Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
With apologies, for today’s feast.
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
With apologies, for today’s feast.
Today I will mostly thinking (as sermon prep) about the Second Person of the Trinity as creator, partly inspired by Dorothy L Sayers and also this mosaic from Monreale.
November 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Today I will mostly thinking (as sermon prep) about the Second Person of the Trinity as creator, partly inspired by Dorothy L Sayers and also this mosaic from Monreale.
I’m also cheered by the sheer ridiculousness of this blurb for Diane Duane’s Star Trek novel “The Wounded Sky” (the “pretty alien scientist” is in fact a metre high spider, although she is a prettily coloured one…)
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I’m also cheered by the sheer ridiculousness of this blurb for Diane Duane’s Star Trek novel “The Wounded Sky” (the “pretty alien scientist” is in fact a metre high spider, although she is a prettily coloured one…)
A local historian had discovered his story, was moved by it, and decided that it should be commemorated. And so a memorial was placed and dedicated, the mayor inviting the then Bishop of Wakefield and @frjonathanbish.bsky.social to be part of the ceremony.
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
A local historian had discovered his story, was moved by it, and decided that it should be commemorated. And so a memorial was placed and dedicated, the mayor inviting the then Bishop of Wakefield and @frjonathanbish.bsky.social to be part of the ceremony.
Hildegard of Bingen's Wikipedia page is a trip. A decent summary of her life and writings, someone claiming she wasn't instructed in music, Benedict XVI proclaiming her a doctor of the church, an entire paragraph about an argument started by Steiner on who might be a reincarnation of her, and this:
November 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Hildegard of Bingen's Wikipedia page is a trip. A decent summary of her life and writings, someone claiming she wasn't instructed in music, Benedict XVI proclaiming her a doctor of the church, an entire paragraph about an argument started by Steiner on who might be a reincarnation of her, and this:
I was a little bored earlier. ⚓️✝️
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I was a little bored earlier. ⚓️✝️
Today is the college feast day and the kitchen made us doughnuts. Bit of cinnamon in the sugar. So good.
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Today is the college feast day and the kitchen made us doughnuts. Bit of cinnamon in the sugar. So good.
Ross Perlin’s “Language City” is a great book, but is it overly picky to point out that none of these words entered English because of colonialism? Goodness knows there’s other words he could have found that have done…
(And a lot of the French vocab is because they colonised the English).
(And a lot of the French vocab is because they colonised the English).
October 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Ross Perlin’s “Language City” is a great book, but is it overly picky to point out that none of these words entered English because of colonialism? Goodness knows there’s other words he could have found that have done…
(And a lot of the French vocab is because they colonised the English).
(And a lot of the French vocab is because they colonised the English).
We went to RSPB Blacktoft Sands. Very windy so smaller birds staying out of sight (no beardies for us…), and the waders have mostly moved on, but a good morning all the same.
October 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
We went to RSPB Blacktoft Sands. Very windy so smaller birds staying out of sight (no beardies for us…), and the waders have mostly moved on, but a good morning all the same.
Twice a term we have “long weekends” where we’re off Friday to Sunday. Went to RHS Harlow Carr near Harrogate.
October 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Twice a term we have “long weekends” where we’re off Friday to Sunday. Went to RHS Harlow Carr near Harrogate.
Spouse made filé gumbo. It’s rather good.
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Spouse made filé gumbo. It’s rather good.
Imploring certain Americans to get a bit of perspective about the Revolutionary War.
You can be entirely in favour of US independence and still recognise that Farmer George was not Adolf Hitler. And neither was Lord North.
You can be entirely in favour of US independence and still recognise that Farmer George was not Adolf Hitler. And neither was Lord North.
October 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Imploring certain Americans to get a bit of perspective about the Revolutionary War.
You can be entirely in favour of US independence and still recognise that Farmer George was not Adolf Hitler. And neither was Lord North.
You can be entirely in favour of US independence and still recognise that Farmer George was not Adolf Hitler. And neither was Lord North.
I have found an EXCELLENT meme for the church history lecture on Wednesday (which includes the Great Schism)
October 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I have found an EXCELLENT meme for the church history lecture on Wednesday (which includes the Great Schism)
Goodbye, misfiring bot…
October 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Goodbye, misfiring bot…
I’ve never been entirely sure if I like LNER’s Eleanor mascot (especially as I’ve only just discovered that’s her name), but I just saw a small child being absolutely delighted to see the Eleanor train, so I’m in favour now.
