Tag Archives: chaos

Order from Chaos

Today was spent in company with the Bishop of Jarrow, Mark Bryant, who opened the morning with an hour’s lecture on the support network for priests, on the importance of baptism services, and how a disciplined spiritual life can contain … Continue reading

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Send Forth Your Spirit O Lord

11am Solemn Sung Eucharist in the University Chapel was great. A great choir, and I thought during the service that it was basically very good Choral Evensong with communion and a sermon added to it. Lovely. The singing of the … Continue reading

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Yoda

Temporarily free to download for Amazon Kindle, I got hold of The brilliant book of calm: Down to Earth Ideas for Finding Inner Peace in a Chaotic World. There are 52 ideas, and I’ll be reading one each day. Over … Continue reading

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Joy and Love

I’ve been dipping in and out of C.S. Lewis’ Surprised by Joy over the past few days. I remembered reading an interview carried out with a theologian I find fascinating called Marcus Borg, and reading in his book Putting Away … Continue reading

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