I am really, really not an animal person, and I don't even know if this is a cricket or a grasshopper, but I still called it "honey" while gently hoiking it off the door with a convenient trowel

adults, go wild

Do join us CRASSH, Cambridge on 26th & 27th September for an event showcasing research into the Bible Society Collections and discussing its future Cambridge University Cambridge University Library Bible Society Papers can be submitted until August 25th and registration opens shortly

The teenage boys on the bus are discussing: who's picked the most boring A-levels; AI; world liable to end by 2040; Tottenham/Arsenal comparison

I am working on the subskill of promoting academic events on social media. Please do share with any colleagues and acquaintances with bible-related book-historical interests!

Christian summer festival season. If you, like me, have incredibly mixed feelings about Christian summer festivals, or if you love them and can't imagine feeling at all twitchy about them, please do read my book, When the Music Fades, out in 2026 Canterbury Press

Ben's writing is so great, even or perhaps especially when he is doing it in the middle of a mad journey

This is so utterly enraging

next up in twenty-first century syncretism, Christian Zeus prepares a mighty thunderbolt

Here's hoping:

Congratulations to all the people (because surely, statistically speaking, they must be out there) who picked up their phones today to update the world on their own joyful recent engagement and thought oh crap

Registration is open for 'The Future of Research in Bible Society Collections', 26-27 September 2025 CRASSH, Cambridge. Unwaged and one-day options are available, and please do get in touch with us if you would like to listen in from afar online! onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-an…

From which we derive the English proverb, 'Four banana three banana two banana one / All bananas playing in the bright warm sun / tra la la, la la la la / tra la la, la la la la'