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Re-wilding The Planet
CELTIC CHRISTIANITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE by Ray Simpson (Sacristy Press)
'I have read this for a second time and it has had a profound effect on me' David Barrett, architect.
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Meanwhile my town of Berwick Upon Tweed, like places around the world, is...
An Invite To Aidan And Hilda Week Retreat On Holy Island
Aidan and Hilda Week: A Retreat on Holy Island led by Ray Simpson and Scott Brennan
Dates: Friday 26th August – Friday 2nd September
Retreat theme:  At this retreat Ray Simpson will be unveiling fresh perspectives on five women and seven men who spearheaded the 7th c Irish Mission...
Prayer Over Ukraine
Over Ukraine at this fateful hour,
I place all heaven with its power, and the sun with its brightness
and the snow with its whiteness,
and fire with all the strength it hath,
and lightning with its rapid wrath,
and the winds with their swiftness along their path,
and the sea with its deepness,
and the...
Open Letter To President Putin
Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of Russia,
You inspired me to visit your great country and its fast-reviving monasteries which were filling up with young people, aided by your generosity. You were baptized as an infant and ever since your visit to the Holy Land, when the cross your mama gave...
How You Can Write Acts Of The Apostles Volume Two
A man who works in a Christian bookshop sobbed for three days over the plight of Ukrainians. My book 'Brendan's Return Voyage: A New American Dream' also brought tears. His book shop agreed to stock it. For it tells how so-called Christian American settlers treated indigenous peoples as Putin's...
Lent, Ukraine And Transfiguration
At this time in the western church’s year we accompany Christ in the six week journey through Lent. On the Sunday before Lent, we think about Jesus’ testing journey to Jerusalem where he was persecuted, betrayed and executed but first he was transfigured with three friends up a mountain.
Jesus had...
How You Can Help Write Acts Of Apostles Book Two
A man who works in a Christian bookshop sobbed for three days over the plight of Ukrainians. My book 'Brendan's Return Voyage: A New American Dream' also brought tearss. His book shop agreed to stock it. For it tells how so-called Christian American settlers treated indigenous peoples as Putin's...
The Contemplative Activist
It was Monday. Church leaders are gathered on Holy Island for a retreat led by Scott Brennan and Brother Cassian on Contemplative Activism. Brother Cassian arrived at my home on Sunday shortly before midnight - his train was delayed for some six hours by storm damage on ...
Not Right, Not Left, But Shalom My Friend.
I watched one of Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America interviews with Alt Right Gen 7 male ‘Christian’ Americans. They want to keep USA predominantly white because they assume that whites founded it. They are against other religions (e.g. Moslems and Jews) because they claim those who founded USA were Christians....
Opiate Or Tonic?
I watched The Last Days of the Czars on Netflix. They were devout Christians. Although their faith comforted them in their adversity, it cocooned them from the realities of the vast masses of the poor. They did not pray as Jesus urged ‘Your kingdom come on earth as it...






