Tanya Marlow – on the Bible, suffering and the messy edges of life
Posted in Recommendations and Reviews on May 5th, 2013
The wonderful Leigh Kramer does a monthly ‘what I’m into’ post, and I thought that was a fab idea! So I’m linking up with her, and do take a while to look round her blog- she’s one of the nicest people in the blogosphere. Yesterday I blogged on the best of the blog [...]
Posted in Recommendations and Reviews on Apr 3rd, 2013
The wonderful Leigh Kramer does a monthly ‘what I’m into’ post, and I thought that was a fab idea! So I’m linking up with her, and do take a while to look round her blog- she’s one of the nicest people in the blogosphere. This month I have a lot to talk about, [...]
Posted in Recommendations and Reviews on Mar 2nd, 2013
I keep meaning to do a weekly Bits’n’Blogs post, and never getting round to it. And then I saw that the wonderful Leigh Kramer does a monthly ‘what I’m into’ post, and I thought that was a fab idea! So I’m linking up with her, and do take a while to look round her blog- [...]
Posted in Recommendations and Reviews on Oct 17th, 2012
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. You watch your child picking again at their food. You rationalise that lots of children are fussy eaters, and that doesn’t mean anything. Time passes. The length of time they spend in the bathroom increases – but that’s normal for a teenager, right? More time passes. You [...]
Posted in Culture and Society, Recommendations and Reviews, Spirituality and discipleship on Aug 22nd, 2012
What kind of label did you have as you were growing up? There are many ways that we’re labelled to differentiate ourselves from others. Amongst our family or friends we become known as ‘the pretty one’, ‘the funny one’, ‘the smart one’, ‘the rebel’, ‘the loud one’. These labels form part of our identity, [...]
Posted in Art and Story and Writing, Culture and Society, Recommendations and Reviews, suffering on Aug 1st, 2012
“What do you want to do when you leave university?” I remember asking this question to a bunch of Oxford students a few years back. To my surprise, the majority replied simply, ‘I don’t want to do anything particularly, I just want to be happy. That’s really what it’s all about, isn’t it?’ [...]
Posted in suffering on Mar 20th, 2012
This post first appeared as a guest post for Anita Mathias’ excellent blog, Dreaming Beneath the Spires. You can check it out here. When I was twelve, I was asked to give a book review to the rest of the class. It was supposed to be on our favourite book. Lots of other girls stood [...]
