Graham Kings
@grahamkings.bsky.social
Bishop, theologian & poet, enjoying retirement in Cambridge, grandchildren & writing. Hon Assistant Bishop, Diocese of Ely, & Senior Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide. https://www.grahamkings.org/ https://www.cccw.cam.ac.uk
Oh to create a mosaic sphere, from shards of stained glass; fragmented and gathered, chosen and precious, translucent, transformed, fastened & framed. Out of destruction; lit from within, reflected outside, turning and turning, falling and rising. Church.
Rosemary Griggs@ragriggsauthor.bsky.social · 4d agoThe unusual tracery in the Bishops eye window in Lincoln Cathedrsl resembles two leaves and was re- built in 1330. It contains randomly arranged fragments of medieval glass from windows smashed by Cromwell’s soldiers in 1644 . #StainedGlassSunday
Jonathan Clarke’s 2002 #sculpture, ‘Ascension Day’, on loan to St Mary’s Church #Islington since 2003. My new poem expounding it, ‘Arc of #Ascension’, is here: www.grahamkings.org/poem/clarke-...
My new #poem, ‘Arc of #Ascension’. It expounds Acts 1.6-11 and the #sculpture, ‘Ascension Day’ by Jonathan Clarke (2002), which has been on loan to St Mary’s Church, #Islington, #London, since 2003.
Nourishing Connections- Clarke Sculpture: Arc of Ascension
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‘#Uefa to boycott World Cup in protest against #Fifa sell-off’. Solidarity of Europeans sinks World Cup sale! www.thetimes.com/article/fa13...
Uefa to boycott World Cup in protest against Fifa sell-off
European governing body takes decision at crisis meeting in move likely to trigger collapse of Gianni Infantino’s scheme to sell stakes in tournament to private investors
thetimes.com
Today the Church of England commemorates the abolitionists Olaudah #Equiano (aka Gustavus Vassa), William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. My Radio 4 programme on Equiano is here: A fine article by Prof Vicky Avery (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) is here: www.museums.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/10...
Nourishing Connections- BBC Radio 4 talk on Olaudah Equiano
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Part of the west door into Ely Cathedral within the Galilee Porch. This porch is thought to have been built in either the 12th or 13th centuries. #AdoorableThursday
Health Foundation has found public support for funding reform but only once people “understand current system”’. Current chaotic #socialcare - 16,500 care homes: 85% for profit, many small family-run businesses & some private equity big chains that will not be part of the new care service.’
The chaos in the current #socialcare system is the legacy of Mrs #Thatcher, writes Polly Toynbee @theguardian.com . After a 1988 report, she ‘effectively ordered councils to close their own care homes and services, outsourcing them to the private sector, and closed #NHS #geriatric care wards.’ 1/2
#Farage is not a Member of Parliament. Let that sink in…
How a 13th-Century Monk Created a Prayer Manuscript by Writing Over—and Accidentally Preserving—Archimedes’ Groundbreaking Mathematical Works
How a 13th-Century Monk Created a Prayer Manuscript by Writing Over—and Accidentally Preserving—Archimedes’ Groundbreaking Mathematical Works
In Jerusalem of the year 1229, there lived a Greek Orthodox monk named Johannes Myronas.
openculture.com
Emily Wilson’s fine @lrb.co.uk review of Christopher Nolan’s epic film is full of twists and turns.
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
lrb.co.uk
This is how to help save life on our planet. Australia now has 40% of housing with solar panels & are supplying 50% of their power usage for free & by next year they estimate all domestic electricity usage will be free. C'mon America you can do it. Stop using life destroying, dirty fossil fuels.
Phenomenal news about #OpenAccess from @universitypress.cambridge.org ! Congrats.
Cambridge reaches milestone as 75 percent of journal articles become open access
Cambridge University Press has reached a significant milestone in its transition to open access (OA), with 75 percent of its research articles to be published OA in 2026 and 50 percent of its journals...
cambridge.org
Saw ‘The Tempest’ in the gardens of Downing College, Cambridge, last night. Fine production. Deeply disturbing to come face to face with Prospero’s #racism and #colonialism. Caliban was played brilliantly by a black actor and, in the text, is repeatedly called ‘monster’ by Trinculo and Stephano. 1/N
Still available today! scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
Go-Between God New edition by John V. Taylor, Jonny Baker - Paperback / softback - 9780334060147
Buy Go-Between God New edition by John V. Taylor, Jonny Baker Paperback / softback from SCM Press - ISBN: 9780334060147
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Graham Kings@grahamkings.bsky.social · last wk.My favourite modern description of #Jesus, from John V Taylor’s ‘Go-between God’ (SCM, 1972) - copied out in the late 1970s.
My favourite modern description of #Jesus, from John V Taylor’s ‘Go-between God’ (SCM, 1972) - copied out in the late 1970s.
‘Inside the London borough that has banned phones from all schools.’ Let’s hope that this will become as normal as compulsory seat belts in cars.
Inside the London borough that has banned phones from all schools
Pupils in Barnet are said to be happier, more sociable, better behaved and their academic results have improved — and they don’t miss their phones
thetimes.com
‘Senior officials in the #Trump administration are reported to have told the president about dwindling munitions stockpiles that could hamper a sustained military campaign in the region.’ Incontrovertible #reality bites #Trump. #Iran
US pauses Iran attacks for second night after Trump advised to halt bombing
Top military officials say campaign has reached its limit of effectiveness and warn of dwindling stocks of munitions
theguardian.com
"The decision to freeze the account of a political party has no known precedent in modern times." www.thetimes.com/article/48c9...
Reform UK’s bank account was frozen after Cottrell donations
Nigel Farage’s party could not make or receive payments for two weeks during the 2024 general election campaign, The Sunday Times can reveal
thetimes.com
The Bodleian Library bought a supposedly 14thC gospel-book for £6 at auction at Sotheby’s #OTD in 1887. Scholar Lucy Hill, 22, found the added poem on leaf 2 echoed a tale in Turgot’s Life of St Margaret, and identified the book as that of the Scottish queen’s. 📸Bodleian Library
This article manifests the importance of keeping up pressure against #Trump concerning #Epstein. Trump has stopped backing #Tate and his brother because of the Epstein cloud surrounding Trump.
Trump distances himself from ‘toxic’ Tate brothers after ...
The president reportedly wants no involvement in the case of the siblings, who were detained in Miami last weekend and face extradition to the UK on 59 criminal charges
observer.co.uk
