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A former builder turned Chaplain and then charity Chief Executive I now write on spirituality and faith. Exploring purpose, as we some times do and as a young man I travelled across Europe, Iran, Pakistan, and India challenging how I saw the world. What I found was a spirituality that transcends tribalism and Western aspiration.

After training in Biblical Studies I became a chaplain. this opened the world of loose ends to me. Whilst working I took a post-graduate degree in Applied Theology and came to realise knowledge is great but it’s not faith.

It was when leading a faith based charity for two and half decades that my focus honed in on the fragmented life so many live. I developed a passion to walk with and whisper encouragement and hope into the lives of the broken. 

My writing and speaking is influenced and inspired by a lifetime in the trenches of community transformation. A journey filled with spiritual contemplation. Although not everything adds up or travels in the direction we most desire, yet as we travel hope unfolds on the pathway ahead. Both Cheryl and I have developed a passion to support and encouraged others on their spiritual journey. It was on a day that I wanted to run away from the noise and busy life around me that I read Henri Nouwen’s words, “We have to fashion our own desert place…” We have found that moments of stillness, silence, and even fragments of solitude in the heart of chaos, can be found.

Cheryl, my wife, and I have two daughters and three grandchildren. We have spent 30 years working alongside each other. Although we could list the activity of our lives the abiding joy is that we are a signpost pointing towards an accessible God of love.

Most of my friends describe me as a visionary and storyteller. Onlookers see more of a strategic thinker with the excitement of an entrepreneur. My children see a man with a resistance to saying no.

In this season of my life I am challenged to share my thoughts and the experience I’ve gathered over the decades. And so here I am.