Ruth Edmonds4 days ago2 minA review of Steve Chalke's The Lost Message of Paul, by Julian Clover"It is time for a new reformation. It is time to find a way of following Christ that offers liberation and welcome rather than control," says Steve Chalke in...
Ruth EdmondsMay 145 minA reflection on The Weight of Glory by CS Lewis, by Tim SummersI wrote in my last reflection that my Christian faith first started to be formed, in my late teens, by "peak experiences" of transcendence, particularly in t...
Ruth EdmondsMay 141 minThirty Birds by Naomi Millner and Ruth Gordon - music and spoken wordFor this week's reflection I would like to share with you Thirty Birds, a spoken word / musical collaboration by storyteller (and Foundation member) Naomi Mi...
Ruth EdmondsMay 43 minA reflection on EM Cioran's Tears and Saints, by Tim SummersThis week's reflection starts from a passage from Tears and Saints, a 1937 discussion of medieval mysticism by the Romanian philosopher EM Cioran. Theology i...
Ruth EdmondsMay 44 minA reflection on "Schopenhauerian Christianity" by Tim SummersNow this reflection is (once again) personal to me, and I'm not offering it as a prescription for everyone or a description of what I think religious faith "...
Ruth EdmondsMay 42 minA reflection on Julian of Norwich, by Tim SummersIn this lockdown, moving in churchy circles as I do, I have heard the name of Julian of Norwich invoked a few times. Julian was a contemporary of Chaucer and...
Ruth EdmondsMay 32 minA reflection on Gift by Czeslaw Milosz, by Tim SummersHere is one of my favourite poems by the Catholic poet Czeslaw Milosz. Gift A day so happy. Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopp...
Ruth EdmondsApr 243 minA reflection on solitude, by Tim SummersThe Greenbelt Festival of 2012 was a watershed for me. It followed a bleak, lonely period in my life, and I arrived full of grief. But as the festival progre...
Ruth EdmondsApr 233 minA reflection on Thomas Merton, by Tim SummersThe following is an extract from the introduction to Monica Furlong's Merton, her biography of the monk Thomas Merton. "What did it mean to meet to be a monk...
Ruth EdmondsApr 222 minA reflection on The Cloud of Unknowing, by Tim SummersThe following is an extract from The Cloud of Unknowing, an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th ce...
Ruth EdmondsApr 202 minA reflection on Etty Hillesum, by Tim SummersThe following is an extract from the letters of Etty Hillesum, the contemplative who was murdered at Auchwitz. "Then suddenly it drops away, all of it, and a...
Ruth EdmondsApr 192 minA reflection on Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, by Tim Summers"Do not weep, life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we do not want to know it, and if we did want to know it, tomorrow there would be paradise th...
Ruth EdmondsMar 212 minA reflection on Awakened by Czeslaw Milosz by Tim SummersAwakened is a short piece of prose, or prose poem, by the late Polish Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz: “In advanced age, my health worsening, I woke up in...
Ruth EdmondsMar 201 minTips for coping with social distancing from a cloistered Dominican nun!"I’m a nun and I’ve been social distancing for 29 years. Here are tips for staying home amid coronavirus fears."
Ruth EdmondsMar 201 minSabbath poem by Julia RobertsWhat if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath - the most sacred of times?
