Reblog: ‘Why Justice?’

Originally posted on Why Justice?:
Justice is working for restoration, working to make the world more reflective of the grace and…

“It’s not something you’re ever going to get over”

Lucy’s words to me on Monday night about the love of God.

Finding Quiet

There are two kinds of tiredness: weariness and a lack of peace. And today, I got up and realised I was tired in the whole sense of the world.
So I decided to cycle down to Granchester Meadows and take a little walk.

Santa Hats in Windows

Reality doesn’t fit into neat boxes and doesn’t go the way you’d expect, and that’s so hugely apparent in Christianity. It’s a religion that you couldn’t have guessed. The universe it offers us, the King it gives us, isn’t the one we’d make up for ourselves.

On Breaking-Up

My reflection on what I felt I learned from all that happened in the time after breaking-up. “That’s the thing about heartbreak.
It’s the smallest of worlds ending. Everyone goes around you smiling, like it’s nothing to close a door.”

Amazing Grace

We never ‘graduate’ from grace.

Justice is Restoration

The whole of the Bible leads us towards seeking a world that models God’s justice. Here’s how to do that.

Matriculation Dinner

Photos from the annual matriculation dinner at Newnham College, Cambridge. Second year has begun!

“Take Heart!”

These words never fail to make a sense of calm wash over me. I needed them today. Serving suggestion: read slowly.

Journal of God at work

The first month of a starting a journal and where I’ve got to!

Joy is made complete

The truth that the gospel proclaims is the truth by which my joy is made complete

Be Perfect

Christians are to do the exact opposite of the turn-of-phrase ‘don’t put all your eggs in one basket’. Christians aren’t to be people who are ‘hedging their bets’ – we are to stake absolutely everything on the salvation we have in Jesus Christ.