Ravenwilderness Blog by Maggie Ross Index of Posts: Jan 2006 – Apr 2013 Created by: desertfisher
January 2006 The Prayer of Life: Sermon for Sanford-on-Thames Terror and the Idea of America My Turn Amid a Failure of Leadership Praying With Our Feet A Rite for Contemplative Eucharist Sermon for Christ the King, 2005 St Alban's, Oxford February 2006 Big Sur Diptych II: Feast of the Transfiguration A Stammering in the Dark: Talk for the Carmelite Community, Langham Big Sur Diptych I: Summer Solstice Big Oil and Death on Resurrection Bay March 2006 Inhabiting the Wilderness of the Spirit Department of Infinite Sadness Simone Weil: Force, Fragility and the Art of Kenosis April 2006 The Mirror of Tears and Fire Salted with Fire Good Friday: the Third Nocturn Holy Week Hope Is The Thing With Feathers Trinity Fire Summary Juneau's Historic Church, Meeting and Cultural Center Destroyed in Fire
May 2006 Reflections on the Beatitudes: The First Beatitude True Priests Exodus 19:3-8 Psalm 15 Matthew 16:24-27: Given at EDS in Cambridge Divine Play Holy Trinity Update June 2006 The Sixth Beatitude: "How blest are those whose hearts are pure; they shall see God." The Fifth Beatitude: "How blest are those who show mercy; mercy shall be shown to them" Falling Through Despair Into Hope The Third Beatitude: "How blest are those of a gentle spirit; they shall have the earth for their possession." Clergydom and the Failure of the Gospel The Fourth Beatitude: The Fourth Beatitude: "How blest are those who hunger and thirst to see right prevail; they shall be satisfied." The Second Beatitude: "How blest are the sorrowful; they shall find consolation." July 2006 The Altar of the Heart The School of Kenosis The Eighth Beatitude: "How blest are those who have suffered persecution for the cause of right; the kingdom of Heaven is theirs." The Seventh Beatitude: "How blest are the peacemakers; God shall call them the fruit of divine love." Holy Trinity Update A National Disgrace
August 2006 The Ecology of Repentance V The Ecology of Repentance IV The Ecology of Repentance III The Ecology of Repentance II The Ecology of Repentance I
January 2007 The Radiance of Torah: A Sermon for St. Alban's, Oxford, 21 January, 2007 Holy Trinity Fire Update Remarks by the Rev'd George Silides, Rector Unity Indwelling Trinity
September 2006 Swimmer's Eucharist Cranberries: A Meditation on Exodus 34:29-35 and Revelation 22:1-5 Time Transcending Time
February 2007 The Apophatic Ordinary III The Apophatic Ordinary II The Apophatic Ordinary I The Radiance of Torah II [Psalm 19]
October 2006 The Healing Pain of Our Divisions IV The Healing Pain of Our Divisions III The Healing Pain of Our Divisions II The Healing Pain of Our Divisions I (1998) November 2006 Barking at Angels Prayer as Service II: Sermon given at Holy Apostles Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico Prayer as Service I: Sermon given at Holy Apostles Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico The Healing Pain of Our Divisions VI The Healing Pain of Our Divisions V December 2006 Christmas Greetings Seeing II Seeing
March 2007 Why the Church is Dying II: A report requested by a diocese at the end of a Theologian in Residence programme Why the Church is Dying I Holy Trinity Fire—First Anniversary April 2007 Heaven Can't Wait Why the Church is Dying V Why the Church is Dying IV Easter With Rumi 2007 Good Friday 2007: War Requiem Holy Trinity Fire—Insurance Settlement and Appeal Why the Church is Dying III
May 2007 The Human Experience of God at Turning Points: A Theological Expose of Spiritual Counterfeits Heaven Can't Wait V Heaven Can't Wait IV Heaven Can't Wait III Heaven Can't Wait II June 2007 V The Human Experience of God at Turning Points: A Theological Expose of Spiritual Counterfeits IV The Human Experience of God at Turning Points: A Theological Expose of Spiritual Counterfeits III The Human Experience of God at Turning Points: A Theological Expose of Spiritual Counterfeits II The Human Experience of God at Turning Points: A Theological Expose of Spiritual Counterfeits
