Kat

Christian, and occasional runner

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

This is one of most shocking cases I've read from the Trans Madness Era.

[Kat @K8again]

Seven years 😕 This should never have happened to him in the first place, but it also certainly shouldn't have taken a seven year battle to get here.

[Christian Concern @CConcern]

(1)🚨BREAKING: After a seven-year, high-profile legal battle on multiple fronts, Rev. Dr Bernard Randall, supported by the Christian Legal Centre, has secured a legal settlement with Trent College and succeeded in overturning the Church of England’s (CofE) safeguarding blacklisting of him for preaching a sermon on freedom of belief and gender identity.

Dr Randall, a former Cambridge University college chaplain, is now free to preach in church again and work in an education setting for the first time in seven years after he and his legal team successfully challenged the ban imposed on him.

Had he preached in a CofE place of worship during the past seven years, he could have faced disciplinary action.

The sanction followed a sermon he delivered as chaplain of the Derbyshire college in July 2019 in a CofE school, in a CofE chapel, precisely the kind of setting where pupils might reasonably expect to hear orthodox Christian teaching.

The sermon encouraged debate and was pastoral and rooted in Anglican belief. It came after the school had invited in the external campaign group Educate and Celebrate, which openly stated its aim to “smash heteronormativity” and to embed Queer Theory throughout the culture of the school.

Yet for delivering that sermon, Dr Randall, was treated like a criminal: forced out of the college, reported to Prevent without his knowledge, and blacklisted by the Diocese of Derby as a safeguarding risk.

Meanwhile, in the years since, Educate and Celebrate has been quietly closed down by the Charity Commission following a series of scandals, including one of its patrons committing multiple sex offences against children.

See more breaking in The Times, on our website and in this 🧵

https://t.co/2w231UP3Tj

https://t.co/YjXKjspiDO

[Kat @K8again]

@danitreweek Although not the main focus of does form a significant and interesting component of John Swinton's work in "Dementia" and "Becoming Friends of Time".

[David Miller @dav1dmiller]

The Barkley Marathons 2026: 0 Finishers.

Photos coming soon on my Instagram!

📸 https://t.co/vMJT4xzAna

#bm100 #barkleymarathons

[Kat @K8again]

@AdamMerrivale Central Baptist Church in Dundee went through Isaiah August '24 to July '25 https://t.co/LQa5192lvt

[Keith @keithdunn]

The conch was blown at 5:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100

[Ｐｅｔｅｒ Ｌｙｎａｓ @peterlynas]

Well said @BaronessEB - the attempt to dismiss views simply because they are religious is disappointing and in any other context would be a breach of discrimination laws.

[T.C. Schmidt @ProfTCSchmidt]

@holland_tom Due to a generous donor, my book can be downloaded for free at the book website https://t.co/6xdvTDZ9em

[Biology in Medicine @biologyinmed]

This petition focusses on the needs of women to be safe within the NHS. It’s dreadful to discover how much sexual violence there is in hospital.

Please sign.
https://t.co/0q7JZKp8ax

[Michael Foran @michaelpforan]

Without an explanation for how these fabricated quotes made it into the judgment, the attempt to sweep these errors away as mere accidental slips only undermines public confidence in the Scottish Tribunal service.

[Ayaan Hirsi Ali @Ayaan]

I survived female genital mutilation, and I carry its scars with me. But I refuse to accept that another girl in America must endure what I did in Somalia. Alaska lawmakers have the power to stop it.
https://t.co/C3FihoPGMj

[Kat @K8again]

@JustMisogyny 😂

[Danielle (Dani) Treweek @danitreweek]

Young men. Listen to Scripture.

If you desire to have sex then be self controlled (Titus 2:6)

Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But if you do marry, you have not sinned…. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles. (1 Cor 7:27-28)

You are free to marry should God give you the opportunity to serve him and a woman in that good covenantal relationship. Yet marriage is not your right, nor your need, nor does it exist to serve your corrupted sex drive.

[Kat @K8again]

@DreyfusJames The desire to trust and give the benefit of the doubt is a good thing. The desire to forgive and allow space for people to change is a sign of generosity. The abuse of that goodness is a real shame.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

John is not shy about ascribing deity to Jesus throughout his Gospel biography. But this statement in John 12 points not only to fulfilled prophesy during Jesus's life, but that Yahweh-God, seated on the throne of heaven, was and is Jesus himself.

[Anders Sørensen @_AndersSorensen]

We’ve all done it: stayed in a job that slowly drains us, held on to a toxic relationship that quietly erodes our sense of self, repeated a pattern of behavior that we know is bad for us. And yet we keep doing it.

We tell ourselves “it’s not that bad” or “maybe it will get better” even as some deeper truth keeps whispering that we’re on the wrong track.

The quote below captures something profound: the longer we postpone that internal reckoning, the harder (and more painful) it becomes to find our way back. Not that the exit ever disappears, but our own orientation may.

In Chapter 3 of my book, I describe how avoidance, at its core, is an attempt to regulate emotion. Whether it’s medication, workaholism, doomscrolling, overeating, distraction, avoiding certain situations, overthinking, or constant busyness, the underlying psychological mechanism is the same: we’re trying to avoid a feeling or a reality we don’t want to confront.

And for a while, it works. It reduces anxiety or fear or grief by distracting us from it.

But over time, two things happen:
One: The emotional cost increases; the more we avoid something, the more threatening it feels.
Two: Our tolerance decreases; we become less and less capable of facing discomfort because we rarely practice doing so.

And when we do make contact with our pain, we often do it with resistance: pain + fighting the pain, pain + trying to make it go away, pain + telling ourselves it shouldn’t be there.

In other words, we’re not actually allowing the pain. We’re battling it. And that combination [...]

[...] You can read the full article for free on my Substack, link below.

[Kat @K8again]

Extraordinary achievements by both!

[iRunFar @iRunFar]

What. A. Day. at the Leadville 100 Mile yesterday!

Anne Flower broke Ann Trason's 31-year-old course record by running 17:58:19.

And David Roche improved on his own record from last year with a 15:12:30. https://t.co/SELl4Ofpid

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Pink the Border Collie absolutely demolishes an agility competition.

[Kat @K8again]

@WesleyLHuff The Daily Dose videos have been a huge help- it's great to see the Septuagint joining the group.

[Stui Chaplin @StuiC]

Grateful for the clarity of writers like @danitreweek getting the church to think more biblically about singleness. https://t.co/sq2gcA3ay0