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Ray's Blog
A Marooned 80th Birthday Blessing
My 80th birthday is on Monday March 9th. But three things conspired against a celebration of the Big Day.
First, those who keep Lent won't celebrate on a normal day. So I decided to celebrate it on the Eve of the 9th, which is a Sunday and therefore a Feast Day.
Second,...
The Man Who Gave His Horse To A Beggar
THE MAN WHO GAVE HIS HORSE TO A BEGGAR
Following in the footsteps of Aidan of Lindisfarne
the saint who walked to heaven
through Ireland, Scotland and the north of England.
JOHN CONNELL with the photographs of PHIL COPE
£25 published...
Rewilding Churches And Neighbourhoods
Last week I recorded a You Tube interview by Scott Brennan on the App we shall shortly launch for millennials on The Way.
Click https://youtu.be/W5KdEqu1vsg
My attention was arrested this week by this tweet from a church planter: 'I struggle with the language of "planting", with its implication of something introduced from outside....
Monasteries For Green New Monastics?
The sixty four thousand dollar question is this: Can some new monastics form residential monasteries which become hubs of villages of God?
Over 1500 of the 1800 hospitals in England in the 16th century were run by monasteries. The establishment of a government run National Health Service in UK was a...
Musings Of An Ex Urban Monk
Simon and Natalie Jones and their little boy stayed at my Holy Island home, The Whitehouse, this week. It was good to renew contact. While Simon has worked with charismatic evangelical congregations he has discovered a vocation to be a married monk. When he lived in greater London he wrote...
David Adam R.i.p.
This week I spent a morning on Holy Island with Rev. Linda Wards who had travelled all the way from New Zealand to visit Holy Island in the depths of winter when it is mostly closed down. She stayed at Robert and Jutta's garden annexe The Sanctuary. She had emailed...
Healing Wounded Communities
About fifty Voyagers (members of the Community of Aidan and Hilda in vows) gathered this week at King's Centre, Northampton UK. Working sessions discussed reports from Guardians, Area Groups, Ministries and Trustees of the Community, and were followed up by a session on nine future pathways and by a day...
God Comes To Benefits Street
Benefits Street was a popular British documentary srries on Channel Four TV soap about people who lacked a job, accommodation, citizenship or freedom from an addiction in the down-turn area of Winson Green, Birmingham. . Last week-end I walked down the Birmingham street on which this was modelled, right round...
Lindisfarne And A Cloud Of Witnesses
Lars Knutsen, a Norwegian who worked in USA has recently returned to Britain. He writes how his visits to Lindisfarne were a formative time for him:
‘So Lindisfarne has always been special to me as one of those “thin” places where I was aware of the claims of God on my...
New Year Message
NEW YEAR MESSAGE
From Ray Simpson, Founding Guardian of the international Community of Aidan and Hilda
The world financial crisis a decade ago produced a reaction against globalism. We lost good as well as bad achievements. We retreated into our bubbles, but these have bad as well as good aspects. Bubbles can...
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