Laura McKeown
@littlelauramck.bsky.social
Scottish lassie in West Wicklow 🇮🇪, via Aberdeen & Edinburgh | Wife, twin mum, Christian | Student MA in Practical Theology | Often found with a coffee and crochet, or a book 📚
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Later today, the @jcfjustice.bsky.social launch a report that demonstrates Irish society has moved decisively into a post-secular stage and it's past time for us all to leave our 20th century kneejerk nu-atheist tendencies behind
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
The risk of crises such as the 2023 Dublin riots “will diminish if officials cultivate relationships with faith-based communities”.
The risk of crises such as the 2023 Dublin riots “will diminish if officials cultivate relationships with faith-based communities”.
Policymakers failing to tap into religious groups for migrant integration, says report
Nearly 50 faith-based communities in north-east inner city play unique role as ‘mediators of integration’ in addressing needs ‘often unmet’ by Government
www.irishtimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Later today, the @jcfjustice.bsky.social launch a report that demonstrates Irish society has moved decisively into a post-secular stage and it's past time for us all to leave our 20th century kneejerk nu-atheist tendencies behind
Theology friends:
Who is writing/speaking helpfully about relationships between men and women within the Christian faith?
Not romantic ones, but platonic friendships and mutually encouraging teamwork.
Who is writing/speaking helpfully about relationships between men and women within the Christian faith?
Not romantic ones, but platonic friendships and mutually encouraging teamwork.
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Theology friends:
Who is writing/speaking helpfully about relationships between men and women within the Christian faith?
Not romantic ones, but platonic friendships and mutually encouraging teamwork.
Who is writing/speaking helpfully about relationships between men and women within the Christian faith?
Not romantic ones, but platonic friendships and mutually encouraging teamwork.
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Scott Monument railway poster, c.1950
September 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Scott Monument railway poster, c.1950
Selfie-culture has so much to answer for.
Bring back decorum.
Bring back decorum.
September 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Selfie-culture has so much to answer for.
Bring back decorum.
Bring back decorum.
Late to the party as usual but the worst thing about Anyone But You might just be Sydney Sweeney's badly fitted bras/bikini tops 😆 #BigBoobProbs
September 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Late to the party as usual but the worst thing about Anyone But You might just be Sydney Sweeney's badly fitted bras/bikini tops 😆 #BigBoobProbs
Very thankful this evening for technology. Just spent an hour on Zoom chatting with 4 other women from different denominations all over Ireland about mission and missional working and living. Super encouraging!
September 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Very thankful this evening for technology. Just spent an hour on Zoom chatting with 4 other women from different denominations all over Ireland about mission and missional working and living. Super encouraging!
Resisting the urge to name my reflective journal entries (that are part of an assignment) like they're Friends episodes...
'The One Where Women in Churches Are In Leadership Roles But Don't Get the Recognition For It'
'The One Where Women in Churches Are In Leadership Roles But Don't Get the Recognition For It'
September 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Resisting the urge to name my reflective journal entries (that are part of an assignment) like they're Friends episodes...
'The One Where Women in Churches Are In Leadership Roles But Don't Get the Recognition For It'
'The One Where Women in Churches Are In Leadership Roles But Don't Get the Recognition For It'
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It's much easier to tear down than to build up, and it's far better to build a following doing it. Yet, as followers of Jesus, should this be the case?
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The Joy Of Extinguishing
Tall Poppies, Fault-Finding, and Fire-Building
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September 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It's much easier to tear down than to build up, and it's far better to build a following doing it. Yet, as followers of Jesus, should this be the case?
jonnypollockwrites.substack.com/p/the-joy-of...
jonnypollockwrites.substack.com/p/the-joy-of...