October 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I’ve never been entirely sure if I like LNER’s Eleanor mascot (especially as I’ve only just discovered that’s her name), but I just saw a small child being absolutely delighted to see the Eleanor train, so I’m in favour now.
The dreaming spires of Wakefield. Ish.
October 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
The dreaming spires of Wakefield. Ish.
That was an easy block (and please don’t go looking for them), but I am a bit fascinated by what exactly “keep your opinions on your side of the Atlantic” is supposed to mean. Don’t have opinions about America anywhere an American might hear you?
![Screenshot from Bluesky;
Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social • 19m
Ah, good morning Americans, most of whom are entirely missing the point.
[name and user pic scored out:]
Or you could keep your shitty misinformed opinions on your side of the Atlantic
14 October 2025 at 15:53](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:patuxpqul53srrmqupqi6bsm/bafkreiaytp5kwcrzl6ezzmjagq4xaag5qcwqfuwsr5rtuzxd3laevzazsa@jpeg)
October 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
That was an easy block (and please don’t go looking for them), but I am a bit fascinated by what exactly “keep your opinions on your side of the Atlantic” is supposed to mean. Don’t have opinions about America anywhere an American might hear you?
Wondering what Powerpoint finds particularly lacking in concision about that particular phrase, when... well, look at it.
![A screenshot of a block quote from Gregory of Nyssa's "Life of Moses", which reads
"What does it mean that Moses entered the darkness and then saw God in it? What is now recorded seems somehow to be contradictory to the first theophany, for then the Divine was beheld in light, but now he is seen in darkness. […] Scripture teaches by this that religious knowledge comes at first to those who receive it as light. Therefore, what is perceived to be contrary to religion is darkness, and the escape from darkness comes about when one participates in light. But as the mind progresses, and through an ever greater and more perfect diligence, comes to apprehend reality, as it approaches more nearly to contemplation, it sees more clearly what of the divine nature is uncontemplated.
For leaving behind everything that is observed, not only what sense comprehends, but also what the intelligence thinks it sees, it keeps on penetrating deeper until by the intelligence’s yearning for understanding it gains access to the invisible and incomprehensible, and there it sees God. This is the true knowledge of what is sought; this is the seeing that consists in not seeing, because that which is sought transcends all knowledge, being separated on all sides by incomprehensibility as a kind of darkness. Wherefore John the sublime, who penetrated into the luminous darkness, says “no man has ever seen God.”"
Powerpoint objects to the phrase "penetrated into", on the grounds that "more concise language would be clearer for your reader.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:patuxpqul53srrmqupqi6bsm/bafkreicz7z3kt7ew6jwna4s3uxak6heqlf6aeh4g7mxvf6sr27ymfrhtqa@jpeg)
October 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Wondering what Powerpoint finds particularly lacking in concision about that particular phrase, when... well, look at it.
Confirmed by his instagram, for the record (which was posted before the Charlie Kirk endorsement)
October 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Confirmed by his instagram, for the record (which was posted before the Charlie Kirk endorsement)
Light’s a bit odd, but that oak is becoming magnificent.
October 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Light’s a bit odd, but that oak is becoming magnificent.
Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.
Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.
Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.
October 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.
Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.
Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.
Although: I forgot to turn the AI off, and for once I’m vaguely amused by its attempts to cope:
October 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Although: I forgot to turn the AI off, and for once I’m vaguely amused by its attempts to cope:
Show us the last four albums you listened to.
October 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Show us the last four albums you listened to.
Thought I’d try to get some shots of the coming autumn colour in case the storm wrecks it - pity the light was so flat.
October 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thought I’d try to get some shots of the coming autumn colour in case the storm wrecks it - pity the light was so flat.
The thing that gets me about these supposed defenders of tradition know very little abt what is traditional, & what is a creative variation on tradition, as here. It’s curious how many of them seem to have very Protestant instincts.
Anyway, it also upset noted liturgical authorities the Daily Mail.
Anyway, it also upset noted liturgical authorities the Daily Mail.
October 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
The thing that gets me about these supposed defenders of tradition know very little abt what is traditional, & what is a creative variation on tradition, as here. It’s curious how many of them seem to have very Protestant instincts.
Anyway, it also upset noted liturgical authorities the Daily Mail.
Anyway, it also upset noted liturgical authorities the Daily Mail.