Tanya Marlow
@tanyamarlow.bsky.social
Writer, lecturer (pastoral theology), speaker. Author of Those Who Wait (+ more). Writing on Christian #faith, trauma, #disability & #chronic illness, Bible. Housebound w/ M.E. #MyalgicE. Spirituality, suffering, soc justice & all the big questions.
We disbelieve the women.
We blame ethnic minorities.
We kill the prophets.
My latest newsletter - how Celebrity Traitors reveals more about us than we’d like to believe - and what to do about it.
(NB Even if you haven’t seen Traitors, you’ll want to read this.)
open.substack.com/pub/tanyamar...
We blame ethnic minorities.
We kill the prophets.
My latest newsletter - how Celebrity Traitors reveals more about us than we’d like to believe - and what to do about it.
(NB Even if you haven’t seen Traitors, you’ll want to read this.)
open.substack.com/pub/tanyamar...
Celebrity Traitors and Curious Scapegoating
And how on earth do we defeat evil?
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We disbelieve the women.
We blame ethnic minorities.
We kill the prophets.
My latest newsletter - how Celebrity Traitors reveals more about us than we’d like to believe - and what to do about it.
(NB Even if you haven’t seen Traitors, you’ll want to read this.)
open.substack.com/pub/tanyamar...
We blame ethnic minorities.
We kill the prophets.
My latest newsletter - how Celebrity Traitors reveals more about us than we’d like to believe - and what to do about it.
(NB Even if you haven’t seen Traitors, you’ll want to read this.)
open.substack.com/pub/tanyamar...
In case you missed this devotion i wrote back in September for Our Daily Bread - Prodigal Perfectionists www.odbm.org/en-GB/devoti...
Prodigal Perfectionists
Outwardly, successful Olympic track athlete Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone looked rock ...
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November 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
In case you missed this devotion i wrote back in September for Our Daily Bread - Prodigal Perfectionists www.odbm.org/en-GB/devoti...
Many medics need reminding (or informing) of this - No Evidence that Graded Exercise Supports Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) - Miriam Tucker.
This is also important in Long Covid - many with LC also meet the criteria for M.E.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
This is also important in Long Covid - many with LC also meet the criteria for M.E.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
No Evidence Supports Using Graded Exercise for ME/CFS
Studies examining the effects of activity-based interventions haven’t required post-exertional malaise as a core criterion for the now-termed ‘myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.’
www.medscape.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Many medics need reminding (or informing) of this - No Evidence that Graded Exercise Supports Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) - Miriam Tucker.
This is also important in Long Covid - many with LC also meet the criteria for M.E.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
This is also important in Long Covid - many with LC also meet the criteria for M.E.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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This is how.
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is how.
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
Can times of illness and suffering ever be viewed as pilgrimage?
Check out - and share - my latest Substack - Pilgrimage and Inner Journeys.
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Check out - and share - my latest Substack - Pilgrimage and Inner Journeys.
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Pilgrimage and Inner Journeys
When your spiritual walk is full of mud
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October 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Can times of illness and suffering ever be viewed as pilgrimage?
Check out - and share - my latest Substack - Pilgrimage and Inner Journeys.
open.substack.com/pub/tanyamar...
Check out - and share - my latest Substack - Pilgrimage and Inner Journeys.
open.substack.com/pub/tanyamar...
Amen to this - Bishop calls on Christians to reclaim England flag from ‘toxic tide of racism’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Bishop calls on Christians to reclaim England flag from ‘toxic tide of racism’
Arun Arora, bishop of Kirkstall, says Christians should not be ‘neutral in the face of violence and injustice’
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Amen to this - Bishop calls on Christians to reclaim England flag from ‘toxic tide of racism’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
I’m pleased to announce I will be a panellist next week - Weds 17 September, 18:30 BST, for a 1 hour webinar on the reasons why women’s pain is ignored, dismissed or denied (based on Eilidh Galbraith’s research).
If you are a medic, or are a woman who knows pain, do join us for the discussion!
If you are a medic, or are a woman who knows pain, do join us for the discussion!
September 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I’m pleased to announce I will be a panellist next week - Weds 17 September, 18:30 BST, for a 1 hour webinar on the reasons why women’s pain is ignored, dismissed or denied (based on Eilidh Galbraith’s research).
If you are a medic, or are a woman who knows pain, do join us for the discussion!
If you are a medic, or are a woman who knows pain, do join us for the discussion!
The state of the world deserves righteous anger.
But I do reserve a petty fury in my heart for @netflix.com who didn’t renew Kaos for a 2nd season.
IT IS SO GOOD that I applaud after each episode.
Watch series 1. Then let the longing for series 2 consume you. We will storm Netflix’s gates together
But I do reserve a petty fury in my heart for @netflix.com who didn’t renew Kaos for a 2nd season.
IT IS SO GOOD that I applaud after each episode.
