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Je Suis Charlie... Jesu Is...
Paris. More than a million. Black, brown, white. Jew, Muslim, Secularist.Slogans. Je suis Charlie (the murdered journalist who belittled the Prophet in the name of liberty). Je suis Jewish (the murdered Jewish store staff). Je suis the policeman (the murdered Muslim on duty officer). The meta narrative was...
Posted at 19:22pm on 12th January 2015
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Conflict Resolution And Light
My recent blog on the Rome Colloquium explored conflict resolution on the macro scale. Some of us face conflict on a micro scale on our own doorsteps. Since this is the season of Epiphany (the spreading light of Christ) we might ask 'What light can it throw on this?'...Posted at 02:12am on 7th January 2015
New Year Message For 2015 - A Prophetic Way For Society
From Ray Simpson
Founding Guardian of the international Community of Aidan and Hilda
I carry in my heart two seeds more precious than pearls. This may not seem obvious, for I am neither an extravert nor a socialiser, but I want you to know this. The two seeds are our world and...
Posted at 01:20am on 31st December 2014
Little Bethlehems
Holy Island's annual Carol Service gave its collection to a charity that helps children in Bethlehem and elsewhere in the Holy Land on the basis of need. They may be Muslim, Christian or Jew. If they need medication, education or food without which they would be seriously impaired, these...Posted at 01:20am on 23rd December 2014
Gleams In The Night
Amid reams of Christmas news came these gleams in the night. 'I believe that we come to understand our life's meaning and purpose in a number of different ways and different time scales. What I do know is that something resonated with me on Holy Island which rang true to...Posted at 03:00am on 10th December 2014
Advent Cheer Leaders
As I start to craft my Christmas newsletter I read Giles' Fraser's comment in a newspaper that atheists make bad humanists. They have a hard job to mine uniquely human values from a remote aeon or an ancestor ape. God being born as a human being generates a much...Posted at 03:54am on 8th December 2014
Maori, Jesuit And Celtic Convergence
These are my notes from the colloquium at the Anglican Centre for the Holy See in Rome on the theme ST. HILDA, THE SYNOD OF WHITBY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION - A WAY FORWARD FOR THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION AND THE WIDER CHURCH?It marked the 1400th anniversary of the birth of...
Posted at 06:00am on 3rd December 2014
Rome
Pope Francis calls on the European Union to bring its institutions back into touch with the people. I tweet 'Prick the conscience of Europe's large institutions until they cease to treat human beings as cogs in a machine' twitter#praycelticdailyFifteen days of steroids treatment has reduced pains and increased...
Posted at 03:03am on 25th November 2014
Hild Fests And Bright New Trails
Throughout the world those who voyage by the light of the Aidan and Hilda Way of Life have renewed their vows, singly or gathered in groups, at this St. Hilda’s-tide. They have departed with the prayer: “The mantle of Aidan be upon us, the mantle of Hilda too. The...Posted at 01:14am on 19th November 2014
Books Breakthroughs
Three books I wrote that felt like 'inspiration as much as perspiration' have connected with new waves of consciousness.AIDAN OF LINDISFARNE:IRISH FLAME WARMS A NEW WORLD: 'I am really enjoying "Aidan." A lovely piece of historical fiction' Paul John Martin USA ... 'I am loving your book...
Posted at 22:55pm on 11th November 2014
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Let the hype fall off Harry and Meghan like water off a duck's back. May the royalty of the pure in heart shine in… https://t.co/wWx6oaPQDG
Help university students with mental health problems to let go of a perfectionist mind-set and social media addicti… https://t.co/UsCzXr55PM
Move the hearts of those around Jerusalem to keep the 10 commandments: not to steal others' land; not to kill those… https://t.co/Mgkv2iT8n9
In our disappointments, lift us up. In our denials, lift us up. In our duties, lift us up. Ascended Jesus, lift us up. #Ascensiontide
Help us to realize that every one of us needs a twelve step program in order for your Holy Spirit to fill what wo… https://t.co/yYQNWkCjLq
All-Compassionate One, get Christians out of their church boxes and religious de-tox bolt holes and forge them into… https://t.co/gbyGIHceXs
May infants in the womb be raised to life in you; may scarred heroes and spurned lovers be raised to life in you #Ascensiontide
Alon Liel, former Director-General of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, said in London: ‘If Britain will recognise Palesti… https://t.co/vg1psU8cAy
All human life with Christ is raised, the weakest ones by heaven are praised; now high and low on him have gazed. A… https://t.co/wnIYKet0jf
RT @PeteGreig: The Day of #Ascension means that the resurrected Jesus who was once somewhere at one time for some is now everywhere, always…
