Tag: faith
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.
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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…