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The power of now: Night fighters and a glorious new beginning

I sat with Harry Carter on his front verandah, both of us watching the bushes, and the birds […]

March 2, 2019 Journalism, Literature, Magazines, Writing

Coffee and cigarettes: A captured moment

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A kiss, but not a kiss A moment of connection, and also contempt. Those eyes, dark and foreboding, […]

March 1, 2019 Humour, Journalism, Literature, Love, Movies, Photos, Poetry, Relationship, Uncategorized, Writing

What’s love got to do with it: Theology and its defences against the dark arts

Towards the end of my very brief career as a theologian in a conservative, fundamentalist, NZ theological college, […]

February 26, 2019 Church, Epistemology, Literature, Love, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, Theology, Uncategorized, Writing

Three words: Faith. Hope. Love.

  Faith is about the story in which our understanding of self and others is embedded. It’s about […]

February 22, 2019 Church, Epistemology, Love, Theology, Uncategorized, Writing

Assisted suicide: a Valentine’s Day poem about love

  No need to load the bullet Or knot the rope I’m gone already If I found knowing, […]

February 14, 2019 Epistemology, Literature, Love, Poetry, Relationship, Theology, Uncategorized, Writing

A Queen story: You buggers can sing harder than I can

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Bohemian Rhapsody was the first song I remember being aware of as a kid. I have a clear […]

February 13, 2019 Humour, Love, Music, Vinyl, Writing

The Beautiful Risk: Self-other encounter

One of the best descriptions of relational encounter you will read, by therapist James H. Olthuis, in The […]

February 5, 2019 Counselling, Epistemology, Love, Philosophy, Quotes, Relationship, Theology, Writing

The Idiot Revisited: The Tale of the Maison Trudon

I am terrible at buying birthday presents. I don’t know why, I just am. Especially for my wife. […]

February 2, 2019 Humour, Magazines, Random, Uncategorized, Writing

Coming soon: The epic story of one woman’s determination to conquer the entire NZ coastline, solo

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This is exciting. Earlier this year I helped the legendary Lynn Paterson (aka Red) to write a book […]

December 17, 2018 Books, Writing

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