Tim Howles

"The Politics of the Visual" - my new article on the ethics of photography at a time of ecological crisis: lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/LSRIResearchPa…

@FLCons You have no idea if there are other factors at play here. What if the children are PDA and the mother is making fine discernments about which demands to apply. Your judgmentalism here does you no credit.

You pop into the donut place and you see this from the woman and 2 boys ahead of you. Do you say something or do you mind your business? Now let me ask: Should people START confronting this kind of lack of parenting more often? 🤔

This article from Andrew Tettenborn @TheCriticMag is imaginatively shallow and theologically impoverished. thecritic.co.uk/nonsense-and-n…

@Dr_Dimitra_Fimi Have you read Michel Serres’ book on Thumbelina (2013)?

What exactly is Thumbelina? A female Tom Thumb? A flower-fairy? Or something else altogether? In my latest essay I explore various critical readings before turning to what her tiny size + intriguing ending can tell us about the history of miniature fantasy dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/thumbelina-b…

"Anonymity and Feminist Identity: Simone de Beauvoir’s Agon and Ours" Laura Hengehold edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-anonymity…

"If in practice Christianity is successfully driven out of men, they become not rational liberals, but ideologues." Eric Voegelin, "Liberalism and its History", essay of 1958, in Collected Works XI, p.97.

Andy Burnham's Catholicism won't trouble Rome or Westminster. That's not an accident - it's the whole trick. @theosnick on why "safe" faith might be the only kind that survives frontline politics. churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/…

News || Professor Andrew Davison delivers inaugural lecture on The Creed in Music Read the story: theology.ox.ac.uk/article/profes…

@KingCrawa @thevicarswife Sorry to hear that. Can you say any more? Thanks for the perspective, which is valuable.

@thevicarswife @AimeTim This report should also be taken with a gritters truck worth of salt. Only report I've ever read where I had to contact the authors to ask them to clarify some fairly insulting arguments.

Addressing neurodiversity in the church is the equivalent of "caring for orphans and widows" of the early church: "Fearfully and wonderfully made: a report about the wellbeing of disabled and neurodivergent clergy in the Church of England" #main-content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">churchofengland.org/media/news-and…

Hi @megbasham: wonder if you may be interested in taking a look at this? From the Church of England; I co-wrote it. Thanks and don't worry if you're too busy; I know there's always too much to get to. Best wishes, Tim churchofengland.org/sites/default/…

2. Cited from his 1953 essay "Democracy in the New Europe", in Collected Works XI, p.66

1. Eric Voegelin on the project of European union: "If this attempt does not succeed this time, or if American backing is withdrawn as being hopeless and too expensive, then it requires no particular prophetic skill to predict the end of free European civilisational society".

Important from @WestLondonMan. There is no basis for Christian nationalism in the Bible. And the best kind of political theology is showing that religion, whilst having a critical role in the public sphere, is always operating transversally to nationalism commonly-understood.

James Maynard has been appointed new Regius Professor of Mathematics in Oxford. One of the outstanding talents in mathematics today, James is currently Professor of Number Theory in Oxford. He will succeed Andrew Wiles, our inaugural Regius Professor. maths.ox.ac.uk/node/81648

@thevicarswife Audhd are amongst the most structurally-disadvantaged in our society. Moreover, it is not just that there is a lack of "policy" to address needs, but a fundamental misunderstanding of being that often results in discrimination. Theological anthropology alone can address this.

@AimeTim An interesting analogy. Why do you say that?

@nick_routledge @profntwright Thanks Nick. I think Latour's last book makes this same point. I agree fully. politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…

@AimeTim @profntwright 2/ But ultimately New Creation is a dream, a slogan, a pious halfway house until it takes flesh in repair, restraint, food, labour, habitat and neighbor. Religion has to choose: float into extinction’s drift net, or dig into actual local ground where God makes all things new.

Delighted to be one of the authors of this report - the Church of England's new theological response to the environmental crises: 'Hope for All Creation'. Read here: churchofengland.org/sites/default/…

@megbasham Megan - when was the last time you were in the UK? Have you spent considerable time here, immersed in local and nationl culture, politics, religion and society? I presume you have, as you diagnose supposed meta-trends with great authority. Thank you for answering.

This is what it looks like to be a nation conquered. We must not let it happen to us.

"The true dividing line in the contemporary crisis does not run between liberals and totalitarians, but between religious and philosophical transcendentalists on the one side, and liberal and totalitarian immanentist sectarians on the other." Eric Voegelin, 1953 essay in CW XI

David Bentley Hart on the oft-neglected semicolon 👇 "A writer who disdains the semicolon is a fool. In fact, hostility to this most delicate and lyrical of punctuation marks is a sure sign of a deformed soul and a savage sensibility. Conscious life is not a brute concatenation of discrete units of experience; it is often fluid, resistant to strict divisions and impermeable partitions, punctuated by moments of transition that are neither exactly terminal nor exactly continuous in character. Meaning, moreover, is often held together by elusive connections, ambiguous shifts of reference, mysterious coherences. And art should use whatever instruments it has at its disposal to express these ambiguous eventualities and perplexing alternations. To master the semicolon is to master prose. To master the semicolon is to master language's miraculous capacity for capturing the shape of reality."