Ray's Blog: January 2020
David Adam R.i.p.
This week I spent a morning on Holy Island with Rev. Linda Wards who had travelled all the way from New Zealand to visit Holy Island in the depths of winter when it is mostly closed down. She stayed at Robert and Jutta's garden annexe The Sanctuary. She had emailed...
Healing Wounded Communities
About fifty Voyagers (members of the Community of Aidan and Hilda in vows) gathered this week at King's Centre, Northampton UK. Working sessions discussed reports from Guardians, Area Groups, Ministries and Trustees of the Community, and were followed up by a session on nine future pathways and by a day...
God Comes To Benefits Street
Benefits Street was a popular British documentary srries on Channel Four TV soap about people who lacked a job, accommodation, citizenship or freedom from an addiction in the down-turn area of Winson Green, Birmingham. . Last week-end I walked down the Birmingham street on which this was modelled, right round...
Lindisfarne And A Cloud Of Witnesses
Lars Knutsen, a Norwegian who worked in USA has recently returned to Britain. He writes how his visits to Lindisfarne were a formative time for him:
‘So Lindisfarne has always been special to me as one of those “thin” places where I was aware of the claims of God on my...
