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Hart-beat: A Year Of Hilda Kicks Off
I share in the launch of A Year of Hilda from this saint’s Hartbeat (I will explain). On Saturday the Catholic Diocesan pilgrimage converges on Saint Hilda’s Church, on Hartlepool Headland. On Sunday three Community of Aidan and Hilda Voyagers (Linda, Maureen and myself) renew their vows (as...Posted at 07:12am on 23rd November 2013
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Oxford For St. Hilda!
I drive seven hours to Oxford. I speak at St. Giles on 'St. Hilda, the Synod of Whitby and the Great Emergence'. The audience includes Anglicans, Baptists, Orthodox, Pentecostals, Quakers and Roman Catholics. The Orthodox lady tells me she recently met John Tavener, that inspired and most spiritual composer, who...Posted at 09:29am on 15th November 2013
Irish Monastic Sites: Back To The Future
The Dark Ages, when continental Europe is torn apart by plague, famine and marauding barbarians. Until Irish monks establish foundations which bring about The Golden Age.Dark November, when I fly to that greatest of monastics sites, Clonmacnoise, a monastic university which reconciled warring tribes and brought learning even to...
Posted at 12:21pm on 8th November 2013
Death Cafes
Death Cafes are spreading. A collection of fascinating, normal individuals united by a wish to discuss mortality met at a trendy coffee shop called Cakey Muto in Hackney, east London. Taking tea and scones with death turned out to be rather a lot of fun. What is believed to...Posted at 07:46am on 31st October 2013
Ping Pong
A former Roman Catholic colleague began his sermon: 'I have a confession. I love TV wrestling'. Now I, whose Way of Life commits me to rhythm, and who have just co-led a retreat on Wisdom, have a confession: 'I have lost both Rhythm and Wisdom' - which is why this...Posted at 01:43am on 27th October 2013
Reversing Eden
I visit Howard, who hopes to evolve a 'highland cathedral' that combines creation care with human transformation. I drive on endlessly and arrive two hours late at Bewcastle, the almost un-findable 'pearl hidden in a field', there to meet Rev Rob Brown, co-pioneer of 'Borders minster'. He shows...Posted at 01:22am on 17th October 2013
Hurling, Harvest And Holy Hikes
lFriday. Back to Ireland. To Ennis. To Temple Gate Hotel. To holy ground. For here, just days before, the County Clare All-Ireland Hurling Champions, who train at Ennis, celebrated their brilliant victory. The entire county was bedecked in flags. A road side table sported two hurling sticks. And everyone...
Posted at 06:49am on 8th October 2013
Community Is Not... The Rise Of The New Consciousness Is ...
COMMUNITY IS NOT ... Three days after my warranty expires my car breaks down on the A1 shortly before dark descends. The clutch has gone. I cannot move it. Danger! I wave down fifteen passing motorists. None stop. Somehow I get it into first gear, and...Posted at 12:56pm on 3rd October 2013
Journey Int0 Wisdom - A Retreat Not To Be Missed
I Skype with Matt Lamont, who will leave his New South Wales family home and journey across the world to co-lead a retreat at The Open Gate October 21-25 on 'Journey Into Wisdom'. This will be a retreat not to be missed.
I first met Matt after he had...
Posted at 08:19am on 27th September 2013
Jersey Festival Of Spirituality
Two planes from Oslo to home. Two planes from home to Jersey. Before the Festival of Spirituality begins I meet in the Chief Minister's room with Senator Paul Routier - the Chief Minister had been called to London at the last minute. We discuss The Council of the isles...Posted at 09:45am on 20th September 2013
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