Karen O’Donnell
@karenod.bsky.social
“Earthy, funny, tender, and frank” Rambo
Feminist theologian working on bodies, theologies, trauma, liturgy, Song of Songs, and smashing the patriarchy.
Westcott House & Cambridge University (views my own etc etc)
Feminist theologian working on bodies, theologies, trauma, liturgy, Song of Songs, and smashing the patriarchy.
Westcott House & Cambridge University (views my own etc etc)
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Karen O’Donnell
@karenod.bsky.social
· Aug 12
Oh we’ve got a fun few months coming up in the @feministtheology.bsky.social
Sign up to the mailing list to get links to these events and more! mailchi.mp/a5e743737064...
#feminist #womanist #theology #community #christianity
Sign up to the mailing list to get links to these events and more! mailchi.mp/a5e743737064...
#feminist #womanist #theology #community #christianity
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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As we celebrated the Feast of Christ the King at this week’s All-Age Community Eucharist, our Academic Dean, Karen, encouraged us in her sermon to remember that Christ is the King who confounds our expectations.
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
As we celebrated the Feast of Christ the King at this week’s All-Age Community Eucharist, our Academic Dean, Karen, encouraged us in her sermon to remember that Christ is the King who confounds our expectations.
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IT'S TOMORROW!!!!! Ok, so I know I shouted, but it's going to be so awesome that I thought you'd want me to get your attention...
Next up on the FTN calendar... yes, we know we are spoiling you with such excellent speakers: this week it was Dr Holly Morse and next month we have Dr Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones. Make sure Wednesday 19th November goes in your diary!
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
IT'S TOMORROW!!!!! Ok, so I know I shouted, but it's going to be so awesome that I thought you'd want me to get your attention...
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Hey hey it’s Proofs day!
The latest issue of QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion, coming your way through Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social
very soon!
The latest issue of QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion, coming your way through Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social
very soon!
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hey hey it’s Proofs day!
The latest issue of QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion, coming your way through Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social
very soon!
The latest issue of QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion, coming your way through Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social
very soon!
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Is it 'online training course'?
June 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Is it 'online training course'?
Just a month left to submit your paper proposals for #SST26 including to the Sacramentality, Liturgy, and Theology stream that I co-chair! www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/...
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Just a month left to submit your paper proposals for #SST26 including to the Sacramentality, Liturgy, and Theology stream that I co-chair! www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/...
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Submit a proposal! cts-stc.ca/2025/11/14/2...
2026 CTS Call for Papers – Canadian Theological Society
cts-stc.ca
November 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Submit a proposal! cts-stc.ca/2025/11/14/2...
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Calling all educators!
Are you involved in delivering education in theology/biblical studies/religious studies etc? Librarians, this includes you!
We want your feedback on our books - and there's a prize draw to enter at the end.
Survey closes 2nd January. Click here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Are you involved in delivering education in theology/biblical studies/religious studies etc? Librarians, this includes you!
We want your feedback on our books - and there's a prize draw to enter at the end.
Survey closes 2nd January. Click here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SCM Press survey Nov 2025: textbooks and educational resources
We would like to find out how our publishing is working in terms of serving educators in theology and related disciplines and their students at all levels.
If you are involved in delivering theologic...
docs.google.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Calling all educators!
Are you involved in delivering education in theology/biblical studies/religious studies etc? Librarians, this includes you!
We want your feedback on our books - and there's a prize draw to enter at the end.
Survey closes 2nd January. Click here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Are you involved in delivering education in theology/biblical studies/religious studies etc? Librarians, this includes you!
We want your feedback on our books - and there's a prize draw to enter at the end.
Survey closes 2nd January. Click here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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FTN advent reading group! Asynchronous, i.e. whenever in the day/week you like, so we can join together over different time zones without me messing up the clock... Totally shouting out to our members across the various oceans 😊
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
FTN advent reading group! Asynchronous, i.e. whenever in the day/week you like, so we can join together over different time zones without me messing up the clock... Totally shouting out to our members across the various oceans 😊
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I’m honoured to be a guest on the fantastic Dr Selina Stone’s #podcast ‘Sunday School for Misfits’ this week. This season of the podcast is on power, and we had a lot to talk about when it comes to #disability, #neurodivergence and power in churches and #theology.
open.spotify.com/episode/3DM2...
open.spotify.com/episode/3DM2...
