The Pagan Chaplain
@thepaganchaplain.bsky.social
Multifaith chaplain at the University of Exeter, UK #interfaith #nature #art #music
A small altar to mark #Imbolc today at the Multifaith Centre. A beautiful way to start conversations about the wheel of the year and the seeds we now sow for a rich harvest #chaplaincy #druidsky #Brighid Perfect day to walk our labyrinth, too 🌕 @bdcmuseum.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 2:07 PM
A small altar to mark #Imbolc today at the Multifaith Centre. A beautiful way to start conversations about the wheel of the year and the seeds we now sow for a rich harvest #chaplaincy #druidsky #Brighid Perfect day to walk our labyrinth, too 🌕 @bdcmuseum.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
Our latest newsletter is out - find out about our exciting plans for 2026! mailchi.mp/760b76479797... This 👇might be a bit of a give-away 😉 #Shakespeare #SWShakespeareFest #theatre #plays #shakespeareonscreen #drama
January 28, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Hope y'all had a lovely Solstice. Midwinter is such a special time ✨ Happy Solstice, everyone! #pagansky #midwinter #yule
December 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hope y'all had a lovely Solstice. Midwinter is such a special time ✨ Happy Solstice, everyone! #pagansky #midwinter #yule
Winter Graduation at the University of Exeter in full flow @uniofexeternews.bsky.social 🎓 Delighted to officiate as Chaplain today - so lovely to see proud and happy students be celebrated for their hard work 🎉 #chaplaincy #HE #highereducation #wintergraduation Congratulations all!
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Winter Graduation at the University of Exeter in full flow @uniofexeternews.bsky.social 🎓 Delighted to officiate as Chaplain today - so lovely to see proud and happy students be celebrated for their hard work 🎉 #chaplaincy #HE #highereducation #wintergraduation Congratulations all!
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#Christmas has arrived at the #Museum🎄
Thank you to everyone who dropped in to make decorations for our film-themed #Christmastree or contributed their favourite Christmas #films!
Tell us about your favourite here & we'll add it: forms.office.com/e/MdcqnRSbcR @thepaganchaplain.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who dropped in to make decorations for our film-themed #Christmastree or contributed their favourite Christmas #films!
Tell us about your favourite here & we'll add it: forms.office.com/e/MdcqnRSbcR @thepaganchaplain.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#Christmas has arrived at the #Museum🎄
Thank you to everyone who dropped in to make decorations for our film-themed #Christmastree or contributed their favourite Christmas #films!
Tell us about your favourite here & we'll add it: forms.office.com/e/MdcqnRSbcR @thepaganchaplain.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who dropped in to make decorations for our film-themed #Christmastree or contributed their favourite Christmas #films!
Tell us about your favourite here & we'll add it: forms.office.com/e/MdcqnRSbcR @thepaganchaplain.bsky.social
Fascinating! www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #pagansky #wicca #witchsky #OBOD #Celtic #linguistics
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Local happening 👇Today at St Thomas Library 😊
At St Thomas Library in #Exeter today with our "Roots & Routes" workshop. Join us this morning to learn about Exeter "West of the river" and create your own guide to the area! @exeterlibrary.bsky.social #libraries #booksky #history #community @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social #exeterculture
December 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Local happening 👇Today at St Thomas Library 😊
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It’s that time of year again. Advent and waiting for the light to return. So I thought I’d post an image of my work a day until the solstice. Here’s The Green Knight, a panel I made in 2022 but it’s a subject that has entranced since I first studied the poem at Stirling University in the 1980s.
December 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It’s that time of year again. Advent and waiting for the light to return. So I thought I’d post an image of my work a day until the solstice. Here’s The Green Knight, a panel I made in 2022 but it’s a subject that has entranced since I first studied the poem at Stirling University in the 1980s.
