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    Abstinence, or: "Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die!"
    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...
    “Sorry, now’s not a convenient time.”
    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...
    Beauty For Brokenness
    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 beg...
    Be more Bee
    Holly Streader
    • 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. Yo...
    Sit with Autumn
    Holly Streader
    • 1 min

    Sit with Autumn

    Season two of our Worldly Wellbeing podcast has a 'people' focus; a series of conversations with people we know who we think you'll enjoy...
    Retreat To Move Forward
    Luke Dowding
    • 4 min

    Retreat To Move Forward

    It is 2020 and the validity of so called “gay conversion therapy” somehow remains a hot topic issue not just legislatively, but also in f...
    A Quick Look at Fast Fashion 
    Holly Streader
    • 3 min

    A Quick Look at Fast Fashion 

    “clothes that are made and sold cheaply, so that people can buy new clothes often” The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesauru...
    To See Paris
    Luke Dowding
    • 3 min

    To See Paris

    Nine years ago, at around about this time of year, I started a permanent position on reception for a media agency in Fitzrovia. I can rem...
    Inspired By The Movement
    Luke Dowding
    • 2 min

    Inspired By The Movement

    I have that feeling that only appears when I’m on the move. It is physical, in that it seems to give energy to my hands so that I can typ...
    What Does it Mean to be Green?
    Holly Streader
    • 2 min

    What Does it Mean to be Green?

    Preface: this is neither an inspirational piece on environmental consciousness nor useful advice. This is merely a musing on what it mean...
    Oh Honey!
    Holly Streader
    • 2 min

    Oh Honey!

    It wasn’t until recently that I realised I’ve been surrounded by bees all my life. Well of course we all have, but it’s the importance of...
    Learnings from the Land of the Eagles
    Luke Dowding
    • 3 min

    Learnings from the Land of the Eagles

    Albania is known locally as the “land of the eagles”, and it’s a name they are proud to own. With its rugged mountains, the northernmost ...
    Lenses
    Luke Dowding
    • 3 min

    Lenses

    In May 2020, I was delighted to collaborate with Whitney Haldeman – creator of Blonde Atlas, to co-produce an online course entitled “Wha...
    Worldly Welcome
    Luke Dowding
    • 2 min

    Worldly Welcome

    We are not professional travellers. We are not self-help gurus, mindfulness experts, bestseller authors, or YouTube stars. We are Holly a...
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