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Black & White

If like me you are interested in Black and White Photography then you could do no better than check this website out. I came across lots of Dave Butcher’s work in an exhibition last week and was impressed with every single shot. Enjoy!

Where to stick it.

Whilst our children were away at Children’s camp (I guess for the preservation of my eldest son’s street-cred I need to make clear he was there as a leader) my wife and I spent a few days near Buxton in Derbyshire. Buxton is such a beautiful little town and is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance [...]

Measure your words

If you are a writer or a public speaker and haven’t yet discovered WORDLE then you’re missing a useful tool (and a whole lot of fun). Wordle is a clever piece of software which discovers the amount of times you use each word in your communication and then produces a graphic display with the most [...]

Aliens

Do you know any Christians who seem just a little bit weird. Well what if they’re supposed to be like that. I recently gave a talk to the amazing people at NewLife about “turning up the contrast” in the way that Jesus himself tells us to. Perhaps people who truly follow Jesus are designed to [...]

Cliché

As with most cultures evangelical Christianity is full of spoken clichés which I usually term christianese; most are not helpful. A couple of days ago I was privileged to spend time speaking with the most lovely elderly gentleman who visited the church for the first time in need of comfort. He said, “I have a [...]