Yesterday, I was in conversation with someone stateside about influences—what has shaped my writing and where it’s come from. I think that’s what’s prompted this: a longer pause, a looking back, trying to name some of the threads. Something has shifted, though not all at once. It feels less like a moment and more like a tide turning—something you only really notice when you stop and look back. For many years, my ministry held two spaces together. I was part of a mainstream ch