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While shepherds watched their flocks by night, all seated on the ground, an angel of the Lord came down, and glory shone around. “Fear not,” said he for mighty dread had seized their troubled mind “glad tidings of great joy I bring to you and all mankind. They’re so frightened by Glory. It makes me …
In the last decade I’ve been busily de-constructing. Regular readers of my blog will know that as each year passes another core doctrine I held onto tightly is examined, turned over, and often discarded. We’ve discussed atonement, salvation, hell, repentance: what it all means really, I no longer believe in a literal hell, or that …
Have you ever felt like you’re not good enough? Not good enough to do your job?Not good enough for your friends? Not good enough for your partner?Not good enough for your church? Not a good enough Christian?Not good enough for God? Well I’m here to tell you that’s not how God sees you. There are …
I’ve known God for around forty years now, but can anyone ever really know God?God is unfathomable, in many ways unknowable, at least by humanity, at least as we are now. In this life we’re all just trying to figure God out as best we can, to know God as best we can. But God …
In 2013 I suddenly found myself on the margins of my faith. Prior to this I’d been your average “conservative, evangelical Christian woman”: married, three kids, husband I submitted to, Church on Sunday morning, back home to mow the lawn of our nice suburban semi-detached house in the afternoon. Midweek my husband and I would …
“A major problem in evangelicalism is that the question is never asked ‘does this theology cause harm?’ but rather they ask ‘is it true?’ Once an evangelical has determined a belief to be ‘true’ harm caused is irrelevant and can be blamed on moral shortcomings of the victim rather than blamed on the harmful theology …
I was always a fan of romance, when I was seven I demanded my “boyfriend” rescue me from the top of a hill I had run up- shouting “save me Colin, I’m a damsel in distress.” When I was seventeen I was thrilled to have a boyfriend who was a musician, because he could serenade …
Out walking with my friends last year we had the sudden and dreadful realisation that the group of teenagers we’d taken with us were no longer on the path ahead of us. A little while back we’d followed the signpost and turned off onto another track, the teenagers had obviously missed the sign. It wasn’t …
It should be obvious to anyone who visits my social media that my raison d’etre is supporting survivors of domestic abuse, and raising awareness that abuse happens in the church, just as much outside of it, so that we can make the church a safer place. It often astounds me then the amount of people …
Not all berries are toxic When my son was four or five years old my dad taught him that the blackberries he found growing alongside country paths were edible. It meant for many years we couldn’t go on family walks without having to wait whilst my son stripped every blackberry bush he found of its …