Thoughts 11.10.19
Thoughts from the last few days: Thunder crackles over Kampala Ella must have felt so totally alone. She cried for me and...
Read out allThe Christmas Album
These songs have travelled with me through many seasons of faith, family, and quiet worship. Some are centuries old, some more recent, and one is my own. This album is...
Vestal Virgin 27.10.2020
It was summer 2002. The year before I lost my innocence totally and irrevocably; the year before I became a parent. The...
Read out allPoetry 31.08.2020
Outside my window The river runs that The rust river runs red Gleams gun metal Over stones
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For my Alchemists
I feel afraid.Of writing my truth in a world that doesn’t want to hear it. In a world that has silenced me...
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August 2019 GNP article
Joseph is the favoured son of Jacob, the firstborn of his favoured wife, Rachel. As such, we might assume that Joseph’s life...
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June GNP article final 2019
By virtue of being Isaac’s firstborn, Esau has both the birthright and the blessing that come from that position. But the Bible...
Read out allNovel 06.01.2021
Of course, he knew just how she liked her tea, and she was grateful. The simple fact of not having to wait...
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February 2020 GNP Article
What does it mean to have a different spirit? This is what God says of Caleb in Numbers 14:24 (NIV). Caleb and...
Read out allListening to Ed Sheeran
I went into town with Ella a week and a half ago – on Saturday 11th Feb. We had a lovely lovely...
Read out allPermission
On 16th January this year I finally realised this: I don’t need the permission of my abusers; they never sought mine. It’s...
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January 2020 GNP Article – God’s Loudspeaker
God’s Loudspeaker Have you ever carried your coat when it wasn’t raining, because you knew it would rain later? God did something...
Read out allSurviving Africa
All along I thought I was supposed to come here. Meeting Laban and Alice when I was five or six years old....
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