Author: G-Mac

  • Reading Mere Christianity

    I came to Mere Christianity as a reformed atheist. What stays with me isn’t the argument, but Lewis’s idea that transformation and improvement are two completely different things.

  • Systems, Votes, and Grace — Reading James Clear

    Reading James Clear alongside Dallas Willard and wondering whether the identity I think I have is fixed or just a set of habits that never got questioned.

  • Letter to Isaac: Strive… Keep Moving Forward

    A letter to my son about the difference between hard work, striving, and big dreams. Why marginal gains matter, and why the itch to keep getting better is something worth…

  • How to Pray by Pete Greig: Notes

    Reading Pete Greig on prayer, and realising that when I pray for time with my dad and Ken, what I’m really asking for is conversations, walks, ordinary moments. Presence, not…

  • 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…