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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

Who wants normal? Not me

I’m starting to grieve the idea of going back to normal. Not that I think ‘normal’—meaning the way […]

April 17, 2020 health, Relationship, Uncategorized, Writing

As Sting says, Driven to tears

Yes, I felt an overwhelming wave of melancholy as PM Jacinda Ardern The Magnificent announced, in suitably serious […]

March 24, 2020 Opinion, Uncategorized, Writing

Where is God in all this anyway?

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Yes, I’ve heard the question asked repeatedly over recent days and it’s one that I want to have […]

March 21, 2020 Bible, Theology, Uncategorized, Writing

COVID-19: Should we be fearful of the coming dystopia?

My daughter (the second of four) asked me today whether I was afraid—of the coronavirus and the devastating […]

March 16, 2020 Epistemology, health, Journalism, Love, Opinion, Relationship, Uncategorized, Writing

Truth in a post-apocalyptic world (1/5)

Some (slightly revised) thinking from old lecture notes on epistemology in the post-9/11 world, as we approach the end of another decade. (1/5)

November 28, 2019 Bible, Epistemology, Love, Opinion, Philosophy, Politics, Theology, Writing

Crave: Where everybody knows your name

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I was conducting an interview recently with a couple of guys I think the world of. But it […]

June 4, 2019 Church, Journalism, Theology, Writing

Making time: A poem

Once upon a time I might have written a book about space and these walls and how things […]

May 26, 2019 Poetry

I wanna know what love is: Narcissism and the crisis of our age

For the past few weeks I’ve had this image in my head, of a guy standing on the […]

May 25, 2019 Epistemology, Love, Relationship, Theology, Writing

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