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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...
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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...
Post-covid Society
Today is the 75th anniversary of Victory over Nazi tyranny. Out of the hardships of war came a determination to build a better world. In Uk every child was given a free education and every person guaranteed free health care. The United Nations was established to create gloabl collaboration. And...
What Is More Important Than A Thousand Activities?
I am asked to send reflections to the people who before Covid19 would attend a church service I was due to lead. I began: Thomas Homer-Dixon writes in The Globe and Mail: ‘Today’s emerging pandemic could help catalyse an urgently needed tipping event in humanity’s collective moral values, priorities and...
No Retreats? On-line Resources Emerge
On Tuesday we completed a four-week Zoom course on soul friendship for both a morning and evening group. It was led by Scott Brennan, Simon Reed and myself. Our final discussion was ‘What next?’ Two things were pointed out.
1) For a thousand years soul friendship has barely figured in...
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