Welcome

‘We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’ T.S.Elliot

Since I retired I have looked for a way to record and share my thinking by way of blogging and on a website; this is the result. It was begun during the second Covid lockdown in autumn 2020 and is a long term work in progress.

There are three main areas of focus, plus a coupe of others. The one that is really the driving force behind the website itself, is my long term interest in the relationship between superstition and faith, I have given this the working title ‘Good luck with the Faith’. I still have the hope that this may become the title of a future book!

My reflections in this area have helped to give me a framework within which to interpret a good number of contemporary issues, connecting spirituality with events in the wider world. So the second area of focus is on just that, spirituality and contemporary issues, or if you prefer, contemporary spirituality. By way of a 2025 update and given the growth of extreme popularist and often fundamentalist movements, I am becoming increasingly focused on understanding this phenomena and especially how this relates to what is often the erosion of empathy.

The third area is concerned with the discipline of Bibliodrama. This is something which I discovered over 20 years ago and is a practice that uses spontaneity and creativity in response to sacred texts. It has various possible overlaps with the other two areas as one might imagine but it’s not planned that way.

The pictures in the gallery also reflect my interest in photography which I realise regularly focuses on skies, clouds, trees, water, and more recently fungi, often in some kind of combination. It presumably signifies something that I’ve not yet figured out…. Then there are the posts that are to do with our travels. Images of our campervan will feature as well as other hopefully interesting places, many of them in the Netherlands where we spend a lot of time.

I hope that amongst all of this visitors will find something of interest.