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Algorithms Stand Back, Please. This One's for Human Resonance.
Yes, there's SEO and all that, and this is a blog post after all. But I'm much more interested in making eye contact with the person at the bus stop. So, whatever.
4 days ago2 min read
Notes on Trust, Contingency and Chapter Seventeen
The unfolding of Chapter Seventeen's architecture and approach feels compelling. I’m thinking aloud here about potential areas of research.
Oct 56 min read


Botched Execution
Anguish and tuxedos. As if they make sense together. (Horrible.)
Oct 41 min read


SpicyGingerBiscuits, Pilot Lights, and Router Theology
When I got a new mobile router, I was staring at Spicy Ginger Biscuits. The whole thing got me started on memories of 1980s Olympic-style evangelism. That's technology for you.
Oct 22 min read


The plan so far: Chapter Seventeen
I'm thinking aloud about Chapter Seventeen, but you're welcome to listen or read, climb in or create, write or study, collaborate or unplug — and carry on doing all the same things in the real world…
Sep 268 min read


Five surprising things I’m actually not trying to do or say here at all!
Yes, I know it looks like what I'm doing here is creating a website. After all, I'm creating a website. But don't misunderstand me. The website isn't really the point.
Sep 174 min read


Taking it seriously: football, hoovering, McGilchrist, Nehemiah, psychical distance, and verbal explosions
Taking something or someone seriously means not hoovering in front of the football, and saving their drafts from the bin. And other things I've learned.
Sep 155 min read


I thought I was visiting an author's website, but — whoosh — suddenly I was in dark room talking to the cleaner who told me he was the Keyholder, and he didn't know much more…
What in the world…? The Stage Door was only the beginning. There's an unfolding rabbit warren of possibilities by the look of it. According to the Keyholder, he doesn't know, and you'll need to see the Architect. But no one's seen the Architect.
Sep 111 min read


As if by Magic: Theology, Imagination, and a Thought Experiment
My website looks quite standard until that menu item — Stage Door. It's what happens with a literary imagination birthed in Bible and Bagpuss.
Sep 83 min read


Inkblots and Promise Boxes
Am I alone in finding everything I encounter brings up a thousand other things? Now apply that to reading the Bible. I know.
Sep 83 min read


The STAGE DOOR menu item on my website seems to do something…
The Stage Door menu item. What's it doing on this author's website? It could be a rabbit hole…
Aug 272 min read


Beyond the Stage Door
There seems to be a Stage Door lurking in the menu bar. Where's the Keyholder when you need them?
Aug 233 min read


Poetry. Prayer. People-skills. Have we worked out how to pull it off yet?
We use words all the time, and sometimes because they just come out. Is that okay for poetry? For prayer? For other people?
Aug 216 min read
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