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Exile and Empire Course 2026 Tuesdays from 6 October 2026 We’re delighted to promote this upcoming, online course on Exile and Empire, led by Companion Peter McDowell! Peter is running … Continue reading "Exile and Empire" Read More

Andy Raine introduces our new Irenaeus liturgy, ‘ A Call to be Fully Alive,’ which you may want to use on his feast day, 28 June.

You can find the liturgy in our shop

This week’s Rule reflection

Dynamic and erratic, spontaneous and radical,audacious and immature,committed if not altogether coherent,ecumenically open and often experimental,visible here and there, now and then, but unsettled institutionally.Almost monastic in nature but, most of all,enacting a fearful hope for human life in society.William Stringfellow