Blog - Unadulterated Love

I’m undertaking research work at the moment for a book, a book about eight people who were writing and publishing in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, people who deeply influenced my spiritual formation. Some of them are not widely recognised or read today (and in some Christian circles, some of them were and probably still are taboo), They include William James, Mircea Eliade, Peter L...

Having rescued my books from storage when I moved into the new apartment in Morden College and having then arranged them carefully by subject and in alphabetical order of author, I rediscovered many wisdom books from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Glancing through them, it dawned on me that my contemplative Christian spiritual activist self was and is rooted in these books. I’ve also ...

After moving io Morden College in February I spent the first four weeks unpacking books and arranging them in categories and alphabetical order by author. There are shelves of architecture, railways, psychotherapy, LGBTQIA+, Christian LGBTQI+, Christian history, God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Theology, Spirituality and Visionary prophets. It wasn’t easy to decide to which of the la...

Last Sunday I decided to not to go, as has become my custom, to Southwark Cathedral’s 11.00 Choral Eucharist. Instead I took an Elizabeth Line train almost as far west as my Freedom Pass allowed – to Maidenhead - thinking I might walk to view Brunel’s graceful bridge over the Thames. It turns out Taplow station is a bit nearer the bridge but Elizabeth Line trains don’t stop t...

On Saturday 9 May, Katharine Viner, editor of the Guardian, published a long read: ‘How to survive the information crisis: We once talked about fake news - now real...