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Ray's Blog
Frankfurt Book Fair
This is Hazel Lopez, from Christian Life Publishing. Our team recently received an email from one of our esteemed media contacts regarding your published work, “A Way of Life for the Third Millennium". Our firm, Christian Life Publishing, has chosen your material as our top entry for the upcoming...
New Book Goes From Australia To Latvia And Beijing
Christian Life Publishing, has chosen my book 'A Way of Life for the Third Millennium' as their top entry for the 2024 FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR. My passion is that it become a prime entry in the Beijing Book Fair. A Muslim is now studying it daily. Please help...
Bede: Shalom In The Wastelands: Sanctuary From The Apocalypse: Signposts That Shine Light On Our World.
On 25 May some twelve pilgrims from Berwick and Tweedmouth celebrated Saint Bede's day with a Eucharist and talk at St. Mary's Church , Lindisfarne, led by Canon Nicholas Sargovsky, Bede is known as 'the father of English history'. He died kneeling on Ascension Day 735, reciting the words...
Muslims And Christians Can Walk Together As Men And Women Of God
There are many Bangladeshi and Indian restaurants in my region. One Muslim waiter said to me 'You are a man of God. Can you help me to be a man of God?'
'Do you say the Salah? (the five times a day prayers) I asked. He did. ...
Buckets
Christians world-wide of all shapes and sizes mark defining seasons in the life of Christ. For example, cribs at Christmas, an Egg at Easter. But what about Pentecost - the season when the Holy Spirit outpours upon people of all races and generations?
Here is my...
You Can Be 'your Grace'
As I pushed my way through the town centre crowds at the Riding of the Bounds - an annual power encounter lit by the glory of the horses and their battalions of costumed riders - a man in the crowd said 'Hello, Your Grace'. 'I am not Your Grace' I...
Dying To Live
In the last chapter ('Endless Adventure') of my just published commentary on the Community of Aidan and Hilda Way of Life, A Way of Life for the Third Millennium, I write: 'This adventure continues in our dying'. Orthodox Christians speak of the transition from earth to heaven as 'The...
Re- Humanising Spiritual Formation
We have decided to add Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation by Cindy Lee to our CAH library on Lindisfarne.This week I baptised a young adult in our local parish church. The baptism brochure contained these words (do you think these contribute to de-westernising spiritual formation - or better...
Bards And Celtic Insights Into Music
Two meetings this week had synchronicity. Our old friend Godfrey Butland has to give a lecture about Celtic hymnody etc. He asked me about sources. I pointed him to the Introduction to my Celtic Hymnbook, to Kenney's mammoth encycopedia of Celtic sources with hundreds of short entries...
A New, More Powerful Story
Twenty five years ago a Dutch pilgrim to Holy Island's B&B was double-booked. His name was Egbert. He found himself next to me as I led Evening Prayer at St. Cuthbert's Centre and ended up at our Open Gate Retreat House. Next day in my little Starbank Cottage...
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