Soul Friendship: Celtic Insights Into Spiritual Mentoring

by Ray Simpson

A soul friend is someone further along the journey of life who commits to helping another discover his or her true self and path through life. Each chapter of this book includes practical exercises and suggestions for further study.

Genres: Nonfiction, Christianity

208 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1999

About the author

Ray Simpson is Founding Guardian of the international Community of Aidan and Hilda and the author of forty books on Celtic spirituality and other subjects.

Before that he was invited to plant a Fresh Expression at Bowthorpe, Norwich: 'One Family of Christians for one New Neighbourhood' sponsored by six denominations. He has linked early Celtic monastic villages with villages of God inspired by emerging new monastic churches.

He owns a house on UK's Holy Island of Lindisfarne, where the Community of Aidan and Hilda has its Retreat House, The Open Gate and Celtic Library, but is mainly based on the nearby mainland at Berwick-Upon-Tweed.


His big project is to make 'The Way' accessible to
all peoples through daily emails (enrol on www.waymarksoflife.com) and a year's app is being crowd funded.

Reviews

[Erin Henderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first part of this books reads like a history book, and was hard for me to see how to apply it to my life. However, it gets better and more applicable as it goes on. I do appreciate learning the history of Celtic Christianity. The lifestyle of having a soul friend to help us along the way seems like something that would save us all a lot of trouble because of the wisdom we would gain were we to live like this. Good practical insights for soul friends and seekers too.

[Andy Gore · Rating 4 out of 5]

A thought provoking book about the height and length and breadth of being a soul friend. Lots to reflect on and over and it is this stimulus which is it’s best element; it is a book that keeps on giving.