Recently I went to a local friend’s birthday party. In amongst the usual chat and catch ups, my friend Ian, whose sons were in primary school with mine, raised a great question to a group of us standing at the bar: “There are so few good male role models these days. Who are my boys… Continue reading Who are the positive male role models?
Category: Wellbeing
The best rebellion is living joyfully – by Anna Price
Artwork by Sophie Killingley Perish and Fade Some seem to glide through life perhaps without a care in the world, good things happen to them, they ‘just’ fall in love or easily find success. But those who have a need to rebel are not drifting through life easily. Rather, they experience a deep dissatisfaction. They… Continue reading The best rebellion is living joyfully – by Anna Price
The ’emotional magnifying glass’ of Christmas
That Christmas is a new animated Netflix film from Richard Curtis, the writer of some of my favourite comedy such as Blackadder, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill. (Curtis also wrote Love, Actually which is my least favourite Christmas film, but that’s a subject for another blog). That Christmas is a decent family… Continue reading The ’emotional magnifying glass’ of Christmas
Cutting through the fog of untruth
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com On Monday night I spoke at the AGM of the brilliant Bristol homeless charity inHope which run a Hope into Action franchise in the city. Later I had to get a train up to Nottingham and my journey included an hours’ wait at Birmingham New Street Station between 10pm and… Continue reading Cutting through the fog of untruth
Comfortable in our own skin? – by Stephen Brown
A man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus, begging to be healed. “If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean,” he said. Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” Mark 1: 40-45 (NLT) I vividly remember the first time… Continue reading Comfortable in our own skin? – by Stephen Brown
The denial & reality of trauma: a tale of two books
A few months ago, Keith Hebden wrote a G+T guest article titled Complicity or challenge? Responding to self-limiting excuses in which he shared insights from the psychologist Alfred Adler. He wrote: “For Adler it is our goals that determine our limitations and not our past. He argued that it can be tempting to take comfort in the… Continue reading The denial & reality of trauma: a tale of two books
What a monk, a psychiatrist & a rabbi taught me about living with constant pain – by Simon Hall
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com I was converted into charismatic Christianity in my mid-teens and this started a loving and life-giving relationship with God. But after 13 years, I felt the tap of the Holy Spirit had been turned off. The feeling of God’s loving presence disappeared. For several years I scoured my tradition… Continue reading What a monk, a psychiatrist & a rabbi taught me about living with constant pain – by Simon Hall
Finding space for grace
The chapel at Scargill, Yorkshire, UK After Easter, I felt I needed a week off work and cleared my diary for a week in May without a firm idea of what I would do. I thought a retreat would be good to explore, so I looked at the website of Scargill House in Yorkshire as… Continue reading Finding space for grace
Truly Woke
Photo by Spencer Selover on Pexels.com I have always fallen asleep extremely easily. Whilst this is a positive thing when I go to bed, it’s also been embarrassing at other times: when I have fallen asleep watching TV, at the cinema, getting my hair cut, in church or even in meetings at work. I have… Continue reading Truly Woke
‘A massive dose of truth’
Photo by MART on Pexels.com How would you respond if one of your children became seriously addicted to drugs and started stealing off you and their siblings to maintain their habit? I have often written on G+T about the importance of boundaries when supporting people affected by addictions. I have referred to this in the… Continue reading ‘A massive dose of truth’
Grace + Truth 