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Ray's Blog
A Reader's Broadside
M. writes 'My "Waymarks" is dropping to bits, I will get a new one when I come, as a community member in relative isolation it so keeps me on track especially when I am treatened by church politics. As for "The Cowshed Revolution" I need to replace that too as...
'waymarks' -what An Encouragement
A large charismatic Baptist Church in England started daily prayer for its staff and others. They used 'Waymarks for the Journey'. This week I received these words of encouragement from the minister:
'When I moved to our present church over three years ago, I introduced an early morning prayer time for...
Cowshed Revolution Review In Initiatives Of Change Magazine
Cowshed revolution needed for a downwardly mobile capitalism
The Cowshed Revolution by Ray Simpson
Reviewed by Michael Smith
In The Cowshed Revolution, Ray Simpson, an Anglican priest who is the founding guardian of the international community of Aiden and Hilda at Lindisfarne, calls for Christians to be 'downwardly mobile' as an antidote to...
Diamond Jubilee
Lindisfarne celebrates. In our chapel we pray:The diamond is a monarch among gems. If a diamond is properly faceted, it will sparkle with multi-colored rays of light. The famous Persian poet Hafiz remarked "the rainbow is confined in it forever". May our Diamond Queen shine as monarch among the fifty...
Five Cutting Edge Visits
Marlene Kopf brought church leaders from USA to explore Cetic insights into the emergent church.
The Bishop of Stavangar invited me to 'tell my story' to his deans who are exploring fresh, more holistic expressions of spirituality that relate to a post-Christendom society.
I led the Friends of St. Cuthberts Edinburgh...
Whistle Blower
The phone rang. It was Paul Moore, who found fame as a whistleblower on financial malpractice. Someone had told him I had included his story in my book The Cowshed Revolution.
Prior to the final collapse in September 2007 of HBOS, the high street bank's executive with the job of risk assessment outlined...
Maureen's Poem On Sheds, Tents And Caves
What is a shed
But a little place
to give one's head
Personal space
To some the hut
Is full of tools
To create stuff
By craftsmans rules
My grandad owned
A pigeon cree
Where pets and friends
Were company
From childhood I
Remember when
The shed was my
Escape den
At grandmas was
A big oak table
Where to retreat
I was able
Under the green
Tassled cover
I played...
Spiritual Friendship
My old mate Norm Allen of Touchstone Ministries Toronto, a CA&H Explorer, and facilitator of men's spiritual development called in and I took him out to lunch. Over the past numbers of years Norm has been writing a book and it has now been published! "Spiritual Friendship, The Art...
More Sheds, Caves, Kitchens And Tents
I have facilitated a Celtic Christian Studies Week. Rod, from Down Under, tells us of the Mens Shed movement in Australia. Men love to meet in sheds, have a B.B.Q., while some share their faith.
Brenda, from Dalkeith returns to look for a cave. She does this after hearing how the cave, the...
Prayer Sheds In Wales
Last week's blog on prayer sheds has drawn this response from Richard, In Anglesey. It comes on the day the media announce a new coastal walk from one end to the other of Wales' coast line. Numerous places on or near this walk have Christian roots, which started with one person...
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