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God Comes To Benefits Street
Benefits Street was a popular British documentary srries on Channel Four TV soap about people who lacked a job, accommodation, citizenship or freedom from an addiction in the down-turn area of Winson Green, Birmingham. . Last week-end I walked down the Birmingham street on which this was modelled, right round...
Lindisfarne And A Cloud Of Witnesses
Lars Knutsen, a Norwegian who worked in USA has recently returned to Britain. He writes how his visits to Lindisfarne were a formative time for him:
‘So Lindisfarne has always been special to me as one of those “thin” places where I was aware of the claims of God on my...
New Year Message
NEW YEAR MESSAGE
From Ray Simpson, Founding Guardian of the international Community of Aidan and Hilda
The world financial crisis a decade ago produced a reaction against globalism. We lost good as well as bad achievements. We retreated into our bubbles, but these have bad as well as good aspects. Bubbles can...
Celtic Prayers For The Season Of Light
Ray Simpson has given his lif
Madeira Holiday
I am on holiday in Madeira. This is the only week his year I have had a holiday except for a garden working holiday at Whitehoue on Holy Island with my sister Sally.
My friend Andreas booked us in to a hotel near the cathedral and sea front at Funchal. Andrea...
Not Left, Not Right But Straight
USA is torn between Democrats who want to impeach the Republican President and Republicans who want to forge ahead in finance and self-reliance. The UK is torn between people on the Right who want Brexit and people on the Left who want equality. Social media re-inforce people's unconscious prejudices, so...
Christ The King
Last Sunday was dedicated to Christ the King. Pope Pius XI instituted The Feast of Christ the King in 1925 for the universal church. He connected the increasing denial of Christ as king to the rise of secularism and dictatorships throughout much of Europe when many began to doubt Christ's...
Saint Hilda's Tide Down Under
This week Community of Aidan and Hilda Voyagers renewed their vows all over the world at St. Hildda's-tide. But my thoughts were with Voyagers in Australia. This is the Facebook Post I sent them: 'Australia has schools and churches named after Saint Hilda. She is a universal ikon of...November, November, The Month To Remember
This week our monk and Deputy Guardian David Cole stayed overnight before leading a retreat at The Open Gate. It was good to meet up on Holy Island on another day with Godfrey Butland and other old friends.
This week also I sent in the completed manuscript and a long publishers'...
The Underdog
This week the town in which I live inducted its new mayor. This was followed by a church service. The mayor wants the theme of her year in office to be The Underdog.
After she was inducted we sang a locally composed hymn. Here are two verses:
Northmen from the Humber to...
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