Dr Calida Chu

📚Practical Theology journal is looking for book reviewers!📚

Interested? Contact our book reviews editor, Jayson Rhodes, at practicaltheologybookreviews@gmail.com.

Current books for review include:
"A Heavy Yoke" - Selina Stone
"Decolonizing Mission" - Harvey Kwiyani

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Thanks Alex!

Thanks Graham!

Thanks the SCM team!

Thanks Benjamin!

Thanks to the contact Pastoral Trust, editoral team, and especially our capable editor @dustindbenac.bsky.social, to set up the examples for us all to carry the baton forward.

𝘗𝘛 is strong at its collaboration effort, pastoral insights, and theological input through social scientific methods. I look forward to inheriting these traditions, while expanding our partnership/friendship locally/globally.

Editorial Published in Practical Theology (Vol. 18, No. 3, 2025)

I am late to this announcement (partly because we were in search of the next Associate Editor), but I am happy to announce that I will be promoted as Editor-in-Chief of 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, effective from Jan 2026. @practicaltheology.bsky.social

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Humanities and arts degrees disappearing in parts of UK Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns

Humanities, arts and social sciences degrees are disappearing in many UK regions.

With more young people than ever studying close to home, course cuts are narrowing their choices at university.

@timeshighered.bsky.social covers our 'Cold Spots' report today. Read more at https://bit.ly/46e3wOy

Cover photo of Studies in World Christianity's first issue, edited by James Mackey

Cover photo of Studies in World Christianity's forthcoming issue, edited by Alexander Chow and Emma Wild-Wood

Interested in #WorldChristianity but not sure where to start? Check out THIRTY YEARS of Studies in World Christianity, the premier journal in the field.

@edinburghup.bsky.social has made available articles throughout the years to help us celebrate!

📝 www.euppublishing.com/virtualissue... 1/2

SSCE keynote

Grateful for the engaging conversation about my keynote last week at the SSCE conference at
@yorkstjohn.bsky.social
on trauma-informed #PublicTheology and for how we theologians can assist our church communities to rethink our practices in church, academia, and society.

Our editorial team @practicaltheology.bsky.social is expanding and wishes to appoint an Associate Editor. If this may interest you, please follow the below link for further info: www.biapt.org/news/practic...

Deadline: 15 August

@biaptheology.bsky.social

Our editorial team @practicaltheology.bsky.social is expanding and wishes to appoint an Associate Editor. If this may interest you, please follow the below link for further info: www.biapt.org/news/practic...

Deadline: 15 August

@biaptheology.bsky.social

Open access article @practicaltheology.bsky.social Growing in wisdom in old age- the need to research wisdom from the perspective of older people living in care @biaptheology.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Glad you find it useful.😊

Practical theology writing workshop

Also good to co-lead a workshop with @dustindbenac.bsky.social
about writing for @practicaltheology.bsky.social. Until next year then!

A few wonderful days at the @biaptheology.bsky.social conference at a gorgeous venue with some beautiful souls to hear wisdom from all ages.

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Click on the title to browse this journal

The SSSR Is Looking for its next Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the @jssreligion.bsky.social, to begin service in January 2026, for a four-year term. Join us in advancing knowledge and public understanding of #Religion. Learn more ⬇️ sssreligion.org/announcement...

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Editorial Published in Practical Theology (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2025)

Our special issue on #PracticalTheology and #AI is live. Thanks our guest editors Sabrina Müller, Stephen Garner and Pete Phillips for putting this work together, and our authors for your creative yet distinctive perspective on this topic.

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“Lord’s Prayer tops public recognition poll” on top of image of man sat in prayer.

“The Lord’s Prayer remains a steady guide - perhaps never more so than now." 🙏

Polling carried out showed that The Lord’s Prayer is still more instantly recognised by the British public.

Read the full results of the research at cofe.io/LordsPrayerPoll.

HK activists, diaspora attend Tiananmen anniversary vigils overseas HK activists and the diaspora attended candlelight vigils and other events around the world on Wednesday to mark the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown.

HK activists and the diaspora attended candlelight vigils and other events around the world on Wednesday to mark the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown. In full: buff.ly/dIO1EEN

📣 ICYMI: Yesterday, ARTICLE 19 published a groundbreaking new report revealing how China is silencing protest globally – and how activists are resisting.

🔗 Read the full report: www.article19.org/wp-content/u...

#TNR #China #ProtestRights

Wikipedia is a crowded sourced page. I think you can edit the English version by yourself? (Not to justify the silence but I think we can all improve it to be a better public space)

A logo on white background with grey/blue letters DARE: discernment & radical engagement

NEW on the SCM Press blog: Graham McGeoch of Council for World Mission introduces the new DARE series of books, inspired by Liberation Theology and giving a platform for a range of scholars and voices from the Global South.
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Glad to see that we are able to publish this. It is good to hear how our editorial member has laid the path for us in the field of #PracticalTheology and psychology.

Cross Training Psychology and Theology

Lovely time with the Cross Training Psychology and Theology group as their guest mentor to discuss about #interdisciplinary research, especially in the field of #PracticalTheology.

Collaborate Gap

Also, the summary of the collaborate gap workshops during L4 is now available for download: lausanne.org/statement

#L4Congress

Just heard the news that the State of the Great Commission Report has reached 114K readers. Praise God for this. 👏🏻#L4Congress

My book Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong 1910-45 is out in paperback now 😁 It's now only £29.99 (and a further 20% off discount with the code HIST1525) at shorturl.at/15uJU . Really pleased that it received positive reviews on outlets eg H-Diplo, AHR & Journal of Social History!

In Praise of Fragments Fr. David Tracy, widely regarded as one of the most creative and influential theologians of the past half-century, speaks about his life and work.

The great David Tracy has passed away.

In 2019, Fr. Tracy, widely regarded as one of the most creative and influential theologians of the past half-century, spoke with Commonweal about his life and work.
www.commonwealmagazine.org/praise-fragm...