Elizabeth Oldfield @ESOldfield Twitter profile

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Elizabeth Oldfield

2 months

Well. This is somewhat exposing but if it helps other people imagine it might be possible to live in less atomised ways, great:

Our middle-class commune (joint bank accounts, noisy sex and all)

Podcaster and mother of two Elizabeth Oldfield is convinced she’s found the answer to the stresses of 21st-century life

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

the more I learn about Timpsons the more I want to go and get loads of random key cutting done just to support them.

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@itsjamesherring

5 years

This wonderful service is available from 500 of Timpson shops nationwide.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

So this happened.

Russell Brand

@rustyrockets

5 years

This week on #UnderTheSkin is the incredible @TheosElizabeth ! Elizabeth is the host of @sacred_podcast and director of @theosthinktank who look to enrich the conversation about the role of faith in society. Listen this Saturday only on @hearluminary |

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

On most talks I do now, incl this one, a man will comment on how he finds me annoying: too emotional (daring to tear up), too hand-wavy. The subtext is one I and almost all women in the world of ideas: to be taken seriously you need to cosplay an academic man.

UnHerd

@unherd

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"Most of us long for our lives to mean something; we long to be part of a story bigger than ourselves, that's hard to find on your own." Are we facing a Christian revival? Watch @FreddieSayers in conversation w/ @JustinBrierley , @ESOldfield & @CosmicSkeptic at the UnHerd Club

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

1 year

I sobbed solidly through church today and my goodness am I grateful for a place where I can go and do that and no one turns a hair but just passes the tissues.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

4 years

My retired mum, who was a midwife and health visitor, has applied to go back to work. She said "I don't know how much use I'll be but I can help new mums feed and just be with them at a time when having a baby is even scarier than normal, and that feels worth doing"

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

Attention is everything. @dr_mcgilchrist has helped many understand that what you pay attention to changes what you see, the possibilities you can even conceive of.

Glen Scrivener

@glenscrivener

2 months

Here’s the absolute highlight: an astonishing 60 seconds from @ESOldfield . It is THE mini-sermon our culture needs.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

3 years

I have some personal news:

On moving on

Elizabeth Oldfield on stepping down as Director of Theos.

www.theosthinktank.co.uk

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 years

Nick Cave clearly agrees with @helenlewis theses in recent @BBCRadio4 programme “The Church of Social Justice.”

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

6 months

I did not expect parenting to bring so much pure aesthetic pleasure. My children are the most beautiful things I have ever seen. I’d rather look at them than a sunset or a mountain landscape or the Mona Lisa. And they are just there, in my house, blazing away

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

1 year

Relational, emotionally intelligent, realistic and refusing to let things descend into tribal them and us. I don’t care about football at all but this is an unusually humane tweet.

Gary Lineker

@GaryLineker

1 year

Also, I’d like to thank Tim Davie for his understanding during this difficult period. He has an almost impossible job keeping everybody happy, particularly in the area of impartiality. I am delighted that we’ll continue to fight the good fight, together.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

This is the core of the argument I am making in my chapter on the G Bomb (God) in Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times, out in a week:

Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times a book by Elizabeth Oldfield.

'This remarkable book points not to some unreachable ideal of life but to a deeper, more soulful and meaningful experience of the lives we're actually living.'Oliver Burkeman'A rich and soul-search...

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Glen Scrivener

@glenscrivener

2 months

Here’s the absolute highlight: an astonishing 60 seconds from @ESOldfield . It is THE mini-sermon our culture needs.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 months

Wow

Duke Kwon

@dukekwondc

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Navalny's faith

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

Niche but made me smile

Richard Baxter

@NotThatRBaxter

2 months

Hoping the first three guys can give me a synopsis of what's going on here

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

I’m totally done with it. These questions of wisdom, truth, beauty and love are tender. Inflammable even. To have any hope of coming to life giving conclusions we have to be as vulnerable and as human as we can. We have to listen to each other, not try and win.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

3 years

Just got boosted after queuing for 15mins at a walk in and everyone was so calm and competent and I have a stack of free tests for a disease that didn’t exist two years ago and my goodness we have a lot to be grateful for.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

10 months

Christians do not believe the church’s calling is the same as those in government, but this flattening and narrowing of its role to marrying people is profoundly disappointing from someone who is a member of it, and has previously made a case for its part in building the common

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

embarrassed to report on first glance I thought this guy was looking at his phone

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

4 years

I have often thought this. Frankly I don’t care how men wise up to the challenges women face and we shouldn’t mock them when they do. I also know I have only really started thinking about the challenges for boys in education/with porn/the state of masculinity since having a son.

