Darkness in the light
Over the course of five years I have written of my experience with depression. I reached some of the darkest... Read more »
Tag: Church
No room for “yet.”
90 years makes for a lot of changes in a culture. The first world war had left around 18 million... Read more »
Mental illness
it is we who differentiate between the mental and... Read more »
The dash between the dates
And all that was so important to me will be reduced to a dash one inch long on a... Read more »
Means what?
What does Christmas mean to... Read more »
Darius Trope
Darius Trope the making of a preacher... Read more »
Believe in better
The slowly rising light was beginning to drift across the dirty skylights in the roof of my workplace this morning.... Read more »
Backsliding
Skiing has never been one of my sports, it ranks up there with football, running, beach volleyball, basketball, anything involving... Read more »
Empowerment
In every leadership situation of life we have basically two choices, empowerment or despotic control. Having experienced both throughout my... Read more »
Special powers
It’s funny (to me at least) how some advertising slogans lodge in your memory. In the early eighties Martini... Read more »
Twenty one days
In some ways it doesn’t seem like that long since I beat a retreat from my place of employment.... Read more »
The big easy
The sigh was a deep one, the next breath that was exhaled carried three words…..”it’s not easy.” I was nuking... Read more »
Stage fright
Why stand trembling in the wings……they are mere humans? One of the churches I attended as a child was extremely... Read more »
Convoy driving
There are a variety of reason why you would find yourself driving in convoy. One of favourite films growing up... Read more »
When a man loves a woman.
Torrential rain is always a challenge. The weather today was like being in a rainforest without the trees, heat and... Read more »
Return to Everest
In case you wondered, I do try to apply this stuff to myself. Last week I wrote a piece about... Read more »
Start with Everest and work your way back.
I can’t claim originality on this title, I overheard a version of it this morning in another context, but it... Read more »
To be or not to be
It isn’t often that I find myself laughing when reading the Bible in the morning; but today I found... Read more »