Monthly Archives: February 2006

The Difference Between Caring And Doing Something About It

I’ve been reading the biography of the woman who started up “God’s Golden Acre”, throughout this week while I was doing training at Oracle, and all that. For those who don’t know about it, God’s Golden Acre is an AIDS orphanage in South Africa, which originally started to house orphans from the civil war and [...]

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Book Review: “The Quest For The Radical Middle”

I’ve been on training all this week (I’m working towards the lofty goal of being an “Oracle Certified Professional” database administrator. Nerdy nerd nerd), and as a result been afforded long lunch breaks, which has been a great chance to do some reading. So I’ve been getting stuck into a book that I’ve been meaning [...]

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Forsaking All

Have had an interesting chain of thoughts running through my brain over the last week or so. Met up with a few old school friends last Saturday for a BBQ, and one of the friends who was there was someone who up until about a year ago would have been someone I’d have asked for [...]

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A New Challenge

This Friday will be a little bit of a landmark day for me. For the first time in over 4 years, Friday Night Youth Group will run and I won’t be a part of leading it. I’ve been involved in working with the Year 7 – 9 group since I finished school, and this year [...]

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The Plight of the Dead

Ever feel like you’re dead on your feet. That’s nothing, just ask the head of the Association for Dead People. It’s so much harder to get taken seriously when you’re dead

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