tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post5306391697621440567..comments2024-02-13T11:11:28.246+00:00Comments on Bishop Alan’s Blog: Conversion: Seeing from Inside outBishop Alan Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-60501318910584588732009-03-25T08:35:00.000+00:002009-03-25T08:35:00.000+00:00Thanks, Barney, for expressing the idea so clearly...Thanks, Barney, for expressing the idea so clearly. One of the things that fell off the back of Philip Johnson's new book about Eastern (Syriac, Jacobite, nestorian) Churches was the rich and charitable cross-fertilization between Eastern monastics and Sufi Islam in its formative period. authentic Mystical informs and can transcend dogmatic; when people forget that, trouble starts. Steven, thank you. Magdalene is an intentional community founded on what you suggest, a living example of re-envisioning happening in the lives of people who have been rubbished by secular society and even themselves.Bishop Alan Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-58754025298736680792009-03-25T08:11:00.000+00:002009-03-25T08:11:00.000+00:00'If she had never had Cancer, how would we have le...'If she had never had Cancer, how would we have learnt to respect her?'<BR/><BR/>By using Christian love?Steven Carrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11983601793874190779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-53568653483045022122009-03-24T16:36:00.000+00:002009-03-24T16:36:00.000+00:00nice postnice postAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-7490054049054968012009-03-24T09:41:00.000+00:002009-03-24T09:41:00.000+00:00Thanks for the fascinating post. I've been interes...Thanks for the fascinating post. I've been interested in the Rule of St Benedict ever since I was invited to speak at a Baha'i summer school which happened to be taking place at Ampleforth College. I read up on the Rule before going there, met the Prior, and attended one of the monastic offices. What I liked was the way the Rule brings together work and worship - this resonates with the Baha'i approach to work and worship and makes a great deal of sense.<BR/><BR/>It is very interesting to see how the Rule can be brought into play in non-monastic settings like Thistle Farms.<BR/><BR/>And I agree wholeheartedly with the lesson many of us need to learn from Jade Goody. Everyone is a love letter from God, no matter how crumpled or dirty or flamboyant or odd the envelope. We need to open the envelope and read the heart's message.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com