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I'm Eirene - backstreet pilgrim.

I'm changing my image of God, one step at a time. My journey is taking me through the backstreets,

not by any main route into the city.

Walk with me.

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'Faith is the radical trust that home has always been there and always will be there.'

Henri Nouwen

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Jan 22
4 min

Gas and Air

A few years ago, I fell down a flight of steps in one of our great English cathedrals. I won’t mention which one because there are such...

Jan 12
3 min

Happy Hopeful New Year - changing from the inside out

It’s a tad late – but Happy New Year! New Year, New You! Yeah right. I don’t do new year’s resolutions because I never keep them. It’s...

Nov 18, 2022
3 min

Peace mail

Last weekend, me and Richard ran a writing retreat at Launde Abbey in Leicestershire. And far from finding my best self before we went, I...

Oct 17, 2022
4 min

The Wilderness Weeks

I lost myself these last few months. Ever since that pesky little Covid virus invaded my body in mid-June, I’ve put up a Situations...

May 26, 2022
4 min

Recovering from Biblical anorexia

When I was a young ordinand’s wife helping out in the library of his theological college, I looked up from my desk one day to find the...

May 4, 2022
3 min

Look at the hands

Sometimes when the news is devastating and I wake up in the morning with a pit of crushing dread in my stomach, signs and symbols can...

Mar 25, 2022
4 min

Loved. Accepted. Held.

I wish I could say to you, dear readers, that I’m covering many miles and a lot of ground at speed on this, my spiritual journey. For the...

Mar 4, 2022
3 min

Encircle. Heal. Protect.

If, like me you were raised in a fundamentalist church, you learn to try very hard from the very beginning. Try hard to be good. Try hard...

Feb 12, 2022
4 min

Strain and Stress

Last Sunday, I was singing in my cathedral choir which always means it’s a GOOD DAY. It’s my happy place, standing there in my cassock...

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