Steph's Adventures

The sweet scent of the flower meadow was already drifting through the open window when she was woken by the shaft of sunlight gliding throu...

She leant her full weight, such as it was, against the solid oak door, wondering if sheer willpower would be enough to shift it but despite...

And now for something completely different ... This is the first of hopefully a number of blogposts inspired initially by a book I picke...

Peace Sunday is on the 24th September. Fellowship of Reconciliation always produces resources for churches to use to explore the theme of p...

I can take very little credit (ie none) for the content of this particular post. The film below was made by two film studies students as the...

 (Micah 6:8) "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief.  Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbl...

  I originally wrote this as a report for the elders of the church where we live, but decided it might be worth sharing with a wider audi...

It's been over two months since I last wrote a blog post ... the longest gap between posts for quite some time, maybe even since I star...

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 ...