Steph's Adventures

It is now almost a fortnight since I got back from a truly wonderful few days in Wales with the participants from the Stories of Hope and Ho...

Scrolling through my blog feed, I realised it was a long time since I wrote anything here about Stories of Hope and Home... which is some wh...

On the 31st December 2019 I was walking along the spectacular coast path of northern Cornwall. It was also, officially, my last day at St Ch...

It continues ... 30) What's been the biggest mistake so far in your life and what did you learn from it? I found this one so hard! A...

I started writing this post a while ago, when the election results were still a very fresh memory invoking very raw emotions. Since then, ot...

And this is hope Fragile shards of light Pierce pinpricks through The darkest night And this is peace This captured dream Is ...

Of all the aspects which make up our life here, the prayer is the foundation around which everything else revolves. I genuinely believe th...

This is partly a post justifying why I haven't written a blog post for a while (which even if you noticed, you probably didn't mind!...

My rational brain tells me that, of all the issues which currently confront us, and let's be honest,the list is quite long, climate chan...

"Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground" (Exodus 3:5) This summer (and early autumn) has...

After a summer interlude, so it continues ... 25) What's one thing I'd like to do more of and why? How can I make it happen? I...

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...