Occupation: Music Teacher Birth: 1948
A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the c….
Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away..
It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No insti….
Few things are as encouraging as the realization that things can be different and that we have a role in making them so..
Reflection on the infinite seems to call, almost by definition, for infinite reflection..
Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live..
The least livable life is the one without coherence-nothing connects, nothing means anything. Stories make connections. They allow us to see our past….
We're not in people's faces, but I guess we're kind of in people's ears..
This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is e….
If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven….
For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out in the next genera….
The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action..
We live in stories the way fish live in water..
There are a lot of war memorials around the UK. It's usually a part of the war memorials. I loved the way The Glorious Dead sounded. It's kind of a s….
To have your music used on television and in movies, that's our way of getting it across to people. We're not on the radio all the time. It's the onl….
We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what will become of us. Wh….
Nothing worthwhile is easy..
It was always going to be a blues, soul, and rock-'n'-roll thing, because those are our ingredients. That's where we come from, and that's how we wri….
We're on an indie label. We don't have mass marketing behind us, and we don't have big budgets. We do our own thing. We do exactly what we want to do….
I think all of us set out to try and reach as many people. That's the whole point of being in a band: trying to get your music out there. So, any opp….
We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully end….