Ray's Blog: May 2024
Bede: Shalom In The Wastelands: Sanctuary From The Apocalypse: Signposts That Shine Light On Our World.
On 25 May some twelve pilgrims from Berwick and Tweedmouth celebrated Saint Bede's day with a Eucharist and talk at St. Mary's Church , Lindisfarne, led by Canon Nicholas Sargovsky, Bede is known as 'the father of English history'. He died kneeling on Ascension Day 735, reciting the words...
Muslims And Christians Can Walk Together As Men And Women Of God
There are many Bangladeshi and Indian restaurants in my region. One Muslim waiter said to me 'You are a man of God. Can you help me to be a man of God?'
'Do you say the Salah? (the five times a day prayers) I asked. He did. ...
Buckets
Christians world-wide of all shapes and sizes mark defining seasons in the life of Christ. For example, cribs at Christmas, an Egg at Easter. But what about Pentecost - the season when the Holy Spirit outpours upon people of all races and generations?
Here is my...
You Can Be 'your Grace'
As I pushed my way through the town centre crowds at the Riding of the Bounds - an annual power encounter lit by the glory of the horses and their battalions of costumed riders - a man in the crowd said 'Hello, Your Grace'. 'I am not Your Grace' I...
Dying To Live
In the last chapter ('Endless Adventure') of my just published commentary on the Community of Aidan and Hilda Way of Life, A Way of Life for the Third Millennium, I write: 'This adventure continues in our dying'. Orthodox Christians speak of the transition from earth to heaven as 'The...
