Author: G-Mac

  • How to Hear God by Pete Greig: Notes

    Notes from Pete Greig’s book on hearing God. Practical and honest. The question isn’t whether God speaks — it’s whether we’re paying attention.

  • Behind the Garden: Meet the Team

    I record a thought on the school run… and by the time I get home, it’s already been turned into something usable. The journal entry’s there, the ideas have been…

  • When the System Gets It Wrong

    Three failures from running Arbor in April 2026: a note read too literally, a solution more complicated than needed, an instruction that lived in the wrong place. What they reveal…

  • Be Fearless

    I knew who was watching… and I knew some of them wouldn’t get it. For most of my life, faith wasn’t something I led with. But I’m starting to see…

  • If Machines Can Think… What Does It Mean to Be Human?

    If a machine can reason, create, and learn, what’s left that’s distinctively us? A look at three ways of thinking about what it means to be made in God’s image,…

  • Letter to Isaac: Work Hard… Do Your Best

    A letter to my son about what hard work actually means. Not grinding for its own sake… but showing up fully in the things that matter, including the ones that…

  • The Enforced Brake – Covid Part 5

    The hardest weeks of lockdown brought something I didn’t expect: a strange rational calm. Not my usual response to difficulty. Something had shifted, and I was still figuring out what.

  • Rain, Tables, and a Job Offer – Covid Part 4

    Week seven brought a job offer and a wet walk through the nature reserve. Week ten brought the particular exhaustion of the middle stretch… neither crisis nor normal, just the…

  • Small Acts of Ridiculous – Covid Part 3

    Getting drunk on a video call and shaving my head. Watching a seven-year-old discover that Infinity War does not have a happy ending. Lockdown weeks that were smaller and stranger…

  • The Blackest Good Friday – Covid Part 2

    Week three of lockdown. Good Friday, April 2020. Written in real time, which is the only reason I’d share it. Some things are only honest when they’re written in the…