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Is life all about answers or more about questions?
On every single website you come across, especially from businesses, you’ll see this section called FAQ’s, Frequently Asked Questions. We all have questions we want to know the answer to.
Today we all want answers, but what is more important? Is it the answers, or the questions? How [...]

I think I’m beginning to realise that Christianity is not for me.
I say that, not as an atheist or agnostic, nor as someone who has become disheartened or let down by people within the church, but as someone who is struggling to square the institution with values that Jesus seemed to model within his movement.
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How can you swim counter-culturally when the tide is flowing so strongly against you? Only by doing the sort of intensive daily training that a cross-channel swimmer does. Yes, it’s tough but who ever promised it would be easy? It’s obvious, but you need to practise being counter-cultural to be able to do it consistently.
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I’ve just finished reading U2 by U2, the bands self portrait of its own history. It’s an interesting read for me at so many levels, not the least of which is that I was into them when there were just a few hundred of us bouncing off the walls in some dingy club in London. [...]