While I vividly remember many moments from my wedding day, there’s one moment that still moves me, and I hope it always does.
We had an Anglican wedding ceremony, which has a lovely script, and it includes the traditional vows along with other promises like, “All that I have I share with you.” The script doesn’t allow for much creativity, but our pastor did make one exception: Before we said our vows, he let us share the testimony of how …
Read More‘What’s the point, HopefulGirl?’ said the message. ‘I join a dating website, and no one gets in contact. I send messages and waves, but no one replies. Why am I wasting my time?’
When it comes to online dating, we all know (or we should do by now) that we get out what we put in. With one in three marriages starting online, it’s obviously working well for many of us. But some people seem to plug away patiently, only …
Read MoreTen years ago, in 2006, I was rejected by a publisher.
It went like this: after four years of student ministry and thinking about a post-modern culture, I had an idea for a book that explored characteristics of student ministry in the context of postmodernism – a sort of analytical, practical, theological-yet-readable sort of book.
So I wrote to a publisher, IVP UK, and told them that they should commission this kind of book.
IVP wrote back: “About your book,” …
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