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Every Race Is Chosen - The Antioch Of Asia

Pre-Australia Day warm-up in Buderim: I join thirty indigenous and twenty settler people for a BBQ, picture unveiling and tree-planting at St. Mark's Church. St. Mark's has removed settler trees and invited indigenous folk to plant native trees on 'its land'. A smiling indigenous elder says 'We welcome you to...
Posted at 09:16am on 30th January 2014

Married To The Land In Queensland Bush

I visit Heather’s uniquely inspired Bush land projects at Buderim, Queensland. : I preach at crowded 7.0 am, 8.30 am and 10.15am services at St. Marks Anglican church about our need to make way for what is emerging under God as John the Foreunner made way for Jesus. ...
Posted at 15:06pm on 20th January 2014

God-guided, Phone-praying Vow-making Australians

Brent and I spend a morning with Dave and Cathy Cook at Footscray. Before they had their two infants they were volunteers at Lindisfarne’s Open Gate. Dave works for Australia’s Anglican Overseas Aid. They are committed to poverty and service.

We meet up with Joel and Heidi McKerrow at the...

Posted at 14:25pm on 16th January 2014

Fellow Travellers In Os

It’s a joy to meet fellow travellers Down Under in Victoria who resonate with us: Bruce and Margaret Challoner of Lara – spiritual guides who wish to start a contemplative group with Celtic rhythms of prayer. Suzanne Hicks visited The Open Gate, Lindisfarne in 2012 and came to discuss how to...
Posted at 13:44pm on 10th January 2014

What's Good About Jet Lag Down Under?

I have jet lag here in Os despite the fact that I stopped off for one and a half nights at Dubai.'Have you come for the celebrations?' said the passport security lady, 'yes, you've come for the celebrations'. That is how I learned that I had come to Dubai to...
Posted at 18:51pm on 3rd January 2014

New Year Message

NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM THE WHITEHOUSE, HOLY ISLAND OF LINDISFARNE

May this be a Year of Simplicity, Forgiveness and Gratitude. The opposite of these – the three demons of Debt, Complaint and Violence - have threatened the world in 2013.

Simplicity

Debt is often a misplaced response to greed or to low self...

Posted at 06:59am on 29th December 2013

A Pot Of Gold For Christmas

This week I am woozy, but I have received new spectacles, a new water tank, newly syringed ears and a visa ready for my trip to Australia.

I sent all my Christmas greetings by email this year, except that I delivered real Christmas cards to island residents. This helps me...

Posted at 07:43am on 21st December 2013

From Religious Wars To Monastic Peace?

Christmas Newsletters contain treasures. Abbot Stuart of Mucknell Abbey writes about Justin Welby: 'On the evening of his Enthronement the Archbishop said that amongst the greatest hindrances to the proclamation of God’s love were the historic divisions in the Church – divisions which had begun in particular historic circumstances...
Posted at 10:22am on 14th December 2013

Advent Is Now

Our Holy Island Vicar gave an Advent Homily on the Parousia, sometimes known as the Second Coming of Christ. To prepare us to understand his unexpected point he explained that western churches, who inherited the Greek philosophers' mind-set of a split between spirit and matter, also split time into past...
Posted at 02:33am on 8th December 2013

He Forgives The Man Who Blinded Him

Over forty years ago a boy’s eyes were shot out by a British soldier in Derry/Londonderry. Last month that blinded victim visited Holy Island. His name is Richard Moore. The soldier who fired the rubber bullet is Charles Innis. He is a member of St. Cuthbert’s church, Norham. ...
Posted at 05:28am on 29th November 2013
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