Mark Porter
@markporter.co.uk
Sometimes post about my research (music/religion/ecology), sometimes about other things.
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In this very interesting article for "Youth and Policy" Naomi Thompson reflects on some of the outcomes of an international Symposium about ‘Faith and Spirituality in the Wake of Scandal’ that's been held at our faculty in June.
www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/fai...
www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/fai...
Faith and spirituality in the wake of scandal – implications for youth work
Naomi Thompson: faith, abuse, church, safeguarding, youth work, young people.
www.youthandpolicy.org
September 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
In this very interesting article for "Youth and Policy" Naomi Thompson reflects on some of the outcomes of an international Symposium about ‘Faith and Spirituality in the Wake of Scandal’ that's been held at our faculty in June.
www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/fai...
www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/fai...
Better blacklist their future film appearances
September 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Better blacklist their future film appearances
This event really makes the connection between the worship music industry and Christian nationalism pretty unavoidable
September 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This event really makes the connection between the worship music industry and Christian nationalism pretty unavoidable
So the schools on my island have gone from cutting back on extracurricular music as I grew up to now using music in a way that can be compared to "the TV drama Squid Game, where contestants play lethal rounds of musical statues" leaving an autistic student petrified
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cowes college
New rules on toilet use and time between lessons has upset parents and pupils at an academy school.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
So the schools on my island have gone from cutting back on extracurricular music as I grew up to now using music in a way that can be compared to "the TV drama Squid Game, where contestants play lethal rounds of musical statues" leaving an autistic student petrified
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"we noticed how depressing your writing seems to be at the moment"
September 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"we noticed how depressing your writing seems to be at the moment"
Such a tempting way to buy an ebook
September 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Such a tempting way to buy an ebook
Theoretically I'm behind projects like Libreoffice. In practice, I need it to stop doing things like this before it feels usable.
August 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Theoretically I'm behind projects like Libreoffice. In practice, I need it to stop doing things like this before it feels usable.
"we're your bank, please talk to our AI about your personal data" just seems an incredibly bad idea.
August 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"we're your bank, please talk to our AI about your personal data" just seems an incredibly bad idea.
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Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
www.youtube.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
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#Podcast: Wie kann man eigentlich noch hoffen trotz der vielen Krisen in der Welt? Für "Hörenswertes im Bistum Erfurt haben wir Elisabeth Höftberger, Dominique-Marcel Kosack und @markporter.co.uk interviewt, die zu Hoffnung angesichts der Klimakrise forschen.
bistum-erfurt.podigee.io/206-hoffnung...
bistum-erfurt.podigee.io/206-hoffnung...
Hoffnung angesichts der Klimakrise?
Was kann Theologie an Antworten liefern zu den allgemeinen Krisen? Braucht es ein neues Verständnis von Hoffnung?
bistum-erfurt.podigee.io
July 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#Podcast: Wie kann man eigentlich noch hoffen trotz der vielen Krisen in der Welt? Für "Hörenswertes im Bistum Erfurt haben wir Elisabeth Höftberger, Dominique-Marcel Kosack und @markporter.co.uk interviewt, die zu Hoffnung angesichts der Klimakrise forschen.
bistum-erfurt.podigee.io/206-hoffnung...
bistum-erfurt.podigee.io/206-hoffnung...
There's an England/Spain extra time/bishop of Fulham mashup meme to be done somewhere.
July 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
There's an England/Spain extra time/bishop of Fulham mashup meme to be done somewhere.
Disappointed in whoever reverted this wikipedia image edit
July 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Disappointed in whoever reverted this wikipedia image edit
Is Ocado some kind of undercover vampire conspiracy?
July 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Is Ocado some kind of undercover vampire conspiracy?
Another lovely review of the book in @readingreligion.bsky.social
readingreligion.org/978033406568...
readingreligion.org/978033406568...
