With thanks to YouTube, Lidl car park, and a bit of consistency, I’ve successfully learned how to roller skate this…
The psalm is a salt shaker
Psalm The psalm is a salt shaker. Elevates our being, the sorry comic farce of it, Into praise of God.…
“Good Gardening Stuff!”
In church this week, Debbie told us that her Grandma Emily used to exclaim “Good Gar-dening stuff!” in place of…
Ordinary time
I’ve recently been reading ‘The Culture Map’ by Erin Meyer. Where some cultures work with linear time, others work to…
Thoughts on 2021
One of my highlights of 2021 came from something I registered for spontaneously following a twitter recommendation. In the middle…
The Relay to COP26
What’s 1,200 miles long, takes 20 weeks, and involves a couple of thousand people? …The outworkings of a mad idea…
A week at cop
A typhoon hits, flood waters rise, crops are destroyed, the roads are blocked by trees, your house is flattened and…
cop26, GLAS-NO
All the right words have already been said. For two years we have known that COP26, the UN climate change…
My bargains with climate grief
There’s a distinct nausea which is becoming a more frequent occurrence when I see a headline on climate change. I…
Offsets are not a solution
For some time now, I’ve been uneasy about offsetting, but unable to fully articulate why. I suspect this is an…
Another year – glebe rd
Cultivate love, pursue integrity, practice gratitude, live courageously, commemorate properly. 5 years of reflections at the end of a year,…
On belonging
“I go to some meetings and think ‘Thank goodness, there are many rooms in my Father’s house, because I don’t…
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