Steph's Adventures

As part of the "Holy Habits" programme, based on the description of the life of the early Christian communities in Acts 2, the Met...

Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord; ...

About 12 months ago, I wrote this post about helping to host #pray24brum, Birmingham Churches Together's 24 hours of prayer with, in ...

Holocaust Memorial Day is marked on the 27th January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi Death...

Today is our 12 ½ year wedding anniversary, and having learned that it is Dutch tradition to celebrate such a milestone, we decided to do ex...

Among the lessons I learned in December was to try to cultivate an attitude of allowing criticism (and vile abuse) to wash over me, and to b...

When we discussed with Hope Projects the idea of taking the story about our house to the media, one of our hopes was that it might be an op...

In the midst  Of a world of darkness Where the news carries anger and pain This is joy: The fragile song Of a spirit that dares...

Perhaps I should leave the dust to settle on this week for a little longer before I write this post, and I am sure there will be further ref...

As you probably know, we live in a church in city centre Birmingham. It is, in many ways, a strange place to live: our nearest neighbours a...

 "The people who walk in darkness will see a great light. For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light w...

So on a related theme to my previous post, I think I have found the one place in which this language of violence I speak of seems not to be ...

It was a hymn we sung in church, a few weeks ago now, which reminded me I wanted to write a post on this subject ... although it is a theme ...

Anyone who reads this blog can be in no doubt that I love Taize. It is a place from where I have drawn new life and which has helped shape ...

Personally I like words (I think you know that right?!) but I also know that images are hugely important. We are bombarded with them and the...

"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky"  (Khalil Gibran)

For me it is this time of year, much more than December / January which marks the end of the old year and start of the new. This is when I ...

There are some wonderful authors with immense talent and an amazing command of the English language: but if the magic of stories is in the ...

It is coming up to three years since we moved to Birmingham. At the time it was a leap into the unknown, with question marks over almost eve...

I am sad. I am sad for those who have experienced the challenges but not known the benefits of intercultural exchange and immigration. Fo...

My engagement with questions of Christian ecumenism has been a hugely significant part of my faith journey for many years, but it is, I rece...