Jim Friedrich is an Episcopal priest, liturgical creative, filmmaker, writer, musician, teacher and retreat leader. His itinerant ministry is devoted to religious imagination and holy wonder. He lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
The religious imagineer
Where the fire and the rose are one
What a beautiful blog. I am so amazed.
Thank you for visiting!
love your blog, Jim. Came here through an unlikely path, delving into the life of PL Fermor.
Thanks for your thoughts. God bless.
Come – let us return to the Lord; for He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us. He has wounded us, but He will bind our wounds.
Hosea 6:1
Hello to my Christian Brother in Faith…you’re blog is an inspiration.
Thank you so much for this, very excited to have found the blog and love the subtitle.
I am glad you found my blog. The subtitle is from T. S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” and expresses something of what I’m after in this writing, finding thematic unity among sometimes radically different elements.
So glad to have discovered your blog today. As a writer, an Episcopalian and struggling long-distance runner, I look forward to reading your posts and learning much. “Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind” (Psalm 26.2)
Thank you for this, and welcome to the journey. As you will discover, the topics can be eclectic here, but I hope they always honor the advice of one of my greatest teachers, Robert McAfee Brown, who told my graduating class fifty years ago, “Don’t ever lose your sense of wonder.”
Thanks, Jim
Happy to meet you yesterday at St. Paul’s! I loved this Ascension reflection – thanks for sharing this.
Your blog on the discipline and spirituality of running and the entries about shape singing and the hospice installation cemented the deal. I’m following, with great interest.
Thank you for reading and following. My subjects have an eclectic range, and I am always happy to find others interested in exploring them with me.
Thak you very much for your tag about my work in Venice palazzo Bembo.!
I was positic surprised.Thankfully warm regards. Murielle Argoud
Murielle –– Thank you for your exquisite and moving art, which seems even more relevant and necessary in a time when everything is in flux, and we need to hold a vision of the good, the true, the beautiful––deeper and more elemental than the things we fear. I am so grateful for artists who show us the light. Be well.
Thank you for your words which find a strong resonance in me. I believe in the strength of beauty, truth and love. They are the intrinsic founders of nature’s archetype – of the divine creation in communion with the divine human nature. The fears and the cruelty raise the separation and the duality. That’s why my painting is always in flux, in metamorphosis. Felicitations to your great work. Would you allow that I take your last answer in the next post of my instagram? Warm regards, Murielle
Murielle – Please feel free to use anything I write here. I like very much what you say about the flux which transcends the fixity of dualistic paradigms. I once heard about a priest who works with skateboarders. He said they preferred to use “flow” as their word for the divine, drawing from their own experience of embodied flux. I just read something from an essay by Thomas Mann which seems to echo your perspective. “The sea! The infinite!” he writes, celebrating the formlessness of the ocean, which mirrors his own “dislike of division and measurement.” Peace and blessing, Jim
Wonderful work here. Much honored to contribute to your noble cause. I hope to work with you again soon!
Thank you for your generosity. I will mention your name of course. Thomas Mann, yes, his thoughts are immensely deep. With all my thankful regards, stay well and be blessed. Murielle