July 2007 IX The Human Experience of God at Turning Points: A Theological Expose of Spiritual Counterfeits VIII The Human Experience of God at Turning Points: A Theological Expose of Spiritual Counterfeits VII The Human Experience of God at Turning Points: A Theological Expose of Spiritual Counterfeits VI The Human Experience of God at Turning Points: A Theological Expose of Spiritual Counterfeits
August 2007 III Sexuality, Otherness and the Truth of the Self: Difference, Otherness, Commonality II Sexuality, Otherness, and the Truth of the Self The Blessing of Ambiguity Sexuality, Otherness, and the Truth of the Self: Vox Benedictina, December, 1993 X The Human Experience of God at Turning Points: A Theological Expose of Spiritual Counterfeits
September 2007 VII Sexuality, Otherness and the Truth of the Self Beyond Reactive Affect VI Sexuality, Otherness and the Truth of the Self The Paradox of Intention More Comments on Pillars of Flame: Power, Priesthood and Spiritual Maturity V Sexuality, Otherness and the Truth of the Self The Self Comments on Pillars of Flame: Power, Priesthood and Spiritual Maturity IV Sexuality, Otherness and the Truth of the Self: Différance Publication: Pillars of Flame: Power, Priesthood, and Spiritual Maturity October 2007 Extremes October Night October Light Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Foreword to Pillars of Flame: Power, Priesthood and Spiritual Maturity VIII Sexuality, Otherness and the Truth of the Self Presence and Absence November 2007 IV Nonne: Are Feminists Asking the Wrong Questions? III Nonne: Are Feminists Asking the Wrong Questions? II Nonne: Are Feminists Asking the Wrong Questions? Contemplative Eucharist—Clarification Nonne: Are Feminists Asking the Wrong Questions?
December 2007 Christmas 2007 Reading Between the Lions: A Pedagogy of Silence: Sermon for Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 18 November, 2007 VI Nonne: Are Feminists Asking the Wrong Questions? V Nonne: Are Feminists Asking the Wrong Questions? January 2008 IX Nonne: Are Feminists Asking the Wrong Questions? VIII Nonne: Are Feminists Asking the Wrong Questions? The Walrus of the Living God: Sermon for St Albans, Oxford, 13 January, 2008 Itinerarium Mentis in Deum Sermon for St Mary and St John, Oxford: Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 2007 VII Nonne: Are Feminists Asking the Wrong Questions? February 2008 II Liturgy in Truth: Transfiguring the Mind and the Heart Remarks for Churches Together Climate Change Conference, Reading, UK, February 16, 2008 By Our Wounds We Are Healed: Sermon for All Saints Convent, Oxford First Sunday in Lent, February 10, 2008 Liturgy in Truth: Transfiguring the Mind and the Heart Nonne: Bibliography March 2008 Notes: Liturgy in Truth: Transfiguring the Mind and the Heart IV Liturgy in Truth: Transfiguring the Mind and the Heart III Liturgy in Truth: Transfiguring the Mind and the Heart Mud and Spittle: Sermon for St Saviour's, Bar Harbor, Maine, Lent IV, March 2, 2008
April 2008 The Space of Prayer Sermon for Mansfield College, Oxford [February 27, 2008] III Whatever Happened to Discretion? LEARNING BY EXAMPLE II Whatever Happened to Discretion? Whatever Happened to Discretion? May 2008 Hunger for God IV The Space of Prayer III The Space of Prayer II The Space of Prayer June 2008 Birds of a Feather Alaska Journal A Visitation from the Depths III Hunger for God II Hunger for God July 2008 Life Held Cheap The Mote and the Beam Alaska Journal Are You Ready for Resurrection? Pumpkin Love Knots
