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Handel's Messiah For Climate Crisis
On Saturday I exulted in a performance of Handel's Messiah. Following the example of King George 2 we all stood for the Hallelujah chorus. This is surely the most inspired creation in the history of human-kind on earth. Throughout I was thinking of planet earth's climate crisis and the...
Cop26
COP26
Previously unencountered microbes leap to human hosts from other animals in an ongoing ‘zoonotic spillover’. Habitat destruction, such as deforestation and industrialised agriculture put increasing numbers of humans in contact with highly stressed animal and insect populations. The real virus is unaccountable business greed that gobbles up natural...
Calling Australian Desert Christians
Austrlaian CAH Guardian Bruce Challenor has just published LIVING GOD’S WORD: Ancient Wisdom from Early Monasticism. We have placed a copy in our pilgrims' Library on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. I have written the following preface:
Billy Graham once said ‘God has no grandchildren’. He meant that each...
Schools Curriculum Row Over Indigenous Peoples
Media carried news of a row about UK schools curriculum content. It is claimed that people who promote the British Empire as a Good Thing rather than appraise good and bad elements have allowed the teaching syllabus to trash indigenous peoples. Brendan's Return Voyage: A New American Dream: Indigenous, Post-Colonial, and...Conundrum
In September I blacked out during a riverside Communion service beside the river Tweed at Old Melrose. A priest who thought I was dying sang a song of faith over me before two angels in the form of ambulance officers stood each side of me, and the land owner bumped...
Norway – A Way For The World
Graham Booth and I surmounted unbelievably complicated Covid regulations in order to spend eight days in Norway. I led a retreat on the idyllic Wolves Island in the parish of Frode Fjelbraten, for his colleagues, co-workers and youth workers, and for members of Anamcara (the Norway branch of...
From Holy Island To Norway
A Holy Island resident went down to the beach. He bumped into a holiday-maker who asked ‘Why did you come to live here?’ ‘My life needed balance’ the resident replied. ‘How do you get that?’ the visitor asked.
A conversation ensued. It is a conversation that The Community of...
Hear The Cry Of The Earth
As the Glasgow Climate Summit approaches the Pope, the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Archbishop of Canterbury ‘appeal to the heart and mind of every Christian, every believer, and every person of good will...
Brother Gildas, Caldey Island: Monasticism Must Expand
Brother Gildas phoned me on Monday. His monastery...
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