The Making of Us
Who We Can Become When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned

The Making of Us is no pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, eight-days-to-Christian-maturity workbook! It doesn’t offer much in the way of answers. Rather, many soul-searching questions. As we follow Sheridan Voysey and his companion, DJ, on their eight-day pilgrimage in the footsteps of 6th century......more

About two years ago I came across Sheridan Voysey in connection with mutual interests we share including pilgrimage and the arts. He is an Australian who has been living in the UK for some time and is a writer and broadcaster. I have just finished reading his latest book, The Making of Us. It is the......more

This is a book about pilgrimage, and there are two inherent dangers with such writing. Too much geography and history and it becomes a travelogue; too much introspection and navel gazing and it becomes self-indulgent. Thankfully, Sheridan Voysey’s account of his walk from Lindisfarne to Durham, with......more

I wanted to read Sheridan Voysey’s book The Making of Us as the action takes place on a pilgrimage, and I have done several so enjoy reading about the experiences others have while walking. He walked from Lindisfarne/Holy Island to Durham, and it didn’t sound as though he had done much preparation,......more

Our own words for expressing our thoughts, yearnings, fears, dreams and hoped-for paths, can often be inadequate (or in my case, almost AWOL) so we search for a song, or a psalm, and let those words become ours. They can be words of worship, or words of gut-wrenching pleas. Or just words that help u......more