Email: percypatrick2331@yahoo.com
A space for thoughtful reflection and practical learning, shaped by lived experience, where Christian faith, understanding, and action grow together in everyday life.
Faith, Reflection, and Learning for Everyday Life
Christian lay writer and practitioner exploring faith, doubt, and meaning through lived experience.
Faith is rarely lived in certainty alone.
It unfolds through ordinary moments — questions, relationships, struggle, compassion, and hope.
This website brings together my writing and learning work, shaped by decades of experience across communities in Africa, Asia, and the United Kingdom, and rooted in a Christian faith that takes everyday life seriously.
Here you will find:
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reflections on lived faith
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information about my books, including Faith in Fragments
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details of future online learning designed for thoughtful adults
About Percy Patrick
Welcome,
thank you for visiting.
I’m Percy Patrick — a Christian lay writer and international development practitioner exploring how faith speaks into the everyday realities of life: struggle and hope, doubt and compassion, community and responsibility.
My writing grows out of more than four decades of lived experience, working alongside marginalised communities, faith and community leaders, government officials, women, and children across Africa and Asia. It is also shaped by my family’s Christian heritage in Gujarat, rooted in the Irish Presbyterian mission tradition, and by my ongoing engagement with diverse Christian traditions and social contexts.
Through these experiences, I have come to a simple but enduring conviction:
God’s presence is often found not in the extraordinary, but in the ordinary moments of life — if we learn how to look.
I write for thoughtful readers — believers, seekers, and those somewhere in between — who want to explore faith honestly, without preaching or easy answers.
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What Percy Offers
Here on this website,
you will find:
My Books – Positive Spirituality
Reflections & Articles
Online Training – Community Learning
Percy's Book
Books | Positive Spirituality
Positive Spirituality is my way of writing about faith as it is lived — not idealised, simplified, or preached.
My books grow out of long and varied experience across cultures, communities, and social realities, where faith is shaped through doubt, responsibility, compassion, and everyday struggle as much as through belief. They are written for thoughtful readers who want space to reflect, question, and make sense of faith in relation to real life.
Rather than offering answers or techniques, these writings invite slow reading and honest engagement — as companions for personal reflection, conversation, and learning.
The themes explored in my books also inform my approach to training and learning: reflection grounded in lived experience, leading to understanding that can be carried into daily life and wider society.
Current & forthcoming titles
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Faith in Fragments
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The Quest for the Kingdom
Learning & Training | Community Learning
My approach to learning grows from the same place as my writing: lived experience, careful reflection, and a concern for how understanding shapes action.
After many years working with communities, organisations, and adult learners, I have seen that learning is most meaningful when it is paced, grounded, and connected to real life. Information alone rarely leads to change; reflection combined with practical application often does.
The online learning offered here will follow this philosophy. Courses will be self-paced, structured, and designed for adults who want learning that respects their experience and supports real implementation — not overload or short-lived inspiration.
These trainings are not separate from my books. They are a continuation of the same journey: helping individuals and communities think deeply, learn carefully, and act thoughtfully in their own contexts.
📌Training programmes will be introduced in due course.
REFLECTIONS
This section shares short reflections on faith, life, and meaning — drawn from everyday experience, social realities, history, and quiet moments of questioning.
These are not academic articles or sermons, but accessible reflections meant to accompany readers in their own thinking and spiritual journey.
Percy Patrick writes about faith, doubt, and everyday life through lived experience across cultures and communities
Occasional reflections and updates — no promotions, no pressure.
Reflection:
Beginning with Attention
When people ask why I write books or create learning spaces, I often find the simplest answer is the most honest one:
because life asks important questions, and we don’t always have the time or space to sit with them.
Much of what shapes us happens quietly — in ordinary routines, difficult conversations, moments of uncertainty, and small acts of care. Faith, too, is often formed in these everyday spaces, not through certainty or slogans, but through attention, reflection, and lived experience.
My writing and learning work grow out of this conviction. I am interested in how faith is actually lived — questioned, stretched, deepened, and sometimes held together in fragments. I am equally interested in how understanding, when approached carefully, can lead to thoughtful action in our communities and wider society.
This website brings these two strands together. The books offered here are invitations to reflect slowly and honestly. The learning that will follow is designed to support adults who want to think clearly, learn practically, and apply insight in ways that endure.
Whether you come here as a reader, a learner, or simply someone curious, you are welcome. This is not a space for quick answers or loud claims, but for thoughtful engagement — where reflection and practice inform one another, and where meaning grows through lived experience.
