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Elizabeth Oldfield

@elizabetholdfield.bsky.social

“You shall love your crooked neighbour/With your crooked heart” Auden Writer, podcast host, coach ElizabethOldfield.com

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Elizabeth Oldfield@elizabetholdfield.bsky.social · last yr.

Please can we have moratorium on novels which slowly reveal a characters trauma related to the death of a parent/sibling/child. There must be other ways to make characters psychologically complex and interesting. I can spot it a mile off now and I’m bored

A Rachel for all seasons (she/her)@nerak3l.eurosky.social · last yr.

Liked this from @elizabetholdfield.bsky.social “Commit in some way. Make it more than a vague intention …Humans have an almost limitless capacity for self-justification and self-deception. Alone, we are pretty crap at living by our principles & values” morefullyalive.substack.com/p/what-to-do...

What to do if you can’t go AI Sober

Some questions to help you stay loyal to your values as AI accelerates

morefullyalive.substack.com

Elizabeth Oldfield@elizabetholdfield.bsky.social · last yr.

“Brutally honest” is one of the most regular things people say about the book and it makes me so glad. We spend so much time tiptoeing around the truth, tidying ourselves up for others to stay safe and it just deadens our common life. Note: being brutally honest is not the same as being an A-hole.

Cees Dekker@ceesdekker.bsky.social · last yr.

Just read this book 'Fully alive' by ‪@elizabetholdfield.bsky.social‬. What a great book: intelligent, brutally honest, humorous, presenting her wisdom of life, sharing her faith in God, and all that written in real beautiful English phrasing, 200% in the cultural language of 2025. Recommended!

Anthony Oliveira@meakoopa.bsky.social · last yr.

my favourite miracle is when jesus is healing the blind guy with his spit and he fully does the "better or worse?" optometrist thing a few times til he gets it right and the dude is like "i can KIND of see people but they look like spooky trees walking??" and jesus is like "ok almost there one sec"

Martin Wroe@martinwroe.bsky.social · last yr.

A rare acceptable explanation for a long church service. 'Under an ancient Dutch convention that prohibits the state from entering a church in service, the Open Hof has for the past 192 days been running a continuous service to protect the Babayants family.' observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Dutch church shelters migrant family with 192-day service

Open Hof church in Kampen is providing sanctuary to a family facing deportation by using an ancient law to prevent police entering the building

observer.co.uk

Chine McDonald@chinemcdonald.bsky.social · last yr.

Integration requires willingness from refugees, but also structures, institutions, people who can support that integration. In June, @theosthinktank.bsky.social launches @glapshynov.bsky.social's 👌 report showing how the Church moves beyond welcome to help forced migrants integrate holistically.

Luke Tryl@luketryl.bsky.social · last yr.

But a proper integration strategy needs proper investment - and stopping seeing it as something 'other people have to do'. The public want to see more efforts to encourage integration - BUT overwhelmingly reject the notion it's something that is just the responsibility of minorities.

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · last yr.

People are like "is the Pope left wing or right wing?" and I hate to break it to you but you cannot place a Pope's politics onto a simple line like that. In fact, the kind of space onto which you can plot the politics of a Pope requires a degree in Quantum Physics to even begin to understand.

Chine McDonald@chinemcdonald.bsky.social · last yr.

"When you have a spiritual, moral & relational crisis, the job is to shift the culture.... Culture changes when a creative minority find a beautiful way to live. Culture changes when a small group of people find a better way to live and the rest of us copy." David Brooks speaking beautifully at #ARC