Failure is one of those subjects we would often rather discuss at a safe distance. We can analyse somebody else’s failed project, read a case study…
Series:Octobers 2026 - Failure & Redemption
Exploring failure and redemption in software and Christian life, from debugging, outages and post-mortems to repentance, restoration and hope.
Redeemed Failures (Romans 8:28)
Failure can make a promise about our future that it has no authority to make. It tells us that because something went wrong, everything that follows…
Learning From Bugs: Failures That Teach
Every programmer eventually creates a bug that makes them stare at the screen and wonder how they ever thought the code was correct.
Repentance and Renewal
Repentance can sound like a word belonging mainly to sermons about wrongdoing. Yet at its heart, repentance is about turning.
Post-Mortems Done Well
When a serious technical incident ends, everyone wants to move on. The service is back. Customers can log in again.
The God Who Restores
Restoration is one of the great themes of Christian hope. We encounter it whenever something valuable has been damaged or lost: trust, confidence…
Why Systems Fail (and What We Can Learn)
When a system fails, the temptation is to look for the broken component. Which server crashed? Which query timed out?
Redemption Stories in Scripture
The Bible is full of redemption stories. That is easy to forget because familiarity can smooth their rough edges.
Recovering From Outages Gracefully
An outage reveals what a system was really designed to do. Architecture diagrams describe normal operation.
Hope After Breaking
Some things break cleanly. A cup falls, shatters and can be swept away. Human lives are rarely so simple.