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Lights... Camera.... Christmas! 🎬
Help us decorate our #museum #Christmastree🎄
Drop in on 8th December, 2:30pm-5pm to make your own film-themed decorations and join us afterwards at 5pm for a mince pie, festive drink, and a tour featuring our #Christmas display!
#filmsky #museumsky #cinema
Help us decorate our #museum #Christmastree🎄
Drop in on 8th December, 2:30pm-5pm to make your own film-themed decorations and join us afterwards at 5pm for a mince pie, festive drink, and a tour featuring our #Christmas display!
#filmsky #museumsky #cinema
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Lights... Camera.... Christmas! 🎬
Help us decorate our #museum #Christmastree🎄
Drop in on 8th December, 2:30pm-5pm to make your own film-themed decorations and join us afterwards at 5pm for a mince pie, festive drink, and a tour featuring our #Christmas display!
#filmsky #museumsky #cinema
Help us decorate our #museum #Christmastree🎄
Drop in on 8th December, 2:30pm-5pm to make your own film-themed decorations and join us afterwards at 5pm for a mince pie, festive drink, and a tour featuring our #Christmas display!
#filmsky #museumsky #cinema
Happy Samhain, everyone! 🎃 Enjoyed a beautiful ceremony in #Glastonbury at #ChaliceWellGardens. We felt the relatively new peace pole was particularly pertinent #maypeaceprevail 🕊️ Samhain blessings /|\ #druidsky #witchsky #pagansky #heathensky #Samhain #AllHallowsEve
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Happy Samhain, everyone! 🎃 Enjoyed a beautiful ceremony in #Glastonbury at #ChaliceWellGardens. We felt the relatively new peace pole was particularly pertinent #maypeaceprevail 🕊️ Samhain blessings /|\ #druidsky #witchsky #pagansky #heathensky #Samhain #AllHallowsEve
Asking for help 🙏 I have a short list of "nature and traditional" events in/near #Exeter for our students: www.exeter.ac.uk/students/cha... Would love to add more - know of other #pagan #nature-based #traditional events? Be great to get them connected #pagansky #witchsky #heathensky #druidsky /|\
Pagan | Chaplaincy in Exeter | University of Exeter
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October 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Asking for help 🙏 I have a short list of "nature and traditional" events in/near #Exeter for our students: www.exeter.ac.uk/students/cha... Would love to add more - know of other #pagan #nature-based #traditional events? Be great to get them connected #pagansky #witchsky #heathensky #druidsky /|\
Oooh spooky stuff 👇 👻 My friends at the Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social in #Exeter are running a FREE kids' workshop today and a #Halloween discovery trail throughout #half-term 🎃 There's a lunchtime talk for adults, too - about #dragons and #monsters 👏 Yey! #pagansky #witchsky #druidsky
We have lots coming up for #halfterm / #readingweek next week! Don't miss our #halloween trail, kids' shadow puppet workshop or our lunchtime talk about our 'Dinosaurs, Dragons & #Monsters' display - all free, all welcome! 🎃🍁 #museumsky #filmsky @exeterlibrary.bsky.social @exeterunilib.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Oooh spooky stuff 👇 👻 My friends at the Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social in #Exeter are running a FREE kids' workshop today and a #Halloween discovery trail throughout #half-term 🎃 There's a lunchtime talk for adults, too - about #dragons and #monsters 👏 Yey! #pagansky #witchsky #druidsky
There is something really special about old buildings and ancient sites. So much history to explore and to be inspired by. Recommend this #art #workshop to anyone in #Exeter #Devon 👇 Dr Sarah Spencer is a skilled workshop leader and her art is inspired by nature and heritage. #druidsky #paganism /|\
New art workshop on 15th October 🎨 A talk about how artists have historically responded to built heritage, followed by a sensory art workshop exploring St Nicholas Priory #Exeter: www.ticketsource.co.uk/lightbearlan... 🍂 @exeterlibrary.bsky.social @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org
October 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
There is something really special about old buildings and ancient sites. So much history to explore and to be inspired by. Recommend this #art #workshop to anyone in #Exeter #Devon 👇 Dr Sarah Spencer is a skilled workshop leader and her art is inspired by nature and heritage. #druidsky #paganism /|\
