Author: Henry Morgan
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122. Church is Everywhere
June 2023 I was in conversation with a friend recently and, in passing, she said of me “You’ve left the church”, and I was taken aback & immediately said to myself “No I haven’t”, But quickly responded “But I can see why she might think that. I rarely attend worship in church, I’ve returned my ‘Permission…
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121. Rehabilitating Judas
May 2023 One of the benefits of being feral is that I feel freer than before to think creatively about my faith. I’ve done that with my thinking about Jesus’ death, and through Holy Week and Easter this year I’ve found myself wondering about Judas, whom I fancy may has had a raw deal from…
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120. Seven months on
April 2023 The ‘feralspirituality’ web-site began life last autumn, and this Lent, among other things, I’ve found myself mulling on what its existence has meant for me personally. To my surprise I realise that its opened my eyes in a number of ways. Firstly, simply by naming ‘feral spirituality’ publicly, has meant that I now…
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119. My father’s blessing
November 2022 My father was a pacifist and registered as a conscientious objector in the Second World War. He’d been brought up as an Anglican, but not finding the Church of England a comfortable place to be as a pacifist, he joined the Quakers. My mother was brought up an Anglican, and I grew up…
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118. Listening to the Flowers
January 2023 In exploring feral spirituality my intuition is a trusty guide. It led me to ask for a Christmas gift of Louise Gluck’s ‘Poems 1962-2020’, which I duly received. People who write poetry often seem to have something of the feral about them, perhaps as they feel beholden to no-one but their muse. I’ve begun dipping…
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117. Lent & Holy Week
March 2023 One of the blessings for me of going feral is that it releases me from the obligation of joining in the church’s activities around the major Christian festivals. There is a downside to that of course, but there’s an upside too. Advent for example has come alive for me because I have both…
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116. ‘Into My Arms’
December 2022 A friend of mine, John Walker, was recently telling me about his son Jonny: a gifted musician…who founded the Keep Streets Live Campaign, to advocate for public spaces for people and against the criminalization of homelessness and street culture. Jonny once said: “Buskers act as civic lighthouses. We give directions, we break up fights, we…
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115. Incarnations
January 2023 One of the joys of being feral is the freedom to think & explore. These thoughts have been buzzing round in my head recently. There’s nothing new about them. Others have been articulating them far better than me for centuries. But only now have they fallen into place for me. I find them to…
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114. Charlie Mackesy
January 2023 A couple of years ago I read and enthused about a book ‘A Boy, a Mole, a Fox and a Horse’ by Charlie Mackesy, and gave copies to friends as Christmas presents. This Christmas there was a film version of the story on BBC 1, and an audio version on BBC Sounds. Even…
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113. A Feral Spirituality
September 2022 Spirituality..is our search for depth and meaning in our lives, beyond what we know is superficial, and living out of what is discovered. Spiritual direction encourages & supports someone in that search. Feral spirituality is searching beyond an institutional religious framework. Becoming ‘feral’ 1 On holiday in Falmouth a few years ago,I was drawn…
A CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUALITY 