The moment that changed my life

June 14, 2026 — 5:30am

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Rarely can you identify a moment, a discovery or a meeting, that changed your life.

From childhood in the ’60s, I had been a Christian with a strong sense that prayer – communing, somehow, mysteriously with the Divine – had to consist of more than words. But the tradition I came from – Reformed, Protestant – was wordy to a fault, and heroes tended to be activists with what seemed to be an inexhaustible commitment to social justice.

Having a modicum of self-awareness, I knew that this was never going to be a natural fit for me, and took myself off to........

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