Christianity
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Stone Word Witness
Practices that steady the heart through beauty, warning, and faithful speech. I sit with these passages as someone formed by a rhythm of shared work, ordered days, and quiet liturgical practice, and also as someone whose senses and attention follow different pathways. Here the scriptures meet the landscape of island weather, the inward order of Continue reading
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Worship. Not Warfare.
Militarised Christianity undermines democracy. True discipleship forms citizens through worship, conscience and compassion—not drills, ranks or recruitment. The Church serves best without an army. Continue reading
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Among the Cloud of Hidden Witnesses
A reflection on hidden witnesses—women and LGBTQ+ Christians—whose ministries challenge exclusion and invite GAFCON and the wider Church toward grace, inclusion, and restored communion. Continue reading
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Faithful in exile
Grief, grace, and quiet endurance in the margins of scripture and life Reflection on the Sunday readings. Jerusalem sits empty. The psalmist weeps by foreign waters. Timothy is urged to rekindle a gift that feels fragile. The apostles beg for more faith, and Jesus answers with a story about a servant doing what is asked, Continue reading
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Jesus Loves Me—And That Changes Everything
A reflection from an Irish Anglican autistic perspective on love, memory, and belonging “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” We sang it every week in Sunday School, small voices piping through the church hall, surrounded by crayons, juice cartons, and the gentle chaos of kindergarten faith. I don’t remember Continue reading
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Called and Consecrated
Re-reading St Paul and Honouring Women’s Ministry in the Anglican Tradition In the hush of a Friday afternoon, with the Psalms still resonating from morning prayer and the Irish light softening the edges of the day, I return to St Paul’s words in 1 Timothy 2:11–12: “Let a woman learn in silence with full submission. Continue reading
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Mercy, not triumph
A quiet reflection on one pain-free night, naming grace in its fleetingness and giving thanks for small mercies. Continue reading
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Scattered. Rooted. Seen.
Autistic noticing turns a roadside walk into quiet reflection—acorns, oak, and grace revealed in the rhythm of pausing. Continue reading
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Heritage, Worship, and Shelter
Celebrating Celtic sites and launching a €1 brick appeal for Habitat Malawi—small gifts turning heritage into homes and hope. Continue reading
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Pilgrim, Platform, Synod
Early morning journey to diocesan synod—three trains, one tram, no agenda, but full heart. Autistic voice present in Church democracy. Continue reading
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