Ray's Blog: February 2014
Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
I wrote the following piece, aided by Graham, for the Lindisfarne Web Newsletter and Holy Island Times:This winter's renovations at The Open Gate are nearly complete. Some interested residents have already called in to inspect the new Bio-mass system which will provide all our hot water and central heating....
Posted at 06:59am on 28th February 2014
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Dear Muslim Friends
We are brothers and sisters. We submit to God’s will. We are all Children of Abraham and People of the Book.We work for the world to become a commmunity of justice and mercy which we call Ummah or the Kingdom of God.
We believe in one God and abhor idolatry....
Posted at 08:59am on 21st February 2014
At Anstruther: Peter, Dorothy, God And Prozac
Twice a year I spend 36 hours with the Community soul friends, Peter and Dorothy Neilson at their private retreat home by the delightful Scottish coastal town of Anstruther. Peter was the Church of Scotland’s National Advisor in Mission and Renewal. We talked about the Way of Life in...Posted at 02:37am on 11th February 2014
New Monastic And Catholic Straws In The Wind
A young Deutsch pastor spends a week alone on this island a week after attending a Vineyard church conference and a week before getting married! Someone prophesied he was to embrace a spirituality like a deep Scottish loch. He prays about developing church life imbued with monastic values. He...Posted at 02:29am on 7th February 2014
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