Tag: reflection
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The Quieter Pressure
Lewis wrote under the shadow of bombs. We live under something quieter and harder to name. I think that changes the question Christianity needs to answer.
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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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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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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…
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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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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…
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An Observer No Longer – Covid Part 1
March 2020. For the first time in my life, I wasn’t watching from a distance. Isaac came home from school on a Thursday and didn’t go back for months.
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Emily
Written the day after we lost Emily. She beat cancer twice, and then an infection her new immune system couldn’t fight. She was intimidatingly talented, and she deserved much more…