Dr Myk Habets is a theologian at Carey Baptist College, where I studied for four years. He’s pretty flash! As well as lecturing in systematic theology, hermeneutics and ethics, he’s head of the newish Carey Graduate School and Director of the RJ Thompson Centre for Theological Studies. He’s also a husband and father, and a […]
Add this to your list of empathetic things it might be appropriate to say to someone in pain (though we’re usually better to say very little, and just listen well and offer a hug): it hurts because it matters. This is from author John Green (he co-wrote the charming and brilliant Will Grayson, Will Grayson, […]
Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrr! That means it is also our wedding anniversary. Huzzah! Here are the words we used to make our marriage four years ago: Will you take T, in marriage, to be your wife? Will you love her, comfort her, honour and protect her, And forsaking all others, […]
SBJ is sick at the moment with a cough and fevers, poor boy. He’s all croaky and sounds like a little duck, which is SUPERcute (though I am of course very sorry for him, too). The poor wee mouse is uncharacteristically miserable, so we are watching a lot of YouTube, and therefore needing to expand […]
Trigger warning for discussion of rape and child marriage. The tragic, terrible death of an eight-year-old Yemeni girl made international news this week. You might have read reports that a little girl died from injuries she received during wedding-night intercourse with a 40-year-old man who had just married her. Coming from a much more fortunate […]
A toddler is a miracle. A hurricane of synaptic activity. A tropical bud blossoming in minutes. The centre of gravity of any room. I know the idea of things growing ‘exponentially’ is often misused (from the perspective of a mathematician), but I think it might apply to the learning that happens as babies become toddlers. […]