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Jan 15, 20202 min read

I was born a lesbian: I choose to follow Christ

When I moved into a new place a while ago, one job was to display a collection of my photos on one wall. While getting sucked into a...

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Jan 13, 20202 min read

Once upon a time

Once upon a time there was a little girl who was a bit different; everyone thought that she was a boy. She was a very kind and caring...

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Jan 11, 20201 min read

Out of the ashes

My new beginnings started on bonfire night in 2014 when I wandered back to the smouldering bonfire at the end of the night to pray alone....

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Jan 9, 20202 min read

Beauty in brokenness

I realised my sexual orientation from age seven when I fell for my Year 3 student teacher, and was fixated with other boys at school and...

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Jan 7, 20202 min read

“And so each venture is a new beginning …”

T S Eliot, throughout his ‘Four Quartets’ has some pretty deep things to say about experience as a sentient being within time, and many...

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Jan 4, 20202 min read

Every time

Every time it’s like the first time. Every time I drop the words into a space that seems to fit them, stand back, and wait to see what...

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Jan 1, 20203 min read

Wonderfully made

Imagine, if you will, a gay teenager in a vicarage on a council estate in South Bristol in the early 90s. No internet, virtually no out...

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Dec 24, 20192 min read

New beginnings

A new year, a new start. We find one of the biggest obstacles to LGBT people being accepted in UK churches is that Christians aren’t...

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