We’ve been ranked 8th in the World for Theology, Divinity & Religious Studies as part of the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025! 🎉 These rankings analysed the reputation & research of over 5,200 institutions with 1,747 being ranked across different subject areas.

🔈 JOB ALERTS!!! 🔈 The Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London is seeking to appoint three new roles: Lecturer in Hebrew Bible, Lecturer in Religion, Politics and Ethics and Lecturer in New Testament, Gender and the Arts. Deadline: 27th April 2025

To all friends In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free. In this post, we share with you links to films you can view and share to get our message out to the world: • A collection

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We are delighted to welcome Prof Susannah Cornwall as the new Vice-President of SST Susannah will serve the next year as Vice-President, and then 2 years as President. #SST2025

The theme for #SST2027 is “Theology”! Exploring what theology is, what it is for, who does it, how they do it, where they do it… more info to follow. Meanwhile, #SST2026 is on “Theology: A Discipline of Failure” - calls for papers will be out later this year! #SST2025

#SST2025 is over and what a time it’s been. Chairing this session was my highlight. Prof Dianne Stewart set a high bar not only for excellent scholarship/teaching, but for generosity in sharing her experience and wisdom with us all week. What a gift. Now for a long nap!

Prof Miroslav Volf will deliver Gifford Lectures entitled ‘Amor Mundi: God and the Character of Our Relation to the World’ in Aberdeen 12-20 May, 2025. All five talks also live-streamed freely but registration required for access. You can do this here: abdn.site/OHL6d

I had the pleasure of giving a keynote on abuses of power and Christian credibility in public life, at a gathering of US business, faith, legal and charity leaders in Oxford this month. It was a real privilege - thanks for the invitation Dr. Antipas L. Harris !

Next week I am excited to take part in a panel hosted by Baylor University celebrating 100 years of DuBois’ ‘The Gift of Black Folk’. You can register here: library.web.baylor.edu/dubois

Coming August 2025!

Proofs for my upcoming book, 𝐵𝑒𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, have arrived! It's due out with T&T Clark in November, and you can pre-order it here: bloomsbury.com/uk/befriending…

Super excited to be starting as a John W. Kluge Center Research Fellow at the Library of Congress this week. Thanks to those at Durham who supported me when applying for this AHRC grant, and to everyone School of Divinity who has helped behind the scenes. Let the fun begin!

What a great story and picture Anna Rowlands ! I have a huge smile on my face reading this. Truly lovely. bbc.com/news/articles/…

And a reminder of August's hotly awaited book from Dr Selina Stone! A Heavy Yoke: Theology, Power and Abuse in the Church is available to pre-order now. Watch this space for more on this soon... scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/97803340…

Have you heard about this upcoming event featuring Bishop Mariann Budde, Sam Wells, Mark Oakley, Charlie Bączyk-Bell 🏳️‍🌈, Dr Selina Stone, Isabelle Hamley and David Runcorn?

Announcing the official book launch of A Heavy Yoke by Dr Selina Stone (Dr Selina Stone), taking place in London on Thursday the 11th September at 6:30pm. A limited number of free tickets drop this Friday at 3pm on the SCM Press website Events page.

New Blog! In this week's piece we ask Dr Selina Stone , author of the upcoming A Heavy Yoke: Theology, Power and Abuse in the Church, questions about her new book. She tells us what inspired her to write A Heavy Yoke and summarises its key themes. Head over to our website to read!