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TheĀ church service is underway. Congregation’s waiting. The pastor calls out a bunch of names including yours. You stand up and step forward. Questions are asked. Water is poured outā¦ Or...
I was recently at a funeral wake of someone I’m not related to. My wife’s friend’s father. Let’s call himĀ Uncle P. It was obvious that Uncle P was loved by his family,...
The longer I sat through the Church service, the more miserable I felt. Joy had been a stranger to me for quite awhile. I felt like I’d been robbed of it. God’s goodness was becoming a...
Christianity is sometimes described as a metaphorical lens. C S Lewis wrote: “I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it, I see...
Joy?Ā What joy? Minds overwhelmed, we rage, avenge and despair. Our fathers turned to booze. These days it’s mantras, happiness summits, self-improvement gurus, personality tests and...
I get it. Sometimes, you read the Bible, andĀ charactersĀ like Enoch and Moses appearĀ unrealistic ā itĀ feels like theyāve set a standard for spirituality I canāt reach, and itās super...
OneĀ midnight in April 1999, I was pushed into the operation theatre for an emergency operation. I was then 6 weeks pregnant. My first child was growing in my right fallopian tube and the tube was...
“Sometimes when I see kids running around, I imagine them asĀ my own,” Deb remarks. She gazes into the distance through moist, red eyes. Coughing out a few girlish giggles, sheĀ quickly...
Itās a rainy Sunday morning and the guy on stageĀ is giving his usual welcome-to-church spielĀ and, like he does every week, he refuses to let us sit down. Before we all get comfortable in our...