Tom Chivers

@TomChivers

4 years

I wrote a thing defending those “as a father of daughters” pieces you sometimes see

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 years

I’m pretty excited about this.

BookBrunch

@BookBrunch

2 years

. @HodderBooks has signed Fully Alive: Soul Searching for the 21st Century by @esoldfield , 'an enlightening exploration of what it means to live intentionally and with wisdom in turbulent times' (£)

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

Feel free to mute me today while I am unashamedly but potentially insufferably celebrating my book’s birthday. Normal service will resume shortly.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

Hussein explains that after he joked about being a Muslim doctor whispering the Koran into babies ears to turn them Muslim, he got a call from the head of peadiatrics at a London hospital saying people were trying to find him and get him fired.

The Sacred Podcast

@sacred_podcast

5 years

new episode alert: @HKesvani talks to @TheosElizabeth about growing up in a corner shop in Kent, losing and refinding faith and what our lives online can tell us about religion today.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

3 months

“It is laced with the wisdom of millennia… I have come down to my knees and I can now say… no it is not stupid”. She sounds really careful and humble here.

Hannah Long

@HannahGraceLong

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When Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote that she had become Christian, it sounded political. But last night she revealed what happened: a spiritual awakening after suicidal depression. Dawkins probed, highlighting “nonsense the vicar says” and Christianity being “obsessed with sin.” Then:

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

6 years

this morning I came off my bike and was scooped up and brought home by Mark and Charlie in their bin lorry, meaning they will finish work later. world news consistently makes me despair of human nature but real concrete interactions usually do the opposite.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

6 years

well hello, fair weather cyclists.yes, I will over take you on your slick road bike, riding my sit-up-and-beg with a basket and a child seat, because *I've* been here all winter dragging my 20kg of kid to nursery in a trailer #slightlysmug #softheartstronglegs

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

3 months

Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times is now available for preorder. @holland_tom called it “luminous” and Katherine May “rich and soul searching” Do support your local bookshop if you can!

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

6 years

struck by this board from recent university Christian society. asking big existential question openly but not comabatively. Fascinated by range of answers.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

3 years

This kind of vision, described so by @esaumccaulley here and elsewhere, is a large part of why I remain a Christian, despite myriad reasons to give up. I have never found a deeper understanding of the human condition or what change actually requires

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

4 years

I have decided that this crisis is so discombobulating because it is Globalising and Isolating and Localising at the same time. We are sharing a common, human experience with the whole world, but alone, suddenly aware that only those near can help us.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

4 months

I always feel just on the brink of living a really meaningful life, like a saint of old, if only I could finally get on top of the laundry, dishwasher, tidying, life admin and endless, endless, world without end emails from my children’s school.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

6 years

every time something like #MetGala happens @Theosthinktank gets multiple calls from journalists wanting to know what we think. when what we think isn't "I'm outraged and offended" they quickly go cold. Religious people being constantly offended are harder to find than it appears

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

1 year

Best One Star review ever. Thank you Stokey Mum, whoever you are, I am very glad you are listening

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

9 months

Belong to things. Be a joiner. Not just what adapts to your preferences, is convenient or immediately enjoyable. Push through the consumer formation to find the citizen underneath. We are made for each other and we have swallowed the lie that life consists in individual choice.

