New Year 2025
I often feel defeated by New Year greetings. Most years bring a mix of delights, surprises, challenges, losses and change. This year – wondering how to respond to greetings of ‘Happy New Year’! – I wrote this: May you this…
Who are we becoming
Discernming the people, the communities and the church we are called to be at this time and place
Who are we becoming
Discernming the people, the communities and the church we are called to be at this time and place
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Casting the net
On my clown course we learnt to ‘cast the net’. This is an act of the imagination using a metaphor drawn from fishing. It is a practice used at the start of an interaction with an audience where the clown…
Joy and laughter
Have you ever wondered why there’s so little laughter in church spaces? On the clown course we laughed a lot. At one point I was standing with a man’s head sticking out from between my knees. I didn’t quite know…
Left-field newness
Some of you followed my SAD journey in Advent last year. I found myself on Facebook daily pouring out the pain and discomfort of living Advent and Christmas as a single person. I was surprised by what that diary evoked…
Clown
Two of these people look fully alive: one looks foolish. Funnily enough, the foolish one is neither of the clowns! I queued (possibly even queue-jumped some small people) in my eagerness for this photo, having fallen in love with Les…