It’s about relationship!
Ian B. A few years ago we were talking about the triangle – Up, In, Out. It represents three relationships that are key to healthy Christian life: UP – our worship of…
Sixteen Years in Care: A Memoir – David Meader
Sixteen Years in Care, a Memoir: A journey to freedom from rejection, pain and loneliness, Malcolm Down Publishing, 2022. David Meader tells his personal story of growing up in care,…
Tell Her Story, Nijay Gupta
Gupta's approach in this book is to see and understand, from the biblical text, how women did have leadership roles, especially in the early church, before considering what we might…
Paul’s Longing
I wonder whether you’ve ever experienced the same deflated feeling that I have sometimes at the end of an intense exciting project. Maybe at the end of a short term…
The Stone, the Guard, and the Promise
It is hard to assimilate all the details of the four gospels’ accounts of Jesus’ resurrection into one account, but that’s how it is with multiple witnesses to an extraordinary…
Happy Easter!
A series of haiku drawing on John 20, to re-tell what Mary did (and didn’t). What Mary Did (and Didn’t) In the darkest time Mary does not hide at home…
Why this waste? What about the poor?
We’re in Holy Week, the week between Palm Sunday and Easter. It’s a busy time for some of us I expect, with the different routine of school holidays. It was…
Three Years Ago
Three years ago today you burst into our livesBringing new life into our homeHelping us see life through new eyes Three years ago I rocked you to sleepThe first of…
Hearing the word of God
This week, instead of my usual podcasts, I listened to the Bible on my headphones while I was out and about. It was something new for me, and I’ll come…
St. Paul on Mothers’ Day
There are some surprising metaphors used by Paul in chapter 2 of 1 Thessalonians, which seem especially appropriate as we approach Mothers’ Day, or Mothering Sunday as it was traditionally…