Make a band singular:
Kevin and the Zit
Kevin and the Zit
Make a band singular:
Kansa
Kansa
Make a band singular:
U1
U1
September 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Make a band singular:
Kevin and the Zit
Kevin and the Zit
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The thread about the Salisbury Arms and the famous literary association that never was
My eye was caught by a claim in local news that the author Arthur Conan Doyle once frequented the Salisbury Arms. In the best spirit of Sherlock Holmes, this thread sets out to thoroughly and factually debunk…
My eye was caught by a claim in local news that the author Arthur Conan Doyle once frequented the Salisbury Arms. In the best spirit of Sherlock Holmes, this thread sets out to thoroughly and factually debunk…
The thread about the Salisbury Arms and the famous literary association that never was
My eye was caught by a claim in local news that the author Arthur Conan Doyle once frequented the Salisbury Arms. In the best spirit of Sherlock Holmes, this thread sets out to thoroughly and factually debunk this assertion. Along the way we will find out about the actual history of the building and those people and organisations who are correctly associated with it. We shall also be told a cautionary tale about the perils of the decline of factual integrity in local journalism and the dangerous potential for the propagation of machine-generated misinformation on the niche subject of Edinburgh local history.
threadinburgh.scot
June 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The thread about the Salisbury Arms and the famous literary association that never was
My eye was caught by a claim in local news that the author Arthur Conan Doyle once frequented the Salisbury Arms. In the best spirit of Sherlock Holmes, this thread sets out to thoroughly and factually debunk…
My eye was caught by a claim in local news that the author Arthur Conan Doyle once frequented the Salisbury Arms. In the best spirit of Sherlock Holmes, this thread sets out to thoroughly and factually debunk…
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Hello, I'm looking for British evangelical churches that have preached through the whole of 1 Kings and/or 2 Kings, with recordings on YouTube/website/podcast/whatever.
This is for a resource list for our church.
Suggestions please!
This is for a resource list for our church.
Suggestions please!
June 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Hello, I'm looking for British evangelical churches that have preached through the whole of 1 Kings and/or 2 Kings, with recordings on YouTube/website/podcast/whatever.
This is for a resource list for our church.
Suggestions please!
This is for a resource list for our church.
Suggestions please!
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New from me on Young People and P*rnography
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Y 79 Young People and Pornography: Understanding and Responding Pastorally - Grove Books
The ready availability of Sexually Explicit Internet Material (SEIM) has led to a pandemic of pornography today that degrades humanity and blights lives. This
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June 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
New from me on Young People and P*rnography
grovebooks.co.uk/product/y-79...
grovebooks.co.uk/product/y-79...
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So many people’s analysis of geopolitics is basically Spacestar Ordering (based on the twin principles of Space Maths and Wishy Thinking)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TW0C...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TW0C...
The IT Crowd - Series 4 - Episode 3 - Spaceology
YouTube video by The IT Crowd
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June 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
So many people’s analysis of geopolitics is basically Spacestar Ordering (based on the twin principles of Space Maths and Wishy Thinking)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TW0C...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TW0C...
"This is your sign..."
Words guaranteed to make me ignore the next part of the sentence 🤷♀️
Words guaranteed to make me ignore the next part of the sentence 🤷♀️
Once again IG parents doing Way Too Much at the beach. Your kids don’t need to “discover” a hairbrush covered in shells at the beach!!! Discovering real shells at the beach IS magical already!!! This just honestly makes me rage.
June 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"This is your sign..."
Words guaranteed to make me ignore the next part of the sentence 🤷♀️
Words guaranteed to make me ignore the next part of the sentence 🤷♀️
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An important life skill to develop is the ability to not have an opinion on a thing.
This is because there are many things which it is not necessary for you to have an opinion on.
A related skill is recognizing that the list of things on which an opinion is required is different for everyone.
This is because there are many things which it is not necessary for you to have an opinion on.
A related skill is recognizing that the list of things on which an opinion is required is different for everyone.
May 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
An important life skill to develop is the ability to not have an opinion on a thing.
This is because there are many things which it is not necessary for you to have an opinion on.
A related skill is recognizing that the list of things on which an opinion is required is different for everyone.
This is because there are many things which it is not necessary for you to have an opinion on.
A related skill is recognizing that the list of things on which an opinion is required is different for everyone.
