David Bowie »

This video went viral this week. I prefer the Bowie version, but in this case the video and the song ‘make sense’ and are incredibly moving. I will never hear this song quite the same way again.

…and this is also …

Retreat »

This could go on forever, but I will stop today.

I came to faith in an evangelical subculture. This had many strengths/has many strengths. But what I hadn’t realised was sometimes being caught between the twin poles of alpha male …

Retreat »

(Bigger & better version of picture on http://thisfragiletent.com/2013/05/07/aoradh-wilderness-retreat-2013/)

You go on a retreat, you go wild camping. There is no electricity, there are no buildings and the only running water is a stream or the sea. I enjoyed it …

Retreat »

My friend who ran the retreat I went on last weekend said that a few years before they had turned up on an island with an idea that they would pray and be still, but that just got squeezed out …

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(Yes, I am on a phone. Yes, I am wearing a strange hat. Deal with it…)

‘Where you could feel the silence at half past eleven On long summer nights’

(Van Morrison: ‘On Hyndford Street’)

If you read …