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Ray's Blog
Through The Year With Irish Saints
I was the guest speaker at Veritas Ireland's zoom launch of Through the Year with Irish Saints by Stella Durand, who is a member of the newly formed new monastic community Cairde Ananama (affiliated to the international Community of Aidan and Hilda). You can buy copies from www.veritasonline. Here...
Creation Crisis Networks And Ecumenical Patriarchate
Last week we received a letter from the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul thanking me for my new book Celtic Christianity and Climate Crisis: Twelve Keys for the Future of the Church (www.sacristypress)
Last week also I spoke by zoom to the North Northumberland Spirituality Network about this book on the...
'what's Happened To Your Uplifting Blogs?'
This week some one emailed me: 'We have missed your blogs since the end of Oct . With these difficult times we need some encouragement and hope and your blogs are very uplifting, please let us know if you are OK ,,,'.
Well, in these difficult times when my area of...
Covid And ‘before We Say Goodbye’
The rapid spread of a more virulent form of Covid (plus in the northern hemisphere the onset of the dark days of winter) sobers us all. Yet within every tragedy lies the seed of an opportunity. Our opportunity is to give ourselves DIY home retreats in the ‘womb...
The Hero's Journey
I watched a beautiful You Tube film about Joseph Campbell, the wise student of myths and archetypes, on the Stages of the Hero’s Journey. Gabrielle Ayerst writes: ‘This is a beautiful film/documentary about the meaning and philosophy of Joseph Campbell, which reflects in mythology, film and in our own...
Berwick Advertiser Thought For The Week - Tell Your Story Before You Die
BERWICK ADVERTISER THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK 15 October 2020
As light draws in and Northumberland’s Covid restrictions increase our thoughts turn to life and death matters.
A grave-digger told me in a pub ‘I feel sad when someone is lowered into the grave who has never told their story’.
Covid Heralds Revival Of Outdoor Worship
Community of Aidan and Hilda Advisor Ian Bradley writes an article in the London Times about whether Covid may herald a return to the Celtic practice of outdoor worship. He draws on material in my latest book Celtic Christianity and Climate Crisis. See below.
CREDO | IAN BRADLEY Outdoor worship can bring...
The Patriarch And The Climate Crisis
Sammy Horner has sent me a signed copy of his new book of Irish stories 'Finn and the Wild Goose'. In future, whatever banshees and dark ghouls frighten me in the night, I will not hesitate to find refuge with the Wild Goose, even though she is weather beaten and...
Bathsheba's Advice
Bathsheba's advice
Beware Great Men.
My dear Solomon, so wise – so many women.
Where's the wisdom in that?
My beloved David, so great, so generous – so many concubines
But he wanted me and would have it right or wrong.
Where's the greatness in that?
And I am...
Open Gate And Covid
In Norway a lot of people want a change, but few want to change
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