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Re-forging And Re-wilding Prayers
Saint David's Day:Â
As birds soar high and caraefree, may we soar with You.
As deer run straight and graceful, may we run with You.
As fish flow free in waters, may we flow with You.
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A UK church leader undertaking a re-wilding of church grounds describes how they have created a...
Getting Fit For A New World
I was unwell last week.
Many parts of the Christian Church start forty days of fitness training today, ending at Easter. They call this Lent. Some people give up luxuries, or meat, or time. Others spend time in prayer and vigil or good works.
Others focus on a deadly sin each...
Hacked Off
My email was hacked and a thousand people were asked to send money to a non-existent relative.
It was not from me. I never appeal for money in this way. Don't give to email appeals. In UK you can reclaim from your bank money you gave to a fraudster.
After...
Saints, Spirit And Sailing The World
Those in vows from five countries gathered at Scargill House in UK's beautiful Yorkshire Dales for our annual retreat this week at a time when the world faces crises and we are tired by pandemics and cost of living fears
Scott Brennan, a respected church planter and director of church leaders,Â...
A Modern Mother Hilda
Yesterday was the funeral of Rev. Tania Witter. With her late husband Nick they generously purchased The Open Gate, (allowing us four years to pay for it) which facilitated world-wide Community of Aidan and Hilda members and friends who wished to touch base with our lived spirituality in a setting...
Podcasts - A Life-time's Highlights
An Orthodox church liturgy is now celebrated monthly in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, to which young people from Edinburgh and Newcastle come. Afterwards I accompanied them to lunch in the rowing clubhouse. There I met John and his sister, whose family have recently moved into the area. John had left uni with...
Dark Materials Or Unimagined Possibilities?
Vocation As Resistance – God moving through, in, before and beyond  us
While Craig Roberts worked to train innovative Christian leaders in Australia and New Zealand he was called to follow the bardic way of writing full time.
He explores what takes place when Spirit-led vocation becomes a way of...
New Year Message
Brian McLaren's new book Should I Stay Christian? a guide for the doubters, the disillusioned and the disappointed  is but the latest sign that a younger generation soaked in global social media, wonders whether or not to reject a Christianity that seems a prisoner of male terminology, colonial, capitalist,...
Christmas - The Most Amazing Letter I Have Received
'AÂ LIGHT HAS SHINED ON THOSE WHO LIVED IN A LAND OF DEEPEST DARKNESS' (Isaiah 9:2)
Of all the Christmas cards and emails I have ever received a four page typed letter posted in New Zealand is the most extra-ordinary.
X's estranged friend - a friendship that had been bolstered by booze...
Build Justice In Advent
From a friend's Christmas letter: 'At no time in my life have I known such apparent chaos and desolation... I see only insuperable obstacles to human flourishing - war, conflict, violence, climate change, selfishness of unprecedented dimensions, political and economic ineptitude, commercial and technological malevolence on a grand scale...
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