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Very glad this ended up being the last show I saw at the fringe. The kind of brilliance that tricks your brain into thinking it’s effortless despite the sheer depth of craft you’re seeing on stage. Leave now, book your ticket on the way, you can make it. Long live RashDash.

Gosh! Thank you SO much for this ❤️Edinburgh has always been so incredibly welcoming &supportive of my work. I feel INCREDIBLY lucky to perform here every time #edfringe Edinburgh Festival Fringe @traverse #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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All done in Edinburgh, but available to tour into your own head (via all good book sellers). ‘I feel so fucking silly but I thought they meant real peace fucking hell Katey I thought they meant that even my body it might stop breaking’ faber.co.uk/product/978057…

Some personal news, I am the Red Ranger.

My Thought for the Day on the autumn equinox, change, and finding God in all things 🍂 (1:22:37) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

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‘Stop looking like a purse.’ A bit late to the #NationalPoetryDay2022 party, but this beautiful creature hopped onto our front step this morning and reminded me of the great Norman MacCaig. Full poem here: heraldscotland.com/life_style/art…

Thrilled to bits to receive a Small Research Grant from Royal Society of Edinburgh to produce a new edition of Scottish Religious Poetry: An Anthology with my wonderful colleagues Professor Alison Jack and Dr Emma Dymock 😊 Work has already started. We can’t wait to share this lovely book!

AKEDAH 10 FEB - 18 MAR 2023 Hampstead Downstairs “We heal people. That’s what we do here. We are a kinship.” hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2023/…

I’m very touched & grateful to be nominated by Edinburgh University Students' Association for an Edinburgh Teaching Award in the category Teacher of the Year 😊 Thank you to my students for their kindness. It’s such a pleasure teaching School of Divinity & #celebratingtogether

My Thought for the Day on the commitment, loyalty and compassion of doctors, nurses and aid workers in Gaza and throughout the world. (1:23:09) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

My thought for the day on my wee girl’s nativity play, childlike faith, and the beauty of the babe in the manger (1:23:30) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

A beautiful poem for the winter solstice, by George Mackay Brown.

My thought for the day on Mr Bates vs The Post Office, storytelling as a way of exploring ethical problems, and the Parable of the Unjust Judge (1:23:00). Plus a little bonus 'byee!' from me over the sport 🤭 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

We are delighted to welcome playwright Michael John O'Neill to #Macrobert as part of ScotSocPlaywrights' #SSP@50 Fellowship Awards He's going to be developing a new piece of verbatim theatre around the closure of Grangemouth Oil Refinery. Watch this space! Supported by Creative Scotland

Thrilled to bits to say that today is publication day for Scottish Religious Poetry: An Anthology 😊 Edited by myself & Alison Jack of School of Divinity & Emma Dymock of CeltScotStudies, this is a brand new, revised edition of the volume ed. by Bateman, Crawford & McGonigal in 2000.

My Prayer for the Day on Seamus Heaney and the meaning of home, inspired by a recent visit to the wonderful Seamus Heaney HomePlace and reflections on small moments of care, attention & grace which illuminate our everyday existence. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Keeping it in the family.