Universities and the humanities

Terry Eagleton on the death of universities.  "Universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/17/death-universities-malaise-tuition-fees?CMP=share_btn_tw

An Anglo-saxon sermon for Advent

... plus translation from A Clerk of Oxford
http://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/eos-tid-o-midne-winter-anglo-saxon.html?m=1

Nighthawks damage hillfort

Cissbury Ring in Sussex
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-38101813

Church growth

Ah, well, you see. It depends what you mean by ... A Canadian report says that conservative theology is associated with church growth
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2016/25-november/news/uk/conservative-protestantism-and-church-growth-go-together-says-canadian-research

Competition

Short story competition, closing date 28th February 2017. Jane Austen 200
http://janeausten200.co.uk/competitions

Writing description

How to describe ... place
http://goteenwriters.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/how-to-describe-place.html?m=1

Hypermodern religiosity

Blog discusses how new forms of religious expression result from a desire for transcedence. Reason alone is no answer.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/10/10/hypermodern-religiosity-islam/

Myth, history & rubber in Peru

Blog post from Sapiens. The story of the black tiger.
http://www.sapiens.org/culture/rubber-era-myths/?utm_content=bufferff347&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The Art of Seeing

Art and science in understanding the world: very interesting blog post
http://www.envirosociety.org/2016/07/the-art-of-seeing-grasping-more-than-human-plant-worlds-beyond-objectified-nature/

Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas

Free pdf download from EU bookshop
Important concept. Needs to be widely known
http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/global-soil-biodiversity-atlas-pbLBNA27236/?CatalogCategoryID=aLoKABstwUAAAAEjqpEY4e5L

Poetry competition

http://fireriverpoets.org.uk/competitions/competition-2016

Who you really are

Belly, head & heart examined in 10 part blog by Richard Rohr
https://cac.org/belly-heart-head-2016-04-26/

Community Tree Strategies

How to help save trees
https://savingyourtrees.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/protecting-trees-and-community-tree-strategies/

Stretching the imagination of a secular society

Interview with Margaret Somerville: language, ethics & poetry
https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/4691/the-public-intellectual-as-poet-a-conversation-with-margaret-somerville-part-i/

Writing is for scientists too

Darwin and Einstein were writers. Toni Morrison is a writer. On seeing and seeing again. The Ache to Interpret
http://www.onbeing.org/blog/the-ache-to-interpret-literature-science-and-seeing-again/8371

Swaledales

Beautiful photo
Check out @AmandaOwen8's Tweet: https://twitter.com/AmandaOwen8/status/698216607164821504

Hidden Life of Trees

German best seller. English translation due September 2016.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world/europe/german-forest-ranger-finds-that-trees-have-social-networks-too.html?smid=fb-share&_r=2

A light in the darkness

Candlemas sermon - Tricia Hillas
In giving light we are consumed
https://www.stpauls.co.uk/worship-music/worship/read-sermons/sermon-preached-on-the-feast-of-the-presentation-candlemas-2-february-201-by-revd-canon-tricia-hillas-pastor?utm_content=buffera284a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Joan Didion on writing

Great interview from The Paris Review
As a writer, the extremes always show up - or you go and sell insurance
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3439/the-art-of-fiction-no-71-joan-didion

More fairytales & storytelling

Excellent piece comparing western and Japanese ideas of storytelling
http://lithub.com/our-fairy-tales-ourselves-storytelling-from-east-to-west/?utm_content=bufferb86a2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The pressures of fame

Suicide in young men. A case in point.  Li'l Chris.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3437003/Lil-Chris-inquest-held-following-singers-death.html

Deep mapping & spatial anthropology

An introduction to a special edition of Humanities.
A deep discussion well worth reading and pondering
http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/1/5/htm

Storytelling

Michael Morpurgo on National Storytelling Week, from the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/feb/01/storytelling-week-michael-morpurgo?CMP=share_btn_tw

The Bath Novel Award

Entries by April
http://bathnovelaward.co.uk/

Ignorance

Agnotology - the art of spreading confusion
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160105-the-man-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance

Helpful analysis of LGBT debate

A contextual understanding of Scripture
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2016/01/21/4392435.htm