Tag Archive | watchfulness

Silence and contemplation #Worth Abbey retreat 4-6 January 2013

Worth abbey retreat 4-6 January 2013. (Click on this link)

I am leading a retreat at Worth Abbey 4-6 January 2013 on silence, contemplation and watchfulness. Click on the link above for more details.

One-Minute Icon 3 Watch and pray #contemplation

Olive tree that watched

The Olive tree that was there in the Garden of Gethsemane when Jesus said, ‘watch and pray..’ (Mark 14:38). Step out of clock time for one minute, and use the photo to help you watch and pray. How do you read it: what does it write on your awareness, heart, mind and soul? What does it bring to mind? As we are reminded of the fragility of life there is something of the stable presence of God…The tree is a gift of the Invisible One.Lord we watch the storm and pray…

speaking event at Somerville College Chapel Oxford

speaking event at Somerville College Chapel Oxford

I am speaking at Somerville College Oxford Chapel on Sunday 4th November at 6 p.m. on ‘Watchfulness and mindfulness: a Christian perspective’

Rediscovering Christian contemplative practice part 2

Rediscovering Christian contemplative practice part 2

second article in Baptist Times serialising A Book of Sparks – A Study in Christian MindFullness, how we are shaped in the pattern of this world, the empty self as a construct of our consumer world