Time to stop doubting and learn to love immigration
RANT ALERT (This is v abnormal for me, but I’m quite exercised about it!) I’m getting tired of people complaining about immigration, and just wish politicians would have the courage to speak up for it. The UK has ALWAYS been a country of immigrants – you just have to look at the history of London’s […]
Feeling out of your depth…?
Am in the middle of a book which was recommended to me by a friend I hardly see for reasons of which I have no knowledge! Zack Eswine’s Sensing Jesus – Life and Ministry as a Human Being.
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 77 (February 2015)
Sacred Treasure Show up: a fantastic campaign endorsed by scores of different outfits – to encourage Christian involvement with politics generally, and May’s General Election specifically. It isn’t a battle; it’s a pilgrimage: helpful wisdom for anyone, not just those struggling with porn issues Michael Wenham is someone with Lou Gehrig disease and so uniquely qualified […]
There but for the grace… pastors escaping the power-trip pitfalls
We could call them the ‘pastor’s power pitfalls.’ There are many. Too many. It’s actually scary how much power a pastor wields – for good… and ill. It’s one of the key issues that has preoccupied me a lot about in the last few years while writing my culture of suspicion book (out VERY soon at all GOOD […]
Maintaining a mixed diet of reading
I was recently speaking at the UCCF staff conference which was a real privilege and joy – and in one of the talks, I gave some tips on reading books, and a number asked for them to be reproduced (as they weren’t on the handout). So I will now oblige here (such is Q’s generosity of spirit).
The Paradoxes of Loneliness from Jean Vanier’s Becoming Human
Depression isolates and introverts. It’s a brutally vicious circle. And so when one occasionally gets swept up by outbreaks of energy, they are often focused on desperately trying to make connections beyond oneself. It might be music; it might be a conversation with someone who gets it with minimal explanation; it might be words on a page. I love that […]
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 76 (January 2015)
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Have a fab 2015 watch this space because there are some big changes afoot for Quaerentia in the coming months…!! Sacred Treasure AN Wilson on cracking form: it’s the Gospel truth – so take it or leave it Ministry through the dark night: very helpful consoling piece by someone (!?) about depression […]
