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Date: 07 August 2007 08:53:18
I feel that over the last week or so my mind and soul have been drenched in cool, mountain spring water which has quenched the thirst of one who has wandered through the desert to get to this place. Whilst I appreciate the value of having to find it myself I am disturbed about how long it has taken to find this place and how many people who could have directed me here have either chosen not to do so or have, probably, just taken it for granted I would know about it and so thought I have visited earlier. Again it highlights the lack of education which "the average bum on the pew" is given and the need for a central resource which they can be directed to.
So what does this spring contain? Stories from the past; tales of inspiration and hope. Dreams and visions from a previous, but not forgotten age. Heroes and heroines who took risks and inhabited that ground where conventional religious thought meets radical political ideology in the northern hemisphere.
Ok, before anybody calls the men in white coats I haven't lost the plot, I've just read a couple of amazing books which give insight into people who are hero(ine)s of the modern church but the modern church chooses not to talk about very much (or atleast not the parts of the modern church I have inhabited for the last quarter of a century). The books: Dorothy Day Writings from Commonweal (Patrick Jordan, (ed), 2002, The Liturgical Press, Minnesota) and George MacLeod Founder of the Iona Community (Ron Ferguson, 2001, Wild Goose Publications, Glasgow). All I can say is amazing, read them and be inspired by them!!!