August 2008 Who Is Sarah Palin? Swimming to Nowhere Ethics Issuing from Silence III The ethics of silence is green. Ethics Issuing from Silence II Ethics Issuing from Silence I Being vs Doing September 2008 Tears and Fire: Recovering a Neglected Tradition IV Tears and Fire: Recovering a Neglected Tradition III Tears and Fire: Recovering a Neglected Tradition II Spirituality IS Political Ethics Issuing from Silence IV Tears and Fire: Recovering a Neglected Tradition I Tears and Fire: Recovering a Neglected Tradition VII Excursus Tears and Fire: Recovering a Neglected Tradition VI Tears and Fire: Recovering a Neglected Tradition V Becoming Virgin November 2008 Tears and Fire: Recovering a Neglected Tradition IX Tears and Fire: Recovering a Neglected Tradition VIII 90th Anniversary of WWI Armistice Trusting Ourselves as Americans December 2008
St Lucy's Day Tears and Fire: Recovering a Neglected Tradition X Barking at Angels Great Tew Combined Benefice, Advent Sunday, November 30, 2008 January 2009 Hearing the Vision Sermon for Little Tew, 18 January, 2009 Tears and Fire: Recovering a Neglected Tradition XIII
Becoming Prayer The Audacity of Hope Tears and Fire: Recovering a Neglected Tradition XII
Through the Glass Darkly Tears and Fire: Recovering a Neglected Tradition XI February 2009 Semi-Annual Migration Green Faith Day III Swimmer's Eucharist Between Omnia and Nihil, Everything and Nothing Green Faith Day II Question 2 Green Faith Day, 17 January, 2009 March 2009 He Outpoured Himself . . . God and Mammon Green Faith Day V Green Faith Day IV Apocalypse Now Nothing Is Wasted
XI The Seven Devils of Women's Ordination, or, She Who Lie Down With Dogs Catch Fleas: Some Conclusions X The Seven Devils of Women's Ordination, or, She Who Lie Down With Dogs Catch Fleas: The American Experience IX The Seven Devils of Women's Ordination, or, She Who Lie Down With Dogs Catch Fleas VIII The Seven Devils of Women's Ordination, or, She Who Lie Down With Dogs Catch Fleas: Theology
April 2009 God and Lord, He and She Farewell Clarification "Signs of Hope, Signs of Despair" Plus ça change . . . . Unsettled Caveat Adorator Signs of Hope, Signs of Despair May 2009 II The Seven Devils of Women's Ordination, or, She Who Lie Down With Dogs Catch Fleas The Seven Devils of Women's Ordination, or, She Who Lie Down With Dogs Catch Fleas Sharing Divinity: From a sermon preached at St John's Church, Tulsa, OK, 22 February, 1998 The Space of a Preposition The Seven Devils of Women's Ordination, or, She Who Lie Down With Dogs Catch Fleas Sharing Divinity: From a sermon preached at St John's Church, Tulsa, OK, 22 February, 1998
June 2009 VII The Seven Devils of Women's Ordination, or, She Who Lie Down With Dogs Catch Fleas: Liturgy VI The Seven Devils of Women's Ordination, or, She Who Lie Down With Dogs Catch Fleas:Clericalism V The Seven Devils of Women's Ordination, or, She Who Lie Down With Dogs Catch Fleas IV The Seven Devils of Women's Ordination, or, She Who Lie Down With Dogs Catch Fleas: Institutional Contradictions III The Seven Devils of Women's Ordination, or, She Who Lie Down With Dogs Catch Fleas: Discerning the Vision of God
July 2009
August 2009 Reader Query III Reader Query II Reader Query Life Imitating Cartoons XII The Seven Devils of Women's Ordination, or, She Who Lie Down With Dogs Catch Fleas—Addenda: Text of footnote 38 September 2009 Becoming Human Long Shadows Recommended Listening Reader Query V How NOT to Design a "Contemplative Eucharist" Reader Query IV October 2009 Another Reader's Query II The Princess and the Pigpen: Sermon for the Solemnity of St Frideswide Silence vs Silencing Another Reader's Query I' Obedience and Dependence Are Opposites November 2009
Sporting With Leviathan IV Sporting With Leviathan III Sporting With Leviathan II Troll Flu Sporting With Leviathan Owen Revisited
