thinking honestly about life and faith
Along with attention, belonging, truth, walking, learning, self-reflection, growing things, remembering, and gratitude, rest is a crucial habit and indeed great gift of life. It is also a vital discipline, if we understand it well. That may take some time—more … Read More »
Some years ago our Business Manager at Whitley College said to me: You know, in all the years that I have worked in the not-for-profit sector, this is the only place where I am constantly thanks for what I do. … Read More »
It isn’t only old people who talk about the past, but it certainly is old people (like me). Memory is in fact one of the greatest gifts of life, to be able to call to mind the events, places, relationships … Read More »
There’s a wonderful movement promoting growing food rather than grass in front of our homes: Grow food not lawns. https://www.foodnotlawns.com/ On their website are photos of lush gardens where more ‘traditional’ houses have lawns. More than that, however, this movement … Read More »
I really wanted to begin with the term ‘self-critique’, but the idea of criticism has such a bad press: it is almost always thought of in negative terms. We don’t like criticism and we don’t like ‘critical’ people. But actually … Read More »
I really want to speak of several things together: reading, questioning, investigating, and from these and many other things, learn. It is at once a characteristic of humans that we can learn and that in many ways we fail to … Read More »
Walk, This one may sound a little lighter, but it’s a habit of life nonetheless, filled with profound meaning and potential. Like an infant’s first words, so too their first steps are celebrated. Suddenly, their world is much larger. They’re … Read More »
In the Christian story of Jesus’ trial before a Roman governor, Pontius Pilate challenges Jesus with the question, ‘What is truth?’ We may wonder what led a powerful and possibly war-wearing man to pose that question. It certainly is a … Read More »
Belonging is perhaps the habit of life. It is so fundamental that it precedes everything else. It has to be recognised, acknowledged, and practiced, but it exists before all of that. All of us humans, but also all other creatures … Read More »
Attention! Attention! I am sure we have all heard this kind of call, perhaps over a public address system. It demands that we listen. The word ‘attention’ can have this sense of a demand or command. As children at school … Read More »