Journey
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It’s not just Emotional health guys, it’s our bodies too.
I hate Doctors surgeries, hospitals, and pretty much anything medical. It’s for a number of reasons. One being that I was told off for being ‘silly’ for the times I ended up hospital and wasting ‘certain’ peoples time, it wasn’t… Continue reading
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Change through a lens.
The Power of the Photo Continue reading
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The Truth will make you Free (but….
it may piss you off first) On a walk back from town this week, in the bookshelf of Darlington’s new LGBT Bookstore I saw this book. I seriously laughed out loud. The Evangelical Christian I used to be would have… Continue reading
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It all started with a Goldfinch…
It started with a goldfinch, making its pearl like chirping from the tree, just outside St Cuthbert’s Church, Darlington. Ordinary Goldfinch. Making me take notice at it. And ended with a Bumble bee scrambling for the pollen in the blossom… Continue reading
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I needed in me, what God used to be.
Those of you who have followed my writing for a while have either read or endured a few pieces from me about my faith, notably my evangelical upbringing and also more recently my stepping back from going to church. Trying… Continue reading
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To the Shadows, Stranger and Friend
Do I dare take myself into my own shadows? It won’t be a walk on the brightside Far from the lights into the wild spaces The lost areas Do I Dare? What am I afraid of? What might find me… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 