I am from cots, beds And starchy white aprons I am from ward 8 Thermometers, bedpans And the wireless in the corner I am from silent looks And pass-it-on clothes I’m from the Lord is my shepherd And Amazing Grace, The Sacred Heart statue And the Angelus at noon. I am from the larks And… Continue reading I am from…
I can not (yet?) call myself a ‘reconciling leader’. The words stick in my mouth and choke in my throat with their declaration of already being rather than becoming something. However, I can and will declare myself a woman who is becoming a leader in the revolution for peace and reconciliation. As someone who prays… Continue reading a declaration towards reconciliation
Quakers can be quite righteous. We tend to point out the positives and even our testimony of truth hasn’t stopped us from passing over the inconvenient truths in our past and our present. Recently I have been noticing and naming this as virtue signalling, the word used to describe the action or practice of publicly… Continue reading Repairing relations/reparations
Book title: ‘Imagination is Still the Key to Unlock Environmental Crisis’. The above book by Chris Sunderland was a good and a disturbing read. The premise of the author is that unless we can begin to imagine the environment as it could be, then everything remains the same. But if we can imagine it as it… Continue reading Shared imagination
Whilst I was in my outdoor bath looking up at the stars on Saturday night my partner started speaking about a writer he reads who is outside of his ‘bubble’. I had the realisation that although I have been taught to think critically at university, I rarely read newspapers or articles that come from the… Continue reading Love our way through our differences
In preparation for the last module, I spent time asking myself about the introduction question sent to us: What is a sacred place for me? Even as I was walking to Ammerdown, I still didn’t have a satisfactory answer. I could think of plenty of places I love and appreciate, places that have taken my… Continue reading Sacred places
I can’t say anyone has ever asked me about my theology of earth, nor have I intentionally given it much thought. In many ways, it was a subject I shied away from as a teenager, because the teaching I received in church didn’t seem to make much sense! It wasn’t until my mid-thirties that I… Continue reading Learning to see
I am Earth. We are Earth. We are One. We are Many. As our brother Bayo Akomolafe shared: we are more bacteria than we are human. We have more bacterial cells than human cells. We are emergent and interconnected. Science is suggesting what Indigenous peoples, witches and medicine men and women have known for centuries-… Continue reading I am Earth. We are Earth. We are One. We are Many.
written for my ordination in August, 2016 From head… to heart… to hand… As I understand it, the purpose of ministry is to meet, to listen, to encourage, to include… I see life not as a clear division of dark and light, of perfection and flaw, but as a circular spectrum of colour, movement and… Continue reading The Ministry of My Heart
I’ve always been dissatisfied with the church, as far as inclusion goes. I’ve lived with a disability all my life, spent most of my childhood in a long-stay children’s hospital. In-between times I attended a school for physically and mentally handicapped children (1950’s terminology). I picked up a few unwanted labels on the way and needed to… Continue reading My Two Halves of Life
