Luke Dowding
The Pilgrimage to Progress?
As I walked along Hove seafront with my parents recently, I looked out to sea and noticed the wind-farm out in the distance. Wind-farms...
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Luke Dowding
- 4 min
Our Lives Lived
In Albania there is a delightful pantheon of faiths that creates space for a variety of festivals and celebrations. As I write, Ramadan...
Luke Dowding
- 2 min
Summer Day
The 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 Dowding
- 3 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 Dowding
- 4 min
Meeting My Magpie
I’m currently nursing a mild obsession with the magpie that visits our balcony in South-West London every morning. I’m also currently...
Luke Dowding
- 2 min
To The Journey
Those 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 Dowding
- 3 min
Sole Relief
Learning a few heart lessons from… Luke's feet.
Luke Dowding
- 5 min
Amber Management
Navigating the practical and moral complexities of international travel from the UK.
Luke Dowding
- 3 min
Five Ways I’m Looking After Myself Right Now
Luke is attempting to embrace some of his experiences and learnings from the past 15 months; here are his top 5:
hollystreader
- 3 min
Just 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 Dowding
- 4 min
Burning Bright: BFI Flare 2021
The 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...
hollystreader
- 1 min
IWD 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 Dowding
- 4 min
Flight Free-ish
Last 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 Dowding
- 4 min
Abstinence, 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...
hollystreader
- 2 min
Where I Run
2020 was the year that saw #runnersofinstagram race through instagram feeds. Runners ran more, treadmill runners braved the great...
Luke Dowding
- 4 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 Dowding
- 4 min
Beauty 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 Dowding
- 2 min
Gratitude
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 Dowding
- 2 min
Crossing Points
This 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...
hollystreader
- 2 min
Be more Bee
When 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....