Setting Sail: Conversations before General Synod
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Spring 1999
Stepping into the shoes of others
In the early seventies, I lived in a draughty old house in England with half a dozen other students. The house was an ecumenical residence sponsored by the Orthodox church, and it so happens that my bedroom was directly above the chapel. The first morning after I arrived, I awakened to the smell of incense [...]
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At dusk
I went to the place where
looking across the folds of hills
I might see you.
Wanting a vision, expecting none,
suddenly
there was a crease of light
where day meets night –
a mystical plant erupting
between earth and heaven.
“It’s too fast,” I thought,
and yet, this birth continued
inexorably,
swelling and rounding out until
complete at last and free
it seemed to me
to roll down [...]
