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Category Archive: Literature

A gentle kiss on the lips of the Inquisitor

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Note: This article was published on my new Substack newsletter this morning. All articles are still open to […]

April 23, 2022 Literature, Love, Movies, Philosophy, Relationship, Theology, Writing

Time to reevaluate the prominence trauma has in our stories

There’s an excellent article on the prevalence of the trauma plot in contemporary literature in the January 3-10 […]

January 12, 2022 Counselling, fiction, health, Journalism, Literature, Love, Philosophy, Relationship, Theology, Writing

When God took Job’s teeth: Tommy Tiernan tells a Bible story

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No one — NO ONE — tells Bible stories like Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan. That he tells Bible stories at […]

May 7, 2019 Bible, Epistemology, Humour, Literature, Theology, Writing

Rachel Held Evans: A voice crying in my wilderness

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As Barbara Brown Taylor puts it, “in an age of information overload … the last thing any of […]

May 5, 2019 Bible, Church, Epistemology, Literature, Love, Philosophy, Poetry, Preaching, Theology, Uncategorized, Writing

New fiction: The Block Splitter

‘Tell us the one about the kangaroo again,’ said Brodie, warming his damp socks by the fire. His […]

May 1, 2019 Humour, Literature, Random, Uncategorized, Writing

Just Do It: A faith, hope, love reading of Abraham’s call narrative

I was charged by a game studio with taking my ideas of faith, hope and love and demonstrating […]

April 30, 2019 Bible, Epistemology, Hermeneutics, Literature, Love, Theology, Writing

Good Friday: A face-off with anxiety at the edge of the ocean

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Today, I walked alone to the edge of the ocean, to confront my cross. It’s Good Friday, after […]

April 19, 2019 Literature, Theology, Writing

Wolfie: A random chapter from my novel, Children of the Wildood

‘Wolfie fancies you,’ Manboy said. He said it during English, with Rigby, the lower school head. Rigby was […]

April 10, 2019 Books, Literature, Love, Uncategorized, Writing

Losing my religion: Why I am NOT a Christian writer

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The first time I was told I wasn’t a Christian because of something I’d written was after the […]

March 29, 2019 Church, Epistemology, Journalism, Literature, Love, Theology, Writing

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