Commitment-Phobe
Commitment-Phobe: Songs of yearning
30/11/2020 | ReformCan lockdown Christmas have meaning?
‘O come, O come, Emmanuel’ is one of my favourite Christmas songs. We hardly ever sing it at our church because it holds this deep and true sad yearning. It is my song for this … Read More
Commitment-Phobe: From the depths
23/10/2020 | ReformI’ve been suffering lockdown of the heart
Before Covid, I had been yearning for discipleship. I had been yearning to slow down, to do less at church and more in my heart with God. The desire of my heart was … Read More
Commitment-Phobe: Compassion please
28/09/2020 | ReformCan churches encourage self-compassion?
As you read this, it’s October. Children throughout the country, including my own, will hopefully have spent a month at school without complications, quarantines, or lockdowns. Many people will be doing some version of their old … Read More
Commitment-Phobe: Joining protests
26/06/2020 | ReformWhy is my church not protesting?
America was protesting. The world was protesting. But halfway through the week after the death of George Floyd, I was asking: Where is my church in this? How do we respond when we cannot … Read More
Commitment-Phobe: Locked in
29/05/2020 | ReformNavigating self discovery in lockdown
I am writing this in early May, after seven weeks of lockdown in the UK. But by the time you are reading this, lockdown may be over and social distancing will be easing. Or not. … Read More
Commitment-Phobe: Home church
24/04/2020 | ReformDoes church matter?
Maybe the biggest question I have at this time is: what matters? Grammar? And my eight year old learning it? No. Makeup? No. New clothes? No. Food? Very much.
Does knowing how to cook, clean up, repeat, … Read More
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