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From 823 A.D. to 2025 A.D.

Have you ever seen a frustrated tulip? Or a worried bird?

The timing of this post’s subject matter may seem off at first glance. As I write this, the battle for Ukraine and especially Kiev continues. The incredible courage of the Ukrainian leaders and people in the face of a massive onslaught is inspiring much of the world. It is unknown at this point where this… Read More Have you ever seen a frustrated tulip? Or a worried bird?

February 26, 2022 Steve CochraneLeave a comment

How to Survive ‘Friendly Fire’

I have wondered when or even whether to write this blog post. Certainly it was going to be difficult to do with the physical fatigue I experienced in the aftermath of getting Covid-19 in late September. That fatigue only lifted in the past few weeks, but still I weighed writing this post. These past months… Read More How to Survive ‘Friendly Fire’

February 4, 2021 Steve Cochrane4 Comments

Have your longings for change turned into cynicism?

I have been thinking again recently about the dangers of cynicism. It can so easily grow in our lives, to the point where it overwhelms our hopes and turns our longings into dust. So many world and national events can contribute to a sense of powerlessness: slow recovery from the pandemic, or fears it will… Read More Have your longings for change turned into cynicism?

May 5, 2022 Steve Cochrane1 Comment

The Glory of Limitations

There is a glory in limitations, in weakness. After struggling for many months with ‘long covid’, I thought earlier this year that it was completely over. The major symptom for me had been a deep fatigue, and now it seemed my energy was back, my doctor confirming I was ‘well’. But unfortunately that may have… Read More The Glory of Limitations

March 29, 2022 Steve Cochrane4 Comments

Have you ever experienced a ‘conflict of interest’?

In my early 40’s I held eight different roles/positions in my organization, at the same time. Some were focused in the region of South Asia where I lived, and some were international in scope. I took them on in good faith, with a desire to serve and aware that some clearly overlapped. But I also… Read More Have you ever experienced a ‘conflict of interest’?

January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 Steve CochraneLeave a comment

A ‘steward of our own brokenness’ or ‘playing the victim’?

There are a lot of circumstances and people that can cause us to be a ‘victim’, some real and some imagined within our own minds. This post is not to make light of the kinds of traumas that can happen to us, but to suggest the importance of living in a way of increased freedom… Read More A ‘steward of our own brokenness’ or ‘playing the victim’?

January 19, 2022 Steve CochraneLeave a comment

There is hope for a tree (and you) in 2022

What a year. We started 2021 with covid uncertainty globally, and 2022 starts much the same. But there is good news also with vaccinations increasing and economic recovery happening in many nations. Personally this was a very difficult year with the death of several friends due to the virus both in India and the USA,… Read More There is hope for a tree (and you) in 2022

December 31, 2021 Steve Cochrane2 Comments

The Corrective of a Long View of History

Two weeks from tomorrow is the first day of 2022. As I write this post, uncertainties and anxieties about the existing and new variants of covid-19 continue to cloud the new year outlook. Recently I’ve been reading an excellent book on the first three hundred years of the Christian Church, The Patient Ferment of the… Read More The Corrective of a Long View of History

December 17, 2021 Steve Cochrane2 Comments

Have we learned to grieve our losses and disappointments?

The image with this blog post may be pretty disturbing, unless you love zombie and living undead movies. A hand reaching out from a grave. Perhaps I meant to publish this two weeks ago on Halloween and missed my timing? But as stark as it is, it resonates with a mental impression I had a… Read More Have we learned to grieve our losses and disappointments?

November 12, 2021 Steve Cochrane2 Comments

Be careful of ‘God-talk’ without any meaning

Ever get tired of an abundance of words? Of a lack of listening in a group or context you were in? Sometimes it may not only be a diarrhea of words, but also a lack of any meaning behind them. This can be troublesome for words on any subject, but perhaps especially so in religious… Read More Be careful of ‘God-talk’ without any meaning

November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 Steve Cochrane2 Comments

New life on the fringes/margins of Empire

It has often been on the margins in history, outside established power centers, that fresh social and religious movements have begun. This may be true again today globally as a world stricken by plague faces the shifting winds of sudden change. It was true in the fifth and sixth century onwards, as on the Western… Read More New life on the fringes/margins of Empire

September 23, 2021 Steve Cochrane6 Comments

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