David Kirk Beedon
@rev-doc.bsky.social
Retired Anglican priest and former prison chaplain. Post-doctoral theological researcher with an interdisciplinary interest in transformative penal pastoral practices.
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The CfP of the @biaptheology.bsky.social conference special issue at @practicaltheology.bsky.social is live: www.biapt.org/wp-content/u...
Please consider to submit by 6 December 2025.
Please consider to submit by 6 December 2025.
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The CfP of the @biaptheology.bsky.social conference special issue at @practicaltheology.bsky.social is live: www.biapt.org/wp-content/u...
Please consider to submit by 6 December 2025.
Please consider to submit by 6 December 2025.
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What's tearing the UK apart is poverty, inequality, unrestrained capitalism, extortionate privatised public services, the cost of living (especially housing). And racism. It's not people fleeing war and famine.
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What's tearing the UK apart is poverty, inequality, unrestrained capitalism, extortionate privatised public services, the cost of living (especially housing). And racism. It's not people fleeing war and famine.
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Nice one, Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Nice one, Zadie Smith.
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I've signed this open letter. #CofEpeeps, lay or ordained, if you want the church to become more fully affirming of LGBTQ+ folks, please read this letter from Inclusive Church and consider signing it.
www.inclusive-church.org/llf-open-let...
www.inclusive-church.org/llf-open-let...
LLF Open Letter – Inclusive Church
www.inclusive-church.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I've signed this open letter. #CofEpeeps, lay or ordained, if you want the church to become more fully affirming of LGBTQ+ folks, please read this letter from Inclusive Church and consider signing it.
www.inclusive-church.org/llf-open-let...
www.inclusive-church.org/llf-open-let...
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A beautiful little film about an important ongoing issue
Last week we relaunched our exhibition at the Labour Conference ‘IPP sentences - Abolished but not gone’
Thank you to @lungtheatre.bsky.social for partnering with us for this event and the ones to follow.
Film by: instagram.com/immanentproduc…
Photos by: @andyaitchison.bsky.social
Thank you to @lungtheatre.bsky.social for partnering with us for this event and the ones to follow.
Film by: instagram.com/immanentproduc…
Photos by: @andyaitchison.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A beautiful little film about an important ongoing issue
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Come along to my book launch next month!
Excited to share the details of the launch for
@docbrush.bsky.social's new book, The Way Through The Trees, at Ripon College Cuddesdon on Friday 14th November.
Please RSVP to the college with the details on the flyer below/in the alt text.
@docbrush.bsky.social's new book, The Way Through The Trees, at Ripon College Cuddesdon on Friday 14th November.
Please RSVP to the college with the details on the flyer below/in the alt text.
October 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Come along to my book launch next month!
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It's October, and we have FOUR new books out this month!
Here's the first: Jenny Morgans' Christian Women at University,
uncovering the resources and strategies Christian women employ in trying to feel at home at university.
20% off all orders this month:
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
Here's the first: Jenny Morgans' Christian Women at University,
uncovering the resources and strategies Christian women employ in trying to feel at home at university.
20% off all orders this month:
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
October 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It's October, and we have FOUR new books out this month!
Here's the first: Jenny Morgans' Christian Women at University,
uncovering the resources and strategies Christian women employ in trying to feel at home at university.
20% off all orders this month:
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
Here's the first: Jenny Morgans' Christian Women at University,
uncovering the resources and strategies Christian women employ in trying to feel at home at university.
20% off all orders this month:
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
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It’s shameful & shocking that given what I've gone through & how huge the campaign to bring me home was, & the Government acknowledge the injustice of my experience, still they do not recognise what's going on at home.
Nazanin Zachary-Ratcliffe speaking at the Labour Conference 2025
#endipp
Nazanin Zachary-Ratcliffe speaking at the Labour Conference 2025
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October 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It’s shameful & shocking that given what I've gone through & how huge the campaign to bring me home was, & the Government acknowledge the injustice of my experience, still they do not recognise what's going on at home.
Nazanin Zachary-Ratcliffe speaking at the Labour Conference 2025
#endipp
Nazanin Zachary-Ratcliffe speaking at the Labour Conference 2025
#endipp
Pleased to join the panel discussing this important topic with the gathered audience. Promises to be challenging and thought-provoking, possibly even controversial!
Assemble at Chester Cathedral: Do prisons rehabilitate?
Event in Chester, United Kingdom by Chester Cathedral on Tuesday, October 14 2025
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October 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Pleased to join the panel discussing this important topic with the gathered audience. Promises to be challenging and thought-provoking, possibly even controversial!
“Farage has none of the Tory party’s legacy & reputation to uphold, & all of the benefits of the lowered standards that the Tories have established. Reform is the Conservative party, but without the burden of history…” Insightful piece from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
Don’t despair, Tories: look upon Reform and see your rightful and fitting legacy | Nesrine Malik
If Kemi Badenoch wonders why her party conference looks and feels like a sideshow, perhaps she should reflect on the Conservatives’ 14 years in power, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
“Farage has none of the Tory party’s legacy & reputation to uphold, & all of the benefits of the lowered standards that the Tories have established. Reform is the Conservative party, but without the burden of history…” Insightful piece from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
So pleased to be able to contribute some of my research ideas concerning the UK's biggest judicial stain in the latest episode of the excellent Trapped podcast on IPP sentences. A shameful injustice. #IPP #custodialcompassion #pastoralcare embed.acast.com/$/646ce6e2fe...?
