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Honest writing exploring purpose, growth, and what it means to live well.
Reflections on identity, masculinity, and modern life
This is where David’s core work lives. A collection of reflections, ideas, and insights shaped by personal experience, faith, and culture. Each piece is written to challenge, encourage, and bring clarity.
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Time, Space and The Trinity
I realised something about myself while in prison that took me by complete surprise. I really like to know what the time is. For a few days on the wing of the jail that became my home for many months, every cell lost access to its television. To be honest this didn’t bother me much … Continue reading Time, Space and The Trinity →
Sophie Green
Dec 25, 20246 min read
Up The Villa
“And we’re Aston Villa, Aston Villa FC! We’re by far the greatest team, the world has ever seen!” The Holte End Singing this song as a thirteen-year old lad, watching my beloved Villa get beaten by an Alan Shearer-inspired Blackburn Rovers, struck me as just ridiculous. I mean, even half-a-decade into my lifelong devotion to … Continue reading Up The Villa →
David Brand
Apr 20, 20247 min read
An East Anglian Sky
I’ve been privileged to visit a wide variety of different places on earth. Each of those places – without exception – has a very special place in my heart. Everywhere has beauty and goodness in it, even if some are more difficult to see. There are a few places I truly adore, though – places … Continue reading An East Anglian Sky →
David Brand
Feb 16, 20244 min read
Football is Life, part III: what Leo Messi can teach us about Jesus (expect the unexpected)
This is a picture of Leo Messi – the greatest footballer to ever live – at the start of his career with FC Barcelona. Lionel Messi is on another footballing planet to every other person who’s ever lived. Thierry Henry no-less, said this: “Sometimes I ask myself if Messi is human”. This video gives a … Continue reading Football is Life, part III: what Leo Messi can teach us about Jesus (expect the unexpected) →
Sophie Green
Oct 29, 20214 min read
Cricket is Life
What makes cricket so good? It’s a game played by young and old, rich and poor, across ethnic, national, religious and cultural boundaries, levels of education and personality types. It rewards persistence, resilience and delayed gratification. You have to invest in engaging with the sport to get anything out of it (as player or spectator). … Continue reading Cricket is Life →
David Brand
Sep 29, 20201 min read
You’ll never walk alone
16th May 2001. Day of UEFA Cup Final (Dortmund, Germany) Liverpool 5 – Alaves 4 The pivot point – the day I became a Christian. That afternoon, I’d reached my lowest ever point. I lay on my bed in my student house – 47 Annand Road, in Gilesgate, Durham City – in tears; I couldn’t … Continue reading You’ll never walk alone →
Sophie Green
Aug 16, 20202 min read
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