Hi 👋 #Devon peeps, you don't want to miss this 👇 Autumn Ceilidh plus apple pressing and a harvest meal! See you there! #druidsky #Exeter #pagansky #harvest #autumn #ceilidh @lightbearlane.org @bdcmuseum.bsky.social @exeterfood.bsky.social @exetercycling.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social /I\
October 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hi 👋 #Devon peeps, you don't want to miss this 👇 Autumn Ceilidh plus apple pressing and a harvest meal! See you there! #druidsky #Exeter #pagansky #harvest #autumn #ceilidh @lightbearlane.org @bdcmuseum.bsky.social @exeterfood.bsky.social @exetercycling.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social /I\
Had a lovely evening at the Exeter Hindu Cultural Centre celebrating Navratri ✨🪷✨ and learning more about #hinduism and worldview. Great food and dancing with colleagues from @exeter.ac.uk 🪔🎉 #HappyNavratri
September 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Had a lovely evening at the Exeter Hindu Cultural Centre celebrating Navratri ✨🪷✨ and learning more about #hinduism and worldview. Great food and dancing with colleagues from @exeter.ac.uk 🪔🎉 #HappyNavratri
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“A beautifully written book of traces and absences.” Many thanks to Stuart Kelly and Scotland on Sunday for this thoughtful review of Upon A White Horse. Great to share the pages with @megaheid.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“A beautifully written book of traces and absences.” Many thanks to Stuart Kelly and Scotland on Sunday for this thoughtful review of Upon A White Horse. Great to share the pages with @megaheid.bsky.social
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🥳🍾The Argyle Street ash has been crowned UK #TreeOfTheYear 2025 🎉🏆
The 1st tree in Glasgow to be protected by a tree preservation order, it's adored & cared for by the community. Thanks to David Treanor for nominating, & players of People's #PostcodeLottery for their support of the contest.
The 1st tree in Glasgow to be protected by a tree preservation order, it's adored & cared for by the community. Thanks to David Treanor for nominating, & players of People's #PostcodeLottery for their support of the contest.
September 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
🥳🍾The Argyle Street ash has been crowned UK #TreeOfTheYear 2025 🎉🏆
The 1st tree in Glasgow to be protected by a tree preservation order, it's adored & cared for by the community. Thanks to David Treanor for nominating, & players of People's #PostcodeLottery for their support of the contest.
The 1st tree in Glasgow to be protected by a tree preservation order, it's adored & cared for by the community. Thanks to David Treanor for nominating, & players of People's #PostcodeLottery for their support of the contest.
This review really resonates👇 @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social picks up on Spirituality of Place and, perhaps most importantly, identifies "a phenomenology of Britain’s sacred landscape that is *performed* as much as it is known or understood." Can't wait to read "Upon A White Horse" #druidsky /I\
Over on 'All Old Strange Things' I've written a new free-to-read post reflecting on @peteralanross.bsky.social's thought-provoking book 'Upon A White Horse': substack.com/home/post/p-...
September 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This review really resonates👇 @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social picks up on Spirituality of Place and, perhaps most importantly, identifies "a phenomenology of Britain’s sacred landscape that is *performed* as much as it is known or understood." Can't wait to read "Upon A White Horse" #druidsky /I\
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My review of Ayoush Lazikani’s ‘The Medieval Moon’, in the latest @historytoday.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My review of Ayoush Lazikani’s ‘The Medieval Moon’, in the latest @historytoday.com
Druid Prayer for Peace:
Deep within the still centre of my being, may I find peace.
Silently within the quiet of the grove, may I share peace.
Gently within the greater circle of humankind, may I radiate peace.
May there be peace throughout the whole world. #druidsky /I\ #InternationalDayofPeace
Deep within the still centre of my being, may I find peace.