The Sacred Podcast

@sacred_podcast

9 months

"We live in an increasingly atomized society. And I think this explains why many of our politics feels so divisive and so polarising" @tomowolade tells @ESOldfield why building community around civic institutions is crucial to a flourishing society:

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

4 years

Do not attempt to involve the grandparents in homeschooling by getting them to do recorder lessons over zoom while you try and work from home. If I have learned anything in this crisis, it is this.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

3 months

I am not as convinced as @JusBrierley that revival is breaking out, but something is on the change, at least in a few demographic clusters, and it is summarised by this comment on Jordan Peterson’s YouTube series on the Bible.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

1 month

Wow when my public identity shifted further in the direction of “writer and speaker” the invitations to work for free went through the roof. Luckily I have some years under my belt doing things the market actually values and have built a strong “no thank you” muscle.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

4 years

Very personally, this has darkened my spirits today. It is clear Christians won’t be gathering to sing any time soon, and this is the thing I am missing the most. The embodied, integrated, emotional-intellectual-ritual act of collective sung worship was and is so central.

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"Religious leaders are asked to 'strongly consider' discontinuing singing & group recitation, where transmission of the virus through exhaled droplets is increased. Sharing prayer books & prayer rugs is also discouraged, & communion should be offered by hand, not on the tongue."

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

6 years

I love Celtic Christianity which talks of 'thin places' - spots which have been so heavily prayed in that the boundary between heaven and earth has worn thin.

Robert Macfarlane

@RobGMacfarlane

6 years

Word of the day: "temenos" - a sacred place, an area of landscape dedicated to worship or deemed to be divine. From ancient Greek τέμενος; in Latin, a "fanum". Metaphorically, therefore, a space of special sanctuary, imaginative power or numinosity. Where is your "temenos"?

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

Simple and SO HARD

Dylan O'Sullivan

@DylanoA4

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Hermann Hesse understood that it was simple

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

The cafe I am trying to work in is playing Sufjan’s Carrie and Lowell so instead of #MondayMotivation I am slowly sinking into a puddle of beauty and grief and awareness of my own mortality and I’m not sure it’s the time or place tbh.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 years

Nick Cave being extraordinary again:

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

3 months

Have you ever wondered about living in more communal ways? My family and I live in a “micro monastery” or intentional community, and are now piloting some mentoring with people who would like to do something similar. It’s not publicly available yet, but I wanted to share one tip

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

All the other members of this panel helped create the conditions for a better, richer conversation by showing up in a different posture. I felt able to be myself (which I do most of the time now, having come to give fewer Fs). Maybe it’s a sign of things to come.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

8 months

Beautiful from @KathrynSimmonds . Rowan Williams says the church calendar makes the year a “deepening spiral of meaning” rather than than the linear headlong rush of capitalism or the cyclical wheel of pure agrarianism.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

10 days

Given the current tribal spasms and blood-sport infighting afflicting the US church, I was fully braced for Fully Alive to be given a right kicking over there. Instead there is this generous and thoughtful review, which is civil even in critique. Heartening.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 years

I wrote about the many quiet conversations I’ve been having over recent years with smart, thoughtful, morally serious men who are surprised to find themselves “christian curious” or worse, actually converting.

Why do so many men find God later in life?

On this day in 1927, 29th June, T.S.Eliot was baptised. The colossus of modernist literature, who wrote one of the greatest nihilistic poems of all time, shocked many with his conversion to Anglo-C...

unherd.com

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

I'm off on holiday and an accompanying social media break in order to play silly games with my kids and go on rainy walks and also (possibly) read some unchallenging novels. See you in a week or so.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

This, from Paul Kingsnorth's intro to Wendell Barry's The Fire Next Time, gives a whole new angle on "ok, boomer."

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

I promise I will cool it with book content after this week but I am beyond excited that Fully Alive has been spotted in @WaterstonesPicc the biggest bookshop in London, palace of the written word.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

Express yourself like you’re in a debating society. Crush with your withering arguments. Never show emotion, or acknowledge complexity, have a visible body or give the impression that this is anything but an intellectual game.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

Little kindnesses make a big difference. I have a special place in my heart for gruff, older London taxi drivers with thick cockney accents who say when bringing you home late at night “I’ll wait till you’re in, love”.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

4 years

Hooray! First day back in @Theosthinktank office after 6 mo! Cycled to work! Had a cup of tea with a beloved colleague in safe&distant way! Sat in a set up that didn’t cripple my back! I *love* working far far away from my kids. Exhilarated.Wait, is Michael Gove saying something?

