Ray Simpson is Founding Guardian of the International Community of Aidan and Hilda and is a well known author. He lives on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, UK, where the Community has a base for resources, study and retreat.


Next year's referendum on Independence for Scotland  brings campaigners' arguments into prominence. Holy Island lies within Berwick District Council. Berwick-Upon-Tweed has been in and out of Scotland and England fourteen times. The international Community of Aidan (a Scot) and Hilda (English) embraces people of diverse political opinions - so what...
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Capitalism is in crisis. It has been becme divorced from moral norms....... What is the way forward? Ray suggests it lies in an increase of Downwardly Mobile people - able Chrisitans who lay down their lives for the common good.
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a prayer...

We arise today
in the Eternal Flow of Mercy
who was here when the land began to breathe,
when the first tribes began to roam,
and when the colonists came to settle.
We arise today
in the Eternal Flow of Wisdom
who is dimly perceived in the stones,
the stories and the studies of all our peoples.
We arise today
in the Eternal Flow of Life
who seeps through land and limb and love.
Amen.

books
His Complete Celtic Prayers -
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The Cowshed Revolution
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