Ray's Blog
A New Celtic Library? Seize This Opportunity
As part of our commitment to simplicity I cleared out 90% of my stuff when I moved from a five room house to two rooms among others at St. Barnabas College for former church employees.
However, upon my arrival the chaplain showed delight in my writings and recordings and wants to...
Pope Francis, Quakers And Listening For God's Prints In The World
We watched the film Conclave about the election of a new pope. Next day Pope Francis died. Days later I replied to many emails as the TV relayed his funeral.
On Sunday I went to a Quaker meeting., One Quaker hated the pomp of the papal funeral but missed God's charism...
Easter And Gen Z
A Happy Easter to you all (even to those for whom it is not yet).
Bible Society research reveals that ' Gen Z' (people born between 1991 and 2009) are turning to a church. In UK, for example, 35% are Catholics, 25% are Anglicans/Epicopalians, and 11% are Pentecostal.
Gen Z have always...
From Personal Collapse To First Prints Of A World-wide Spring
I had the most wonderful farewell service, brunch and presentation at Holy Trinity, Berwick on February 23, 2025. You can watch it on You-Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=803q7N4qG_w
I sold my car, put my house up for sale, cleared it and on 27 February moved south to St. Barnabas...
To Vice President Vance And Elon Musk
US Vice President J.D. Vance blasted the leaders of European democracies at their recent meeting in Munich (is that the place famous for colluding with a false peace with Hitler?) because they were putting controls on social media, thereby undermining democracy.
Democracy, whether the classical Greece or the Christian variety,...
House For Sale Opportunity
I have informed world-wide friends and people in vows with the Community of Aidan and Hilda that on February 27 I move to a holistic, neo monastic care community, The College of St. Barnabas, Blackberry Lane, Lingfield, Surrey RH7 6NJ, UK. My email remains the same and my...
Fake ‘christian’ Ideologies: A Reality Check
A USA voter has sent me a link to a mass movement that claims to be the incoming 'Christian' ideology: https://www.bing.com/search?q=POLITICS+The+Army+of+God+Comes+Out+of+the+Shadows+Tens+of+millions+of+American+Christians+are+embracing+a+charismatic+movement+known+as+the+New+Apostolic+Reformation%2C+which+seeks+to+destroy+the+secular+state.+By+Stephanie+McCrummen&cvid=9dc952c4b10940148421dc72da553d8e&gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOdIBCDM2NzZqMGo0qAIIsAIB&FORM=ANAB01&PC=SCO
He asks what he can do about it. I have sent him the following Reality Check:
Jesus’ Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Person Test, Luke 16:19-31. The rich...Thou Shalt Not Kill
A former Chief Educaation Office recently said to me: 'We were born helpless and incontinent and we die helpless and incontinent.'
The late Caardinal Heenan reminded us that 'Thou shalt not kill but need not strive officiously to keep alive'.
Our lust to be be as gods or as God is our...
Transforming Our Prisons
It's said that USA has more people in prisons than any other country. UK has such an acute prisons crisis that it recently let out thousands early because there was no room for the newly convicted. The principles of restorative justice practised in some local societies in early...
A Christian Renaissance
The new UK Parliament is the first to have a majority of non-Christians. The incoming Trump regime in America has separated the god of profit from the God of Jesus Christ. However, an interview in the Roman Catholc weekly The Tablet (12 October) with Rupert Shortt, the ...