Religion

The entries below highlight our founder Dominic's subjective views on the ever-changing range and scope of subjects that Halcyon focuses on.

This is less a blog than a set of irregularly updated and often fragmentary views - on ideas and values, places and people - evolving over time into mini essais which pay humble homage to the peerless founder of the genre. Our writing is provisional, always open to change as new thoughts and ideas emerge.

The kaleidoscope is Halcyon's prime metaphor, encouraging us to embrace change and to view issues through an ever-moving series of lenses.

This page will contain regular updates about A Mundane Comedy, Halcyon founder Dominic Kelleher's new book, which we hope will be published in early 2021. 

We will share extracts on this website and across social media from the final quarter of 2020 onwards. Please see below a first short, introductory extract.

To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they control it, wish to influence its direction - Theodore Zeldin, Intimate History of Humanity

Is it possible to appreciate fully Dante’s work without understanding the man himself and the society in which he lived? A recent book attempted to shed new light on what some have called the greatest of all European poems.

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So come, my friends, be not afraid.
We are so lightly here.
It is in love that we are made;
In love we disappear

Please see below selected recent civility-related change.

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• What's New? - Civility

September 2020

T.S. Eliot died over 50 years ago now, His legacy remains profound and his poetry moves me deeply.

In 2016 I had the privilege of visiting his final resting place, East Coker.

I read or listen to the peerless Little Gidding often, and almost every line entrances, as if peering through a veil at something once known, but half-forgotten because not looked-for.

Halcyon curates the most significant religion-related content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with religion-related challenges.

Please see below selected recent presence-related change.

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• What's New? - Presence

October 2018

• One of the dangers of emotional life, notes The School of Life, is that we find that we don't feel 'in the moment': we're at a funeral, but we don't feel sad. We're making love, but our minds are elsewhere. It's our birthday, but we're not jolly. Why is it sometimes so hard for our true inner feelings to keep pace with events in the outer world? 

September 2018

I have listened to and would recommend the following podcasts (2015-2018 recommendations to follow):

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