A story from Oxford Faculty of Theology & Religion about the public engagement and educational work of an MPhil student – Daniel Kim – with the wonderful ChristianStory project he was so influential in starting.

Any MP who votes for the Terminally Ill Adults Bill is saying they know better than the Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal College of Pathologists, the former Chief Coroner, Liberty, the EHRC, the former President of the Family Court …

My book arrived today, first time I've held it in my hands! Oxford University Press Oxford Academic Get the free pdf at josephusandjesus.com

Today Wes Streeting has shared publicly his concerns about yesterday's AD vote. I agree with every word. Each £ of money used to fund dying will be a £ removed from NHS & palliative care - which is already in desperately short supply for terminally ill patients. This is the care

To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

New exam question: “They have been fighting each other so long, they don’t know what the f*** they are doing” (President Trump, 2025). Discuss with reference to Roman-Persian warfare in the sixth and seventh centuries.

Have you heard the Nicene Creed in Old English? How recognisable is it to us today? This summer, we are celebrating the 1700th birthday of the Nicene Creed, one of the most enduring statements of Christian faith. 📜 Find out more at cofe.io/NiceneCreed.

🔴 Ignorance and indifference are at the heart of attempts to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius | Writes Tomiwa Owolade Read more here 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/2…

The Christian monk from Mesopotamia who penned the Zuqnin Chronicle in 775 knows of Pepin (Charlemagne's father) in distant Francia and calls him king of the Romans: "And over the Romans rules Pipinus (ܘܥܠ ܪܗ̈ܘܡܝܐ ܬܘܒ ܡܡܠܟ ܦܦܢܣ)". [faint traces of his name are in the red square]

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Oxford coded graffiti

King Clovis and his Franks goes back in time and saves Jesus from crucifixion (“If I had been there with my Franks, I would have revenged his wrongs!”)

These four books form a sort of unified quartet in my mind, of which the fact that they all feature talking animals is in fact oddly secondary to the core sensibility that unites them

Cutting ourselves off from the past is one of the worst forms of isolationism

Learning what it means to kill your darlings 🥲 almost finished whittling down a 45k chapter to <19k - question is, do I still keep in the paragraph on carnivorous horses?

Jonathan 🎄 Is this the best music video ever? m.youtube.com/watch?v=DAr7Ka…

7th-13th century mail and lamellar, from Transoxania and the Tarim Basin

ADF militants (affiliated to the Islamic State) hacked at least 40 people to death inside a church in Ituri in eastern Congo over the weekend, according to the Congolese army. The UN puts the death toll at 43 people.

I enjoyed reviewing Justin Marozzi’s excellent new history of slavery in the Islamic world for Engelsberg Ideas

This might be the best Fatimid ivory plaque I've seen. It's one of four thought to have been a book frame from Egypt. The details are impressive (ALT).