Category: Books and stories

  • Book recommendations 2017

    As I look back on the year, one of the highlights has been the amount and scope of reading I’ve done. This was an intentional move which was fuelled by me deleting all the games from my phone in February. I have really loved re-discovering the many benefits of reading books. In 2016 I read…

  • The wind and the sun

    As a child, my favourite book was a collection of Aesop’s fables. I loved the tales of animals and people facing moral dilemmas, and the important lessons I could learn from them. As I’ve been thinking about how to communicate my faith in a postmodern world, a particular story came to mind, so I thought…

  • Sheep thief

    At primary school, we often used to have stories in assembly and there is one in particular that has stuck with me. It was a tale of two brothers in a rural community who once stole some sheep. They were caught and their punishment was to have the letters ‘ST’ for ‘Sheep Thief’ branded onto…