Author: Henry Morgan
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126. Was Jesus feral?
Autumn 2022 I think that you can make a good case for Jesus being feral. If feral means that something/somebody has returned to a natural state from one of captivity or domestication, then I reckon that Jesus fits. Consider this: I think that you could make a similar case for Paul, Francis, and other significant…
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125 The Wounded Angel
July 2023 I enjoy looking at paintings. They often slip under my guard and take me by surprise. I sense that they speak and my soul hears them before the rest of me catches up. One painting that does this for me is this one. This picture is entitled ‘The Wounded Angel’. Its is by…
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124 In Defence of Angels
June 2023 The Church has a tendency to make simple things difficult, like prayer & faith, both of which are simple in principle but challenging in practice. Society has a tendency to trivialise important things like miracles and angels. I’ve written about ’Everyday Miracles’, so now I’m going to write “In defence of Angels”. School…
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123. Faith
23rd June I remember, many years ago reading a poem by David Whyte entitled ‘Faith’: I want to write about faith About the way the moon rises Over cold snow, night after night. Faithful even as it fades from fullness Slowly becoming that last curving and impossible Sliver of light before the final darkness. But…
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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…
A CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUALITY 