Steph's Adventures

My faith is very important to me but church ... I often struggle with church. When I first moved out from Carrs Lane, I continued to exist o...

This weekend was #pray24brum, Birmingham's celebration of the week of prayer for Christian Unity, with the theme "Do Good, Seek Jus...

Generally, I love Christmas carols and am prepared to park my reservations about the frankly dubious theology in many of them, and sing alon...

One of our conversations on New Year's eve evening, prior to the street erupting into slightly bonkers fireworks, was about looking back...

When I started reading my third book of the year, I decided it might be interesting to keep a record of what I had read: and whether or not ...

This week, it was my turn to lead our bible reflection. We usually reflect on the following Sunday's gospel, but, it being Christmas, I ...

I am on the move again... because just before Christmas is an eminently sensible time to do that, right? This time I am moving into the hous...

A little over a year ago I wrote  a post about a "typical" week in my life , or if not a typical one then at least a randomly sele...

This blog post first came about after a conversation (quite some months ago now) with a very good friend for whom I have a huge amount of re...

It is just over a year since I signed the contract on this flat (the anniversary was Wednesday), and slightly less since I moved in. This ha...

For the past nine years, the life of the Carrs Lane Lived Community revolved around a rhythm of daily prayer. There was, over that time, som...

A couple of weeks ago, in a prayer book I came across a prayer which included the words "The Kindom of God". I don't remember ...

Apparently genuine Haiku, as well as the 17-syllable pattern, are supposed to have a “seasonal reference”. Well, September feels like a good...

Over the past week, for the third year in a row, I have completed the Art2Life "breadcrumbs challenge". The first time I wrote abo...

It feels like the end of an era. Does 9 years constitute an era? Probably not. But it is longer than I have ever invested in anything else...

It is several years since one of my then St Chad's Sanctuary students (and now Stories group participant) said that one day, we should t...

A few weeks ago I was one of the thousands of people around the world who carried the Queen’s Baton on its journey to the Commonwealth Games...