Ray's Blog: April 2024
Re- Humanising Spiritual Formation
We have decided to add Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation by Cindy Lee to our CAH library on Lindisfarne.This week I baptised a young adult in our local parish church. The baptism brochure contained these words (do you think these contribute to de-westernising spiritual formation - or better...
Bards And Celtic Insights Into Music
Two meetings this week had synchronicity. Our old friend Godfrey Butland has to give a lecture about Celtic hymnody etc. He asked me about sources. I pointed him to the Introduction to my Celtic Hymnbook, to Kenney's mammoth encycopedia of Celtic sources with hundreds of short entries...
A New, More Powerful Story
Twenty five years ago a Dutch pilgrim to Holy Island's B&B was double-booked. His name was Egbert. He found himself next to me as I led Evening Prayer at St. Cuthbert's Centre and ended up at our Open Gate Retreat House. Next day in my little Starbank Cottage...
The Complete List Of Sixty Books
A Way Of Life for the Third Millenium (Austin Macauley 2024)
Before We Say Goodbye: preparing for a good death (HarperCollins 2001) ...
