Writer. Photographer. Scholar. Creative Broker. Theologian.
2013 was a hard year. A strange year. But it felt like it was only natural following on from 2011 and 2012 which were spectacularly hard. You read about some of the challenges here in this space. Life got even more complicated before it felt like it turned a corner and I begin to see [...]
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“You really should write it down.” I’ve been told this over coffee, or after a lunch, or a car ride. On the beach, In a church, on a train. They’d asked a question and had seemed to be genuinely asking and so had gotten a fragment of the story. It’s long and convoluted. With lots [...]
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“Thinking itself is a spiritual activity” – Abraham Kuyper If you’re around little children, especially those around 3 or 4, then you’d be pretty used to the questions: why? what’s that? So what happens to us? At what point do we become rubbish at asking questions. Does being told ‘because’ finally strangle the curiosity? When [...]
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In honour of International Women’s Day, 2013. I am (still) not a feminist, but I am a Christian who believes that our world needs a serious shake up. I am still not a feminist, but I’ll defend your right to be one and to call yourself one. We still need to raise awareness through discussions [...]
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Much has changed in my writing since I first responded to Joy’s call to write Life: Unmasked. And for all the naked theology, I still find my resolve waning and egoist as it is, my own sense of vulnerability threatens to overwhelm. I often wondered how much trust was involved in the relationships of bloggers [...]
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Working with ‘the public’ for the last four or five months, one pervasive attitude has struck me as being detrimental to our communities growing and thriving. It’s something that I don’t see the church as being immune from either and some of the people I’ve come across in the ‘public sphere’ who have made it [...]
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Hi, my name is Anna Blanch and I am a writer. Jeff Goins states my hope for my writing clearly: “We have an opportunity. To write words that matter, to change lives with language.” (6) So here goes nothing, I’m now a writer with two part time jobs to pay the bills. With the part-time [...]
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One word. It’s a tough ask on one level. How do you encaspulate your hopes and dreams for the year ahead in a single word? At first I hesitated because it seems limiting, but just like I see value in dreaming about the year ahead and laying out some priorities and projects i’d like to [...]
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