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  • Advent Reflections Week Two: Peace

    Advent Reflections Week Two: Peace

    “Advent recognises the absence of peace, yet the exquisite certainty of its coming.” Kate Bowler I sometimes think that peace is one of those words we’ve got wrong. It is deeper and wider than the images of still waters or pure white doves, it is not meekness – it is shalom – wholeness in mind […]

    Rachael Newham

    December 9, 2020
    Theology, Uncategorized
  • Advent Reflections Week One: Hope

    Advent Reflections Week One: Hope

    “The Advent season is a magnifier” Father Scott Over the past couple of years; I have lost a baby and brought a baby home as the fairy lights shone and the carols have been sung. Advent has magnified both my grief and my joy. The images of a cradle filled with the infant Jesus was […]

    Rachael Newham

    December 2, 2020
    Theology
  • Facing The Past

    Facing The Past

    I shared this message as a part of my church’s Coping Well in a Covid World – and I thought some might find it helpful. Facing Up To The Past – Keeping it Together “Oh yes, the past can hurt, but you can either run from it, or learn from it.” Rafiki In my view, […]

    Rachael Newham

    November 30, 2020
    Theology
  • Faith, Strength and Weakness: Guest Blog by YouBelong

    Faith, Strength and Weakness: Guest Blog by YouBelong

    (Please note: I have used the term ‘He’ to describe God because this is a pronoun I am comfortable using but please replace it with whatever pronoun/s you feel more comfortable with when reading it that enables you understand God in all their fullness).  When Rachael asked me to write something for the blog, she […]

    Rachael Newham

    November 24, 2020
    Life, Mental Health, Theology, Uncategorized
  • We Are Satellites – An Interview with Martin Saunders

    We Are Satellites – An Interview with Martin Saunders

    Ok, obvious one to start, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and why you wrote We Are Satellites? I enjoy an obvious question. I’m Martin, and I’ve been involved in youth ministry for the last 20 years. I guess I have dedicated my entire working life to helping young people connect with […]

    Rachael Newham

    November 19, 2020
    Books, Uncategorized
  • The Riches of Darkness Guest Post by Liz Carter

    The Riches of Darkness Guest Post by Liz Carter

    When the clocks go back and the evenings draw in, so often life can seem murkier for many of us. Never more so, perhaps, than this year, with seemingly so little to look forward to, hope removed with anticipation ripped away from us. The world can feel a dark place for us. The world may […]

    Rachael Newham

    October 31, 2020
    Books
  • A Familiar Fog

    A Familiar Fog

    I could feel the lump solidifying in my throat, my eyes burned and brimmed with tears, the exhaustion had settled upon me like a leaden cloak. It was all too familiar. I have been acquainted with this fog for over half of my life, and yet it still catches me unawares. It’s different now, though. […]

    Rachael Newham

    October 1, 2020
    Mental Health
  • How Do You Teach ‘difficult’ Bible Stories to Children? Guest Post by Lucy Rycroft

    How Do You Teach ‘difficult’ Bible Stories to Children? Guest Post by Lucy Rycroft

    “She put WHAT through his forehead?!” “The FAT closed over the SWORD??!!” The Bible is full of colourful stories. Some of them seem to have ended up in a sort of ‘children’s canon’, a repertoire we are happy to teach to our kids, stories which publishers are eager to bring to life again and again […]

    Rachael Newham

    July 15, 2020
    Books, Pregnancy and Parenthood, Uncategorized
  • 30 Books That Have Shaped My 30 Years

    30 Books That Have Shaped My 30 Years

    As I hurtle towards my thirtieth birthday, I decided to put aside by 1/3 life crisis (it’s not a thing – but I’m feeling it!) and think about the 30 books* which I have loved the most and which have been the most influential in my own writing. I haven’t ranked them because that would […]

    Rachael Newham

    July 13, 2020
    Books
    best books, Books, christian books
  • Poverty, Justice and Mental Health

    I was thrilled to be a part of Kintsugi Hope and Christians Against Poverty’s #TheBigDebate earlier this week and you can now see my interview with Nina Hossain in full.

    Rachael Newham

    June 5, 2020
    Mental Health, Uncategorized
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