The Dream of the Rood

An informal first meeting to introduce the aims of the group and themes for discussion.

I have selected a feature blog essay entitled 'The Dream of the Rood' as it goes a long way toward indicating the kinds of spiritual & cultural concerns & considerations that I wonder if anyone else shares.

https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-dream-of-the-rood

"We are in that passage now; we live in a darkness between worlds. Macintyre concluded that the West was waiting for 'a new - and doubtless very different - St Benedict.' That was forty years ago, and we are still waiting, but it’s not a bad way to see the challenge we face. Modernity is not at all short on ideas, arguments, insults, ideologies, strategems, conflicts, world-saving machines or clever TED talks. But it is very short on saints; and how we need their love, wisdom, discipline and stillness amidst the roaring of the Machine. Maybe we had better start looking at how to embody a little of it ourselves."