Welcome to SheridanVoysey.com!

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After months of planning, designing and tweaking, I’m excited to welcome you to my new blog on life, faith and contemporary spirituality. You’ll find articles to read, book chapters to download, talks and interviews to listen to, videos to watch, and more. I’m even giving books away for FREE! But more on that in a second…

A Quick Look Around

As you’ll see to the right, this blog has four main topics:

Life and Its Meaning: Each month over 300,000 people around the world type ‘meaning of life’ into Google. They can’t all be writing high school philosophy assignments. I’d like to be part of that conversation, and so here we’ll talk about love, loss, pain, purpose, work, beauty, our myriad quests to find meaning and where faith might fit into it all.

Faith and Spirituality: Even the most secular person seeks some kind of spirituality or philosophy to live by. It seems part of being human. The search for meaning often leads naturally to this search for spirituality, so here we’ll talk about God, faith, doubt, spiritual practices and other aspects of living a whole life.

Culture and Change: Culture is made when artists, architects, advertisers, politicians, mothers, fathers and each and every one of us express our values through artworks, buildings, slogans, policies, care giving and a million minute acts. Here we’ll explore these values and how art, faith and justice projects can bring positive change.

Writing, Speaking and Communicating: As communication is my craft, I often field questions from readers of my books or after speaking engagements on how to do it better. Here we’ll talk about writing, speaking, creativity and more.

A quick read of my Bio or one of my devotionals will let you know where I’m coming from on all of this, as will a listen to some of my talks and interviews.

Coming Up

In the weeks ahead I’ll be posting new content like this:

  • A new talk on how God mysteriously guides our lives
  • A 3-part series on lessons to learn when God chooses not to heal you
  • A special personal announcement
  • And more!

Let’s Connect

If we’re not already, let’s stay in touch via Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, or please subscribe to this blog by RSS or email. By contributing a regular comment on this blog you’ll do your bit to enlighten the world and ensure the conversation remains engaging. By buying one of my books as a gift you’ll help to pay the site’s bills too!

Competition

Speaking of books, I’m running a little competition to launch this site. For the next three weeks I’ll be giving away copies of Open House Volume 3 to two randomly selected people who comment. Leave a comment on any post (or two) and you’re in the running.  Winners will be announced Monday February 28, March 7, March 14, 2011, and selected through random.org.

Week 1: Congratulations Hedley Fihaki & Lauren Uidam! Open House Volume 3 is yours.
Week 2: Congratulations Matt Stedman & David Bartlett!
Week 3: Congratulations Daniel & Elise! Hope you enjoy the book.

(This competition is now closed, but more to come!)

I’d love it if you let your friends and social networks know about this new blog too. You can use the ‘Share and Enjoy’ bar below to do so. Thanks a lot.

So, let’s get started!

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Q: How’s the blog looking so far? Any suggestions or improvements to add?

Comments:

  • February 21, 2011
    Lauren

    I am so excited to read more from you Sheridan. I have a lot of respect for you as a journalist and love listening to your thought provoking interviews on Open House. What I appreciate most is that you don’t play it safe with topics. You have a clever way of finding guests and topics that often go through things like real people do – but that many Christians won’t talk about. Keep up your awesome work and am looking forward to adding this blog to my personal ‘input’ and sharing it with people in my world.
    God Bless you 🙂

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    • February 21, 2011

      And thank *you* Lauren for officially being the first to comment on this blog. Thanks for the kind words. Looking forward to your input.

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  • February 21, 2011

    Huge thanks to Kenneth Webb of http://www.kjwdesign.com.au for the many hours he’s put into making this site work. Give him some business!

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  • February 21, 2011
    Mike

    Looks fantastic Sheridan! Easy to read and navigate. Lots here & I’ll be returning regularly. This may be our new meeting point ; )
    Mike

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  • February 21, 2011
    Josephine Mollica

    Sheridan,

    I, like so many others, love the thought provoking and original style you have with interviewing so many interesting people.

    Thank you for helping us question life, faith and spirituality!

    Beautiful, uncluttered website too!

    Jo

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  • February 21, 2011

    hey sheridan. the blog looks great. looking forward to reading and joining in the conversation. peaceout.

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    • February 22, 2011

      Glad you’re part of it Dave. I’ve been interested to see some of your own posts over the months.

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  • February 21, 2011
    Fihaki

    Great site.

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  • February 21, 2011
    Claire P

    This is unusual, I had this feeling to search you out on the Light FM website – as I am an occasional listener of your show (Sunday nights I’m busy with a toddler and preparing for the week ahead). Anyways I was looking forward to catching the Peter Hitchens interview and missed it! But – what a great surprise to find this fantastic website. I am sure it will be a great resource for stimulating discussion and thinking for many of us. Thanks for your work Sheridan!

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  • February 22, 2011
    Anonymous

    Just testing if comments are showing up correctly on the front page.

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  • February 22, 2011
    Daniel

    Great new website. I am looking forward to reading more from you.