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

11 years

fabulous photo of Orthodox priests pray ingas they stand between protesters and police in Kiev, Ukraine http://t.co/L5mEcx6Kuv ( @AP )

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

7 years

I now genuinely don’t know how to sign off my emails.

VeryBritishProblems

@SoVeryBritish

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A few of the strange ways people end their emails... (Taken from the new Very British Problems book: )

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

'Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.' - David W. Augsburger Want to learn how to love your neighbour? Listen to them.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

Just interviewing one of my heroes, no biggie.

JW3

@JW3London

5 years

We're excited to host @rabbisacks on Tuesday 3 March to mark the launch of his new book Morality: Why we need it and how to find it, Rabbi Lord Sacks will be in conversation with @TheosElizabeth , Director of the think tank Theos. Get your tickets here.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

6 years

All parents frame the world for their children, teach what to value, what to hope, how to treat others. it's called parenting. if what religious parent do is indoctrination then so is Dawkins publishing an "unflinching" book on atheism for children and setting up atheist camps.

Richard Dawkins

@RichardDawkins

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I really want to not indoctrinate. Perhaps I can help parents arm them against indoctrination by schools, g’parents & religious books. & against taunting by religious schoolmates. Help them think on evidence, e.g. for evolution. “What do you think?” is my continual refrain.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 years

This is true. It’s only covered in newspapers when the church talks (infrequently) about sex or criticises the government, but churches across the country are engaged in practical help with migrants of all kinds, and many are active in policy and campaigning for better systems

Ben Ryan

@BenedictWRyan

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To be clear, the Church has in fact presented evidence and ideas for multiple safe and legal routes that would prevent someone needing to run the gauntlet of the Channel. Almost invariably even the most minor concession in that respect has been rejected by government.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

Such big thanks to the best publishing team a woman could hope for: @AgentSophieL @AlHoskyns @JoannaLDavey and @RhodaPR2013 . Look at those peonies!

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

(I’m fine, by the way, have been dealing with nonsense on the internet for a long time. I just think there may be a lot of other people - including some men - who also need liberating from this conditioning)

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

after several years of baby-induced sleep deficit and mainly reading detective novels and Harry Potter and Georgette Heyer I feel I'm finally getting enough brain back for literary fiction and why have I waited this long to read Graham Greene? The End of the Affair is mindblowing

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 years

I should make clear this is my lovely editors claim, not mine! But I’m giving it a go.

The Bookseller

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2 years

"Fully Alive, will be the tiller to help us navigate the choppy waters of our cultural moment with meaning, hope and clarity." @HodderBooks has signed @ESOldfield 's début book Fully Alive, a collection of personal essays. Read here:

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

Our leadership team is now 75% female.

Theos Think Tank

@Theosthinktank

5 years

We are delighted to announce that Madeleine Pennington is our new Head of Research. In this introductory blog, @mlmpennington comments on the state of our world and why Theos’ research has never been more important.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

6 years

this is cracking me up on the tube.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

3 years

This is a public service announcement for my fellow geriatric millennials: It is 90s day on @BBC6Music .

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

7 years

If you’re wondering how anyone could be offended by a sausage roll, check out this honest &intelligent piece

Why I am offended by Greggs’ ‘nativity sausage’

Paul Bickley considers why Christians shouldn’t always roll with the punch.

www.theosthinktank.co.uk

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

6 years

I know people follow me of all faiths and none so I don't usually tweet big chunks of bible, but this list of what wise people are like has really challenged me and seems relevant wether you buy the last two or not. I want to be this person. I have some work to do.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

3 years

This is one of the precious pieces of counter cultural wisdom that mainly now only religions hold on to - that money is not neutral. That it can be a good, used well, but it can also destroy you, and that there is very definitely such a thing as Too Much.

