by Ann Ajet | Jun 30, 2020 | Church Life
15 weeks ago, Ahmaud Arbery went out for a jog and never came home. Two white males saw Arbery running in their neighbourhood in Brunswick, Georgia and decided he was “dangerous” and took it upon their own volition to chase him and shoot him to death. Sadly, this...
by Ann Ajet | Jun 1, 2020 | Christian Living
It’s been 9 weeks since we’ve been in lockdown in London and there are now talks of a lockdown being eased. My prevailing feelings of boredom, memories of the unfettered ways I could be enjoying my day is bubbling to a strong, heightened sense of longing. I most look...
by Ann Ajet | Oct 18, 2019 | Arts and Culture
You can read a shorter version of this article here. Last Christmas, Amazon’s smart assistant, Alexa, crashed because the system was overloaded. But Alexa wasn’t just dealing with requests. “Alexa, I feel depressed” is amongst many confessions, users are expressing to...
by Ann Ajet | May 8, 2019 | Arts and Culture
Stressed at the thought of my anxiety-inducing to-do-list. I decide to test the popular Meditation and Mindfulness App – Calm. My curiosity piqued by the fact that this app has been downloaded 12 million times to help people de-stress. I click on the chasing...
by Ann Ajet | Nov 28, 2018 | Arts and Culture, Christian Living
The camera rolls and images of the iconic Gherkin and Canary Wharf tower flash past our screen. The camera pans to aerial views of this great industrious city of London. The smell of money lingers in the air as Sir Alan Sugar rolls up in his Bentley, ready to greet...
by Ann Ajet | Sep 15, 2018 | Arts and Culture
Most people are unaware of the idea of God in the making of themselves. When we don’t know who we are – we spend our life’s work constructing our own brand and identity. The source of our recognition turns from the one that created us for Himself into searching...
by Ann Ajet | Jul 27, 2018 | Arts and Culture, God and Bible
When I was younger, I could handle the way the world fit into my neat little boxes. There were the good people in the red corner and the bad people in the blue. He-man was a goodie and he had to escape the grasps of badman Skeletor and Michael Jackson was my pop idol....
by Ann Ajet | Jun 8, 2018 | Arts and Culture
Truth be told if a post on food appeared on a Christian blog several years ago. I probably would have skipped past it and unfairly labelled it as a pretentious article written by yuppie Christians. But the Bible takes the act of eating food seriously so we probably...
by Ann Ajet | May 16, 2018 | Christian Living
I became a mum two years ago and since then my daily schedule has been overhauled. My daughter is a joy to the family, we laugh at her cheeky ways, her developing character and idiosyncrasies. Her schedule however has become my schedule and any gaps leftover I give to...
by Ann Ajet | Mar 14, 2018 | Christian Living
I’ve been carrying an unnamed gremlin around for most of my adult life, it was 3 years ago that I finally gave it a name. It was called “Shame” and by calling it out, I’ve seen its wreckage and how it has reduced the good news of Jesus and its impact...
by Ann Ajet | Feb 5, 2018 | Christian Living
When God calls us to love him with all our hearts, soul, strength and mind. He didn’t plan for us to switch off our brains and blindly follow him. God created that unique facility so that it would inform our hearts of God’s wonders, divine promises and truths so that...