![In a polarizing world, Porter offers a thoughtful and timely contribution that moves beyond finding the “right answers” and instead focuses on finding contextually appropriate responses. […] He convincingly argues for the value of considering this diversity in practice, resisting efforts to reduce musical innovation into uniformity. […] For the practitioner, Porter offers an overview of musical responses to the climate crisis. For the academic working on ritual, liturgy, and/or hymnology, the work provokes further consideration of power relations in music and the meaning of ritual within contexts where action and transformation are desired.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3spqfqe3c5yyhcdvxr7lbvmk/bafkreifkob2tauqmurt5x6uhvuqzudf6xqvpn7unc6cucq7twmycwkt3ye@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Another lovely review of the book in @readingreligion.bsky.social
readingreligion.org/978033406568...
readingreligion.org/978033406568...
The draft programme for this year's Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Conference: congregationalmusic.org/programme
Programme | Christian Congregational Music: Local & Global Perspectives
The initial draft of the programme is now available. Please write to conference@congregationalmusic.org with any corrections or queries
congregationalmusic.org
June 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The draft programme for this year's Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Conference: congregationalmusic.org/programme
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🗓️ We cordially invite you to @tanyariches.bsky.social Monday Lecture on "Scandal or Crime? Media Narratives and Survivor Complaint Testimonies in Australian Megachurches" on the 23rd of June at 4:15 pm. Everyone is welcome and there is no registration required. www.uni-erfurt.de/katholisch-t...
Scandal or Crime? Media Narratives and Survivor Complaint Testimonies in Australian Megachurches
Vortrag von Tanya Riches im Rahmen der Monday Lectures
www.uni-erfurt.de
June 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🗓️ We cordially invite you to @tanyariches.bsky.social Monday Lecture on "Scandal or Crime? Media Narratives and Survivor Complaint Testimonies in Australian Megachurches" on the 23rd of June at 4:15 pm. Everyone is welcome and there is no registration required. www.uni-erfurt.de/katholisch-t...
Frustrating how no-one ever cites the publications that would boost my h-index. I just want one or two more citations of a couple of the less-popular articles... it can't be that hard.
June 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Frustrating how no-one ever cites the publications that would boost my h-index. I just want one or two more citations of a couple of the less-popular articles... it can't be that hard.
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Book Review of:
For The Warming Of The Earth: Music, faith and ecological crisis, by Mark Porter, June 2024. SCM Press, ISBN 978-0-334-06568-5, 214 pages. RRP £40 (paperback)
For The Warming Of The Earth: Music, faith and ecological crisis, by Mark Porter, June 2024. SCM Press, ISBN 978-0-334-06568-5, 214 pages. RRP £40 (paperback)
For The Warming Of The Earth – Book Review – Green Christian
Green Christian
buff.ly
May 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Book Review of:
For The Warming Of The Earth: Music, faith and ecological crisis, by Mark Porter, June 2024. SCM Press, ISBN 978-0-334-06568-5, 214 pages. RRP £40 (paperback)
For The Warming Of The Earth: Music, faith and ecological crisis, by Mark Porter, June 2024. SCM Press, ISBN 978-0-334-06568-5, 214 pages. RRP £40 (paperback)
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Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"
Such an interesting claim (from a doctoral thesis by Melanie L. Williams).
May 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Such an interesting claim (from a doctoral thesis by Melanie L. Williams).
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Excellent stuff, @markporter.co.uk!
Nice review of my @scmpress.bsky.social book in the latest issue of @greenchristian.org.uk magazine
May 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Excellent stuff, @markporter.co.uk!
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'Carefully and clearly written debate' - order your copy here:
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
May 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
'Carefully and clearly written debate' - order your copy here:
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
Nice review of my @scmpress.bsky.social book in the latest issue of @greenchristian.org.uk magazine
May 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Nice review of my @scmpress.bsky.social book in the latest issue of @greenchristian.org.uk magazine
Not the worst choice of nickname
May 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Not the worst choice of nickname