Author: Henry Morgan
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8. Keeping Sabbath
November 2014 I met up with my friend Mary this week at Stixwould. She’s a retired Anglican priest with a spirituality earthed in the everyday, and she was telling me about the way she keeps Sabbath. I found it very interesting, and with her permission I share below two pieces from her blog on the…
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7. The challenge of the new
November 2014 I draw a number of conclusions from all this: 1] Most of the above take place outside the structures of the institutional churches. 2] They incarnate a face of God other than that incarnated by the church. 3] They often involve men and women of deep faith taking risks, stepping out into the…
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6. What is God doing?
November 2014 My ministry means that I listen to people trying to hear and respond to what God is calling them to. Not altogether surprisingly there is a deal of common ground: God does not appear to be calling people in completely random directions. There are certain themes that emerge, and I begin to wonder…
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5. Who might save the Church?
November 2014 There was an article on the BBC News web-site recently which began “The Bishop of Truro has said the Church of England has only “five or six years” to save itself’: “radical changes” were needed to halt a “steady decline” he said, and ‘the Church of England will struggle to exist in 10…
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4. Hungarian Spiritual Direction
November 2014 When I travel abroad I like to read a novel or some poetry, look at some art, listen to some music, from the country I am about to visit, to give me a bit of a sense of the culture I will be entering. So when I visited Hungary some years ago I…
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3. Norwegian Wisdom
October 2014 I’m recently back from a trip to Finland and Norway which was immensely stimulating. Before I set out I was reading some of the poetry of the Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge, available in an excellent collection ‘Leaf-huts and Snow-houses’ translated by Robin Fulton, published by Anvil. I was especially taken by one…
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2. Praying with loom bands
September 2014 Here is a photograph of a wrist with a number of loom bands on it. A few weeks ago my seven year old grandson Owen came to stay with us for a week during his summer holidays. He brought with him some loom bands, and was eager to show us how to make…
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1. A Disclaimer
I have recently been re-reading Belton Lane’s fine book ‘The Solace of Fierce Landscapes’, and was much taken by a quotation from Barry Lopez who is writing about the difficulties involved in reaching a mysterious desert that symbolised for him what’s most worth finding. He writes: “There is, I should warn you, doubt…….about the directions I…
A CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUALITY 