About the Sport Principle I love rugby league. But this hasn’t always been the case. It took my youngest son joining a local club, and then his coach to organise a trip to watch his club, Wigan Warriors, followed by an international at Anfield, for us to be hooked! We’re now fully paid up long […]
Sometimes we see something in others which inspires us and motivates us to be better in a particular area of our lives. They don’t necessarily know us and we don’t know them. They speak into our lives without any real depth of knowing. At other times we can be inspired by people who do know […]
Recently when I was out for a walk I saw a caterpillar (it’s a lime hawk moth if you are interested) inching its way along the road and quite oblivious to the fact it could get squashed by a passing vehicle at any moment. So I decided to do my bit for nature and put […]
My early career is given some credence by the books that occupy my bookcase. I recently took a book from the bookcase that had sat lodged in a row of books which mostly referenced social issues, the poor, poverty, underclass folks living with little hope and with no recognised exit strategy, those who are part […]
This week my brother Ben and I are trying to cycle from St David’s in Wales right across the widest point of the UK to Lowestoft. When I dreamed this Grand Challenge up in lockdown it seemed like a fantastic idea and made perfect sense, now as it begins today – none of it makes […]
After work one day, I decided to go for a short run. There’s a great route that’s really close to the college I work at that takes you along an estuary which gives you glorious views of the local landscape. It also offers some quite violent crosswinds sometimes that can quite literally take your breath […]
As some of you might know the nearest I got to military service was being in the sea cadets for a few years as a teenager. That certainly made me realise that any branch of the armed forces was not for me – probably much to the relief of the armed forces. Amongst the many […]
I wrote this the morning after the night before. England out on a penalty shoot-out. I was 21 when we went out of Italia ’90 in the semi-finals in the same way, and 27 for Euro ’96, so it has been a long while since I felt the same way about a football match […]
“I want to enter heaven breathlessly. I want to break the tape with a shout of ‘I did it!’” That was the heart’s desire of my first spiritual director, Alex Buchanon. I remember hearing him share this over 20 years ago and feeling so inspired and challenged to finish well in my journey of following […]
Dads, this was our moment! It was our chance to shine! We were thrust into a world that we did not see coming, and our families looked to us as they had never done before. And we completely bossed it… A recent report by the Fatherhood Institute has revealed some really interesting outcomes from the […]
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