Navigating faith, family & freedom, across the Atlantic.
Navigating faith, family & freedom, across the Atlantic.
Apologies for not posting last Sunday. I had drafted an article in my usual vein, and was nearly ready to publish, when the news of digital passports for the energy industry popped into my inbox and destroyed my mood. Before…
Failure as a human being and as a leader. The curse of self-awareness. When I was young, I had a strange experience. One that would probably have had me on medication or sectioned in a therapeutic home if I’d lived…
A short piece on the portability of principles, instinct and having enough certainty to become your own ‘authority’. Has being ‘unvaccinated’ (i.e. normal until five minutes ago), damaged my career or made my life more difficult? Should I have kept…
Zero Nets, after Net Zero. In many ways, I am dismissive of people classed as ‘conspiracy theorists’ on the internet these days, not because they make preposterous claims. In fact, they’ve been right on nearly everything in the past two…
What does it mean to believe in fate? Why bother with the ‘Christian Label’? We Merchant Sailors live a hungry freelance existence. Your dream job comes up three or four times a year, but you are already engaged elsewhere and…
(This was written last week but delayed publishing. I’ve had a busy week, with my second command at sea, my 3-year-old son breaking his wrist again, and my daughter eating a slug! 🙂 Such is life.) Forget not, Passover, the…
What good is knowledge if we don’t apply it? For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity. Proverbs 24:16 ESV The sting of failure cuts like a whetted knife. The butterflies…
Alright, so I have had as many problems with the God-squad as the rest of us in the West. Paedo priests, woke churches, kumbaya nonsense, appeasers of corrupt governments, logical contradictions, unprovable claims, etc. Yet(!), after two years of pseudo-one-world-governance…
What is real? For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and…
‘The individual is so handicapped, by coming face-to-face, with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists.’ – J. Edgar Hoover, 1956. The question we always get asked, as people who think there is more going on, is: ‘Why…
It was 0630 in the morning, still morning twilight. The glow of the promised sunrise still lesser than the monochromatic red lamps on the ship’s bridge, providing dim silhouettes to work by. The four piercing digital beeping noises, hurriedly pressed…
Mandated medical procedures, psychopaths and consent *(for vaccine, read ‘immorally coerced medical experimentation’) When I first went to sea I was in the Royal Navy Unit at University. Mostly it was an excuse for me to be drunk 2 days…