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Plant those Seeds!
Yesterday I was feeling a bit fed up. I put a Facebook post up on my personal account to vent. I wrote: The more I tell people some of the stuff I’ve lived through in Churches, and the more I witness their horrified reaction, the more I realise how much…
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Listening and Anger
Be less angry. Calm down. Take a chill pill. Don’t deal with this from a place of anger. People won’t like that. There is so much anger out in the world right now. I am angry myself. I’m angry at the UK Government’s mishandling of the Covid-19 outbreak. I’m angry…
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A Prayer for Sunday 14th June
Abwoon, Abba, Father, and Mother God. The world is in so much pain right now. We see anger like we’ve never know it. A rage which comes from deep hurt and lifelong frustrations. Not just our lives but those of our parents and grandparents. All coming to a boil now…
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Consciously Incompetent
I’m doing so much subconscious processing at the moment it’s exhausting! First we had George Floyd and Black Lives Matter, now we have J.K.Rowling and a discussion of Trans and Autistic rights. Everything just feels like it has been thrown up in the air, jiggled about a bit, then the…
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Spaces of Accountability
I was reading my daily email from Richard Rohr today, when a phrase jumped out at me I’d never heard expressed before. “We need relationships of accountability – spaces where we listen” (Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, 2018). Immediately something inside me stirred. This is what we are missing. This is what we…
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Jumbled Up and Learning to Listen
Black Lives Matter is all over our news space again. Here in the UK at protests over the weekend, a prominent statue of a slave trader in Bristol was pulled down and thrown into the harbour. Thousands have ignored social distancing and have come together to cry out for change.…
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A Prayer for Sunday 7th June
Prayers feel tough to write today, God. As I look out at the world and see fear, illness, protests, inequality and injustice, it is easy to despair. I see people desperately trying to do the best they can in unprecedented circumstances, and life is hard. It will be for a…
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Bending the Knee
I write this knowing I am a white voice where people of colour need to be heard. I write this in the hope it helps draw attention to and amplify those voices, not to detract or replace. I write from a place of my own experience which is limited, and…
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Deconstructing and Children
I have always been a Christian. I was brought up in a Christian family, and apart from the few times in my life I’ve struggled with faith or been between churches, I’ve always thrown myself into the life of whichever church community I’ve been part of. I’ve been part of…
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#MayWriteABit and Beyond
Today is the 1st June, marking the end of #MayWriteABit, the project which birthed this blog. It’s been a fascinating experience, learning how much writing means to me! Apart from illness, I’ve written every single day, and it has become a central part of my lockdown life. Not just the…
Deconstructing Church 