A candle in my treehouse

Musings on faith and real life

Life Question: The hazards of teaching responsibility

November 24, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

I let out an involuntary gasp as I turned over the price tag. This child’s ski jacket was unbelievably expensive. But of course it was. If someone needed to buy a ski jacket in this village high in the Austrian mountains, the shop owners could charge what they liked. A ski jacket when skiing was hardly an […]

Life Question: On privacy

November 10, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

It helps no-one if you don’t ask for what you need We’d been in our new house in Uganda about a week when the hospital chaplain called. He’d come to make sure that I was going to behave as a medical superintendent’s wife was supposed to behave, it turned out. He’d been disappointed that my […]