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Waystations
Nurturing faith and creating migratory paths
Image: Butterflies, Odilon Redon
Windows on the soul
Reflecting on the different stages of life through 2 paintings
Phases of faith
Faith is a verb, a process of becoming, involving our loving, trusting, believing, acting, suffering, valuing, knowing, committing. Alan Jamieson
Picture: The Vendramin family, Titian
Paths taken, paths not taken
We 'stand enquiring'. (John Donne)
Providence
The big river of God’s providential love
Photo: Ansel Adams, wikiart.org
Language and metaphors of faith development
Analogies for faith transitions
Photo: Evermore.com
Yes: Entrusting oneself to Another
Accepting the life that is awaiting us
Photo: Annie Spratt, unsplash.com
Happiness
I the middle of my winter I found an invincible summer. Daniel O'Leary
Photo: Kwang Mathurosemontri
Time, as sacrament
Exploring our relationship with time.
Ageing well
Do some things get better as we age?
What might these be?
Picture: Self portrait with red flower wreath and chain, 1907. Paula Modersohn becke
Waiting
Why wait?
Picture: http://nos.twnsnd.co/
Distance and intimacy (the unitive life)
Entering deeply in to the soul so as to enter more deeply in to humanity and the mystery of God himself. Peter Feldmeier
Photograph: Houses on clifftop, Jonas Lavoie-Levesque (unsplash.com)
Learning your true name
Most fundamentally, who are you?
Postmodernity and faith
A liquid society. Do we underestimate the effect of postmodern culture on our faith?
Introversion
The impact of internalising the extroverted bias in culture.
Picture: Self portrait, 1901 Heinrich Kuhn
Lost
I'm not lost but neither do I know where I am going.
Exhaustion
Why am I so tired?
Picture: Rest on the flight to Egypt, Gentileschi
Thresholds and conversion
If we wish to live freely and expansively we must learn to die or diminish or take risks.
Photograph: Stephen Wood
Coracle magazine: The pictures within (vol 10)
Shame and vulnerability. The Invisible Church - a book review, Downloadable pdf material launched. Two new groups: East Lothian and Explorers