Luke Dowding4 minOur Lives LivedIn Albania there is a delightful pantheon of faiths that creates space for a variety of festivals and celebrations. As I write, Ramadan...
Luke Dowding2 minSummer DayThe 14th of March is Dita e Verës (Summer Day) in Albania, which marks the end of winter and the coming of the warmer months – the...
Luke Dowding3 min"Now, Sing"One of my earliest VHS tapes (yes, VHS) was of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. I believe my first was Cinderella but the anecdotes of me...
Luke Dowding4 minMeeting My MagpieI’m currently nursing a mild obsession with the magpie that visits our balcony in South-West London every morning. I’m also currently...
Luke Dowding2 minTo The JourneyThose familiar with Star Trek: Voyager will know that this is a line offered as a toast in the series’ two-part finale – it’s also the...
Luke Dowding5 minAmber ManagementNavigating the practical and moral complexities of international travel from the UK.
Luke Dowding3 minFive Ways I’m Looking After Myself Right NowLuke is attempting to embrace some of his experiences and learnings from the past 15 months; here are his top 5:
hollystreader3 minJust Chocolate? It really is no news flash to anyone who knows, or to be honest has ever spent more than ten minutes with me, that I am a chocolate fiend....
Luke Dowding4 minBurning Bright: BFI Flare 2021The BFI Flare Film Festival is usually something that my husband and I love to annually attend. We're not huge film buffs, and I'm...
hollystreader1 minIWD 2021. What are the ideals we strive for on International Women’s Day? Respect, equality, unity, opportunity, to name but a few. So many of us...
Luke Dowding4 minFlight Free-ishLast year, much to the surprise of friends and family, I made the pledge to go Flight Free. Many of my peers then commented how jammy I...
Luke Dowding4 minAbstinence, or: "Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die!"Ill-informed abstinence is dangerous. Ahead of Lent this year, I'd encourage clergy, leaders, and teachers to think differently about the...
hollystreader2 minWhere I Run2020 was the year that saw #runnersofinstagram race through instagram feeds. Runners ran more, treadmill runners braved the great...
Luke Dowding4 min“Sorry, now’s not a convenient time.”“Sorry, now’s not a convenient time.” I imagine that most of us have said those words to someone – if not recently, then at least once in...
Luke Dowding4 minBeauty For Brokenness Where have you travelled with brokenness this past season? In winter it can feel like brokenness is everywhere, that healing can only...
Luke Dowding2 minGratitude Gratitude is not often a great wind, but a gentle breeze. Gratitude does not often come as a tempest, a storm to batter and rage....
Luke Dowding2 minCrossing PointsThis bridge is magic. It’s somehow fixed in London as it crosses the brooding Thames, yet transports me to when I lived in New York City...
hollystreader2 minBe more BeeWhen I’m editing a podcast I always end up scribbling down things that a guest has said that I particularly like and want to remember....
hollystreader1 minSit with AutumnSeason two of our Worldly Wellbeing podcast has a 'people' focus; a series of conversations with people we know who we think you'll enjoy...