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Epiphany Moments
Headlines shouted that the leader of UK’s main opposition party had experienced an ‘Epiphany Moment’. Ed Miliband’s Epiphany Moment was the insight that his Labour Party was meant to become the One Nation Party: instead of just fighting for the have-nots it would henceforth spread community among all sections of...
New Year Message
New Year Message from Ray Simpson Founding Guardian, the international Community of Aidan and Hilda The balance of power is shifting. Powerful nations that live for themselves begin to die away: me-first capitalists, isolationist Americans, Little Englanders. History tells us that nations that live to themselves die of their selfishness. Connect to your...
Nativity - Black Hole Or Pre-birth Rest?
Christmas hustle, christmas bustle
Adults' stresses and children's hastle
Many together, many not Whoever's fault - it's their lot Some find themselves alone As the Christ Child may have done No home to call their own No family to be as one So let's take time from food and glitter And pray for all who's life seems bitter That some of us with...Middle East Christians And A Saxon Faith Story
In one Middle East country after another a largely unheralded tragedy is being played out. Christians flee for fear of hardship or persecution. Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon ... the list goes on. The once sizeable minority of Christians in these countries has more than halved in one generation.
I am writing a...
The Rise Of The Guardians And Of Church Roofs
I have just seen 'The Rise of the Guardians', a wonderful film for children of all ages. Pitch is the dark force who is so fear-filled that he wants to fill every child on earth with fear so they need him. Four guardians of the children - Santa Claus, the straight-speaking Australian...
Sorry Services And Pilgrim Walks
A men's group on the edge of Australian bush land at Buderim has been involved in Indigenous reconciliation for some time. The owners (descendants of the land-grabbers) have established a memorial garden in their dedicated Nature Refuge to which their new Aborigine Partners, Kabbarli come once a year to plant...The Woman With The Crozier
Throughout the world we renewed our vows on Saint Hilda's Day. I led a retreat at Pleshey on this woman of unparalled authority in the English church. Never before or after in Christendom had women such authority as had the royal abbesses of 7th century England, 'France', and then 9th century...
A Way Of Life For The Islington Set?
Tony Blair's Islington Set launched New Labour and a Third Way from the modish cafe's, smart apartments, schools and jogging parks of this part of North London. I drove a few hundred miles south to another Islington Set half a mile and twelve years further on - in particular to...
The Return Of The Angelus, The Church Pub And My Baggage
I forget to tell you a few contemporary things about my trip to St. Kyneburgha's at Castor. 1) Today, when Muslims publicly call the populace to prayer, and Irish TV stops daily for one minute of silent prayer as the Angelus bell rings, twice a day, before morning and evening prayer,...
'we're Post Church, Autonomous And Spiritual' Oh Yeah?
I heard four people in one week explain why they no longer ‘do church’. ‘I have to leave part of myself behind when I enter a church’ said one. A second said: ‘My church was Paulist, it was all about Jesus saving us by faith, but we have to be...
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