Suffering Amidst The Miraculous
Following on from my sporadic social media post last Sunday night, I was not planning to write a blog post, but I felt it warranted it after its response. So […]
Following on from my sporadic social media post last Sunday night, I was not planning to write a blog post, but I felt it warranted it after its response. So […]
Having had a break from social media completely for a wee while over the Summer, and an intentional pull-back from everything to focus on one or two specific things in […]
In mid June, when I was sick with a lower respiratory infection, something hideous and horrendous, as far as I’m concerned, was introduced in a completely sudden, shocking seemingly pretty […]
Two years after Islamic militants laid siege to the Philippine city of Marawi, Christians are still living in temporary shelters despite being desperate to return to their communities. On May […]
On the eve of American Memorial day, and nine months on from a far-from-dull work-related trip to Northern Vietnam, I felt led tonight to share a few photos from the […]
This Thursday will see the results announced of India’s largest ever expression of democracy. However, what might it mean for some of the minority religious groups in the country? India’s […]
During Ramadan, the pressure on secret Christians in Islamic societies is more intense than usual. As the Muslim world celebrates Ramadan, (from the evening of 5th May until 4th June […]
Not a catchy title tonight. But suffering is real on planet earth. If you’ve lived here any length of time, chances are that you will have tasted some suffering at […]
It’s Easter, yet I’m playing ‘Devil’s advocate’ a little here. I’m poking a little at Easter from within. Today on Easter Sunday, I thought I’d scribble a quick bit on […]
So just before Palm Sunday comes and goes, a quick word about Jesus on that day. The original Palm Sunday The week before being sent to his death on a […]
Most of you reading this know the story of Mary and Martha in the Bible. I won’t take time to write all about the details of it – you’re more […]
WITH THE best of intentions, I planned to write a further blog post last weekend, but amidst a blessed and busy, redemptive God-gifted trip back to my unplanned, second home […]
Redemption is a big word. I’m experiencing a, “wee bit” of it in these days. From a not-so-easy 2018 in Redding, and certainly not an easy ending, Father God has […]
We hear a lot these days about “fake news”, which has surfaced only in the Trump era. I’m not a big fan of that falsely created term, but that’s not […]
Sunday Scribing skipped the past week or two. Will endeavour to resume again next week. Check back then. Meanwhile here’s a random soul-soothing photograph of Fairhead, Ballycastle, County Antrim, in […]
The article I’ve linked to below is one I scribbled in passionate frustration two weeks shy of two years ago. It’s caught my attention this weekend for how much of […]
Just a few thoughts for tonight. I’ve been thinking since a few weeks ago about a talk I heard at a Church recently in Northern Ireland. The crux of it […]
Let’s talk about bone broth. (Not the kind of article you were perhaps expecting, but variety is the spice of life and all that). As I continue to recover from […]
Believe it or not this wee blog effort experiment is 6 years old later this year. Six years have passed in the blink of an eye, like a bullet plucked […]
No, you didn’t read that wrongly. Tonight I’m thinking lots of USA, and decided just to come out of recent busyness in life and rest from online activity, to remember […]
Time has run away. The bright Summer evenings are faded. This will be my last blog post I said I’d do over July and August from Northern Ireland. This past […]
I happen to have just turned on the TV a short while ago, and someone else had left it on a channel 65, “TBNUK” – the Christian channel now available […]
Sixteen weeks on from the Redding accident I decided to vulnerably share about in April, the sun is gratefully able to be felt once again on my skin. Time can […]
My heart is very, very heavy ongoingly today, ever since I discovered almost by chance late on Thursday evening UK time, that my second home of Redding was about to […]
This time last week I was in Krakow. Now I’m back home. This week’s Summer blog post is a simple photograph depicting home for me, in rural, agricultural Northern Ireland. Beautiful […]