Some stories don’t end when you survive them.
I grew up in Easterhouse, spent years in addiction and eventually found recovery, faith and a different way of living. This is where I write about what happened afterwards.
Faith, recovery, memoir, theology, creative writing, Easterhouse and public life are not separate worlds here. They overlap because life does.
FAITH & RECOVERY
What change looks like when life refuses to fit the neat testimony.
PLACE & PUBLIC LIFE
Easterhouse, community, policy and the systems around people’s lives.
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The Long Arc of Redemption
Twenty-nine years ago I walked through the doors of The Haven with little idea what came next. Today I’ve returned as Head of Outreach. Somewhere between those two moments lies a long story of people, choices, faith, formation and grace.
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Latest Writing
Recent pieces from across the site: recovery, story, theology and the odd moment where life becomes stranger than fiction.
Real Recovery
The Gift of Desperation
Desperation is not recovery. It is vulnerability to direction. What happens when crisis becomes a crossroads?
The Braehead Ring
A quiet coffee, one suspicious object and the day I nearly saved the world.
The Genome of Grace
Faith, brokenness and the question of what a perfect pattern might look like in a person.
