Quam dilecta

Gauguin as Christ in the Garden, 1889 A script of a joint talk given by Henry Lamprecht (my better half!) and me as part of a series on Musi...

Monk (Mönch) by Katharina Fritsch, 1997/1999 (Art Institute Chicaco) Hello and welcome to this week’s Start:Stop reflection from St Stephen ...

Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea, c1809 Why do we need to “practice the presence of God” when we know that God is with us at all time...

Painting by Ian Fisher (ianfisherart.com) It has been wonderful to revisit this book recently, which I was first introduced to on a course l...

Berndnaut Smilde, Nimbus Sankt Peter, 2013 Hello, my name is Phillip Dawson and it is a great pleasure to welcome you to our Start:Stop refl...

This is the transcript of my 30 minute talk on the “contemplative tradition” of Thomas Merton, delivered as part of a course at the Lo...

For our final piece of work on the retreat, Miriam asked me to review the week using two questions, in the form of The Examen. 

This morning after talking with Miriam and reading out my imagined conversation between Jesus and Zacchaeus, I decided to go back to ima...

Speaking with Miriam this morning I realised that my natural instinct is to draw or write about imagined scenes as an observer, looking ...

After spending some time yesterday reflecting on the story of Zacchaeus - and drawing an imagined scene (rather than drawing from life) ...

After reflecting on Isaiah Chapter 43 yesterday, and particularly on the phrase which stood out first (“I have called you by name, you ar...

I have signed up to be part of the first Week of Prayer in Daily Life, organised by the Adult Learning Team at St Paul’s Cathedral. On Su...