Ray's Blog: June 2016
Post Brexit Fractures - Now Heal The Split In The Western Psyche
Visitors to Holy Island from all parts of UK and beyond bring horror stories of post Brexit hatred of foreigners and of unprecedented abuse on trains and in the work place. Even an English woman who works in a Welsh hospital has been calumnied. UK workers from Europe are in...Posted at 17:07pm on 29th June 2016
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Paul The Comedian, The Papal Preacher And Patmos
To Windmill Farm Conference Centre and Adventure Camp Site, Oxfordshire, UK for the Community of Aidan and Hilda’s Annual Gathering, which was packed to capacity. Its theme was Releasing our God-given Creativity. The childrens’ participation led by Amber Cole and team was brilliant. Saturday night was laughter night with...Posted at 16:28pm on 23rd June 2016
When The Church Roof Falls In Look What Comes Out
I felt guilty. I returned to Bowthorpe Church, near Norwich, some thirty years after the contract to build it was signed under my watch. . Now, the church roof needs to be replaced. Scaffolding and a roof without tiles met my gaze. The last thing this materially poor family of...Posted at 10:26am on 16th June 2016
Fully Human
This week I speak at Abbey Summer School, Edinburgh whose theme is Fully Human. Loren Wilkinson and Mary Ruth Wilkinson give three addresses on the richness of, and challenges to, being human in the 21st century: ‘Animals, Angels, or Machines: What Are We?’;‘Feeding, Feasting, Fasting: Problems and Pleasures of Eating’;...Posted at 19:46pm on 8th June 2016
A Norway Parish Gives Me Hope
On Friday I drive three hours from Lake District to Lindisfarne in order to talk to a group of Presbyterian theological students from Mississippi. I pull up weeds, wash sheets and prepare beds since friends occupied the house while I was away and Tom Martin Berntsen stays here over the...Posted at 11:43am on 2nd June 2016
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Good Friday in Ventura, California with YWAM workers. Jesus, give to we 'us first' people your dying gift of laying down all. #GoodFriday
Your Cross be in our eyes and our seeing, in our lips and our speaking, in our fingers and our networking #HolyWeek
As we re-visit your last mortal week on earth, show us how to pray for your vineyard, planet earth and your temple,… https://t.co/5nRw1lX4DK
Jesus, you cleared out racist money-lenders from a temple: Clear out greed and racism from our hearts, our school… https://t.co/jwS0hC63dp
On Palm Sunday they made you a celebrity, but you went on to lay down your life for us. Help us to get this. #PalmSunday
Lord, teach us to parachute with you. https://t.co/B33QhsF6Mx
O Holy Fire, cleanse us. O Overcomer of troubled spirits, make us strong. O Holy Lamb, self-giving even in death, m… https://t.co/WMGorscbhU
When seas become sterile and innocence dies; when nature can't sing and the Son of God cries we'll carry your Cross… https://t.co/J8iJPYsGci
@ChrisABooth I'll Surrender with you lot while I'm Down Under in UK
