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I'm taking a short break from posting blogs. In my round of up last year I alluded to some big changes on the horizon for me this year. I've just finished my job at the University and will be starting imminently as a full-time Pastor at a church in Alton, Hampshire. The church is part… Continue reading A Pause
It’s Epiphany today, Christmas is over, the new year doesn’t start today but it’s as good a day as any for reflecting on the last twelve months. It’s become my tradition to celebrate the anniversary of nuakh with a review of the previous year of reading and writing on Epiphany. Below are a bunch of lists, including… Continue reading 2024 in Review: Year Four
When I started a blog during the long tail of Lockdown in 2020 it was already a long dead medium. I'd been encouraged to write regularly as a way of improving my writing and had tried working regularly on a few projects without managing to build a rhythm. I stumbled across Tim Challies' article on… Continue reading On Blogging
Charismatics and Pentecostals have a reputation for being anti-intellectual. Although we’d love to say this was a myth, the reason it’s so often repeated is that it, unfortunately, does have some grounding in reality. We Pentecostals and Charismatics aren’t well known for being thinkers. That's the opening paragraph to Eucharisma, a new home for charismatic… Continue reading Eucharisma
It’s Epiphany today, Christmas is over, the new year doesn’t start today but it’s as good a day as any for reflecting on the last twelve months. It’s become my tradition to celebrate the anniversary of nuakh with a review of the previous year on epiphany. Below are a bunch of lists, including my books… Continue reading 2023 in Review: Third Time’s the Charm
I launched nuakh by describing my desire to write cold takes, to not publish quickly or flippantly, but to wait to share my writing. Typically, I’ve been waiting around 3 months to do so. Occasionally this throws up some odd circumstances, like when I wrote about how the country felt after the Queen’s death two… Continue reading On Cold Takes
It’s Epiphany today, Christmas is over, the new year doesn’t start today but it’s as good a day as any for reflecting on the last twelve months. I appreciate I’m a little behind the curve here, but I did it last year and so this now makes it a tradition. It’s the (approximate) anniversary of… Continue reading 2022 in Review: The difficult second album
I've just had an article published elsewhere that I wanted to share with you, and thought I would include some of my other writing published elsewhere over the last year or so. If you've already read these because you follow me on social media and clicked on the links at the time, thanks for your… Continue reading My Writing Elsewhere
It’s Epiphany today, Christmas is over, the new year doesn’t start today but it’s as good a day as any for reflecting on the last twelve months. I’ve been writing here at nuakh for about a year now. I’ve written 94 posts, almost exactly 100,000 words of work, some of which have been shared and… Continue reading One Year In: 2021 in Review
Advent starts on Sunday, which will confuse some of you because you’re expecting it to start next Wednesday. Others of you will be appalled at the idea of ‘doing Christmas’ in November—well we won’t be, we’ll be celebrating Advent. Advent is dark. Advent is bleak. Advent is about staring at the wretched core of the… Continue reading Advent is coming
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