S7E5 Power, Disability and Neurodiversity ft Dr Naomi Lawson Jacobs
open.spotify.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I’m honoured to be a guest on the fantastic Dr Selina Stone’s #podcast ‘Sunday School for Misfits’ this week. This season of the podcast is on power, and we had a lot to talk about when it comes to #disability, #neurodivergence and power in churches and #theology.
open.spotify.com/episode/3DM2...
open.spotify.com/episode/3DM2...
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A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
On Wednesday I’m speaking at Oxford Brookes in a public lecture. All are welcome and it will be recorded #forgiveness #trauma #theology
www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...
www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...
Unforgiving? The paradox of forgiveness after trauma - Oxford Brookes University
Join us for the annual Multifaith Chaplaincy Lecture, presented by Dr Karen O'Donnell.
www.brookes.ac.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
On Wednesday I’m speaking at Oxford Brookes in a public lecture. All are welcome and it will be recorded #forgiveness #trauma #theology
www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...
www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...
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Conference alert! Thursday 18th-Friday 19th June, 2026, London campus of Loughborough University. Online day: Monday 22nd June, 2026. Please see Call for Papers here:
feministmiscarriageproject.org/conference
feministmiscarriageproject.org/conference
Conference — The Feminist Miscarriage Project
Information on the conference 'New Directions in Miscarriage Research: Intersectional, Interdisciplinary and Full-Spectrum Perspectives', Loughborough University London Campus, June 2026.
feministmiscarriageproject.org
October 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Conference alert! Thursday 18th-Friday 19th June, 2026, London campus of Loughborough University. Online day: Monday 22nd June, 2026. Please see Call for Papers here:
feministmiscarriageproject.org/conference
feministmiscarriageproject.org/conference
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Looking for a #PhD in #ClimateExtremes?
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Looking for a #PhD in #ClimateExtremes?
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
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Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx
October 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx
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🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Recognising pregnancy loss as a workplace issue and in working lives is essential, writes Professor @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
#PLRG_PLACESproject @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
#PLRG_PLACESproject @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social
Workplaces have a role in dealing with pregnancy loss
Recognising pregnancy loss as a workplace issue and in working lives is essential, writes Professor Keelin O’Donoghue
www.irishexaminer.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Recognising pregnancy loss as a workplace issue and in working lives is essential, writes Professor @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
#PLRG_PLACESproject @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
#PLRG_PLACESproject @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social
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Next up on the FTN calendar... yes, we know we are spoiling you with such excellent speakers: this week it was Dr Holly Morse and next month we have Dr Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones. Make sure Wednesday 19th November goes in your diary!
October 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Next up on the FTN calendar... yes, we know we are spoiling you with such excellent speakers: this week it was Dr Holly Morse and next month we have Dr Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones. Make sure Wednesday 19th November goes in your diary!
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An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.
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I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.
How Do Scholars Take Notes?
How do scholars take notes? I like seeing examples of different people’s notetaking, so I asked scholars to show me how they take notes for research.
docs.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.
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We were delighted to welcome back four of our alumni earlier this week to celebrate the launch of their collaborate book In the Sacred Pause, and to reflect on how faith, presence, & Christian worship might speak into lives touched by trauma. Full article can be found on our website: buff.ly/aTMzlu0
October 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We were delighted to welcome back four of our alumni earlier this week to celebrate the launch of their collaborate book In the Sacred Pause, and to reflect on how faith, presence, & Christian worship might speak into lives touched by trauma. Full article can be found on our website: buff.ly/aTMzlu0
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New #CRAEresearchSummary
@brianirvine.bsky.social considers the role of framing and reframing in Specialist Autism Mentoring at UK Universities
@brianirvine.bsky.social considers the role of framing and reframing in Specialist Autism Mentoring at UK Universities
Mobilising Specialist Autism Mentoring in UK Universities
When entering higher education in the UK, students get offered a needs assessment through the Disabled Students Allowance. For autistic students, disclosure often results in the option for a Specia…
crae.ioe.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
New #CRAEresearchSummary
@brianirvine.bsky.social considers the role of framing and reframing in Specialist Autism Mentoring at UK Universities
@brianirvine.bsky.social considers the role of framing and reframing in Specialist Autism Mentoring at UK Universities