Silently within the quiet of the grove, may I share peace.
Gently within the greater circle of humankind, may I radiate peace.
May there be peace throughout the whole world. #druidsky /I\ #InternationalDayofPeace
September 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Druid Prayer for Peace:
Deep within the still centre of my being, may I find peace.
Silently within the quiet of the grove, may I share peace.
Gently within the greater circle of humankind, may I radiate peace.
May there be peace throughout the whole world. #druidsky /I\ #InternationalDayofPeace
Deep within the still centre of my being, may I find peace.
Silently within the quiet of the grove, may I share peace.
Gently within the greater circle of humankind, may I radiate peace.
May there be peace throughout the whole world. #druidsky /I\ #InternationalDayofPeace
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#FolkyFriday
Hazel nuts were believed to be a source of wisdom and poetic inspiration. Nuts fell into a sacred pool from nine surrounding hazel trees and were eaten by a Salmon - both Welsh & Irish folklore have references to the ancient Salmon of Knowledge.
🎨Anon & Judith Shaw
Hazel nuts were believed to be a source of wisdom and poetic inspiration. Nuts fell into a sacred pool from nine surrounding hazel trees and were eaten by a Salmon - both Welsh & Irish folklore have references to the ancient Salmon of Knowledge.
🎨Anon & Judith Shaw
September 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#FolkyFriday
Hazel nuts were believed to be a source of wisdom and poetic inspiration. Nuts fell into a sacred pool from nine surrounding hazel trees and were eaten by a Salmon - both Welsh & Irish folklore have references to the ancient Salmon of Knowledge.
🎨Anon & Judith Shaw
Hazel nuts were believed to be a source of wisdom and poetic inspiration. Nuts fell into a sacred pool from nine surrounding hazel trees and were eaten by a Salmon - both Welsh & Irish folklore have references to the ancient Salmon of Knowledge.
🎨Anon & Judith Shaw
Looking forward to hosting this #HeritageOpenDays event at our new Multifaith Centre today 👇Darren Davis, project manager for building works, will give a short talk & tour at lunchtime about sustainability & multi-faith use of the space. @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @helenhartstein.bluesky.social
#HeritageOpenDays are fast approaching! Join us at the Multifaith Centre @exeter.ac.uk to explore this new, purpose-built space. Relaxed talk with refreshments on 18th September 👇 Limited availability, so book your free ticket now www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-e... @exeterobserver.org
September 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Looking forward to hosting this #HeritageOpenDays event at our new Multifaith Centre today 👇Darren Davis, project manager for building works, will give a short talk & tour at lunchtime about sustainability & multi-faith use of the space. @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @helenhartstein.bluesky.social
Autumn is here and that means... Freshers' Week! Campus is buzzing @uniofexeternews.bsky.social Have a great start of term, everyone! /I\ @croftspeaks.bsky.social @bdcmuseum.bsky.social @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social 🍃🍂💚 #chaplaincy #druidsky #university #freshersweek!
September 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Autumn is here and that means... Freshers' Week! Campus is buzzing @uniofexeternews.bsky.social Have a great start of term, everyone! /I\ @croftspeaks.bsky.social @bdcmuseum.bsky.social @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social 🍃🍂💚 #chaplaincy #druidsky #university #freshersweek!
Been out to explore #StoverPark near #Exeter. Lovely green space and lake full of wildlife - and the nature education centre is fabulous! Particularly enjoyed the poetry walk linking art and nature - beautiful 🍃🍂 #TedHughes #nature #druidsky /I\ #witchsky #heathensky @lightbearlane.org
September 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Been out to explore #StoverPark near #Exeter. Lovely green space and lake full of wildlife - and the nature education centre is fabulous! Particularly enjoyed the poetry walk linking art and nature - beautiful 🍃🍂 #TedHughes #nature #druidsky /I\ #witchsky #heathensky @lightbearlane.org