A letter home from Alabama

Alabama 8th October 2018 Dear Jenna, Thanks for your card, it’s taken me a while to write back because my … More

Groups get ready

At long last the group study guide to accompany my book Destination: Transformation is available. I have been piloting it … More

The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the … More

I have just completed reading Paul Theroux’s book Deep South, one of a few books I’m reading in preparation for … More

Sometimes there are areas of our lives that seem to be dead, all the life and newness that was once … More

Did Jesus ever have other dreams? Of getting married, having children, looking after his Mother in her old age, having … More

At the end of last year, the Oxford English Dictionary named Youthquake as its word of the year. Despite many … More

If you have read this blog before, you will know that I am reading Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina because the insights … More

I am British and my family and I spent two years living in Virginia. I remember my first time shopping … More

Women Without Roofs (WWR) is the charity I set up and run in Nepal that helps vulnerable and abandoned women … More

Please read the passage here. There are five protagonists in the story and each of them sees things differently. The … More

I’m a Brit, and spent two years living in the USA, returning in 2016, and am due to live there … More

I have been using both of the images above in Ignatian Prayer to centre myself on Jesus. Here’s what I … More

The charity I run in Nepal is in need of some help. Have you ever wanted to set up your … More

Skye Jethani writes a daily bible devotion entitled ‘With God Daily’ that is available here. Yesterday, he championed doubt, and … More

This quote is from “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy. As explained in an earlier post, I am reading Tolstoy because … More

This is a handout I produced to accompany a talk I gave introducing Ignatian Prayer to my church. I hope … More

These beautiful words come from ‘God on the Inside‘ by Nigel G. Wright on page 105. Rather than denying that … More

Honorary Treasurer sought – Jubilee Debt Campaign UK. http://jubileedebt.org.uk/news/honorary-treasurer-sought This sounds like a fascinating role and the Jubilee Debt Campaign … More

The text is here. This was a very personal experience yesterday when I used this Psalm for Ignatian prayer, and … More