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I am Verity's Man

I am Verity's Man

A few years ago on Easter, I found myself volunteering for a music festival. I slept in a tent & spent four sleepless nights, wrapped from head to toe in almost every piece of clothing I\'d brought..

  • Understanding Trump

    I recently returned from living in Brisbane Australia for 2 years. And where did I come back too? My home is located in Northern Virginia right outside of Washington DC, which happens to be the political hub of the United States of America.

  • Being wise with your gifts and volunteering

    Volunteer work and charity is an ingrained part of Christianity. The early church, as described in the Book of Acts, was a collection of individuals who provided for each other as needed.

  • Seed 'as' a mustard tree!

    A few months back I was flying to a job in Sydney. I always take my journal, art pencils and pens to sketch while I\'m flying, and I started to sketch a large tree, with a figure sitting on a park bench under the shade of the tree. I was not aware of what the sketch meant at the time.

  • Is family living outdated?

    After spending a few weeks in Peru with my husband\'s family in February, I was struck by the differences in family structure between Peru and Australia.

  • Becoming brave

    Last year I bought a journal with the words \'Be brave, be bold\' written on the cover. It was a deliberate choice, at a time when I was determined to wage war on the fear I knew was governing certain areas of my life. On the first page I penned, \'Don\'t let fear write your story\'.

  • Information generation

    Today\'s world is overloaded with information—school, television, iPhones, Internet, newspapers, books ... Information itself is not a bad thing, but an excess can make it harder to weed out the truth from the lies.

  • Movement

    Christianity was never designed to be a stagnant religion. Somehow a dying old man handing out stale bread whilst muttering a dead language doesn\'t seem to resemble the one who called Himself the bread of life.

  • What will you do when economic collapse hits?

    Signs show economic collapse is imminent. As in, it is mere months away.

  • Leicester 5 points clear, 7 matches to create history

    Unstoppable Leicester City recorded yet another victory on the weekend, dispatching Crystal Palace \'away\' in London. Leicester\'s incredible season continued with a consecutive 1-0 win even if doing it the hard way.

  • More creative games

    In the past few years we\'ve seen a rapid increase in the role of player-directed creativity in video games. The most well-known of these is likely Minecraft from Mojang software.

  • A lesson in love

    I think God wants us to get a little bit more uncomfortable in our interactions with others. Not to reserve our best behavior for those we feel deserve it but to love unreservedly.