Ray's Blog: December 2017
New Year Message For 2018
New Year is a time to seek new direction. It is also a time to put measures in place that avert bad things.
Bad things that threaten our world are
displacement of work by robots and...
Christmas Day In A Place Of Angels
Accompanied by my sister Sally, and before our Christmas dinner with Carol, Judith and Skeena at Carol's new home, I celebrate Holy Communion and preach at Saint Aidan's Church, Bamburgh. This is my sermon.
I wish you a Happy Christmas, though I realize...
I Cannot Thank You Enough
At the Society of Authors Christmas Lunch in Edinburgh authors were invited to bring a Christmas-wrapped gift book. As people left they could take home one of these secret book gifts. I Christmas-wrapped my book Before We Say Goodbye published by HarperCollins. A few days later I received...
Santa Claus
On December 6 the Netherlands and churches around the world celebrated Santa Claus, or, to give him his correct name, Saint Nicholas, the 4th c. Bishop of Myra, in today's Turkey. This is what my book 'Saints of the Isles: a year of feasts' (volume two of The Celtic Prayer...
Advent And Archeologial Discoveries
Sales of my Advent Book 'Bethlehem's Road' ran out locally. So I thought I should read it myself! These words leapt out at me: 'Most people did not see Jesus' birth in a smelly stable because they were too snooty to look for it in such a place. They were in...
