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Morwenna Ludlow
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Professor of Early Christian History at the University of Exeter; Canon Theologian at Exeter Cathedral. Crafter of prose, cushions and woolly socks.

I lift my eyes to the hills.
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In other news, we’re walking along a long, almost empty Devon beach and discovering we’re being overtaken by a seal “in the fast lane”, oh-so-elegantly easing him/herself up the shoreline, carefully avoiding one or two surprised human swimmers and generally absolutely owning the whole beach.
Photo of a very long, pebbly, almost empty beach on a sunny day under a perfect clear blue sky. The sea is mirror calm and a paler blue near the shoreline. Cliffs in the distance. Sadly no image of the seal, so you’ll have to imagine that.
July 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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The government can’t have it both ways: either universities are a common public good with proper funding (& then govt has a legitimate interest in who we educate); but if we have to run as businesses, then don’t cut off a vital income stream and impose an extra levy on the income….
Screen shot of BlueSky post by Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social O’Hara writes: “First universities point in the Immigration White Paper: the government's going to steal some of our money to drive us deeper into penury. For crying out loud.” O’Hara then includes screenshot of two paragraphs from government white paper: 112. International students have a significant positive impact to the UK economy. In 2021, international students at UK universities generated an estimated £20.65 billion in exports through living expenditure and tuition fees, but it is right that these benefits are shared.48 The Government will explore introducing a levy on higher education provider income from international students, to be reinvested into the higher education and skills system. Further details will be set out in the Autumn Budget. 113. It is also essential that any individual that our country welcomes here to study is genuinely here to do so and is not using their application for a student visa simply as a vehicle to move themselves and their dependants to a new life in Britain Equally, the education providers responsible for offering places to these students must treat their roles as recruiting sponsors with the diligence and seriousness that those roles demand.
May 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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On the other I would actually wear this. Next knitting project, perhaps?
Design by Sonia Delauney. Sketch shows model wearing a multi coloured dress with knee length flared skirt, tight waist, straight fitted bodice with round neck and elbow length sleeves. Bodice is black down the left side and black marks the waist and black strips of colour radiate down from waist to hem of skirt. In between the black there are irregular polygrammatic blocks of colour in red, yellow, green, blue and orange.
April 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Wearing the first line of your cv literally on your sleeves is perhaps a little obvious…
Design by Sonia Delauney. Sketch shows model wearing an evening ensemble: strapless white dress shading to grey in the narrow long skirt. Over this the model wears a loose-sleeved long jacket in grey and black. Across the arms of the jacket and the bust of the dress are multi coloured letters reading “CETTE ETERNE FEMME”.
April 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Practical solution to the trousers vs skirt dilemma:
Design by Sonia Delauney: sketch shows model wearing an ensemble in red, black and sky blue. To the right it’s a red dress with A line skirt ending just above the knee; to the left a strapless dress in blue with skirt and also a trouser leg in blue. The join between the two is a black zigzag design which runs from the right shoulder of the red dress all the way down to the trouser leg on the left.
April 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Until, of course, the light changes…
The green light of a pedestrian crossing. A green figure in 16th century scholar costume — Luther, we assume — hastening across the road.
March 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Am I imagining some very subtle theological joke-making by the Ampelmännchen in Lutherplatz, Worms? “Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders.”
The red light on a pedestrian crossing: the silhouette of the man waiting looks like that of portraits of Luther.
March 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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…and bouquets
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekBforB
Boxes of bouquets of flowers at a market stall. Bright colours — red, and white; pink and white, and yellow. A hand-written sign reads 8€ / 2 = 15€
January 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Boxes of bulbs in Brussels

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforB
A box of 20 hyacinth bulbs in square pots of various colours — pink, white and blue plastic. The bulbs are sprouting green, but not yet in bloom. From a market stall.
January 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The word “juvenile”
January 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekAforAngles Ceiling of conference room in Leuven
The inside of a beamed roof: two broad horizontal main beams, a steeply pitched roof with supporting beams. And a couple of strip lights. A picture with lots of angles!
January 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Today’s my annual “Who invented Christmas?” lecture day. A small gift for my 1st yrs on the intro to Christian histories module. Terrific students; unafraid to ask questions. You’ve kept me on my toes: keep asking questions folks!
Early image of three magi (in Phoenician bonnets and capes swooshing in the wind) advancing towards Mary with gifts in their hands. Mary is seated on a high backed basket chair with the Christ child on her lap. Behind her a figure (commonly assumed to be Barlaam) is pointing at a star. Image of the stone sealing the tomb of Severa, from the Vatican museums.
December 13, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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Students: a long time ago, in the days before Excel spreadsheets , this is how we wrote our PhDs….
A red index card box full of cards indexing works by Gregory of Nyssa An index card box full of cards
December 20, 2023 at 5:26 PM