Here’s everything I wrote in January 2017
Day 1: Some Time (Or, A word-gift for New Year’s Day 2017)
Day 2: It’s OK to insist that faith make sense (Or, Why St Thomas is my kind of guy). I published two posts on the 2nd, by the way: the second was “The REAL reason you’ll go to a doctor.”
Day 3: There’s a gap between doctors and patients (where words apparently go to die)
Day 4: Talking ≠ Communication (And 3 things you might be taking for granted about getting through to others)
Day 5: Babel, Babble and the Bible: What an ancient story can teach us about getting through to one another
Day 6: Taken (a poem): In honour of Verishima Unokyur, who died by suicide, and the family who survive him
Day 7: Want to hack being funny? Know this one thing. (Do try this at home. Practice not included.)
Day 8: 3 types of church people (just for fun): Readers, Talkers and Singers
Day 9: Paper or ebooks? Why the debate really doesn’t matter. (And the one thing that does matter.)
Day 10: No, history is not “what happened in the past”: What it really is, and why that matters
Day 11: What every effective leader knows (That many of our leaders don’t seem to)
Day 12: Newsflash: mental health reporting sucks: But it can be fixed. Here’s how.
Day 13: Confession: I’m very easily distracted… (And I will never forget the first time I realised it.)
Day 14: I was called “boring,” yet I was never bored: How I learned to come to terms with the dichotomy
Day 15: As history, the Bible isn’t quite normal
Day 16: How to be smart about being smart: 7 lessons from superheroes
Day 17: Be careful what you ask for? Lessons from Stephen King’s “Needful Things”
Day 18: There are NO “art” or “science” students: Our young people are being sold a lie
Day 19: “Have I anything to say that hasn’t been said?” (A story about how I became free of this question)
Day 20: Death by criticism: A meditation on sticks, stones and words
Day 21: Not all thinking about death is morbid: A meditation on “dark” subjects
Day 22: If you weren’t feeling church today: Some encouragement for we the easily distracted
Day 23: The German word that’s changed how I see people (Bonus: an exercise to go with it that you can do with kids)
Day 24: Communication Breakdown: A poem
Day 25: I’m tired of hearing older people blame younger ones: A riff off of that Simon Sinek video
Day 26: What is simple isn’t necessarily easy: Time we stopped mixing up the two concepts
Day 27: Listening is loving by ear: A meditation on the art
Day 28: How exactly is ours a better world? (Thoughts on 21st-century human behaviour)
Day 29: If God existed, would we know? If God exists, why isn’t the fact more obvious?
Day 30: Simplicity is harder than complexity: How this paradox applies to writing
Day 31: How daily writing is like daily…cooking. Learnings from 18,074 words in 31 days
And, this one from last year: Spiderman, the Flash and why outsiders are easy prey for terrorists