David Bunce
@davidbunce.bsky.social
Baptist Pastor in Bad Ischl, Austria; General Secretary Austrian Baptist Union; at heart still a youth worker. Passionate about the local church, safeguarding and mission. British person in Austria, stumbling through learning Romanian.
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
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Care must be taken to ensure that the “quiet revival” of Christianity in the UK is not “stolen from people” by a form of Christian nationalism, the general secretary of Churches Together in England, the Pentecostalist Bishop Mike Royal, has said
#quietrevival #churchnews #churchtimes
#quietrevival #churchnews #churchtimes
Take care that ‘quiet revival’ is not ‘stolen’ by a form of Christian nationalism, churches told
To avoid stifling growth, be discerning about English nationalist impulses, conference on ‘responding to the rebirth’ hears
www.churchtimes.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Care must be taken to ensure that the “quiet revival” of Christianity in the UK is not “stolen from people” by a form of Christian nationalism, the general secretary of Churches Together in England, the Pentecostalist Bishop Mike Royal, has said
#quietrevival #churchnews #churchtimes
#quietrevival #churchnews #churchtimes
As it is snowing today, took advantage to record a video for Austrian Baptist Churches wanting to support the European Baptist Federation's Christmas appeal, which helps Ukrainian churches heat their buildings. Many Baptist churches in Ukraine have become first-stop crisis centres.
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
As it is snowing today, took advantage to record a video for Austrian Baptist Churches wanting to support the European Baptist Federation's Christmas appeal, which helps Ukrainian churches heat their buildings. Many Baptist churches in Ukraine have become first-stop crisis centres.
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🇦🇹 35% der 14- bis 25-Jährigen in Österreich bejahen ein religiöses Selbstverständnis – gegenüber lediglich 27% in der Gesamtgesellschaft. Auch stimmen sie der Aussage, kein religiöser Mensch zu sein, mit 37% seltener zu als mit 48% in der Gesamtstichprobe.
#Österreich #Religion
#Österreich #Religion
Erleben wir doch eine Rückkehr der Religion? Mehr als ein Medienhype
Ausgerechnet Zahlen einer Forschungsgruppe der Giordano-Bruno-Stiftung zeigen, dass die katholische Kirche bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen ihre zuverlässigste Basis hat. Was ist da los?
www.herder.de
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
🇦🇹 35% der 14- bis 25-Jährigen in Österreich bejahen ein religiöses Selbstverständnis – gegenüber lediglich 27% in der Gesamtgesellschaft. Auch stimmen sie der Aussage, kein religiöser Mensch zu sein, mit 37% seltener zu als mit 48% in der Gesamtstichprobe.
#Österreich #Religion
#Österreich #Religion
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🕯️🇺🇦 Holodomor: History of Attempts to Erase the Ukrainian Nation
According to the most reliable demographic research, around 3.9 million people died within the borders of the then Ukrainian SSR. The real number may be higher.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/holodomor-hi...
According to the most reliable demographic research, around 3.9 million people died within the borders of the then Ukrainian SSR. The real number may be higher.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/holodomor-hi...
Holodomor: History of Attempts to Erase the Ukrainian Nation
For decades, Russia’s aim has remained the same: to exterminate Ukrainians.Every year, on the fourth Saturday of November, Ukraine commemorates the victims of
theukrainianreview.info
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🕯️🇺🇦 Holodomor: History of Attempts to Erase the Ukrainian Nation
According to the most reliable demographic research, around 3.9 million people died within the borders of the then Ukrainian SSR. The real number may be higher.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/holodomor-hi...
According to the most reliable demographic research, around 3.9 million people died within the borders of the then Ukrainian SSR. The real number may be higher.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/holodomor-hi...
Today is Holodomor remembrance day, one of the worst human rights atrocities of the 20th century.
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story: The Story of Socialism as we resume the story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in part three @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Terror 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Today is Holodomor remembrance day, one of the worst human rights atrocities of the 20th century.
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
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Prevalence rates are no guide as to whether a condition is 'real' or overdiagnosed. 1 in 8 men get diagnosed with prostate cancer. Incidence rates have risen 55% since 1990. We accept this is due to better awareness & screening, & people surviving other conditions, not a fad or medical overreach.
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Prevalence rates are no guide as to whether a condition is 'real' or overdiagnosed. 1 in 8 men get diagnosed with prostate cancer. Incidence rates have risen 55% since 1990. We accept this is due to better awareness & screening, & people surviving other conditions, not a fad or medical overreach.
Good morning, winter
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Good morning, winter
A chilly -4C this morning at Wels. I'm off to the Executive of the Free Churches of Austria, happening in Vienna
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
A chilly -4C this morning at Wels. I'm off to the Executive of the Free Churches of Austria, happening in Vienna
First valley snowfall of the winter is forecast for the end of the week.
a man with long hair and a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` winter is coming '' .
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` winter is coming '' .
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
First valley snowfall of the winter is forecast for the end of the week.
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Some good news!
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Some good news!
Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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I don't want to deny that things are still pretty bad, that decarbonisation has to go a lot further, but I really do think it's worth acknowledging that given 15-20 years ago we were on course for a 4C rise, that we're now looking at 2.2-2.6C is a genuinely herculean and heroic achievement.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I don't want to deny that things are still pretty bad, that decarbonisation has to go a lot further, but I really do think it's worth acknowledging that given 15-20 years ago we were on course for a 4C rise, that we're now looking at 2.2-2.6C is a genuinely herculean and heroic achievement.
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Was it Charlemagne who said: "To have another language is to possess another soul."? Universities ditching modern languages are in danger of losing their souls.
The structures of intellectual life in the UK are being pulled out from under our feet.
It needs to stop! Pronto.
The structures of intellectual life in the UK are being pulled out from under our feet.
It needs to stop! Pronto.
I'm so fed up with this. Languages are central to all of higher education. Everyone should be learning languages, precisely because it is hard. Not everything can be transacted in English. A monoglot English language University can only be poorer for the loss of languages.
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Sign the Petition
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
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November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Was it Charlemagne who said: "To have another language is to possess another soul."? Universities ditching modern languages are in danger of losing their souls.
The structures of intellectual life in the UK are being pulled out from under our feet.
It needs to stop! Pronto.
The structures of intellectual life in the UK are being pulled out from under our feet.
It needs to stop! Pronto.
"If we meet someone who has a social disability, we tend to ask, “Can they lead?”
If we meet someone with charisma, we ask instead, “Can they lead with integrity?”
Rather a potentially toxic leader than a ineffective leader ...Where has that gotten us?"
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/i-ha...
If we meet someone with charisma, we ask instead, “Can they lead with integrity?”
Rather a potentially toxic leader than a ineffective leader ...Where has that gotten us?"
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/i-ha...
I Have a Social Disability. I’m Also a Leader. - Christianity Today
God calls ministers who are afraid to make eye contact—not just ones who sparkle with personality.
www.christianitytoday.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"If we meet someone who has a social disability, we tend to ask, “Can they lead?”
If we meet someone with charisma, we ask instead, “Can they lead with integrity?”
Rather a potentially toxic leader than a ineffective leader ...Where has that gotten us?"
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/i-ha...
If we meet someone with charisma, we ask instead, “Can they lead with integrity?”
Rather a potentially toxic leader than a ineffective leader ...Where has that gotten us?"
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/i-ha...
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Annual post for the day that's in it.
Good Luck Everyone - Blackadder - BBC
YouTube video by BBC Studios
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November 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Annual post for the day that's in it.
Ich durfte gestern bei der feierlichen Amtseinführung der neuen Bischöfin der Evangelischen Kirche A.B. in Österreich dabei sein und den Bund der Baptistengemeinden in Österreich vertreten. Ich wünsche Bischöfin Cornelia Richter Gottes Segen für ihren neuen Dienst.
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Ich durfte gestern bei der feierlichen Amtseinführung der neuen Bischöfin der Evangelischen Kirche A.B. in Österreich dabei sein und den Bund der Baptistengemeinden in Österreich vertreten. Ich wünsche Bischöfin Cornelia Richter Gottes Segen für ihren neuen Dienst.
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The Thick of It 2025 edition.
Where would the characters of The Thick of It be in 2025? @dmk1793.bsky.social gives his take.
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
#thethickofit #thickofit #malcolmtucker
Where would the characters of The Thick of It be in 2025? @dmk1793.bsky.social gives his take.
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
#thethickofit #thickofit #malcolmtucker
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Thick of It 2025 edition.
Where would the characters of The Thick of It be in 2025? @dmk1793.bsky.social gives his take.
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
#thethickofit #thickofit #malcolmtucker
Where would the characters of The Thick of It be in 2025? @dmk1793.bsky.social gives his take.
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
#thethickofit #thickofit #malcolmtucker
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Die bisher in #Bonn lehrende Theologin Cornelia Richter (54) wird am Samstag als erste Frau in der Geschichte der Evangelisch-lutherischen #Kirche in #Österreich in das Amt der Bischöfin eingeführt:
Bonner Theologin wird erste evangelische Bischöfin in Österreich
Schritt sei "nie geplant" gewesen
www.katholisch.de
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Die bisher in #Bonn lehrende Theologin Cornelia Richter (54) wird am Samstag als erste Frau in der Geschichte der Evangelisch-lutherischen #Kirche in #Österreich in das Amt der Bischöfin eingeführt:
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Released today – Smiley's People by John le Carré in audiobook, unabridged and narrated by Simon Russell Beale for the first time: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Smileys-P...
October 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Released today – Smiley's People by John le Carré in audiobook, unabridged and narrated by Simon Russell Beale for the first time: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Smileys-P...
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Wrote about this slow, miserable drift away from modern languages for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social last year.
This week's curriculum review won't help either.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/losing-the-p...
This week's curriculum review won't help either.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/losing-the-p...
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Wrote about this slow, miserable drift away from modern languages for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social last year.
This week's curriculum review won't help either.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/losing-the-p...
This week's curriculum review won't help either.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/losing-the-p...