December 2009 The Rising of the Sun. . . . Luddite Christmas A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day 'Christmas Landscape' by Laurie Lee Three Hats, Three Corners, and a Possible Impasse Remembering to Forget NOVEMBER 1, 2007 – ALL SAINTS DAY, OXFORD, ENGLAND An Opportunity January 2010 Desert Winter Practical Adoration II Haiti Practical Adoration Transitions Techno-Clergy February 2010 Rite for the Day of Cremation New and Contrite Words Practical Adoration IV REMEMBERING THE PLOT
Practical Adoration III THE CONTEXT FOR ADORATION
March 2010 Jesus in the Balance: Interpretation in the Twenty-First Century IV: THE WORK OF SILENCE Jesus in the Balance: Interpretation in the Twenty-First Century III Invitation to a Silent Great Three Days Retreat at Bishop's Ranch April 1 to 4 Jesus in the Balance: Interpretation in the Twenty-First Century II Jesus in the Balance: Interpretation in the Twenty-First Century More New and Contrite Words April 2010 The Body's Wisdom: A talk given at a Quiet Day, February 20, 2010 Introduction to War Requiem Jesus in the Balance: Interpretation in the Twenty-First Century VI: THE EFFECTS OF KENOSIS Jesus in the Balance: Interpretation in the Twenty-First Century V: INTERPRETING THE KENOTIC HYMN Love Unrecognized: Sermon for Maundy Thursday, Bishop's Ranch
May 2010 The Body's Wisdom V Fantasyland The Body's Wisdom IV The Body's Wisdom III The Body's Wisdom II
September 2010 Diaghilev Wars and Rumours of Wars Transitions An Evening Walk Transition Stage 2
June 2010 Obscurity From Today's Episcopal Café Intercession Internal Concordance 30th Anniversary of Vows Despair
October 2010 Pre-Election Provocations Passivity and Entitlement Anamchara Responds Comments Worth Foregrounding Listening to Words Erazim Kohák
July 2010 Summer Abundance In the Empire of Ice Prayer is Political The Worst Passion?
November 2010 Coinky-Dink Byrd, Couperin, and Circus Music A Flock of Turkeys Winter Human Dignity No Place for Silence Saturday Madness
August 2010 A Road Traveled Apologies Feathers from the Breath of God Foxfire An Unsettling God
December 2010 Christmas Wonder Happy Christmas Who Sings Prays Twice St Lucy's Day Hymns Advent Hope
January 2011 Writing the Icon of the Heart Poverty and Pain Silence . . . A Question of Empiricism Reflections on 'Spirituality' From correspondence about the book Beloved Dust: Exoticism February 2011 Different Versions of the Cloud of Unknowing Let Them Use the Market A Matter of Degree More from Moshe Idel Scholarship, Kabbala and Praxis Writing the Icon of the Heart: In Silence Beholding March 2011 Post-Partum Four Elements of Deep Silence: Earth Exotic Religion Vanity vs Meaningless Reading Aloud the KJV at the Bath Literary Festival Reading and Writing April 2011 Magic Eye = Kenotic Eye May You Have a Blessed Triduum and Eastertide Four Elements of Deep Silence: Fire Four Elements of Deep Silence: Water Four Elements of Deep Silence: Air
May 2011 More Language Matters Likewise, I'm Sure Sunday Evening at St Mark's Cathedral, Seattle Language and Meaning Publication and Hay Festival Microcosm Inappropriate Death of a Terrorist and Unanswered Questions Wisdom from P.D. James, the Abbot Tashi, and Langland June 2011 Exploring Silence: Practice and History Yet More Word Matters Common Worship Crazies Assisted Dying Anniversary Hay Festival Absence July 2011 Exploring Silence IV Exploring Silence III Problematic Words in Medieval Scholarship II Event Horizon and Deep Mind/Theology Definition of 'Pathos of Shakenness' Problematic Words in Medieval Scholarship Andrew Shanks Exploring Silence II
