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Monday 3rd July, 2023 I love the story of the Starfish, you might have heard it:Early one morning an old man was walking along a beach when he saw thousands of starfish lying on the sand, and a boy, picking them up, one by one and throwing them into the ocean.“What are you doing?” asked …
26th June 2022. Sitting on a wall, looking out to sea, headphones on. In a world of her own. Or at least trying to be. She looked about 15 or so and the boy, balancing on the wall, clearly getting on her nerves looked a couple of years younger. I assumed he was her annoying …
21st June 2023 It’s 2023, I can’t for the life of me work out why we’re still doing this but it seems we are so, here we go: And, as a bonus, an extra one for any men out there tempted to tell their sisters in Christ that they need to change what they’re wearing …
Friday 9th June 2023 Modesty/Purity culture is a terrible thing for a number of reasons. It is controlling, telling women what they can and can’t wear, where they can and can’t go, who they can be friends with, who they can talk to when, what they can do. This isn’t the freedom Christ came to …
17th June 2022 A pastor in `Texas has sparked outrage recently by saying gay people should be lined up and shot in the back of the head. Reading the commentary on this on the internet I noted how quick those who believe that being gay is sinful were to distance themselves from this guy, with …
Wednesday 31st May, 2023 Imagine the strength it must take to smile at your torturer, to step outside your front door and go about your day like everything is fine when it is not.Imagine how brave you must be, to go back to the place where you know you will be hurt, really hurt, but …
Tuesday 30th May, 2023 I’m not scientist, but one of the few things I remember from high school physics is the law of the conservation of energy. Science tells us that energy cannot be destroyed, it can only be transferred or converted from one form of energy to another. In this blog post I suggested …
Friday 26th May, 2023 The last few descriptions of love all go together really, love bears, believes, hopes and endures. We are presented with a picture of love not as one that puts up with abuse, as many of us may have been taught to believe, but as one wholly committed to ‘pulling together’ in …
Monday 22nd May, 2023 If you’re a Christian and you’re following the example of Jesus then yes, yes you do. Moreover you should want to. Submission is a dirty word in our culture, misused by abusers, sexualised by the porn industry and generally misunderstood. But Jesus submitted and God wants us to do so too, …
Friday 19th May, 2023 There’s a reason I chose Always Hopeful as the name of my domestic abuse recovery programme.I thought I was hopeful when I was married.I hoped he’d be in a good mood each day, I hoped he’d be too tired to want sex when he came to bed at night, I hoped …