“There aren’t any needs here.” That’s what we heard over and over when we moved to Luxembourg. Regularly hitting the top three richest nations in the world (by GDP), Luxembourg is a beautiful and pristine little country, snuggled between Belgium, France and Germany. From first impressions, it certainly looks like there is not much wrong…
The Son of Man came eating and drinking”. Luke 7:34 There’s something profound and holy about tea and cake. About the work of baking when you know someone is coming over, or when you have someone to visit. About the adding and measuring and stirring and whisking. Baking teaches me patience and mindfulness – rush…
I grew up thinking that the disciple Thomas’ first name was “Doubting”. No other disciple suffered the fate of being remembered for their one moment of struggle (ok, except Judas I guess). And yet in an earlier story in the Gospels Thomas had declared himself willing to follow Jesus even unto death. I find myself…
I’m the daughter of a feminist who runs her own business, is legendary for her desserts and loves preaching. So it was perhaps expected that I’d grow up with an easy understanding that women are equal to men, should have equal rights and opportunities. But I also grew up in a church that struggled (still…
The sound of the church bells ringing is the ever present soundtrack when I think back on my village life childhood. Our village was small enough that you could hear the bells from it’s four corners, the cheerful peal of six cascading and rising in a dozen patterns, calling us happily to church. They rang…
Many of you will get a day off work this Friday, or maybe your partner will, and perhaps it’s another of those mysterious public holidays beginning with A that you’re not really sure what it’s all about. Well, yes, there’s Halloween the night before for our American readers and anyone else who’s claimed that tradition…
