Ray's Blog: July 2023
Seeds And A New Creation
The creation crisis that threatens our childrens’ future gets worse almost daily. It is caused by the mass selfishness of humans, but strident environmental voices partly blame Christianity for it. Chandran Nair, the founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow, says the Judaeo-Christian teaching of establishing dominion over...
The Common Good
Certificate of Participation 2022/2023 Heywood Prize
A CHARTER FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF THE EIGHT JURISDICTIONS IN THE COUNCIL OF THE ISLES
This certificate is awarded to Ray Simpson for contributing this proposal on January 18th, 2023.
‘The Common Good’ sets out principles of a civilized society drawn up by Catholic and...
Psalmic Odes From The Times Of Christ's Apostles
Who could have dreamed that, in the third millennium, beautiful love songs of followers of Jesus' Way, in the period before all the first twelve apostles had died, would have been re-discovered, pored over by scholars, honed in the devotions of Indian monastics, and translated from the original Syriac...
Aidan, App And Africa
Last week I recorded a video with young church leader Aaron Elder and Scott Brennan on Aidan of Lindisfarne, in Lindisfarne's Whitehouse garden. The link is https://www.facebook.com/scott.brennan.397/videos/10513829121046072399Â
The following evening we had a meal in the same garden with Pete Greig and his film-maker, who had just completed...
