You know your daughter is doing A level philosophy when you say, "I can't make myself pack till the last moment" & Zoe says, "Nonsense. That's a fatalistic approach. Jean-Paul Sarte would be shocked!" Zoe effortlessly did something on my new … [Continue reading]
Back! And raring to get going!
Greetings, readers. I've been in an Abbey with no wi-fi and no internet for 5 days. No mobile phone signal either. At first, I felt a bit disoriented, to be honest. We own a business: was is thriving, or were there fires? (It throve in our absence, … [Continue reading]
poustinia, retreats, and the ocean restoring the soul
Catherine Doherty, a friend of Thomas Merton, popularized the poustina monastic experience. A little cabin in the woods, where you went off to live simply and be with God. Roy and I had an experiment of this when we joined a Christian community … [Continue reading]
“Mum is Always Right!” or “Give and you shall receive”
"Mum is Always Right!" We brought our Chrysler Town and Country mini-van over from America (incidentally, Americans, it’s called a Voyager people carrier here. Why? Search me!).And because it drives on the American side of the road, I … [Continue reading]
Our family’s off to Lee Abbey, Devon
We're off to Lee Abbey, Devon where we've rented a beach cottage for the week. No wifi, and if we can't get 3G on the iPad, I guess I won't blog.I look forward to prayer in the chapel, and joining the worship, to long beach walks and walks on Exmoor, … [Continue reading]
Drunk on Grace
GET DRUNK ON GRACEThe Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellarful of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred-proof grace—of bottle after bottle … [Continue reading]
Learning to Think “Young,” Flexibly and Accurately
Have you noticed that, whatever the issue, there’ll be predictable responses from people in their twenties and thirties, let’s say, and from people in their sixties and seventies? People in the forties tend to have more nuanced reactions; some think … [Continue reading]
The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Just watched this in the Oxford Playhouse, which for always carries a sense of deja vu, and memories of enchanted afternoons watching matinees there for £2.50 as a student. Inflation has disproportionately affected theatre tickets, alas... It's … [Continue reading]
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