ours,  with its wars and brutality, conflicts and petty arguments,  the ten thousand tiny acts of kindness   which happen unnoticed before breakfast,  and all that love and pain, happiness and loneliness  that comes to us unannounced, by turns,   as if we ourselves were pitched daily   onto the waves of one of its vast, mysterious oceans,  not knowing whether today is the day we drown  or we find ourselves washed up   on some strange but friendly shore?     Mmm – you say, after a lengthy silence –  what I meant was … do you have any questions   about the job?  Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘The Question’.

Verse of the day: "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who do not need to repent." Luke 15:7

Verse of the day from my morning reading: "Whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple." Lk.14:27.
Jesus is not someone who says what people want to hear.

Happy to have joined Blue-sky which seems a nice place. Found some good political engagement. Where are the Christian feminists?