internal émigré/ introduction
The single most important key to understanding the foundation of the Northumbria Community can be found in the crisis of faith that was the common experience of the few who first started out on the journey. Like most ordinary folk,… (READ MORE)
Internal Émigré Series 1991/Desert Fathers/John T. Skinner
The Desert Fathers Our story begins, not in the wild and woolly landscape of early Northumbria, but the remote desert regions of Egypt, Palestine, Arabia and at the beginning of the fourth century A.D. It is here that we encounter… (READ MORE)
Internal Émigrés: A New Type of Monasticism 1991 John T. Skinner
Internal Émigrés: A New Type of Monasticism 1991 Old Bewick Northumbria In our studies of the Desert Fathers, we attempted to look at the ‘heart’ of monastic spirituality. To do so, we had to divorce ourselves from our contemporary understanding… (READ MORE)
Internal Émigrés: Communities of Hope 1991 John T. Skinner
Internal Émigrés: Communities of Hope 1991 John T. Skinner One of the problems of communication is the lack of consistency in the agreed use and meaning of words. Typical of this is our use of the word ‘community.’ Community is… (READ MORE)
Internal Émigré Series 1991/The Northumbrian Church:Rex Gardner
THE NORTHUMBRIAN CHURCH I was at a lecture on Thursday by Professor Atkinson of Sheffield, talking about Martin Luther, and he pointed out that Luther was, at that stage, the last in a series of people who’d really sought to… (READ MORE)
Internal Émigré Series 1991/ Monasticism: The Heart of Celtic Christianity/Paul Cullity
If you want to capture the idea of Celtic Monasticism in words, you’ll find that words themselves seem inadequate. I have struggled for weeks now to present the essence of this movement, and I find it no easier now than… (READ MORE)
Internal Émigré Series 1991/ I AM or i am/ John T. Skinner
I AM or I am Exodus 3 v 1:15 ‘Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father‑in‑law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the… (READ MORE)
Internal Émigré Series 1991: Power and Presence/Andy Raine
Power and Presence We begin today with a story about St Kevin of Ireland: ‘Kevin devoted part of each day to reading the Scriptures, sitting in his hut, with his arms stretched out through the window reaching up to heaven. … (READ MORE)
