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Ray's Blog
The Pope, The Way, The Gospels
We who have tried to live a way of life for our world are heartened that Pope Francis' first sermon was a call to a way of life. He said in the Sistine Chapel: 'Walking: our life is a journey and when we stop, there is something wrong. Walking always,...
Ca&h Bishop Speaks Up In Parliament For Women
The Community of Aidan and Hilda is advised by leaders from a cross-section of churches. Its 'Anglican Visitor' is the Bishop of Coventry, Christopher Cocksworth. On International Women's Day (March 7) he made his inaugural speech in the UK's second House of Parliament (the First House is elected; the second...
Challenging Generosity
The first appointment made public by the new Archbishop of Canterbury is a Conflict Resolution advisor. The Vatican might do well to follow that lead. We were told the following in a homily at a church on Holy Island last week:A non-believer went on a church crawl. A sermon on Jesus’...
Elijah's Million Lights
Do you remember my blog about a seven foot young German bearing a Peace Candle who walked to a freezing Holy Island as part of a 20,000 km pilgrimage on foot across Europe? His name is Thomas Joachim, now christened Elijah. He went from the now dismantled Berlin wall to the wall in...
No Cover-ups In 'the Aidan Way' Mag
The front cover of The Aidan Way, the quarterly magazine of The Comunity of Aidan and Hilda, has a dreadful picture of me draped in what looks like a carpet while broadcasting a YouTube meditation on 'Weaving Together God-given Threads'. For each meditation I dressed in something that makes visual...
40 Things To Do In Lent -and My New Book
My new book arrived today from Kevin Mayhew publishers. Its title is Reflective Services for Lent. There are fourteen complete services packed with suggestions for Ash Wednesday, each Sunday in Lent and each day of Holy Week –dialogues, Scriptures, prayers, visuals, activities, meditations, suggestions for hymns and music … AND two...
Poetic Justice
Twenty of us gathered at The crown and Anchor to say farewell to Joel and Heidi McKerrow. Joel (a performance poet) and Heidi (a dancer) came from Melbourne to The Open Gate for ten weeks sabbatical. Joel has been writing a book and preparing for gigs and recordings. While here...
Father William
"You are old, father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?” First verse of Lewis Carroll’s poem. Sixty-six year old Father William stepped into my house yesterday....
Angels That Hoover
Our new Community Coach (our name is Soulfriend) is a double-act - Dorothy and Peter Neilson. At our annual retreat for those in vows Peter compared us to the Para Olympics: we are a Para church and a Parable - we are carrying life from God that is powerful and unpredictable....
What's The Point Of Growing Old?
‘What is the point of growing old?’ I asked a winter pilgrim. He replied ‘To make space for others’. I thought to myself ‘That’s what nature does’. In autumn leaves grow old and fall to the ground. These old leaves do two worthwhile things. They provide us humans with a feast...
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