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September 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
So pleased to be able to contribute some of my research ideas concerning the UK's biggest judicial stain in the latest episode of the excellent Trapped podcast on IPP sentences. A shameful injustice. #IPP #custodialcompassion #pastoralcare embed.acast.com/$/646ce6e2fe...?
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using racism and xenophobia to drive divisions between the working classes, and to distract us from the system of class-based exploitation that’s actually causing most of our problems.
September 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
using racism and xenophobia to drive divisions between the working classes, and to distract us from the system of class-based exploitation that’s actually causing most of our problems.
What have we become as a nation?
Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
What have we become as a nation?
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The Independent Prison Capacity Review by Dame Anne Owers (England & Wales) has been published.
I will read this when I am back from travelling, but a cursory glance over Chapter 3 on governance and decision-making looks interesting and frank in its assessments... #prison
www.gov.uk/government/p...
I will read this when I am back from travelling, but a cursory glance over Chapter 3 on governance and decision-making looks interesting and frank in its assessments... #prison
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Independent Prison Capacity Review: final report
The Independent Prison Capacity Review examines the prison capacity crisis and offers recommendations to help future governments avoid recurring crises.
www.gov.uk
August 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The Independent Prison Capacity Review by Dame Anne Owers (England & Wales) has been published.
I will read this when I am back from travelling, but a cursory glance over Chapter 3 on governance and decision-making looks interesting and frank in its assessments... #prison
www.gov.uk/government/p...
I will read this when I am back from travelling, but a cursory glance over Chapter 3 on governance and decision-making looks interesting and frank in its assessments... #prison
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.
July 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.
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Reform's George Finch, the 19-year-old leader of Warwickshire county council, pushes forward plans to spend £150,000 on hiring political advisers despite pledging to cut waste and save money.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform councillors criticised after voting to spend £150,000 on political advisers
Plan was put forward by 19-year-old leader of Warwickshire council George Finch who also lobbied to remove Pride flag
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Reform's George Finch, the 19-year-old leader of Warwickshire county council, pushes forward plans to spend £150,000 on hiring political advisers despite pledging to cut waste and save money.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
July 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
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Love the UK!!!! Don’t forget the banners at the airport!
July 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Love the UK!!!! Don’t forget the banners at the airport!
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3. They warn of violence in the streets, while subtly inciting it. When it happens, they will shake their heads and say "I told you so".
July 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
3. They warn of violence in the streets, while subtly inciting it. When it happens, they will shake their heads and say "I told you so".
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2. And it is dressed in respectability. The people telling you this wear nice suits and ties, live in fine houses, write columns for newspapers that have been in print for centuries, punctuate correctly. But they are as thuggish as any street racist throwing a bin at a hotel housing asylum seekers.
July 16, 2025 at 6:16 AM
2. And it is dressed in respectability. The people telling you this wear nice suits and ties, live in fine houses, write columns for newspapers that have been in print for centuries, punctuate correctly. But they are as thuggish as any street racist throwing a bin at a hotel housing asylum seekers.
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1. The impacts of predatory capital - impossible rents, failing public services, rising costs of living - are being blamed across the billionaire press on immigrants and Black and Brown people.
It's so crude, so obvious, so familiar .... but if you tell the lie often enough, people believe it. 🧵
It's so crude, so obvious, so familiar .... but if you tell the lie often enough, people believe it. 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
1. The impacts of predatory capital - impossible rents, failing public services, rising costs of living - are being blamed across the billionaire press on immigrants and Black and Brown people.
It's so crude, so obvious, so familiar .... but if you tell the lie often enough, people believe it. 🧵
It's so crude, so obvious, so familiar .... but if you tell the lie often enough, people believe it. 🧵
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The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
July 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.
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They’re trying to ensure that there are no neighbors different from them in any way.
July 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
They’re trying to ensure that there are no neighbors different from them in any way.
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The Anglican Bishop for HM Prisons in England and Wales calls for more community sentences for certain offences, to reduce reoffending: shorturl.at/Tj48F
The bishop welcomes the “creative” ideas of young people on the justice system in a survey to be taken to parliament: shorturl.at/qRVtj
The bishop welcomes the “creative” ideas of young people on the justice system in a survey to be taken to parliament: shorturl.at/qRVtj
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July 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The Anglican Bishop for HM Prisons in England and Wales calls for more community sentences for certain offences, to reduce reoffending: shorturl.at/Tj48F
The bishop welcomes the “creative” ideas of young people on the justice system in a survey to be taken to parliament: shorturl.at/qRVtj
The bishop welcomes the “creative” ideas of young people on the justice system in a survey to be taken to parliament: shorturl.at/qRVtj