Newness
A few years ago, our Christmas holidays were spent enjoying the BBC’s wildly popular nature series, Planet Earth. These films are quite simply a magnificent window into life on our planet. […]
Category Archives: Making a Difference
When the Living’s Uneasy
A friend of mine, married with two children, once confessed that he felt a bit guilty about buying a three bedroom house in a leafy, desirable London suburb, having done […]
Moments of Generosity and Gratitude
The other day, a friend of mine began to tell me about an experience that had happened to him recently. “I was walking to catch my bus from uni, along […]
Will there be Macs in heaven?
Steve Jobs’ death on Wednesday “provoked the largest online response of any event in recent history” according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Even the briefest survey of news outlets, Twitter, […]
Rules of Life
Usain Bolt was recently disqualified from the Men’s 100m final at the World Athletics Championships in South Korea. His crime? One false start. Previously, athletes had been allowed a single […]
Gluttony, Justice, and Grace
Donna Simpson has been making headlines over the past few weeks for her goal of becoming the world’s fattest woman. News clips of the morbidly obese woman discussing her goal […]
The Catharsis of Kindness
‘Practice random acts of kindness.’ I came across this bumper sticker a number of times while working in the U.S.. The word ‘random’ means ‘accidental’ or ‘chance’, and doesn’t carry […]
Feeling Tired Too?
Recently, I’ve begun thinking that I may be too tired to be a Christian. Trying to juggle my PhD program, my husband’s home-based business start-up, a ten-month old who doesn’t […]
A Predictable Life?
There is a version of faith that slides very nicely into middle-class, middle-aged life, giving those who are a bit insecure the answers that they need to be relatively confident […]
Love for Bin Laden?
The news cycle for the last week and a half has been saturated with the events surrounding the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Besides being a probable game changer in […]
Wondering Fair 