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Hey ASD (Spoken Word Poem)
There’s something theatrically sardonic about blasting Vivaldi’s Winter out your car speakers when it’s a blistering 35C outside and you’re sitting in a Pak’n’Save carpark…
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Fearing the Hair
Having body hair – anywhere except on the scalp – is seen by most women as a drag, a pet peeve, or even disgusting. It’s…
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Philosophising with Kids, Paradoxes and Inventing Religions
I never thought I’d get paid to pass on existential dread to teenagers. I’m kidding of course: they bring their own, and they bring it…
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Confession (Spoken Word Poem)
It’s Christchurch Pride, and what better way to celebrate than to throwback to a spoken word I wrote about religious trauma, crushing on a straight…
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Bribing Teenagers and Dragonfly Brain
The year has only just started and I’m already finding it difficult to turn my work brain off. Whenever I have a significant shift in…
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Androgyny and Autism
If you know me, the fact that I recently buzzed my hair short is old news. It’s something I had wanted to do for at…
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Inflatable Crocodiles, Dora-the-Exploring and an Angry Gust
“I looked in the rear view mirror and all I saw was ‘gators” is a sentence I never imagined my girlfriend (or anyone, for that…
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Visiting My Old Church Again
I honestly never expected to be posting about this, but here we are. Being Post-Christian This year marks eight years since I left the church…
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Windwhistle Adventures
The other weekend, some pals and I made our way to a little walking loop track by the name of Washpen Falls. It is a…
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Jesus and Me: Ex-Christianity in Focus
On Kids Camps, Worship Bands and Life with Jesus (Part One)
Kids Camps Attending kids camps as a youngster was easily the most significant factor in my conversion to Christianity. I went to my first one in January 2007, about a month after I turned nine.…
Hillsong Music, Twelvie Me and Decolonising God (Part Two)
So I’m now saving my discussion of teenhood with Jesus and leading kids to Christ for part three, just because it makes more linear sense – and there is a colossal amount to unpack. Philosophising…
Leading Kids to Christ, Youth Groups, and Teenhood with Jesus (Part Three)
Turn and Face the Strange As a young teenager, I was very timid, very awkward, and very in love with words, sounds and songs. I was fascinated by the lyricism, poetry and prose of the…
Thinking About Weird Things, Philosophy for Kids and A Symphonic Soundscape (Part Four)
Idk about you, but in my classroom, I’ll be out here doing my best to create thinkers and celebrate their diversity, for it is the spice of life (#stolen – oops). I know a spectrum…
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