Steph's Adventures

For quite some time, the church here has been planning a discussion about how we celebrate communion. Some of those who know me will know th...

It may be a cultural stereotype, but it is true that there is, if you live in the UK, always plenty to be said (or written) about the weath...

Last weekend, on Peace Sunday, I was offered the opportunity to reflect on an appropriate bible passage. I chose to say something about Matt...

On a notepad somewhere I have scribbled the line: "In Calais, looking at England's Sky" They were the words of one of my ...

Last week governments, military officials and private companies from around the world (including from some of the world's most repre...

For me, it is August, far more than December, which marks the year's end. A hiatus in the usual rhythm, it is a time when looking back o...

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...