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Ray's Blog
Prayer Distances The Plague
Sorry folks. Covid got to me. Hence no weekly blog. But this contribution to a local church lock-down newsletter signals a revival.
Matthew 15:21-28
The Gospel for this coming Sunday (16 August) begins ‘Jesus left that place and went away’. In that place a foreigner intruded on his planned...
Living Stones
This week during lock-down Tweedmouth, Scremerston and Spittal parishes invite me (in liew of a personal preachment) to send a homily on Sunday's Gospel that is emailed to worshippers. Here it is:
Matthew 13: 1-9; 18-23.
Jesus pointed to the apparently immoveable, ageless stones of the temple, and...
Books Breaking Through
* Stella Durand's new book Dove of White Flame: A Historical Novel about Saint Columba (Wipf and Stock) is dedicated to 'my brothers and sister in The Community of Aidan and Hilda'. It's well-researched and a good read. She now belongs to St. Columba's Church, Drumcliffe, County Sligo.
* James Percival's...
Sexual Abuse: Religion Is The Answer
This Irish Times piece gives prophetic words from the former abbot of Glenstal monastery. Moralising will not help us understand the wave of sexual harassment and child abuse cases that have emerged nationally and internationally, says Mark Patrick Hederman, former abbot...
Statues To People Who Set Slaves Free
The global Black Lives matter demonstrations in UK have focussed on statues erected to British philanthropists who grew rich on the back of the slave trade. The statue of one of these was thrown into the river at Bristol, and Oxford University has promised to remove its stautue of Cecil...
Sobornost
The Trinity season started last Sunday. Muslims can worship God as a Communion of Loves. What the Prophet Mohammed rejected was idolatry - the false brainwashed Christians he knew of seemed to worship three gods..
Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter only because the core of...
Black Lives Matter
Royal Award For Outstanding Service
I learned today that Bruce Challoner's heroic efforts to re-format and paste 350 daily emails one by one on to mail chimp for the four year course on The Way have been completed. This alternate weeks course explores in depth the Community of Aidan and Hilda Way of Life, ethos...
Thought For The Week
This week I wrote the Thought for the Week column for Berwick Advertiser. Here it is:
Churches are zooming into new ways during the lock-down, with worship and ‘tea and cake’ on-line. One church emails its regular week-day worshippers with inspiring pieces by those who usually lead it. Donations to our...
Book The Aidan And Hilda Week Retreat
SIGN UP FOR THE AID AND HILDA WEEK ZOOM RETREAT AUGUST 31 -SEPT 4
LED BY RAY SIMPSON
August 31 (St. Aidan’s Day)
10.30 GMT Talk: Aidan: Irish flame warms a new world.
Retreat exercises and journalling: Jesus is ‘the man for others’. How did Aidan model...
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