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A few photos from a short time away before a season of change. Again.

Today I say farewell to my Co-director and Co founder of Empathy Action. We had the initial idea for this charity around 7.5 years ago and t...

I was recently shown this picture called "By Parties Unknown" by Hale Woodruff. It depicts a lynched black man left on the doorste...

[UPDATE: Postscript and link to follow up chruch service at the end of this post] I was interviewed by my church last week about the i...

A few weeks ago my father in law passed away. He was less than a month before his 87th birthday. Today we cremated him. He loved the garden....

Thinking of legacy right now. And what really counts. I once heard it like this: “ The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself th...

Thinking of legacy right now. And what really counts. I once heard it like this: “ The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself th...

Said "Thank You" to my papa today... :') xxx (video by his nephew Jerry Das)

Husband. Papa. Grandfather. Brother. Uncle. Follower of Jesus . Gaius Hamilton Solanky (77) passed away peacefully on 28th August, 2019. A c...

“Wait... Is Dada going to be dead forever?” Penetrating words of a four and half year old. My father passed away last Wednesday. This week h...

Boasting the “worst” views in all of Bethlehem Banksy’s ‘ The Walled Off Hotel ’ sits adjacent to the separation wall of Bethlehem that l...

It’s been 71 years.  There’s not much sign of improvement here.  Perhaps a new tactic is to give up and give in.  The Palestinians we...

Our guide, a Barcelona fan (I know this as we shared about retelling the story of the Liverpool Barcelona game), tells me that he can’t j...

Nothing struck me more than learning about the term “settlers” and “aggressive settlers”.  This was referred to a group of Israelis who h...

Then in the evening we travelled to Aida refugee camp where we waited patiently till the sun going down and helped prepare food with familie...

It’s Ramadan and today I spent the morning in a house that was recently rebuilt.  The previous one was demolished.  The people who lived...

I came to see and experience this land that I have only learnt about from books, friends, family, Aid workers and newspapers.  I thought...

41 minutes to Tel Aviv. It seems a usual occurrence to not contemplate what I’m about to undertake until the journey there. Before th...

Heathrow airport. It’s getting late. Long story but due to being car-less and a host of other things I’ve decided to come to Heathrow t...

We had no car but we were gifted a house to take our family near Skipton. Should we go or shouldn't we. Angie was desperate to go (s...