Since retirement with more time spent talking with men, I realise we don’t know how to stop being so hard on ourselves. Whatever we do just doesn’t seem good enough. For example, in the maintenance group Will and I can never be the carpenter Tom is, Tom and I will...

Several years ago, a photo taken by Eric Smith, went viral. He took six shots showing a female humpback and her calf, surfacing two feet away, but a man was glued to his phone in every single shot even when three other people on his boat were all excitedly looking...

Some years ago I led a team to provide basic health care and whatever practical assistance within our means to a slum in India for several weeks. Just before Christmas, we organised a ‘party’ for the community. We preached the gospel and gave away presents to the...