The cosmos is pregnant. It’s a secret hidden in plain sight. Don’t you sense the pangs and frustration? The glimmers of joy? Come with me if you want to live…
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Advent
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Exile
How long does it take to unlearn a cultural inheritance that dominates you? The Israelites spent decades in the wilderness, and only a few of the original adult generation who left Egypt entered the promised land. This is often understood as a punishment, but what else was going on? (Joshua chapter 5 vs 1-8) Wilderness […]
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Viriditas 2
(Forest Church in October will meet at 2pm on the 19th) I’ve posted about Hildegard before, and the healing power of the green. As we are moving into a time of year where trees prepare for winter we will see all the other colours in their leaves. Perhaps a walk in the woods would be […]
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Faith in Nature
I took time out to travel west recently. It has been over 10 years since I have last been to a conference/retreat with others who are interested in Forest Church type things. Many of the projects Quartz has been running flowed from that. Here is a video of my journey! For those interested in finding […]
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Home Printing
Getting back to nature and spirituality are often linked together. Even those whonare comfortable in Church buildings will often take retreats into the countryside and green spaces. The houses we live in though, where we spend a lot of our time, can be places which become a spiritual home. What do you do that lifts […]
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Be the Light
I’ve been working on something for the holiday club at St Johns this week. While I was searching my files I found this clip I made for a school assembly. Carry on making the world a better place!
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The Ruthwell Cross
Have you been to visit the high cross at Ruthwell yet? It is one of several crosses which were raised in the area between Whithorn and Bamburgh at the hight of Anglian power. This cross is particularly famous because it has words from a poem called “The Dream of the Rood” engraved on it. The […]
I used to publish “online pilgrimages” rather than digital way to access physical locations, these were journeys through cyberspace. They are a bit like “mixtapes” from the cassette tape era. People would spend ages recording songs from the radio, or compiling selections of tunes that represented a mood or communicated with each other. So here […]
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CLC
What do the letters stand for? If you root around the website you will find an explanation of what the abreviation means. However, those three letters also stand for years of meeting together to study scripture, praying together, sharing cake and coffee. We each bring something with us from the varied backgrounds we have, and […]
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Creativity
A picture, or a poem, is the death of possibility. A great and terrifying cloud of potential, collapses. The dead scales of art are experienced, while the artist struggles to shed skin. To hold a cloud of unknowing in tension, and sense the moment of rain. All are able, Some have skill, Make the time.