Two Scottish gamekeepers on trial today in relation to alleged killing of Red Kites in Cairngorms National Park.

NB: Comments are turned off as legal proceedings are live ⚖️

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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Released today! The audiobook of “Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination”. Available on all usual audiobook platforms. @tantoraudio #WilliamBlake #imagination #audiobooks

My RSS reader has reached the max level of subscriptions (I use this now-neglected technology to keep up to date with writers, musicians & others, especially now social media has become much more fragmented and less useful. I've been unsubscribing from sites that have not been updated for 10 years.

I had a great time on BBCRadioScot Sunday Morning Faith Forum with fellow contributors Rupa Mooker & Zara Mohammed & the skilled convening of the great Tony Kearney. Hear us here about 1hr in on celebrating Scotland, the meanings of sanctuary & asylum—& demons!
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A brilliant website for learning the names of mountains that you can see in a given panorama, once you put in your location on the map and what direction you're looking. This is what I see from my local Honeybog Hill looking north. @alastairmci.bsky.social www.udeuschle.de/panoramas/ma...

On “the co-opting of the cross” by the political right. But wait until they find that central to Christian theology is “the quartet of the vulnerable”: the widow (or bereaved), the orphan (or bereft), the “alien in your midst” (or refugee), and the poor.

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On July 3, 2025, the Vatican made a historic announcement: the introduction of a new Mass “For the Care of Creation” (Missa pro custodia creationis)

New Mass for Our Common Home buff.ly/Dtn9uiw