Ray's Blog: December 2022
New Year Message
Brian McLaren's new book Should I Stay Christian? a guide for the doubters, the disillusioned and the disappointed  is but the latest sign that a younger generation soaked in global social media, wonders whether or not to reject a Christianity that seems a prisoner of male terminology, colonial, capitalist,...
Christmas - The Most Amazing Letter I Have Received
'AÂ LIGHT HAS SHINED ON THOSE WHO LIVED IN A LAND OF DEEPEST DARKNESS' (Isaiah 9:2)
Of all the Christmas cards and emails I have ever received a four page typed letter posted in New Zealand is the most extra-ordinary.
X's estranged friend - a friendship that had been bolstered by booze...
Build Justice In Advent
From a friend's Christmas letter: 'At no time in my life have I known such apparent chaos and desolation... I see only insuperable obstacles to human flourishing - war, conflict, violence, climate change, selfishness of unprecedented dimensions, political and economic ineptitude, commercial and technological malevolence on a grand scale...
Making New Waves For God's Kingdom
Wales - land of world cup soccer, songs and saints...
 A Welsh lady who once pilgrimed to Lindisfarne sent me this poem for Christmas that recalled her visit:
'Jesus... as in my mind I stand on that distant shore near Lindisfarne your Holy Spirit flows again on me like gentle waves...
Perish Or Rise To The Challenge
I have had flu.Â
Dawn Martindale, my secretarial assistant can no longer travel here monthly.Â
My computer was hacked. I did not send out a request for anyone to send me money. I have purchased a new computer. Making everything work is very difficult. Please pray that...
