Simon Carter

Treasures: ‘One Of Those Faces’ In Difficult Places If a conversation is to be helpful, it needs to be a genuine two-way thing, because it’s a meaningful exchange, and it’s about relationship. And I think it’s important, when you’re talking about se…

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BREAKING: Agency workers to join the revolution.

Sure, Andor is one of the greatest TV series ever made, but let’s not forget this bad boy.

Factory Reset Me: A Return To Childhood There’s a reason Jesus placed so high a value on children. When we were children, weren’t we as near perfect as it was possible for us to be? I wonder if it’s the children in us we need to try to s…

A reflection on the likelihood of me ticking the ‘CHILD’ box and not the ‘GROWN-UP’ box in a ‘would you prefer to be a child or a grown-up’? survey.

The River: Strength and Courage in the Everyday Sometimes I think how good it would be for someone like Joshua to turn up, raise his hands, move these problems and difficulties that way, these problems and difficulties this way, and allow us to …

A blog about overwhelm with the world.

'If there’s a river for us to cross, it’s this world, in all its fury and beauty, and brokenness and glory, and anger and joy. We can't make it across this river alone. We travel together. And when we fall in fear and dismay, we must carry each other.'

Light In The Darkness. Love In The Chaos. It feels like something chaotic I’ve written, all because I’ve applied my brain to the task of trying to explain what loving people like Jesus means in 2025 where much of the human race seems manif…

A blog about love - via Lineker, Springsteen and Claiborne.

'We don’t have the luxury of saying to ourselves that this extremism is just happening in the USA, and it doesn’t affect us here, because it does, because ignorance and hatred crosses the world in the blinking of an eye.'

Hi Blue Sky algorithm. Looking to connect with Christian folk with a heart for social justice, politics and welcoming the stranger.

Also into heavy metal, because it's the rock on which the Church is built unless I've got that bit of the Bible wrong.

I occasionally blog here: simoncarterstuff.uk.