Benjamin Ramm

@BenjaminRamm

3 years

The Gates' did well to last 27 years. All the data shows that the most miserable segment of society is the super-rich. They experience a greater sense of loneliness, a deeper lack of meaning, and worse relations with their children—who are disproportionally clinically depressed.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

A birthday present has rarely made me feel more known. Thank you @leannesedin

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

Prepping to speak to @ClarkeMicah for @sacred_podcast and lot of what I am reading is not what I expected. Some extraordinary sentences in here.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

walking past #ExtinctionRebelion blockades this morning gave me hope- esp the grey haired woman in her seventies lying on a cold wet road peacefully resisting arrest. It's not her own future she's fighting for.

Tearfund Action

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5 years

This morning we'll be praying these words over the #FaithBridge event starting today in London alongside @CAidLondon and @CAFOD . Can you be praying too? #ChristianClimateAction #TellTheTruth

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 years

YES STEPHEN COLBERT. This answer is so beautiful.

DUA LIPA

@DUALIPA

2 years

When talking about my service95 podcast with @stephenathome last night he flipped the script and made himself the interviewee - I was blown away by his profound and moving response to my question @colbertlateshow

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"For Berry, as for Thoreau, the work of the critic is to locate where the poisons are dumped and then turn back on oneself and ask: What is my place in all this? Is it possible to live life differently? And if so, how do I begin?" ❤ @thenation

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

6 years

Happy #InternationalMensDay lovely males. it's been a tough old year for news about some powerful men, so good to have a day to remember all the many many solid, kind, brilliant fathers, sons, friends, colleagues, brothers, husbands, boyfriends and leaders who act with integrity

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Elizabeth Oldfield

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6 years

I am generally crushingly depressed by the state of American evangelicalism so its helpful to see an occasional encouraging

Mother Jones

@MotherJones

6 years

These evangelicals are turning AR-15s into garden hoes

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

3 years

10 years ago I was an inexperienced and terrified new Director of Theos, and someone (I wish I could remember who) handed me this slim book by @CottrellStephen . It’s only now returning to my dog eared copy as I prep to train other leaders I realise how formative it’s been.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 years

World class infographic. Also this unserious because biscuits are so basic but honestly tea and biscuits in these settings (parents and babies groups, refugee drop ins, debt clubs) are borderline sacramental for creating community.or more prosaically: biscuits are social glue

Theos Think Tank

@Theosthinktank

2 years

Our report shows that times are so fragile for churches that even the increased price of biscuits is taking its toll. Read the our latest report, A Torn Safety Net by @hannahmerich , with a joint foreword from @GordonBrown and Dr Rowan Williams, here:

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

3 years

Well this is a glorious 3mins with which to start a Monday morning.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

7 years

Only his father? Somehow manages to be insulting to fathers and annoying to mothers at the same time.

The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

7 years

Prince George arrived this morning for his first day at school with only his father, the Duke of Cambridge

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

This lecture is profound and hilarious. The “topsy-turvey topology of the kingdom of God” has put words to something I have long sensed- the map we are handed by most of our culture is absolutely&completely useless for finding your way to a meaningful life.

The Sacred Podcast

@sacred_podcast

5 years

Powerful words from @sallyephillips at @theosthinktank annual lecture 2019. You can listen to the full audio recording of Sally's talk here: . Full film (including a performance by @tommyjessop , which needs to be seen not just heard) coming soon.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

10 months

100%. Community is not compatible with unfettered free choice and self-expression. You get seen, good and bad. You give other people a stake in your life. It is never comfortable, but it is how we grow.

Lauren Wilford

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a lot of romanticizing of “living in community” rn in light of the loneliness epidemic, but not a lot of remembering that community requires allowing other people into your business. We traded community away in part because we valued freedom from the opinions of busybodies

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@ESOldfield

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There is still something special about books-as-artefacts. Especially when you’ve always dreamed of writing one, and then there it is, in your hands, ready for someone else’s marginalia.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

Astonishing by a New Atheist on New Atheism: "I was part of that traveling sh*t-show before I realized it’s destination was where it is now: a shambles of alt-right memes and dishonest hucksters mangling science to promote racism, sexism, and bloody regressive politics"

Mark Vernon

@platospodcasts

5 years

Furious dismantling of new atheism by (note) PZ Myers, with implicit warnings for any intellectual movement that is really a personality cult, I thought.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

6 years

this is one of a million things I didn't know about having children. Yes, parts are boring (cleaning up peas from under a high chair, on repeat) but the intellectual exhilaration of watching a human mind unfurl itself before your very eyes is second to none.

