Peter Kevern
@pkevern.bsky.social
Catholic. Professor at University of Staffordshire, UK, where my research centres on the interface between religion and social care. Theologian, author of "Touching God: Dementia and the Bodies of Christ" (Cascade/Wipf & Stock 2025)
A dictatorial Executive employing discredited managerial techniques to bully a demoralized workforce. Proleterianised academics having to massage grades to fulfil pointless KPIs that will produce a generation of students with discredited degrees.
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Backlash at BCU: the divisive reign of David Mba
The vice chancellor says he's bringing much needed change - and anyone who disagrees can get out of his way
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September 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A dictatorial Executive employing discredited managerial techniques to bully a demoralized workforce. Proleterianised academics having to massage grades to fulfil pointless KPIs that will produce a generation of students with discredited degrees.
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The shooting at a Catholic School in Minnesota yesterday was horrendous. But it says something about the USA that the Catholic Bishops have found it necessary to create and publish a specific litany to be prayed after a school shooting www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266199/...
United in prayer: A litany to be prayed after a school shooting
In times of tragedy, the Church turns to prayer. Here is a litany written specifically to be prayed after a school shooting.
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August 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The shooting at a Catholic School in Minnesota yesterday was horrendous. But it says something about the USA that the Catholic Bishops have found it necessary to create and publish a specific litany to be prayed after a school shooting www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266199/...
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You may have seen an article in the Church Times recently - 'Bring theology back to the parishes' - The Reverend Canon Jarel Robinson-Brown writes a response on our blog:
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Theologians in Real Life
By Jarel Robinson-Brown The first time I sensed a vocation to ordained ministry, I knew that it would be a vocation of both mind and heart. […]
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August 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
You may have seen an article in the Church Times recently - 'Bring theology back to the parishes' - The Reverend Canon Jarel Robinson-Brown writes a response on our blog:
modernchurch.org.uk/theologians-...
@churchtimes.bsky.social @scholarpriest.bsky.social
modernchurch.org.uk/theologians-...
@churchtimes.bsky.social @scholarpriest.bsky.social
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When birds saw humans give an injured bird special treatment.😅
July 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
When birds saw humans give an injured bird special treatment.😅
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this is gold 🤣. the political clarity is unmatched. i need the daily digest.
June 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
this is gold 🤣. the political clarity is unmatched. i need the daily digest.
My new book on the theology of dementia has now been published by Wipf & Stock 🎉😁🎈
A bit of a niche subject I guess, but people have been very kind about it.
A bit of a niche subject I guess, but people have been very kind about it.
May 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
My new book on the theology of dementia has now been published by Wipf & Stock 🎉😁🎈
A bit of a niche subject I guess, but people have been very kind about it.
A bit of a niche subject I guess, but people have been very kind about it.
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Epic dodgy shenanigans at Bolton Uni - sorry, the University of Greater Manchester. Otherwise known as what happens when universities are in the hands of corporate scum out for nothing but a fast buck:
I have hugely appreciated my @manchestermill.bsky.social subscription for awhile now, but their reporting (always excellent) is really starting to show the sort of light quality journalism can shine on local shenanigans. Amazing work here: manchestermill.co.uk/the-universi...
The Casablanca Deal: Secret contracts and unexplained payments at the University of Greater Manchester
EXCLUSIVE: Senior executives at the university tried to divert hundreds of thousands in tuition fees into a private company which one of them owns
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February 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Epic dodgy shenanigans at Bolton Uni - sorry, the University of Greater Manchester. Otherwise known as what happens when universities are in the hands of corporate scum out for nothing but a fast buck:
Reasons to abandon academia #147
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Does authorship mean anything when academic papers are simply citable tokens?
The bibliometric infrastructure of citations has become an inescapable organising feature of academic life. Drawing on a range of evidence of the use and misuse of citations data, Stuart Macdonald …
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February 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Reasons to abandon academia #147
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Yup. Me too
I've spent the last 25yrs slowly committing more and more to things that have grown less and less important to almost everyone else during the same period—
-the humanities
-higher ed
-Catholicism
-constitutional govt
—so here's to the new year and the next 25yrs!
-the humanities
-higher ed
-Catholicism
-constitutional govt
—so here's to the new year and the next 25yrs!
a white truck is driving down a dirt road with a trailer behind it .
ALT: a white truck is driving down a dirt road with a trailer behind it .
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January 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Yup. Me too
Not really a Christmas song, but since it's a long way to Easter I'm designating it as one for this week only.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - North Korean Edition
YouTube video by There I Ruined It
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December 20, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Not really a Christmas song, but since it's a long way to Easter I'm designating it as one for this week only.
The first picture is from exactly 40 years ago, when the seven of us were clothed as novices in the Society of St Francis at Hilfield in Dorset. The second is from 2024 when four of us met again and attempted to recreate the picture. The three ghostly presences are the ones who couldn't be there
December 19, 2024 at 8:33 AM
The first picture is from exactly 40 years ago, when the seven of us were clothed as novices in the Society of St Francis at Hilfield in Dorset. The second is from 2024 when four of us met again and attempted to recreate the picture. The three ghostly presences are the ones who couldn't be there
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What do you say to a queen that you’re pretty sure doesn’t like you?
What do you do when the person most fervently loved by most of the people who hate you appears behind a chain link fence, and you can’t look away?
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What do you do when the person most fervently loved by most of the people who hate you appears behind a chain link fence, and you can’t look away?
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A Mother, Without Violence
I saw her again the other day. Mary, the Mother of God. She was on the side of a building in downtown Steubenville, and I stopped to
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December 12, 2024 at 10:17 PM
What do you say to a queen that you’re pretty sure doesn’t like you?
What do you do when the person most fervently loved by most of the people who hate you appears behind a chain link fence, and you can’t look away?
www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
What do you do when the person most fervently loved by most of the people who hate you appears behind a chain link fence, and you can’t look away?
www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
This was taken at Stupid O'Clock in the morning at St George's Worcester. We haven't had 24-hour Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament there in my memory, but it's great to see the practice coming back. It's hard to explain what makes it so special, but it is.
December 7, 2024 at 11:20 AM
This was taken at Stupid O'Clock in the morning at St George's Worcester. We haven't had 24-hour Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament there in my memory, but it's great to see the practice coming back. It's hard to explain what makes it so special, but it is.
This is a good day! I've just sent off the manuscript of my new book to Wipf and Stock. "Touching God: Dementia and the Bodies of Christ" should be out in 9-10 months, I think
December 4, 2024 at 10:57 AM
This is a good day! I've just sent off the manuscript of my new book to Wipf and Stock. "Touching God: Dementia and the Bodies of Christ" should be out in 9-10 months, I think