HeyJaredNotes From the Hermitage
reflections on life at the Wild Goose Hermitage, an outpost of the Lindisfarne Community
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Finding Refuge in the Hermitage (opens the original)
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With apologies in case you received this earlier, but Substack seems to have lost track of the previous post. This post is a throwback to one from 2015, shortly after dedicating my home as a hermitage of the Lindisfarne Community. I chose it for this week for its reference to the Psalms, which will be my focus in the upcoming weeks and months.It has been lightly updated, in keeping with my writing and publication style. Enjoy.One portion of my contemplative practice here in the Wild Goose Hermit
A Hermit in the World (opens the original)
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This post addresses the nature of being a hermit while still engaged with employment out in the world. As of this past spring I have retired from the working world, and am shifting my rhythm and practices to meet this new stage of life. Regardless, the principles remain the same, and re-reading these past posts has helped me remember who I am and why I have been chosen by this life. Readers familiar with Notes from the Hermitage know that I have spent the last decade or so holding two ways of li
I Get to be a Hermit (for real)! (opens the original)
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It’s been a long time coming, friends. Back in 2015 my home was dedicated as a hermitage, an outpost of my religious community, The Lindisfarne Community. At the time, a few of our members had established home churches (we call them priories) as ‘daughter houses’ of the community. (Our motherhouse is in upstate New York.) My husband and I tried inviting friends to gather with us for prayer, or meditation, or eucharist, but nothing ‘took.’ Then one day we realized that this space was not so much
What Paul Got Right (opens the original)
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What Paul Got Wrong (opens the original)
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Having reviewed the seven undisputed letters of Paul, Reading Paul, 1 Thessalonians, Galatians, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Philemon, Philippians,
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