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Our world in connected beyond the wildest dreams of people in the early 19th Century. Knowledge of the ends of the earth, and a desire to connect with it is not a new thing though. This article describes one such journey make at the command of a king who ruled in London over a thousand […]
A friend from our time at St Andrews has just published a book of his poetry. One poem called “Ripples” stood out in particular this morning, and so I dragged out some images and layered up my reflections in visual form. I have used this as the image for this post, and it is also […]
New technology has been acquired to use with Wordsmith Crafts video projects! But even before we have got it all working, you can watch videos on “The Floating Monastery” YouTube channel, as a taste of things to come. Find the whole channel here: https://www.youtube.com/TheFloatingMonastery and the Wordsmith Crafts general channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@Wordsmithcrafts
Where is Truth found? People talk about the Celts, and celtic Christians in particular finding God in nature. Where else would one find truth? Perhaps in books, but does that mean that books are unnatural? Perhaps they are treated as such. In our experience we don’t need to think hard to rememberr how some books […]
There may have been a time when you have heard a preacher describe the gospel in a way which makes it sound like everyone needs to bow before an super powerful sky father. Or passionately describe a formula where all who use the name Jesus as an identity statement are saved. It is easy to […]
It is important to live in the present. However, especially with refugee week coming up and the noise being made by certain politicians, we also need to remember that we are part of a living communion of Saints. “The Radical Tradition” (Edited by Gilbert Márkus op DLT 1993) Tells the stories of some of our […]
PuNK qUesTions At CLC this week we discussed music, AI, and creativity. Our discussion wandered though many fields! And hopefully the fruits of one Quartz members creativity will be available to see and hear online soon. In a few decades we have moved from pulling out a phone to Google for answers to questions to […]
The mythical narrative is deepprecisely because it contains a level of meaning that initially eludes the48 The Cambridge Greek Lexicon (2021) cites Theocritus (21.11) for a meaning of reasoner’s grasp. This makes it impossible to rest; the story forces thoughtinto a question. Theseus and the Minotaur Have you ever wondered how, if a labyrinth only […]
What Quirks have you picked up from your evangelical past? This could be expanded include youthwork in general, and other traditions, but evangelicalism is the context in which I forged my identity. There was a bizarre mix of fear, repression and doom; combined with creativity, and lots of genuine love. But analysing that is not […]
What if our essence is spiritual, and our present bodies are simply how that flourishes today? When you think of the “ghost in the shell” metaphor what do you assume is more solid or real, the ghost or the shell. Could increased knowledge about the material world, and technological success give us a false impression […]