Steph's Adventures

University feels a very long time ago (maybe because it is). But way back then I lived with a group of people who, even now, when I talk ...

I have never thought of myself as a big city person. One of the aspects of moving here I was less than sure about was how much I would enjoy...

I stayed up all night on Thursday. It made for a fairly depressing night of television viewing . With my facebook friends clearly not being ...

Another poem which has taken a while to see the light of day! This one was inspired by a workshop by Brother Stephen in Taize last summer....

Since moving here one of the challenges that has sometimes been addressed to us is to question whether our firm convictions, and the centr...

"We are called to live in the virtue of that life and power that takes away the occasion for all wars. Do you faithfully maintain our ...

A month has passed since we welcomed something over forty people to Birmingham for a Taize weekend on the theme "You are the Salt of th...

Sorting through a not-as-organised-as-I-aspire-for-it-to-be My Documents folder recently, I came across a couple of poems which I don't...

Some of you may have noticed that permanent is not something I do very well. In fact, 18 months into this adventure it is, as a friend rec...

Both before the event and after, I mentioned to numerous people that I was spending new year in Prague, which generally elicited various com...

I wonder whether it is ever possible to sum up a year in a few words or pictures. Probably not. In fact, now I come to think of it, I guess ...

I can't help feeling there is something somewhat sad about the fact that in Birmingham city centre Christmas was pretty much already ov...

Although Birmingham city centre would have you believe that Christmas has already arrived, we are currently in the much-overlooked season of...