Rachel Held Evans (1981-2019)

@rachelheldevans

6 years

Life is amazing. Children are amazing. In the span of 6 months, our little boy went from using a handful of words a day to engaging in imaginative play, making friends, & looking me in the eye to say, “Mommy, I love you. I want a wafffle.” It’s ordinary, I know. But it’s magic.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

this is a lovely thread, about the complexity of what we believe and why and also about the power of non-judgemental listening that chaplains and many others are so good at.

Chris Cox

@CoxyJindas

5 years

My dad is a staunch, almost militant atheist that would make Richard Dawkins blush. So when the hospital chaplain came in to see him today, and memories of dad's impassioned "debates" with religious people flooding back, I tensed in my seat a little. 1/

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 months

Just me and the Wildflower Witch hanging out in Amazon’s top three hot new spirituality releases.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

Came across a new favourite quote on prayer this weekend: “To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.” Karl Barth

UnHerd

@unherd

5 years

. @TheosElizabeth on why we need to talk about the deeper things in life

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

4 years

“Be loving enough to absorb evil and understanding enough to turn an enemy into a friend”

Michael Wear

@MichaelRWear

8 years

This is the most amazing King document I've seen today. This is what it looks like when Christian discipleship meets political action.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 years

Friendship is my theory of change.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

4 years

New episode out today with the very lovely @rainnwilson . His reading of the daily Baháʼí prayer was so beautiful and we had a great time chewing over the big stuff. You may know him as Dwight Shrute from the US version of The Office.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

4 months

Huge privilege to be at Rabbi Lord Sacks Memorial Lecture with Gordon Brown who delivered an erudite 55min lecture on Hope with no notes. Incredible memory.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

10 months

I have now had a chance to listen to this. It’s mainly Dennett for first 20mins, then it opens up. I had lots more I wanted to say, but getting to discuss the encounter with divine love that changed my life on Radio 3 (and cry a bit) felt like an important thing.

BBC Free Thinking

@BBCFreeThinking

10 months

An atheist ( @danieldennett ) an agnostic ( @Philip_Goff ) & a believer ( @ESOldfield ) walk into a radio studio. @drchrisharding is there too & Amina Wright. They agree life has meaning but there's room for debate about why. @BBCRadio3 at 10 or get the podcast

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

26 days

The bit at the end when I tell Peter I pray in tongues and he does an incredulous impression and then I ask if he’d like to pray together (he did not) will have me laughing at the memory for a long time to come.

The Sacred Podcast

@sacred_podcast

27 days

Do we believe because we want to believe? Peter Hitchens suggests that since there's no way to prove the existence of God, desire informs our decision 🤔 Do you agree? Does your opinion on God match your desire? Full episode: @ClarkeMicah

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

7 months

Extremely Jolly Postal Arrival. Proofs of the book I have coming in May. (If you have access to #netgalley you can request a proof here: )

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

5 years

Obviously the effect of this lovely tweet is we are about to sell out so if you want to come I suggest booking now.

Russell Brand

@rustyrockets

5 years

I love @RichardAyoade (he’s on Under The Skin soon) and I love Sacred podcast with @TheosElizabeth - she’s coming on soon and I’m going on Sacred. I might go to this, sounds like it’ll be beautiful and fun.

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

7 years

Well. This is unexpected

Russell Brand

@rustyrockets

7 years

On #UnderTheSkin tomorrow @alisteremcgrath - Christian apologist & Professor of Science & Religion at @UniofOxford

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Elizabeth Oldfield

@ESOldfield

2 years

“I’m a wailing load of need, like all human beings ” . @Baddiel continues to be among the most self-aware, honest and emotionally intelligent public atheists, probs because he has a smart mate who is a Christian, and the discourse is all the better for it.

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