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Really interesting & useful chat on teens & screens from @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social and Pete Etchells, esp if yr reading The Anxious Generation. I think reading Twitter for ages had made me forget nuance was possible. youtu.be/CDklRSfl8og?...
Two psychologists have a reassuring, science-based chat about screens, phones and social media
YouTube video by Lucy Foulkes
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May 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Really interesting & useful chat on teens & screens from @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social and Pete Etchells, esp if yr reading The Anxious Generation. I think reading Twitter for ages had made me forget nuance was possible. youtu.be/CDklRSfl8og?...
Sounds very interesting!
Some pals and I are starting a new Masters programme in Theology and Social Justice at Trinity College Dublin. We have an information webinar next Wednesday if you think you'd like to study really interesting things that can actually make a difference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Ii...
MPhil Programme in Theology and Social Justice Webinar Ad 1
YouTube video by Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice (JCFJ)
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May 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Sounds very interesting!
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Discount alert - our SCM Studyguides are 20% off until 23rd May! Have a browse here and stock up:
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/offer/d68131...
Topics include Psalms, Preaching, Catholic Liturgy, Christian Mission, The Old Testament, Theological Reflection and more
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Topics include Psalms, Preaching, Catholic Liturgy, Christian Mission, The Old Testament, Theological Reflection and more
May 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Discount alert - our SCM Studyguides are 20% off until 23rd May! Have a browse here and stock up:
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/offer/d68131...
Topics include Psalms, Preaching, Catholic Liturgy, Christian Mission, The Old Testament, Theological Reflection and more
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/offer/d68131...
Topics include Psalms, Preaching, Catholic Liturgy, Christian Mission, The Old Testament, Theological Reflection and more
"Death was once my great opponent
Fear once had a hold on me
But the Son who died to save us
Rose that we would be free indeed!
Yes, He rose that we would be free indeed!"
youtu.be/rv97LK4iBoc?...
Fear once had a hold on me
But the Son who died to save us
Rose that we would be free indeed!
Yes, He rose that we would be free indeed!"
youtu.be/rv97LK4iBoc?...
It Was Finished Upon That Cross
YouTube video by CityAlight - Topic
youtu.be
April 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"Death was once my great opponent
Fear once had a hold on me
But the Son who died to save us
Rose that we would be free indeed!
Yes, He rose that we would be free indeed!"
youtu.be/rv97LK4iBoc?...
Fear once had a hold on me
But the Son who died to save us
Rose that we would be free indeed!
Yes, He rose that we would be free indeed!"
youtu.be/rv97LK4iBoc?...
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Dali's 'Christ of St John of the Cross,' (1951) is one of the most celebrated and criticised religious paintings of the 20thC. The power of the image rests on the paradoxes it presents to the viewer: Christ is immediately and physically present but also distant.
April 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Dali's 'Christ of St John of the Cross,' (1951) is one of the most celebrated and criticised religious paintings of the 20thC. The power of the image rests on the paradoxes it presents to the viewer: Christ is immediately and physically present but also distant.
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A Prayer for Good Friday:
That God might take our bodies—broken by sickness, sorrow, shame or age—and bless them, so that they might become agents of Christ's healing in our broken world this day.
("Prayers for the Pilgrimage" via @ivpress.bsky.social)
That God might take our bodies—broken by sickness, sorrow, shame or age—and bless them, so that they might become agents of Christ's healing in our broken world this day.
("Prayers for the Pilgrimage" via @ivpress.bsky.social)
April 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A Prayer for Good Friday:
That God might take our bodies—broken by sickness, sorrow, shame or age—and bless them, so that they might become agents of Christ's healing in our broken world this day.
("Prayers for the Pilgrimage" via @ivpress.bsky.social)
That God might take our bodies—broken by sickness, sorrow, shame or age—and bless them, so that they might become agents of Christ's healing in our broken world this day.
("Prayers for the Pilgrimage" via @ivpress.bsky.social)
Narrative Theology #1
By Pádraig Ó Tuama
By Pádraig Ó Tuama
April 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Narrative Theology #1
By Pádraig Ó Tuama
By Pádraig Ó Tuama