Just over five years ago, aged 58, I suddenly, after a lifetime of being in pretty good health, mysteriously and suddenly collapsed; I was rushed to hospital where after a week's tests I discovered there was a small, dark 'shadow' in my small intestines. They didn't know what it was, but they did know itContinue reading “The Healing Moment: Towards Wholeness”
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Review: The Naked God – Wrestling for a Grace-ful Humanity by Vincent Strudwick
Rowan Williams describes The Naked God as a “tremendously engaging and positive book”, and indeed it is just that. The author, Vincent Strudwick, must be at least 84 years old but he writes with the fire, passion and conviction of a man half his age. And the book is a strange amalgam of autobiography, TwentiethContinue reading “Review: The Naked God – Wrestling for a Grace-ful Humanity by Vincent Strudwick”
Review: Apocalypse by Frederick Turner
There are nine Muses of poetry, daughters of Zeus or some say Apollo, and the Titaness, Mnenosyne, goddess of memory, past and future. And of these nine the most important is Kalliope, she of the Lovely Voice, and the muse of epic poetry; and she is considered by Hesiod and others, rightly in my opinion,Continue reading “Review: Apocalypse by Frederick Turner”
Book Review: Leading for a Change by Paul Canon Harris
This new book, Leading for a Change, by Paul Canon Harris is a worthy addition to the ever-growing literature on change and leadership. Indeed, one of its strengths is precisely that it makes so strong a connection between leadership and change; some leadership books seem to regard leadership as merely the possession of certain abstractContinue reading “Book Review: Leading for a Change by Paul Canon Harris”
Words Cannot Express It
There is so much bad press out there today for religions, believers, and generally people of faith (except of course for people believing that all beliefs are equal or equally absurd, which almost appears a consensus view) that it is important reasons why this is so, and examine whether it is justified. A primary causeContinue reading “Words Cannot Express It”
Being Able and Breaking Compulsions
It was Vivekenanda who said, "That man who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God." And as with faith, so with love: we cannot not love ourselves and yet think we can love another. Loving oneself is not a selfish act, but a healthy one; at root it is an affirmationContinue reading “Being Able and Breaking Compulsions”
Creeds, Incarnation and the Trinity
Here we are again – at Christmas time. Bliss! A holiday. A time to reflect on what is important. And what is more important, more important than virtually anything else, is what we believe. Why? Because what we believe affects all the outcomes of our life. Famously James Allen cited the Bible and virtually launchedContinue reading “Creeds, Incarnation and the Trinity”
The Power of Prayer
Those of you who have followed my blogs over a number of years will have no doubt that I believe in prayer; by which I mean, that prayer is efficacious and effective and, in short, works! Quite apart from anything else, my time in hospital with my life-threatening illness and the power of prayer then,Continue reading “The Power of Prayer”
Belief, the Ideal Self and Alexander the Great
As a Quaker committed to peace, the thought of saying anything good about Alexander the Great may seem odd. It’s fashionable after the event to speak well of conquering tyrants (Hitler excepted): what a splendid leader Napoleon was, and how amazing Julius Caesar was – why he even came to England, the first wave, andContinue reading “Belief, the Ideal Self and Alexander the Great”
The Works of Man and the Works of God
Often it is difficult, superficially, to distinguish between the works of man and the works of god. By god here I don’t necessarily mean – although I don’t exclude either – the God of religion or of a particular scripture; I mean the god whose presence we detect when we sense true inspiration and genuineContinue reading “The Works of Man and the Works of God”
The Mapping Motivation Series 