Steph's Adventures

This is the next instalment of my theological ramblings about genesis, which I invite you to read or ignore! Even now, some of the Old T...

Happy Pentecost! Pentecost is a celebration of many things, but for me, I think it is mainly a celebration of universality; it is abou...

A 4.30am start last Monday morning did feel a little on the early side, but it did mean that even though it was a three hour bus journey to ...

As part of the English programme, we asked all the junior students to write their own autobiography. It was a project which seemed to re...

With the last re-sits of the final exams last week bringing an end to the majority of our teaching, a major part of what we are doing her...

This blog post is rather long, sorry about that, and theological, so anyone not interested in my theological ramblings is welcome to give th...

It is the end of the semester, the final exams are done and, with the junior students looking forward to their next semester, the seniors ...

The Philippines (with the exception of a few Muslim areas in Mindanao) is an overwhelmingly Catholic country. The Catholic Church which ar...

Those of you with particularly good memories might remember that way back in November I wrote a poem inspired by the "I am statements...

In sharp contrast to our two years in France, where we welcomed many visitors and visited many friends, our social contact this year has l...

The Philippines is made up of more than 7000 islands, and we have no intention of ticking them all off during our time here, but a couple of...

After a fortnight without updating my blog, the longest gap since arriving in the Philippines 200 days ago, I have plenty to catch up on, be...

Today is Holy Saturday and God is dead. It is a time of sadness, grieving and desolation. This week is the biggest week of the church ye...

As promised, another poem for Good Friday. The footprint on the accompanying picture, incidentally, has nothing to do with yesterday's ...

This week has been marked by the sad demise of my sandals, and after seven and a half years it is time to take them off for the last time. ...

My plan was to put this poem up next Friday but I have now almost finished writing another poem, also on a Good Friday related theme, and t...

One of the many activities which make up the TVED programme is the "Youth Encounter" a three day retreat (encountering themselves...