Steph's Adventures

Yesterday was the global strike for the climate and I knew I wanted to be there. To stand in solidarity with those who would gather here in ...

In this post , I spoke of new adventures ahead, nebulous ideas which I hoped would start to take shape through the autumn. I guess this is t...

He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”  Now there was a great wind, s...

September has somehow arrived again, constituting, for me and the many others who still work in academic cycles, the new year. And, while I ...

Significant though it is, I rarely write about the dynamics of having our now nearly seventeen year old Goddaughter living with us and shari...

I feel like this is a blog post title I have probably used before ... But it seems fitting once again, even if the 'next adventure(s)...

I really believe in the idea of vocation: not as a defined or prescribed direction we have to find and follow, but as a gradual and continua...

He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”  Now there was a great wind, so stro...

The original opening line of this post "within the last year" is no longer strictly true as it has taken so long for me to finalis...

The next installment of questions and answers ... 21) Where's one place you'd like to go that you haven't visited? Writing a...

This week has been Refugee Week, and with it came the culmination of a significant project I have been working on with my students, THE PLAY...

The latest edition of the Q & A series, inspired by Lydia's Christmas gift. 16) Which seven words describe you best? When we dre...

It feels like there is a lot on at the moment. Possibly even more so than usual. Work remains as busy as ever, and together with all our v...

The Friday before last I abandoned my usual responsibilities and headed to London. The reason for the trip was Westminster Abbey's decis...

The third in the series which began with  this blog post . 11) "Love is blue not red. It is calm, soothing and loving. It is not fier...

Last Friday afternoon, after close to 120 miles walking towards Walsingham, I had the chance to stop just before our arrival, and share some...

John 21 has long been one of my favourite gospel passages, and it has lost nothing of its beauty for its familiarity. In the midst of a d...

For context, you might want to see  this blog post , to which this is the follow up. 6) What's the one thing that bothers you most abo...

My work at the Sanctuary often brings me great joy. It is a privilege to witness the human capacity for hope, and to be surrounded by gestur...

It turns out Lydia is really good at thoughtful gifts. So for Christmas 2018, she gave us a jar filled with questions ... the idea being t...