(Happy New Year!) As most of you know, I allocated 27th December 2019 as a Voiceless Day: partly as a social media advertising device, and partly as an experiment in the life of my protagonist, Hridnaya. Hridnaya is a Voiceless servant, whose purpose is to enable her...
A certain amount can be learned about Christmas on Ragaris from the end of “We Do Not Kill Children” and the rest of the canon, especially “The Queen’s Gift”, which is here https://www.penelopewallace.com/the-queens-gift/. I do know a bit more – although it should be remembered...
(I thought I'd leave the election until later - and then I thought I couldn't bear not to rant today - and then I thought again. So you will get my doubtless unoriginal musings on the election at some point, but not till after Christmas.) My...
Philip Yancey has written many books, but probably his most famous is “What’s So Amazing About Grace?” which I reread recently. It is a book that sets out to challenge the church to be people of grace: of forgiveness, kindness, understanding, generosity. People whom sinners, addicts,...
As I said, "We spent a few days in the town of Ibanda, accommodated in church-leaders’ homes. We then spent two days in a game park, being wide-eyed tourists. Then some of the team went north to the large town of Lira." The object of visiting...
My apologies to those of you who were at Middle St Resource Centre last Friday night, when I gave this talk: I started by saying something like the following, trying my best not to move my tongue (I hadn't gone to the length of having it...
My apologies, everyone. I had really intended to give you a new and interesting post, probably a book review, but the preparations for the "Servant's Voice" launch party (starting in approx 3 hours from now) has got in the way. So I'm (almost) shamelessly repeating a...
Our vicar has a longstanding association with East Africa, which is shared by his wife and his father-in-law. So when a newly-formed diocese of the Church of Uganda started looking for international links (and the school he’d taught at just happened to be within this...
I’m happily safe home from Uganda, and it was a fascinating and hugely enjoyable trip. I’m grateful for the health of the team, which meant that no one missed anything due to sickness; for the beauty of the land; and for the hugely generous welcome...
I recently had the pleasure and privilege of reading “Between Boy and Man”, the first novel (of three) by the late Peter Farquhar. Published by AuthorHouse in 2010, it tells a contemporary story set in a co-ed public boarding school, giving the perspectives of some staff...