The financial crash of 2008 hit as I began secondary school, and I grew up under the policies of austerity…
Easter – Can we rejoice?
Roll back the stone.
Holy Week – Suffering God
At the centre of Christian faith is the memory of suffering. This is Holy Week, when Christians recall the last…
How bad is Climate Change?
I remember doing my GCSEs and writing pat answers about the greenhouse effect. Little did I know that in my…
Thinking about Home
I have been thinking about Home ever since I got asked in the Praxis One course to complete the sentence…
Lent Reflections
I stand outside the barred church doors/ hammering with my fists/ while around me/ the world dies.
Blood of Our Children
On Saturday I was part of another Extinction Rebellion action called ‘Blood of Our Children’. Outside Downing Street, we dressed…
Re-crucifying Christ
Cone writes about the crucifixion as a first-century lynching, and about how black people facing the state-endorsed terrorism of lynching identified with Jesus; they, “found in the cross the spiritual power to resist the violence they so often suffered” (p22).
Simple Humans
I have been thinking a lot about the words of Behrouz
Boochani in ‘No Friends But The Mountains’
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Considering debt, place & incarnation
Incarnation points us towards our situated-ness, our rooted-ness and our need for belonging within a concrete locality.
The Breaking of the Bread
the pulse of hope/ the echo of our name/ and the bread in our teeth/ a cup on our lips / and breathing at our side
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