A Good Customer Experience Some months ago Lucy, our daughter, and I went out on an important mission. Mother’s Day was coming up and we wanted to get her mum a special gift to say ‘thank you’ for all that she does for us. We went to our local shopping centre and, as we set […]

A Couple of Significant Reads Sometimes we get the chance in the blog to make some reading recommendations, and I have recently completed two books which I felt were very worthwhile. I’ll say a little bit about them both individually, but if there was a thread which unites them, it’s the thread of authenticity or […]

Sharing Tough Stories There’s a lot of difficult stuff knocking around in the news these days. I know a lot of people who intentionally have tuned out. It seems like a daily avalanche of suffering and struggle and unpredictability. We hear of displaced people in the Middle East, of refugees trying to make dangerous journeys […]

Some Lessons from the Irish Bouldering Championships 2026 Last weekend, BoulderWorld, Belfast, hosted the Irish Bouldering Championships 2026 in partnership with Mountaineering Ireland. It was an amazing event and I took away some lessons which I felt would be of great value to the church. Some of these things are, perhaps, already in place in […]