Watch series 1. Then let the longing for series 2 consume you. We will storm Netflix’s gates together
August 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The state of the world deserves righteous anger.
But I do reserve a petty fury in my heart for @netflix.com who didn’t renew Kaos for a 2nd season.
IT IS SO GOOD that I applaud after each episode.
Watch series 1. Then let the longing for series 2 consume you. We will storm Netflix’s gates together
But I do reserve a petty fury in my heart for @netflix.com who didn’t renew Kaos for a 2nd season.
IT IS SO GOOD that I applaud after each episode.
Watch series 1. Then let the longing for series 2 consume you. We will storm Netflix’s gates together
Reposted by Tanya Marlow
Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome
Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome
Large study suggests people’s genetics could ‘tip the balance’ on whether they would develop the illness
Scientists have found the first robust evidence that people’s genes affect their chances of developing myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a mysterious and debilitating illness that has been neglected and dismissed for decades by many in the medical community.
Early findings from the world’s largest study into the genetics of the condition pinpointed eight regions of the human genome that were substantially different in people with an ME/CFS diagnosis compared to those without the illness. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome
Reposted by Tanya Marlow
Reposted by Tanya Marlow
(1/2) Key genetic differences found in people with ME/CFS > Swipe to find out more.
These findings reflect the lived experience of thousands of #pwME.
Thanks to all our participants & supporters who made this possible!
Read a summary of our results: shorturl.at/pgsjk
These findings reflect the lived experience of thousands of #pwME.
Thanks to all our participants & supporters who made this possible!
Read a summary of our results: shorturl.at/pgsjk
August 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
(1/2) Key genetic differences found in people with ME/CFS > Swipe to find out more.
These findings reflect the lived experience of thousands of #pwME.
Thanks to all our participants & supporters who made this possible!
Read a summary of our results: shorturl.at/pgsjk
These findings reflect the lived experience of thousands of #pwME.
Thanks to all our participants & supporters who made this possible!
Read a summary of our results: shorturl.at/pgsjk
For anyone in a season of hiddenness, who feels forgotten. My latest devotion for Our Daily Bread: www.odb.org/2025/07/21/g...
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July 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM
For anyone in a season of hiddenness, who feels forgotten. My latest devotion for Our Daily Bread: www.odb.org/2025/07/21/g...
If you’ve read or heard of The Salt Path, read this. If a memoir claims to be unflinchingly honest, it really should be. And if the nature of Moth’s illness is wrong, it’s very important that other sufferers realise they can’t walk their way back to health.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...
observer.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If you’ve read or heard of The Salt Path, read this. If a memoir claims to be unflinchingly honest, it really should be. And if the nature of Moth’s illness is wrong, it’s very important that other sufferers realise they can’t walk their way back to health.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Reposted by Tanya Marlow
With just over a week to go to the vote to cut disability benefits, now is the best time to write to your MP to ask them to vote against.
@z2ktrust.bsky.social have created a helpful tool that enables you to enter your postcode and use a pre-written letter: z2k.eaction.org.uk/cuts-legisla...
@z2ktrust.bsky.social have created a helpful tool that enables you to enter your postcode and use a pre-written letter: z2k.eaction.org.uk/cuts-legisla...
Ask your MP to vote against dangerous cuts to disability benefits
z2k.eaction.org.uk
June 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
With just over a week to go to the vote to cut disability benefits, now is the best time to write to your MP to ask them to vote against.
@z2ktrust.bsky.social have created a helpful tool that enables you to enter your postcode and use a pre-written letter: z2k.eaction.org.uk/cuts-legisla...
@z2ktrust.bsky.social have created a helpful tool that enables you to enter your postcode and use a pre-written letter: z2k.eaction.org.uk/cuts-legisla...
Reposted by Tanya Marlow
It’s predictable but terribly bleak to see U.K. politicians defend Trump’s Iran strikes. There will be endless attempts to justify it, as there were for Israel’s assaults on Gaza. And yet the truth is, it is the result of two men who are authoritarians, bored, and take pleasure in warfare and death.
June 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
It’s predictable but terribly bleak to see U.K. politicians defend Trump’s Iran strikes. There will be endless attempts to justify it, as there were for Israel’s assaults on Gaza. And yet the truth is, it is the result of two men who are authoritarians, bored, and take pleasure in warfare and death.
There’s something slightly magical here. Carolyn Whitney-Brown presents a meticulously researched article on how watching trapeze artists impacted Henri Nouwen’s spirituality.
Free from Sojourners today - 22 June only. sojo.net/magazine/jul...
Free from Sojourners today - 22 June only. sojo.net/magazine/jul...
Why Henri Nouwen Fell in Love With the Trapeze
Daring to have spiritual lives that swing toward freewheeling motion, community inclusion, and humor.
sojo.net
June 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
There’s something slightly magical here. Carolyn Whitney-Brown presents a meticulously researched article on how watching trapeze artists impacted Henri Nouwen’s spirituality.
