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To be free or not to be free: Welsh Christianity at the crossroads

To be free or not to be free: Welsh Christianity at the crossroads

Sep 17, 2011

I remember asking a young person, “What would it take to get you to go to church?” He said, “A great deal of courage to actually be seen coming into the building by my friends.”

The Confession of Saint Patrick

The Confession of Saint Patrick

Mar 17, 2011

Patrick in his own words.
There is no other God, nor ever was before, nor shall be hereafter, but God the Father, unbegotten and without beginning, in whom all things began, whose are all things...

The Spirituality of the Celtic Church

The Spirituality of the Celtic Church

Mar 17, 2011

If the rich history of the Celtic churches is a fairly recent discovery, their spirituality may be an even more surprising resource for a life-affirming, holistic, and faithful way of life for Christians in this "postmodern" world and, more importantly, the world of the future...

Rule of St Columba

Rule of St Columba

Sep 3, 2009

Be alone in a separate place near a chief city, if your conscience is not prepared to be in common with the crowd. Be always unadorned in imitation of Christ and the Evangelists...

What happened at Whitby?

What happened at Whitby?

Feb 3, 2009

For the first Anglo-Saxon Christians, Easter was the central point of the year, the moment when by baptism they entered the new life in Christ about which they had heard from the missionaries sent from Rome and from Ireland. it was not to them an arbitrary date but the pivot of the whole of the cosmos, the central moment when reality was revealed in the face of Jesus Christ... That the missionaries who preached the Gospel to them should differ about the date on which this Paschal mystery should be celebrated was both confusing and scandalous; where external practice was not something separate from internal faith, the implications of such division were not trivial. More…

The body of Christ

The body of Christ

Aug 26, 2008

The body which was born of the Virgin Mary, without any stain, without destruction of her virginity, without opening of the womb, without presence of man, and which was crucified and which arose after three days from death...