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Ray's Blog
Thou Shalt Not Kill
A former Chief Educaation Office recently said to me: 'We were born helpless and incontinent and we die helpless and incontinent.'
The late Caardinal Heenan reminded us that 'Thou shalt not kill but need not strive officiously to keep alive'.
Our lust to be be as gods or as God is our...
Transforming Our Prisons
It's said that USA has more people in prisons than any other country. UK has such an acute prisons crisis that it recently let out thousands early because there was no room for the newly convicted. The principles of restorative justice practised in some local societies in early...
A Christian Renaissance
The new UK Parliament is the first to have a majority of non-Christians. The incoming Trump regime in America has separated the god of profit from the God of Jesus Christ. However, an interview in the Roman Catholc weekly The Tablet (12 October) with Rupert Shortt, the ...
How The Celts Saved Britain And Can Save The World
Dan Snow's documentary How the Celts Saved Britain was re-played on prime time British TV last night. It compellingly tells the story of Saint Columba, Iona, and its Irish Mission to the English based on Lindisfarne.
However, in common with many commentators, it falls for the half truth that Celtic...
If I Was Standing To Be President
Never since I was ordained have I taken sides publicly in partisan politics. God's kingdom transcends and transforms all political parties, and I want to encourage all supporters to grow in wisdom.
However, the US election may mark a world tipping point. 'The West' (mainly Europe and North America) is being...
Black History Month
Quotes from A Way of Life for the Third Millennium:
'This book reveals Incarnational Christianity as an alternative to Colonial Christianity.'
'This Way of Life can revive and apply the Way in a post-colonial, multi-cultural world.
It is for Chinese and First nations, for Black, Brown and White people.'
A Model For The World - The (heavenly) Jerusalem
Friends, movements and governments take different sides in the Israeli/US war against Arab uprisings.
Many campaign for justice. Justice has been denied the Palestinians for over 70 years. A former Vicar of Nazareth told me how Israeli forces gunned him and countless others out of their homes. ...
Explaining Atheism: Restoring Faith
The ‘Explaining Atheism’ Research Project undertaken by Queen’s University Belfast reports that although religion mushrooms in the other continents, in Europe atheism now dominates. For the first time in recorded history a majority of UK citizens are atheists.
The project is led by Principal Investigator, Professor Jonathan Lanman from...
Blessing Of Solar Panels
Berwick Parish (the most northerly C of E parish in England) had its roof top solar panels blesssed by the Bishop of Berwick, as part of its church eco-project, which includes re-wilding the churchyard, planting indigenous trees and flowers, providing a bee hive, insect hotels, bird and bat boxes...
Prisons
Prisons in many countries are overflowing, but released prisoners, who could have become changed people, are worse even than before. A prison chaplain rang me to ask 'Can Celtic penitential practices trasform our prisons?'
Celtic monasteries in some tribes were invited to oversee restorational justice based on the penances (spiritual exercises)...
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