Joey Redhead
Light Bulbs and Bright Ideas
Recently, I have had to buy light bulbs. I haven’t had to buy lightbulbs for quite some time. In fact, it was about the time that...
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Joey's Jottings
Joey Redhead
- Aug 1
- 2 min
All in a Name
Recently, I have had to choose what colours I would like the walls at the manse painted. I’m not great with choice, but when it comes to...
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Joey Redhead
- Jul 1
- 3 min
Spacious Places
I recently went away on my college’s end of year retreat. One of the passages that we were reflecting on was Psalm 18:19 - He brought me...
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Joey Redhead
- Jun 1
- 2 min
A Unique Drop in an Ocean
Lisa and I recently attended the Baptist Union of Great Britain Assembly in Telford when members of Baptist Churches throughout the UK...
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Joey Redhead
- May 1
- 3 min
Speechless
As you may know, I have recently started to experience symptoms of an old neurological condition I had many years ago called Functional...
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Joey Redhead
- Apr 1
- 3 min
Growing
I recently visited my Godson for the first time after the longest period of time without having seen him since he was born. He had just...
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Joey Redhead
- Mar 1
- 3 min
Shelter
I’m walking on my way to church. It’s a grey day. It’s sort of raining. Well no, it is raining, it’s just that it’s the sort of rain...
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Joey Redhead
- Feb 1
- 2 min
Know Your Limits
I am not one to step down from a challenge. When the going gets tough, the tough get going, or so the saying goes. I have always been one...
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Joey Redhead
- Jan 1
- 3 min
Just a Moment
Well it’s a new year and a new look! No, I didn’t get a new haircut (for those of you who only know me through reading these articles, I...
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Joey Redhead
- Dec 1, 2023
- 4 min
Only Hope
Love came down at Christmas. So the poem by Christina Rossetti goes. And so I believe it did. But that’s not all that came down at...
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Joey Redhead
- Nov 1, 2023
- 2 min
The Road Well Travelled
There is a path that I often walk. I have walked it many times. When I walk it, I don’t need to look where I am going, I know the path...
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Joey Redhead
- Oct 1, 2023
- 2 min
Great Expectations
Some films find their success in being exactly what the audience expect, whilst others intentionally play with their expectations. When...
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Joey Redhead
- Aug 1, 2023
- 2 min
More Forward
In the seventies there was a band who wrote a famous song entitled “25 or 6 to 4”. As a youngster I discovered this song as I was going...
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Joey Redhead
- Jul 1, 2023
- 3 min
Second Take
I recently went away with my college to Rydal, a beautiful part of the lake district. While we were there, we were encouraged by the...
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Joey Redhead
- Jun 1, 2023
- 3 min
Holding Up a Mirror
As many of you will know, this month sees the deadline for the last (and majority) of my second-year essays. As a consequence, lately my...
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Joey Redhead
- May 1, 2023
- 3 min
Divine Discomfort
There are things in this life that I like, and things that I don’t. Things that I like include my bed. Things that I don’t like include...
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Joey Redhead
- Apr 1, 2023
- 3 min
Don't Rush
Easter will soon be upon us. The day that we have been waiting for. Lent will finish, our waiting will end and Easter will come. The day...
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Joey Redhead
- Mar 1, 2023
- 2 min
The Waiting Game
As we head towards lent, as Church, we enter a time of waiting where we reflect upon Jesus’ life and prepare for his death (and...
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Joey Redhead
- Feb 1, 2023
- 3 min
The World of Thought
As you may well know, I love learning more about the languages that the bible was originally written in. I feel that it really helps me...
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Joey Redhead
- Jan 1, 2023
- 2 min
Travelling Backwards in Time
Happy new year! It’s strange writing this knowing that as you read it, you are beginning 2023 whilst I am still finishing 2022. For you,...
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Joey Redhead
- Dec 1, 2022
- 3 min
Kintsugi
When my mind is full of the business of life, I like nothing more than going for a walk to clear my head. There’s something about the...
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Joey Redhead
- Nov 1, 2022
- 3 min
Peace and War
Tanks roar and bullets fly explosions light up the midnight sky and as I look through the dense night air the intermittent flashes reveal...
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Joey Redhead
- Oct 1, 2022
- 3 min
Knowing Who I am
Thursday the 8th of September 2022 was a strange day. As news of the Queens death spread across the country a strange almost palpable...
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Joey Redhead
- Aug 1, 2022
- 2 min
Save me a space...
I’m on the verge of being late to a meeting at church. This isn’t that unusual because I have an unhealthy compulsion to try to fit...
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Joey Redhead
- Jul 1, 2022
- 3 min
Second on the Left and Straight on until Morning
Last week I drove past somewhere where I had gone for a walk with a friend a long time ago. It was only a short walk, but at its end was...
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Joey Redhead
- Jun 1, 2022
- 4 min
Politically Correct
I don’t like politics. I find it wearisome and boring. Or least that’s what I tell myself, but the deeper truth is that I don’t like...
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Joey Redhead
- May 1, 2022
- 3 min
Second Sight
When I was an infant I attended a Church of England Primary school, where we had assemblies every day. In each assembly there would be a...
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Joey Redhead
- Apr 1, 2022
- 2 min
Hidden in Plain Sight
I am not famed for my observation, if anything, quite the opposite; my lack of observation is infamous. I once fell down a mechanics pit...
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Joey Redhead
- Mar 1, 2022
- 3 min
What if?..
I don’t know about you, but I often find myself asking the question; what if…? The world is full of possibilities and sometimes I like to...
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Joey Redhead
- Feb 1, 2022
- 3 min
Have your cake and Eat it
I like cake. I mean who doesn’t right? I even quite enjoy baking cakes, although I rarely find the time. But as well as enjoying them I...
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Joey Redhead
- Jan 1, 2022
- 3 min
A Full Slate
It’s a new year! A new start. A blank piece of paper. A chance to start over again. Or at least that’s perhaps what the new year’s hype...
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Joey Redhead
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
Believe the Hype
It is now December. Christmas trees are appearing in town centres and Christmas adverts have already been on the TV for weeks. I now have...
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Joey Redhead
- Nov 1, 2021
- 3 min
You Are What you Wear
It probably won’t surprise you to hear that I’m not someone who takes a long time worrying about my appearance or what others think about...
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Joey Redhead
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
The March of Time
This week marks one complete month of living in my new home of Alvechurch and working as the Minister in Training here. Everyone from...
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