Ben Fulford
@benmfulford.bsky.social
Deputy Head, Humanities, Cultures and Environment and Associate Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Chester. Latest: God’s Patience and our Work: Hans Frei, Generous Orthodoxy and the Ethics of Hope (SCM 2024).
Re-reading this classic ready for teaching Rahner tomorrow morning…
November 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Re-reading this classic ready for teaching Rahner tomorrow morning…
From the old Spode works in Stoke-on-Trent.
September 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
From the old Spode works in Stoke-on-Trent.
Recently finished this brilliant book by @helenczerski.bsky.social on the ocean as complex, wondrous planetary machine with and through which so much life is interconnected, including many human stories. It’s bursting with learning and passion for the subject and so so readable… 1/2
August 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Recently finished this brilliant book by @helenczerski.bsky.social on the ocean as complex, wondrous planetary machine with and through which so much life is interconnected, including many human stories. It’s bursting with learning and passion for the subject and so so readable… 1/2
Making my way thru Robert MacFarlane’s Is a River Alive, and its stories of threatened water-and-multiple-species systems alive together, and the acts of imagination, organisation and experimentation in ontology and law undertaken to protect and revive them.
August 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Making my way thru Robert MacFarlane’s Is a River Alive, and its stories of threatened water-and-multiple-species systems alive together, and the acts of imagination, organisation and experimentation in ontology and law undertaken to protect and revive them.
Fantastic flowers beginning with H
August 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Fantastic flowers beginning with H
Getting back into Origen this morning…
June 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Getting back into Origen this morning…
An urban falcon, spotted near the Regent’s Theatre, Stoke on Trent.
March 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
An urban falcon, spotted near the Regent’s Theatre, Stoke on Trent.
Some classic reading for the train…
February 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Some classic reading for the train…
Had the best time exploring, trying to figure out, and then compare, Tillich and Barth on God with our second years at Chester…
November 21, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Had the best time exploring, trying to figure out, and then compare, Tillich and Barth on God with our second years at Chester…
Enjoying a team presentation from Prof Caroline Tee and her colleagues on the ‘Muslims, the Secular & Existential Risk’ (MUSER) project in our Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar at Chester.
November 20, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Enjoying a team presentation from Prof Caroline Tee and her colleagues on the ‘Muslims, the Secular & Existential Risk’ (MUSER) project in our Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar at Chester.
Much needed days off y’day and today. Here’s some pics of Dovedale and the river Dove looking variously craggy and gorgeous…
November 1, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Much needed days off y’day and today. Here’s some pics of Dovedale and the river Dove looking variously craggy and gorgeous…
Enjoyed exploring Leibniz’s Theodicy with our final year students today, comparing him to Pierre Bayle, whom we looked at last week, in my Responding to Evil module here at Chester.
October 16, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Enjoyed exploring Leibniz’s Theodicy with our final year students today, comparing him to Pierre Bayle, whom we looked at last week, in my Responding to Evil module here at Chester.
Call for Papers for the Society for the Study of Theology Annual Conference 2025, with the excellent theme of ‘Flesh and Blood Theologies’: www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/...
October 7, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Call for Papers for the Society for the Study of Theology Annual Conference 2025, with the excellent theme of ‘Flesh and Blood Theologies’: www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/...
Westminster Cathedral this afternoon. That big Basilica look! A statement about a confident post-emancipation English Catholic faith. Looming mosaics, quiet pews, people curious, people praying, people taking adv of the oasis of massive calm in a super busy city.
September 25, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Westminster Cathedral this afternoon. That big Basilica look! A statement about a confident post-emancipation English Catholic faith. Looming mosaics, quiet pews, people curious, people praying, people taking adv of the oasis of massive calm in a super busy city.
Mood, as they say.
September 21, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Mood, as they say.
Well.
Neither an early or late adopter.
🤷♂️
Neither an early or late adopter.
🤷♂️
September 18, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Well.
Neither an early or late adopter.
🤷♂️
Neither an early or late adopter.
🤷♂️
Dr Aref Nayed is a really interesting thinker and this is a really interesting subject! Wish I could make it!
September 8, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Dr Aref Nayed is a really interesting thinker and this is a really interesting subject! Wish I could make it!
This morning’s reading matter while on duty…
August 20, 2024 at 12:03 PM
This morning’s reading matter while on duty…
Why bring the exhibition to Liverpool? We’re interested in exploring the links btw Chester/Cheshire and Liverpool with respect to transatlantic slavery and colonialism…4/
August 20, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Why bring the exhibition to Liverpool? We’re interested in exploring the links btw Chester/Cheshire and Liverpool with respect to transatlantic slavery and colonialism…4/
We look at the conquest of Sindh under Gen. Sir Charles Napier, feat. the Cheshire Regiment, both commemorated in the Cathedral’s South Transept; and at Chester’s ‘abolitionist’ bishop, Beilby Porteus and an freed Afro-British author, Ukusaw Gronniosaw, buried nearby. 3/
August 20, 2024 at 11:43 AM
We look at the conquest of Sindh under Gen. Sir Charles Napier, feat. the Cheshire Regiment, both commemorated in the Cathedral’s South Transept; and at Chester’s ‘abolitionist’ bishop, Beilby Porteus and an freed Afro-British author, Ukusaw Gronniosaw, buried nearby. 3/
The exhibition is a collaboration btw academics at the University of Chester and Chester Cathedral. It explores entanglements btw Chester and Cheshire and the history of the British Empire, through connections with the Cathedral’s collections and monuments. 2/
August 20, 2024 at 11:37 AM
The exhibition is a collaboration btw academics at the University of Chester and Chester Cathedral. It explores entanglements btw Chester and Cheshire and the history of the British Empire, through connections with the Cathedral’s collections and monuments. 2/
At Albert Dock, Liverpool today with the pop-up version of the Imperial Legacies, Sacred Space exhibition. We’re being hosted by the International Slavery Museum in their foyer this week - the week of Slavery Remembrance Day. 1/
August 20, 2024 at 11:33 AM
At Albert Dock, Liverpool today with the pop-up version of the Imperial Legacies, Sacred Space exhibition. We’re being hosted by the International Slavery Museum in their foyer this week - the week of Slavery Remembrance Day. 1/
Not many pics on my BSky feed so here’s a bumble bee sleeping on a Verbena cluster
August 19, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Not many pics on my BSky feed so here’s a bumble bee sleeping on a Verbena cluster