Some of you will know that following my brother’s death from a brain tumour on Christmas Day 2022, I started a prayer strike and blogged abo...

  Today, while most people are attempting to enjoy their Christmases, I will be in survival mode. My faith remains. I am not sure if I wi...

  As the 25th December approaches and these prayer strike blogs wrap up (like a Christmas gift to the Almighty), I should probably reflect o...

  My brother was clearly not the only one to die on Christmas day... James Brown, who recorded James Brown sings Christmas Songs and A Soul...

  I’ve prayed a little more. It is largely from a feeling of compulsion and a sense that God will not be manipulated (and certainly will not...

  My new book, The Parables of The Cold Island is now out in case you are struggling for an intelligent stocking filler. It is dedicated to...

  What I hadn’t quite expected in this year of not praying was the sheer compulsion that seems to come from within me to pray. I wanted to...

  I'm not sure I particularly miss praying. It was never really a need anyway. Most people acknowledge that prayer is probably quite goo...

  As Christmas approaches, I'm having to learn how to navigate it considering that my brother died on xmas day. It is quite obviously on...

  It seems to me that on becoming a believer of any kind, an individual is given (or told to get) a plastic bag containing approximately thr...

  Although I may have stopped praying, I haven’t stopped writing. Earlier this year, in the first months after my brother died, I mapped out...

  Apparently, I’m heckling God. A Christian told me so. I had been unaware that my blogs were interrupting God's sermon or speech, but...

  Well, I haven’t prayed for Israel, despite my wish that there would be peace there (and here and elsewhere). I’m not sure that violence is...

  I wonder how fair prayer is. If you think about it, it is a kind of popularity contest in some ways. If you are a leader of a country or...

  Managing my brother’s online presence and accounts has not been the easiest thing. Not everyone thinks of their digital legacy and my brot...

  It feels to me as if God’s promise of comfort to those who grieve may as well be a promise of discomfort. Goodness knows he seems to allow...

  Here follows a short dialogue I had with a generative AI tool (Google Bard), including the prompts I wrote… Should a Christian ever stop p...

  “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective o...

  I have never really had trouble viewing God as a boss. It has always been quite a helpful analogy to me, especially because my earthly car...

  I'm drinking coffee from a Christmas themed mug. It reads:  ‘Festive AF’  and has a little picture of an xmas tree. I have avoided the...