Free from Sojourners today - 22 June only. sojo.net/magazine/jul...
Free from Sojourners today - 22 June only. sojo.net/magazine/jul...
Important M.E. study here. But I long for us to move on from headlines that say “this proves ME is not ‘all in your head’” to headlines like “Breakthrough in ME using biomarkers for targeted treatment to different M.E. phenotypes”. I fear we’re still decades away from anything like that. #MyalgicE
📢 Now published:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.....
Since the preprint, we replicated 9 of 14 traits in All of Us & showed that #pwME with PEM-like symptoms have stronger biomarker differences.
bsky.app/profile/cgat...
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.....
Since the preprint, we replicated 9 of 14 traits in All of Us & showed that #pwME with PEM-like symptoms have stronger biomarker differences.
bsky.app/profile/cgat...
June 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Important M.E. study here. But I long for us to move on from headlines that say “this proves ME is not ‘all in your head’” to headlines like “Breakthrough in ME using biomarkers for targeted treatment to different M.E. phenotypes”. I fear we’re still decades away from anything like that. #MyalgicE
With so much tribalism amongst Christians today, this is my challenge - Peace with Enemy Christians (for Our Daily Bread) www.odbm.org/en-GB/devoti...
Peace with Enemy Christians
The 2003 World Cup rugby match between Samoa and South Africa was most memorable f...
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June 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
With so much tribalism amongst Christians today, this is my challenge - Peace with Enemy Christians (for Our Daily Bread) www.odbm.org/en-GB/devoti...
“If you feel inadequate to serve God, perhaps especially because of your body, draw comfort in God’s calling of Moses.”
My latest devotion for Our Daily Bread Europe:
odb.org.uk/2025/05/15/c...
My latest devotion for Our Daily Bread Europe:
odb.org.uk/2025/05/15/c...
odb.org.uk
May 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
“If you feel inadequate to serve God, perhaps especially because of your body, draw comfort in God’s calling of Moses.”
My latest devotion for Our Daily Bread Europe:
odb.org.uk/2025/05/15/c...
My latest devotion for Our Daily Bread Europe:
odb.org.uk/2025/05/15/c...
This is why disabled people are worried.
Our member, a care home manager, was asked today to estimate how many disabled residents might be eligible for medically-assisted suicide under the Leadbeater bill and how many places might be freed-up if the option was 'assertively marketed'. Is this the future you want in England?
May 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This is why disabled people are worried.
"God is not the police officer of our emotions, telling us what we should or shouldn’t be feeling sad about. God is the refuge, the safe place, the private space where we can be honest and unvarnished."
My latest Substack: Little Disappointments and the Love of God open.substack.com/pub/tanyamar...
My latest Substack: Little Disappointments and the Love of God open.substack.com/pub/tanyamar...
Little Disappointments and the Love of God
5 kneejerk Christian responses – and what really helps
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May 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"God is not the police officer of our emotions, telling us what we should or shouldn’t be feeling sad about. God is the refuge, the safe place, the private space where we can be honest and unvarnished."
My latest Substack: Little Disappointments and the Love of God open.substack.com/pub/tanyamar...
My latest Substack: Little Disappointments and the Love of God open.substack.com/pub/tanyamar...
Donations have been coming in - please keep them coming!
A message from my Mum and also news that donations are going to be matched on the 29th and 30th April (up to the amount of £5000): www.jkrowbory.co.uk/2025/04/dona...
April 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Donations have been coming in - please keep them coming!
Just heard that Pope Francis has died, though he managed to deliver his Easter address yesterday. I imagine, as a Pope, he would be grateful that his very last sermon was on Easter Sunday. From preaching about life after death, to experiencing it himself, in quick succession.
April 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Just heard that Pope Francis has died, though he managed to deliver his Easter address yesterday. I imagine, as a Pope, he would be grateful that his very last sermon was on Easter Sunday. From preaching about life after death, to experiencing it himself, in quick succession.
I’m also grateful for the glorious service at Canterbury Cathedral today, where I joined from my bed and sang ‘Thine Be The Glory’ with my still-healing voice.
Bishop Rose preached up a storm and the choir was heavenly. Thanks to all who broadcast online services - we are really grateful.
Bishop Rose preached up a storm and the choir was heavenly. Thanks to all who broadcast online services - we are really grateful.
April 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I’m also grateful for the glorious service at Canterbury Cathedral today, where I joined from my bed and sang ‘Thine Be The Glory’ with my still-healing voice.
Bishop Rose preached up a storm and the choir was heavenly. Thanks to all who broadcast online services - we are really grateful.
Bishop Rose preached up a storm and the choir was heavenly. Thanks to all who broadcast online services - we are really grateful.