This spring, I went for a hike with my family in Northumberland. The trail ran along the historic Hadrian’s Wall, which marked the edge of the Roman empire. It also passed through the legendary Sycamore Gap, a sweeping dip in the terrain where a beautiful 100 to 120...
Photos by Naomi Brehm Why does ‘well restedness’ always seem to await us, rarely to arrive? Just past the deadline, when I have time, Sunday or summer to come. We arrive at the anticipated moment and the soap slips out of our hands as soon as we receive the catch. ...
One day last week I glanced out the window before heading off to morning prayers. The walk from the Ffald y Brenin Farmhouse to the Prayer Room is a short one. Half a minute maybe. And yet I always hum and haw about whether to take my coat. Cheerful sunshine persuaded...
My first glimpse of Katharine stunned me. It was the first day of the seventh grade and my first day in a Canadian school. I’d spent the previous four years living in Ethiopia where my dad worked for a humanitarian organisation. In my East African world, agility and...
We’re very sad that Peter & Anna Bement are stepping down as Ffald y Brenin Trustees, although their partnership with us doesn’t end here! We asked for their reflections on more than two decades of service… Anna writes: It all began at an ARM Wales Conference when...
Ffald y Brenin Trustee, Richard Roberts, explores the possibility that the roots of our modern-day experience of Ffald y Brenin as a ‘thin place’ may reach back through one-and-a-half millennia, to the time of St. Brynach. Ffald y Brenin is a retreat...
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