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The Flying Cassowary - a blog


neuro-what?!
A poem written for all neurodivergent people in WAAD.
Apr 21 min read
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Without Appointment
My life as a minister 'Without Appointment'.
Jan 146 min read
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A New Year
Some personal reflections on change and innovation as a new year begins.
Jan 75 min read
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The spaces in between
For the last four years, alongside my role at the University of Roehampton, I’ve been working in Circuit in Warwickshire, undertaking a...
Jul 26, 20216 min read
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Neuro-what?!?
An update on my recent diagnosis with Adult ADHD
Jun 4, 20215 min read
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Why I am a trade unionist
Yesterday, I was elected Vice President of the faith workers’ Branch of the Community trade union. I became a socialist before I became a...
Jan 20, 20214 min read
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Polarities
How did we get here? How is it that a nation defined by its sense of fairplay and reasonableness is now locked in the zero-sum game of...
Jan 20, 20213 min read
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Still Waiting
Advent has taken on a new meaning for us this year, as we have been involved in the Methodist stationing system. Little did we know that,...
Jan 20, 20212 min read
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Agonising
It is nearly 20 years since I entered Circuit (or started travelling, as they used to call it!). Yet this is the first time I have been...
Jan 20, 20217 min read
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Permission to Wound
‘Ordination gives the church a permanent permission to wound.’ I’ve been contemplating these provocative words since they were given to...
Jan 20, 20213 min read
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Light - Love - Life
Why is education such a complex topic for British Methodists? Is it because they associate their Church’s involvement in education with...
Jan 20, 20211 min read
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The joy of being Methodist - or why I like Anglicans, but don't want to be one!
I’ve spent the summer in very good company. From the World Methodist Council to MTSE and IAMSCU, the United Methodist Church, the Oxford...
Jan 20, 20214 min read
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Stuck on Brexit
The public sphere is full of talk of Brexit - hard, soft, chaotic, in-name-only. Yet, among the clamour, the voices of the Churches are...
Jan 20, 20213 min read
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Conference Bites 5 - Why I stood for President
Elections can be brutal - the people speak and the next day, the removal vans take the belonging out the back door as the new incumbent...
Jan 20, 20214 min read
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Changing Methodism V: A bit of order?
I have been spending the last little while reading and thinking about missional and other forms of Christian community and trying to...
Jan 20, 20213 min read
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Safe. Legal. Accessible. Rare.
The Irish referendum to repeal the 8th amendment of the Constitution took place at the weekend. That is was won by such an overwhelming...
Jan 20, 20213 min read
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