I brought together two friends from the ‘Integrating Christianity: Fellowship & Dialogue’ community that I’ve been fostering out of the Perspectiva Realisation Festival where Matthew and I were speakers this summer.
I had a strong intuition to bring together Jonathan and Stephen for the first time on SENSESPACE to share in their affinity for the walk of wisdom, the richness of Tokien’s Lord of The Rings and the call to Pilgrimage.
Both Jonathan and Stephen recently undertook the Camino de Santiago and represent to me a certain kind of Englishmen that have retained the sense of enchantment that runs through our culture back to the works of Tolkien. Enjoy the dialogue with us.
About The Speakers:
Jonathan Woodbridge is currently on his ‘wise Re-enhantment’ pilgrimage and for the section of the journey is volunteering in the monastic community of Taizé. His deep roots and love is the soil of Sussex, England. His current life-work is focused on what John Vervaeke called the ‘Advent of the Sacred’ and investigating what it means to midwife this wisely.Stephen Winter is the author of ‘Wisdom from The Lord of The Rings’, a weekly publication. He lives in Tolkien’s Shire, the county of Worcestershire in the heart of England. The farm where his aunt lived, known to the locals as Bag End, is just a few miles from our cottage, and if you took away modern roads and telegraph poles, the countryside around here won’t have changed much in a hundred years. Stephen was a parish priest in the Church of England for 36 years before retiring in 2024 and now he is writing about Wisdom from The Lord of the Rings (you will find his blog by typing those words into your search engine) and making his cottage as much a homely house as he can for travellers on the road who might stop by.Stephen’s publication: Wisdom from The Lord of The Rings
Jacob Kishere is a professional dialogue facilitator, writer, rapper, and philosopher living in Ciudad de Oaxaca, México. He is the am the creator of SENSESPACE Podcast & SENSESPACE Studio: A live events and podcast production suite. He is the author of Culturepilgrim Substack & Rap Music and co-founder of The Resonant Man: an international men’s initiative gathering every Sunday.www.jacobkishere.com