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  • February 22, 2011

    Well done on the new site. It looks great and I look forward to staying up to date with what you’re writing here.

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    • February 22, 2011

      Thanks Rod. You’re a few years ahead of me so I may be coming to you for tips!

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  • February 22, 2011
    LucyJ

    Just finished reading Open House Volume 1! Sounds a bit behind the times, but my husband found it in the bargain bin @ Koorong… glad he did, because I have always liked that radio show, so it’s good to have some of the interview gems in hard copy. Even more glad now because I found this website address at the end of the book! I’m a dancer, Sheridan, yep, a Christian who has danced in church, out of church and sometimes around the church, but I love reading, writing, and blogging about topics that I’m passionate about. I love your gracious, insightful manner and gentle humour that come across so clearly on the radio waves. I must say, though, when I saw your photo, you look so different to the image that your voice evoked in my mind, I look forward to participating with many others who are sure to appreciate this multi-faceted website.

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    • February 22, 2011

      Thanks for reading Open House Volume 1 Lucy! (I’m amazed you got a discounted one as it’s still selling well and going into yet another print run.) I get lots of comments about the voice/face disconnect. I’ll never forget a girl coming up to me after speaking somewhere and she told me she’d thought I was 60. I was only 32 at the time!

      Keep dancin. Looking forward to hearing more.

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  • February 22, 2011
    Elise litwiniuk

    Keep up the great work you have a way of making people relax when being interviewed. Love listening to you

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  • February 22, 2011
    Rick

    Hey Sheridan! Blog & site look great. Clearly a lot of work has gone into it. I’ll add it to my list of great resources to read regularly that I never seem to get enough time to look at even occassionally! 🙂

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    • February 23, 2011

      Thanks Rick. Hopefully this one will be worth jumping to the top of the pile :).

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  • February 23, 2011
    Helen Shield

    Looks really good on my phone, love the mobile version. I’m intrigued by this ‘personal announcement’ on the way, too…

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    • February 23, 2011

      You seem to be the first person that’s picked up on that detail, Helen. 🙂 Glad you like the site, and that it works well on those fandangled techy phones.

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  • February 27, 2011

    Mate, great web site, hope that it prompts much thought provoking and challenging discussions.

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  • March 5, 2011
    Diane

    So excited about your blog! I love listening to you on LightFM and learnt about this blog from a friend on facebook. I love that you have the variety of styles of communicating e.g. video, print & audio. You are definitely bookmarked!!

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    • March 6, 2011

      Thanks Diane. Hope we can keep in contact via Facebook, Twitter or email too. Thanks for listening to Open House too!

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  • March 5, 2011
    Denise

    Hi Sheridan,
    I would just like to let you what a great website this is, I have been reading your blogs and have been intrigued by diversity of people you have spoken to and topics covered by yourself,
    Keep up the great work!!

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  • March 7, 2011

    Congratulations to Matt Stedman and David Bartlett who have just won a copy of Open House Volume 3, as did Hedley Fihaki and Lauren Uidam last week. One more week to go on the comp!

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  • March 15, 2011
    Heather

    Hi Sheridan – thought I’d check out your blog after hearing you mention it when you made your big announcement on 103.2! I feel I need to tell you that your name has been bandied around a lot in our car and house as we often hear either you or your name mentioned as we drive around. So much so, that our youngest, (7) thought that you were 2 people!!! Yes, ‘Sherid’ AND ‘Voysey’ and was a tad disappointed when he found it it was just one! He is sorry you are on the move (as we all are) but loves being called ‘Sheridan’ for a nickname! Great we can ‘keep in touch’ via this site. Great work and God bless.

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    • March 15, 2011

      What a precisious story Heather! Thanks for passing that on. Oh man… the little tiger will soon get rid of that nick name if my childhood experience is anything to go by :). But I’m feeling chuffed in the meantime. Hope I get to meet him one day. Thanks for the kind words.

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  • March 15, 2011
    Jonathan

    I wish you the best in the UK Sheridan!!

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  • March 15, 2011
    AliA

    Thank you for everything you have done and congratulations to your wife. I have bookmarked the last podcast you placed on twitter as I really need to feel closer to God right now. Ali

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    • March 16, 2011

      Hope you get something out of the message, Ali. And feel that embrace again…

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  • March 15, 2011
    Jsu 22663

    may you always be a great encourager with so many , sharing life’s great journey of evey step of every man that has a story to tell, like the movie- Australia, the line where hugh jackman tells nicole – at the end of your life, what you are left with is your story so make it a good one…may each man’s journey be an encourager of wit wisdom and love.
    thank you for opening the house of many moments..of life
    chrissy sully

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    • March 16, 2011

      Thanks Chrissy. haven’t seen the movie but that final line from Australia is good.

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  • March 16, 2011
    Pdwalibi

    Count me in!

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  • March 16, 2011

    Random.org has spoken! Congratulations to Daniel and Elise – the final two winners of Open House Volume 3. Hope you both enjoy the book. Don’t worry, more competitions are coming in the future!

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