Ray's Blog: June 2020
Books Breaking Through
* Stella Durand's new book Dove of White Flame: A Historical Novel about Saint Columba (Wipf and Stock) is dedicated to 'my brothers and sister in The Community of Aidan and Hilda'. It's well-researched and a good read. She now belongs to St. Columba's Church, Drumcliffe, County Sligo.
* James Percival's...
Sexual Abuse: Religion Is The Answer
This Irish Times piece gives prophetic words from the former abbot of Glenstal monastery. Moralising will not help us understand the wave of sexual harassment and child abuse cases that have emerged nationally and internationally, says Mark Patrick Hederman, former abbot...
Statues To People Who Set Slaves Free
The global Black Lives matter demonstrations in UK have focussed on statues erected to British philanthropists who grew rich on the back of the slave trade. The statue of one of these was thrown into the river at Bristol, and Oxford University has promised to remove its stautue of Cecil...
Sobornost
The Trinity season started last Sunday. Muslims can worship God as a Communion of Loves. What the Prophet Mohammed rejected was idolatry - the false brainwashed Christians he knew of seemed to worship three gods..
Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter only because the core of...