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Scargill Update 19 December 2024

Dear Friends, We wish you a joyful and peaceful Christmas, through the celebration of Immanuel with us. Thank you so much for all your love…

Posted on 19 December 2024
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Reflections from Di – How I Love the Law

Dear Friends Thank you for your continued support and prayers which means so much to us. Our Summerfests were wonderful. It was such a joy…

Posted on 27 August 2024
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Reflections from Di – Sun on the hill

Dear Friends As I write this, we are just over half way through our Summerfest season and it has been wonderful. It has been a…

Posted on 8 August 2024
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Reflections from Di – Pilgrimage

Dear Friends Di and I have now been back a week from our sabbatical, and it feels very good to be back. The Leadership and…

Posted on 11 July 2024
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Reflections from Di – our new programme

Dear Friends We hope you are enjoying our latest Momentum magazine/Programme, covering events September 2024 to February 2025, and are making plans for when you…

Posted on 9 June 2024
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Reflections from Di – Lives shared

Dear Friends We are just coming to the end of SummerFest 2 with Fest 3 beginning on Saturday. Fest is exuberant, fun and wonderfully inter-generational,…

Posted on 9 August 2023
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Community size

Dear Friends Looking to 2022 we are faced with a real challenge. Our current number on Community is about 23 and our desire, to fulfil the…

Posted on 2 December 2021
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Reflections from Di – “Hope” is the Thing with feathers

Dear Friends This week we have had hopeful and encouraging news! The Government laid out their roadmap to bring us out of lockdown, subject to…

Posted on 26 February 2021
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Clenched Fists to Open Hands

Hello – I have been musing about the church festival celebrated today which I love. Today is the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, often…

Posted on 2 February 2016
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Living Generously

One thing about living in community, that we have been learning here at Scargill, is to live generously. And what I mean by living generously…

Posted on 19 July 2015
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Unforced Rhythms of Grace

Last Sunday afternoon, I was invited to preach at the service at Manchester Cathedral launching the Peregrini Community, on the Festival of the Baptism of…

Posted on 17 January 2015
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Let’s talk about Water – from Blog to Bog

This week, in what has been a mini heat wave at Scargill, we encountered a six foot Bore (tidal wave), which came down the River…

Posted on 27 July 2014
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Hey I’m back !

Hey I’m back! In fact we have been back just over a month from our travels to Australia and New Zealand. You will be hearing…

Posted on 26 April 2014
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There and back again…

Not sure how this happened but this blog has gone missing – so here it is again…. Traveling can be bit of an ordeal. Di…

Posted on 22 January 2014
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What if healing comes through tears…?

This last week we have had a lovely time at Scargill. We have had a Community retreat, which was led by good friends of Scargill…

Posted on 14 December 2013
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Baldrick or Beloved?

Although it might seem like old news, I was delighted that Tony Robinson was given a knighthood for his work in politics and in the…

Posted on 15 July 2013
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Give thanks for toothpaste

  Over the last week, or so, life has been very hectic: We turned Scargill into Narnia which was such good fun, then I was…

Posted on 15 June 2013
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Back through the Wardrobe

This last week the House has been full of young people with their parents as we put on our ‘Back through the Wardrobe 3’, another…

Posted on 1 June 2013
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All things to all people

I have been reflecting over the last couple of days on St Paul’s words, “I have become all things to all people.” (1 Cor 9…

Posted on 26 May 2013
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Three reasons you should join community all beginning with the letter…

Guess what? The letter is going to be Q! First up – Quantity. One of the great joys of being part of the Scargill community…

Posted on 10 May 2013
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No forgiveness, no future

Forgiveness is never easy. It’s a process and can take a long time. I hope I’m not the only one who, thinking I’ve forgiven someone…

Posted on 22 April 2013
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Empty is life giving

Emptiness does not usually thrill us. An empty fridge for that late night snack frustrates, getting in the car and finding it running on empty is…

Posted on 30 March 2013
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Called to bless, called to give life

This week Phil Stone gives us a challenge to bless, to say good things.. We have just finished our Palm Sunday service here in the Chapel…

Posted on 24 March 2013
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Seeds That Die Are Seeds That Live

Sadly the towering trees which used to line the long driveway up to Scargill House have had to be cut down. At this melancholy time…

Posted on 18 March 2013
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Sent From Coventry

This week Phil Stone Director of the Scargill Movement discusses conflict. Last week I was down at Coventry Cathedral attending a conference entitled Faith in…

Posted on 5 March 2013
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Diverse United

This week cheer on Diverse United with Phil Stone the Director of the Scargill Movement as he talks about how through community we can overcome…

Posted on 25 February 2013
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Sometimes It Takes A Little Weakness

Phil Stone, Director of The Scargill Movement (an intentional community of Christian men and women in North Yorkshire), talks about the fragile nature of community….

Posted on 19 February 2013
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A Human Being Fully Alive

In only half an hour I will be sharing fun and eating pancakes with my friends. There will be a great sense of belonging and…

Posted on 12 February 2013
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Heart Graffiti

Phil Stone, director of Scargill Movement, talks this week about the graffiti we get on our hearts and what is obscured underneath. Out of interest…

Posted on 3 February 2013
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It Could Be You

This week Phil discusses community life and what his dream and heart is for Scargill. I am under no illusion having now lived community life…

Posted on 27 January 2013
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Nine Hundred Bottles

This week Scargill’s Director Phil Stone is thinking about the generous love of God. Those of you who follow the Anglican lectionary will know that…

Posted on 20 January 2013
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The Things That Give You Life

As a New Year begins Phil offers some advice on a good way to start your year… Today is January the 6th, the Feast of…

Posted on 6 January 2013
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Not For The Fainthearted

As 2012 draws to a close, Scargil’s Director Phil Stone reflects on the Christmas narrative and what we can take from it into the New…

Posted on 31 December 2012
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Christmas Wishes

Henri Nouwen says, “Christmas is the renewed invitation not to be afraid and to let him (God) – whose love is greater than our own…

Posted on 23 December 2012
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From the Dickensian to the Tucum

This week at Scargill we have been hosting a group who have been attending the local Grassington Dickensian Festival. Accordingly our food, entertainment and reflections…

Posted on 16 December 2012
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Shine On

The nights are getting longer as the shortest day of the year draws near and Scargill’s Director Phil Stone is contemplating darkness and starlight… Having…

Posted on 11 December 2012
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Are We Nearly There Yet?

As this week is the start of Advent Phil has been thinking a lot about waiting… Those of us who have or have had children…

Posted on 2 December 2012
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Tripping the Light Fantastic with the New Monastics

scargillphil is now well and truly up and running! This is where our Director Phil Stone riffs on all manner of subjects close to his…

Posted on 18 November 2012
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Community Living

scargillphil is now live! This is where Phil Stone, our loveable, huggable director, gives us regular updates into the weird and wonderful life at Scargill…

Posted on 11 November 2012
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