The science is clear. We are living in a warming world due to fossil fuel emissions. The world’s most vulnerable are already suffering...

Last night, I spoke online with thirty 17- and 18-year-olds, sharing a talk about compassion and calling. At one point, I stopped mid-sentence. What I had planned to say suddenly felt too neat, too rehearsed for the weight of the moment. So I tried to say something more honest. This is an attempt to do that more fully. I was born in 1977 and raised in a conservative evangelical church. From early on, we were given a clear vision of discipleship—costly, purposeful, and directe

Philip said, 'Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.' Jesus answered, 'Have I been with you this long? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father' ------ Tony is from Middlesbrough. You can hear it in the accent. Kindly. Friendly. Geordie-ish— but not quite. He’s been around church for a while now. Not the tidy kind of belonging— not the polished testimony version. More the kind where you drift in near the end for the cuppa and a custard cream, & stay close

In a previous reflection (see comments for the link) I wrote about emotional harm and the disorientation that followed it — how trauma can fracture the frameworks through which we understand the world, and how healing often comes slowly through time, prayer, and the quiet presence of safe people. There is another dimension of that experience I want to name. Justice. Or perhaps more truthfully: the restless need for it. Trauma scholars have noticed something about survivors. P