August 2011 Who Sneers First Dies First Exploring Silence VII Ecclesiastical History and Ecclesiology Exploring Silence VI UK Riots Exploring Silence V September 2011 In Memoriam: Wangari Maathai Exploring Silence VIII Let Us Pray A Layby for the Dead Savour the Days Brief and Banal October 2011 Pumpkin Love II Riddling Exegesis The Princess and the Pigpen: Sermon for the Solemnity of St Frideswide Exploring Silence X Exploring Silence IX Autumn Lacking Nothing November 2011 Barking at Angels II The Tree of Meaning Christ the King Indigestion The Eleventh Hour Now We Are Seventy The Chickens at St Paul's In Between
Hodie Christus Natus Est O Virgo Virginum O Emmanuel Solstice O Rex Gentium O Oriens O Clavis David O Radix Jesse O Adonai O Sapientia Happy Corporate Christmas The Advent of our God Barking at Angels III Cold Comfort January 2012 Contemplation/Contemplative Piracy How to be Quiet Heresy Apophatic/Kataphatic February 2012 A Culture of Dependence The Living Book Affective Dehumanization Margaret Barker Aporia / Asceticism
March 2012 Christian Wiman Knowing Silence Archbishop Rowan Williams Who Am I? We Urgently Need a New Translation of the Bible World Book Day
June 2012 X Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model... IX Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model... VIII Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model ..... VII Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model... VI Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model... V Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model...
April 2012 Solitaries As Bellweathers Update Alas, Poor Solitaries Fragility Richard Holloway Holy Week
July 2012 Manchester Talk May 31, 2012 (diagram) XV Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model... XIV Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model ... XIII Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model XII Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model... XI Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model...
May 2012 IV Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model... III Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model... Maggie Ross at Manchester Cathedral II Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model... Apophatic Prayer as a Theological Model: Notes for a Quantum Theology Of Orcs, Elves, and Men Steven Horst's Remarks Reflections on Solitude A Rare Courage
August 2012 VII Manchester Talk May 31, 2012 VI Manchester Talk May 31, 2012 V Manchester Talk May 31, 2012 IV Manchester Talk 31 May, 2012 III Manchester Talk May 31, 2012 II Manchester Talk May 31, 2012 September 2012 XIII Manchester Talk May 31, 2012 XII Manchester Talk May 31, 2012 XI Manchester Talk May 31, 2012 X Manchester Talk May 31, 2012 IX Manchester Talk May 31, 2012 VIII Manchester Talk May 31, 2012
October 2012 II Why Religious Life Died Why Religious Life Died Rowan's Address to the Roman Catholic Synod Computer Dork XIV Manchester Talk May 31, 2012 November 2012 Obedience Saying No to Women Bishops IV Why Religious Life Died III Why Religious Life Died December 2012 How to Survive Christmas: Rule #5736 Christmas Night VII Why Religious Life Died VI Why Religious Life Died V Why Religious Life Died January 2013 The Gospels As If for the First Time XIII Why Religious Life Died XII Why Religious Life Died XI Why Religious Life Died X Why Religious Life Died IX Why Religious Life Died VIII Why Religious Life Died February 2013 Sorrow and Frustration What to Do about Lent? XIV Why Religious Life Died
March 2013 Carmen Paschale Easter Sunday Springing Midwinter Pray for Them (on Pope Francis and Archbishop Welby) Backwards in Credulity Of Walrus and Cistercians Saint David's Day April 2013 Don't Know Whether to Laugh or Cry Please Write to Fight Genocide in America Diagram Development from Al Mozol Human Tragedy Grief and Frustration Behold! 'I said, "You are gods!"'