Previously, only our JLCDS special issue introduction was available for free. However, The University of Aberdeen has made the article by @zoestrong.bsky.social open access 😁 You might want to take a look - it's really good....

Naomi L. Jacobs@naomijacobs.bsky.social · yesterday

Delighted to share @zoestrong.bsky.social 's dyslexic autoethnography on barriers to the Bible, from our special issue on religion & disability, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (open access). Visual summaries coming soon! #DisabilityTheology abdn.elsevierpure.com/en/publicati...

Yep, am definitely excited 😄 Cannot wait to listen to Dr Hall Sharp in person (online).

Feminist Theology Network@feministtheology.bsky.social · 4w ago

Personally so excited by the upcoming FTN online event - so much so I need to tell you now! Rev Dr Kamilah Hall Sharp's book, Trauma and Survival in the Hebrew Bible is brilliant and she is going to be online with us in October!

Current "handbag book" is coming in handy tonight whilst I wait in the reception during R's handball practice. So far it's really insightful... definitely setting me up to not get bored for the next two hours 😄

Out now! Special issue of JLCDS, edited by @krysiawally.bsky.social, @naomijacobs.bsky.social and myself. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/jlcds/20/3

Happy moment of the afternoon - discovering your work forms part of a chapter in someone's PhD thesis. Like named and everything. I feel noticed 😁

Summer afternoon in Liverpool - taking an hour before the kiddos get back from their various trips.

Ended up sitting next to a uni classmate from my first degree on the train back to Liverpool this afternoon. Was surprising but a brilliant conversation (we both had PhDs but had gone in very different directions. So, no, I did not start reading my EABS acquisitions 😂

Short pause in the journey home from EABS. First time working in the British Library 😁

Today is 'Bodies of Communication' day at #eabs2026 😁 (totally worth a smiley face emoji)

First new discovery of #eabs2026. Beginning of the "random food to take home" side quest.

Joint paper with @melissacmtan.bsky.social is now written and ready for #eabs2026 Now I just need to finish packing (with a broken washing machine) ...

Today was my book review day. This book = totally not what I expected, but my brain is 🤯 (blown) in a "how did I not think this before" and a "when you take it to the real implications..." sort of a way. Interdisciplinary and different in style to what I am used to. Now to write the actual review...

Dr Emma Swai@emmajoyswai.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When you are actually excited to review a book... I mean, it's beautiful and I haven't even opened it yet.

Thank you for being brilliant @alexianafry.bsky.social - I will be digging about in my "handbag book" for your stuff on Vashti now x You were a dream to host.

Feminist Theology Network@feministtheology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Don't forget we have this tonight!! If you aren't on our mailing list, and so do not have the link, join our community: feministtheologynetwork.org Event links have gone out on the weekly newsletter this week. Any problems: message via the WhatsApp community or ask in the writing room this pm.

It's a really surreal experience when your eldest is looking at which university he wants to go to. Unfortunately he's not a theology bunny, so I will be sitting in on Computer Science and Maths tomorrow without a clue. At least it's Manchester, the app works, and I know where the coffee shops are 😁

So this is out in the world! And I get to shout out so many people whose work I admire too (not that they need it) 😀

When you are actually excited to review a book... I mean, it's beautiful and I haven't even opened it yet.

I told you it was going to be awesome. I did. Now I am allowed to saw who (and, yes, the book is fab 😊)

Now we have quite a strong stomach for comedy in our house, but I was beyond disappointed by Lizzo in The Roast of Kevin Hart. When your teenager turns and says, twice in the set, "Isn't that ableism, Mum?" and there's no way it can be identified as anything else...

When your bank holiday "just for funsies" reading arrives 😁

And off I go to the Leeds Disability Studies Conference 2026 for a panel on religion with @krysiawally.bsky.social, @naomijacobs.bsky.social and Brian Irvine. @mbrandonmassey.bsky.social , I am publicising 'Rewriting Jesus: Forgotten Pasts and Possible Futures' as promised!

The latest of our Practical Theology collab articles is out now! This one is by the awesome @karenod.bsky.social so you know you need to read it. It's genuinely fabulous and also outlines a bit of how the FTN came to be, a tweet from a sun lounger and here we are: practicaltheologyhub.com?p=2081

Ten Commitments Of A Feminist Theologian - Practical Theology Hub

I was sitting opposite one of my PhD supervisors, having just attempted to dismiss the entire genre of feminist theology as not relevant to my project when my radicalisation began. I had grown up in a...

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From the Female Corporeality and Religion Conference in Leuven to finally being out there (and open access).... You can download my article 'Restricted More as a Daughter: The Interaction between Gender and Disability in the Gospel of Luke' now: poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...

And the countdown is on... FTN expert panel on publishing is next week, so add Tuesday night to your diary.

Last one from me today, promise. We have been asked to post our upcoming events calendar on here, so your wish is my command... To quote the Lego Movie, "Everything is awesome..." - I genuinely can't pick my favourite, so just come to everything!

From a friend: While the national news is focusing on protests in Minneapolis, ICE is systematically moving info smaller cities in the area, namely Shakopee, Jordan, and Savage with efforts targeted at restaurants, construction sites, schools, and hospitals.

So way back at the Female Corporeality and Religion Conference, I said I was going to turn this into an article. Just to prove I actually did...

So it "finally" arrived through my door. I am actually really proud of this chapter, purely because I wanted to open up on the fact that experience changes exegetes (even if we like to pretend it doesn't). Thank you @davidbolt13.bsky.social for giving me a soap box to stand on!

FTN advent reading group! Asynchronous, i.e. whenever in the day/week you like, so we can join together over different time zones without me messing up the clock... Totally shouting out to our members across the various oceans 😊

Just finished speaking with the online crew at @sthild.org - what a welcoming learning group. Had a fabulous time and they let me get on my soap box a bit! By the end of the teaching session I was pulling book recommendations off my shelf....

Julia Watts Belser was so good at Disability and Church last weekend, I sort of had to...