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Celtic Creation Care Podcast
Earthkeepers: A Circlewood Podcast on Creation Care and Spirituality Celtic Creation Care: Changing the Church to Save the Planet, with Ray Simpson 00:00
Green Martyrs
In UK those in vows with the Community of Aidan and Hilda defied Covid hardships and held their annual Retreat at Kings Centre, Northampton, joined for the first time on zoom with others from Norway, UK and USA.
Although all are new monastics, a small number who, unlike the majority, fit...
Each Nation Has A Charism - Release It
A prophetic married monk suggested to me this week something on these lines, regarding his own and neighbour countries: the God-given charisms of his four nations are Contemplative (Wales), Prophetic (Scotland), Teaching (Ireland) and Building (England). England sold its birthright for colonial oppression, and the other nations allowed their...
Three Ways To Change The World
Three Steps to Change the World: Satish Kumar, in Resurgence & Ecologist magazine suggests the following.
1) Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
2) Communicate the change by learning new skills or using creative avenues open to you.
3) Organise the change through appropriate networks - or develop...
Where Is God In All This?
Ross Hamilton responds to my Christmas letter:'Thank you for your question "Where is God in all of this?" and your Christmas thoughts prompted by Handel's Messiah got me thinking.
You envisage a time when the human race is experiencing the results of human-induced climate change. You paint a picture of a...
New Year Message
What change do you want to see in the world?
Leaders of ever more powerful nations such as China and Russia seek to impose their will on the world. Not for long will one will keep control of a billion wills.
In liberal democracies an old generation of capitalist...
The Messiah In A Climate/covid Stricken Planet
I exulted in a nearby performance of Handel's Messiah. Throughout I was thinking of planet earth's crisis and the campaigners shut out of the COP 26 conference centre. It prompted these Christmas thoughts:
Comfort ye, comfort ye, my earthlings. Every sinking island and uninhabitable desert shall be exalted....
Dear Australia
Macrina, the mother of family monasticism, and her brother Basil, made their homes hubs of prayer, hospitality and creativity and invited needy children into them. Is it Australia’s turn now?
The urgent must no longer crowd out the eternally essential. Good is enemy of the best. Denial of reality...
Angry Children Reject Parents
People at a recent retreat revealed the heartache of rejection and estrangement from children and grandchildren and a more general concern about children who in anger reject their parents. Conflict seems to come from three sources: Gender issues, Anger - inexplicable and unexplained, and Rejection of our faith and...
Lecture: The Influence Of The 7th C Irish Mission On Britain And Beyond
On Saint Hilda's Day, 17 Novemember, I received the vows of Bryan Knox of Cramlington on Holy Island, in the presence of 'The Gang', ten committed friends of forty years.
That evening I gave Berwick Historical Society's first lecture since Covid, on the subject 'The Influence of the 7th c Irish Mission...
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