On Saturday I went to “The Call” in San Diego with my husband Martyn and James (15) and Alice (13). It was an opportunity for many Christians to come together to pray, to repent and to worship Jesus. The timing was deliberate. We were keenly aware of the significance of election day approaching and it [...]

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I have just had a phone conversation with my son Tom who is a first year student at the University of Chicago. He was contemplating his future and he was thinking that he would like to be a writer living in the beautiful Welsh countryside. He had a wonderful vacation/holiday there a few years ago [...]

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In England, growing up, I enjoyed the wheat harvest when the wheat turned from green to golden yellow. Now in California I enjoy seeing the bright oranges contrasting with the dark green of the leaves. We have a few fruit trees in our yard but we are really bad gardeners and we fail to give [...]

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This morning I was asked to deliver a five minute Bible talk at very short notice. I was up for the challenge and while I was preparing the talk, which was a re-hash of my homecoming blog post, I was struck by an exciting thought! The thought related to a more profound meaning of the [...]

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A few days ago I wrote about starting college in the early eighties. My best experiences at college were conversations about the meaning of life, why we were here and how we could make the world a better place. We studied various political thinkers including Marx and we read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty Four”, wondering [...]

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I admitted in an earlier post “the round church” that my goals were focused on getting into college, being nice and receiving attention from boys with the hope that that one day I would get married. A further goal, once I got married, was to have kids. I appreciate that many women would consider me [...]

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When I was a new Christian I was selective about which parts of the Bible I would apply to my life. Part of the problem was that I had not read much of the Bible and although I had heard many good sermons, every aspect of life had not been addressed in the short time [...]

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Most people who lived in England when I was a kid considered that they were Christians. Many of us went through the ritual of church and were satisfied that that was enough. Once I had acknowledged that everyone is by nature wretched and mean and not at all ready to go to Heaven, I realized [...]

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I have described how Jesus began to change my life when I started as a student at Homerton College Cambridge in 1980. Responding to Jesus’s invitation to become a child of God has influenced every response that I have made since then. However, when I first became a Christian I was like a very small [...]

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As I had already been to boarding school when I was younger, arriving at Homerton College, Cambridge was exciting but not intimidating. I was eager to join clubs and hear speakers and when I heard that there was a Christian Union meeting, featuring a pastor from one of the local churches, I was happy to [...]

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