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A Feast Of New Goodies!
The Hilda phenomenon continues to unfold. From Queensland I receive a new song of Saint Hilda's Homily. The first of a trilogy of novels on Hild by Nicola Griffith is brought to my attention. The Anglican Centre in Rome carries an article about my new book on Hilda of...Posted at 12:11pm on 10th April 2014
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What A Find!
How poignant. The very month the first non-fiction book on Hilda of Whitby, the first lady of the first millennium, is published a major new find is made. If this had been known last year I would have included it in my book. The Whitby Gazette reports: A 1,300-year-old chapel...
Posted at 06:06am on 2nd April 2014
Two Hundred Mile Challenges
A senior lady who’d had two hip operations arrived at Lindisfarne on Sunday having walked 200 miles from St. Herbert’s Island, Derwentwater. Come on, all you pilgrims who have only walked the 63 miles from Melrose on the St. Cuthbert’S Way, here’s a challenge to walk double the distance.St Herbert's...
Posted at 13:31pm on 27th March 2014
Saint Hilda Of Whitby - New Book Launched
Hilda of Whitby: a Spirituality for Now published by BRF March 2014Help share my joy – the publication of the first non-fiction book on Hilda, arguably the greatest first millennium woman in the English-speaking world and an ikon for our times.
Penny Warren, Members’ Guardian of the international Community of...
Posted at 02:48am on 20th March 2014
Authentic Living Danish Style
The Danes of Aarhus asked me to talk about authentic living. I said that authentic life is the opposite of trying to get one thousand Facebook friends just to look good. It's the opposite of trying to climb to the top of the ladder of money, power, celebrity or...Posted at 02:23am on 13th March 2014
Denmark, Lent And New Celtic Monasticism
Guests have returned to The Open Gate after it's re-fit.
I circulate a download on this site, 'Lent - 40 things to do' as the season of discipline begins. And I tweet 'Help us...
Posted at 23:24pm on 5th March 2014
Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
I wrote the following piece, aided by Graham, for the Lindisfarne Web Newsletter and Holy Island Times:This winter's renovations at The Open Gate are nearly complete. Some interested residents have already called in to inspect the new Bio-mass system which will provide all our hot water and central heating....
Posted at 06:59am on 28th February 2014
Dear Muslim Friends
We are brothers and sisters. We submit to God’s will. We are all Children of Abraham and People of the Book.We work for the world to become a commmunity of justice and mercy which we call Ummah or the Kingdom of God.
We believe in one God and abhor idolatry....
Posted at 08:59am on 21st February 2014
At Anstruther: Peter, Dorothy, God And Prozac
Twice a year I spend 36 hours with the Community soul friends, Peter and Dorothy Neilson at their private retreat home by the delightful Scottish coastal town of Anstruther. Peter was the Church of Scotland’s National Advisor in Mission and Renewal. We talked about the Way of Life in...Posted at 02:37am on 11th February 2014
New Monastic And Catholic Straws In The Wind
A young Deutsch pastor spends a week alone on this island a week after attending a Vineyard church conference and a week before getting married! Someone prophesied he was to embrace a spirituality like a deep Scottish loch. He prays about developing church life imbued with monastic values. He...Posted at 02:29am on 7th February 2014
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