Ray's Blog: May 2019
A Pilgrim Guide
I have agreed to an unusual request: to be a pilgrim guide by email to someone who takes a three month sabbatical visiting pilgrim sites in UK and emails me questions. Here are four examples.
1) My pilgrim starts at the tomb of England’s King Edward...
Economics Of Good And Evil
Today I join Haddington Serious Book Club. We explore Thomas Sedlacek’s Economics of Good and Evil with a foreword by Vaclav Havel. Sedlacek looks for a rationale of economics in some six texts through human history.
The earliest known writing is The Epic of Gilgamesh. This narrative of humanity is...
Springfield Seminarians - A Breath Of Fresh Air
This week I am tutor in residence to students from the AOG Theological Seminary, Springfield, USA, led by Dr. Debbie Gill, who has outstanding gifts. They are at The Open Gate on Holy Island. I have to give eleven lectures on Ancient Celtic Christianity and current Neo-Monastic Movements.
Ideal, Ordeal, New Deal: Urban Changemakers And Cah
Ash Barker brought Urban Change-makers to The Open Gate, Holy Island, for a training week-end. These guys, who are employed by local organisations, are turning things round in some of Britain's toughest areas. Several had witnessed recent knife-crimes. Ash set up Urban Change-makers in order to give them support and...
