I am joined by Jacqueline Richard in this podcast. I had a lovely afternoon several years ago reading T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets with Jacqueline and her now husband Reid. On that occasion she talked about her father’s love of the poem and his visit to Little Gidding, an intentional Anglican community of work and prayer, established in the seventeenth century by Nicholas Ferrar and his mother Mary Ferrar. One of the four quartets is a meditation of Little Gidding. Jacqueline grew up in a home where fine literature flourished, a superb preparation for what unfolded when she entered Newman Theological College. Prior to entering she spent several seasons planting trees and parachuting in to fight forest fires in British Columbia. She was in Litten on June 30th , 2021 when it was destroyed by fire. She came to study at Newman in the shadow of these events. Events preparing her mind and heart for what has unfolded.    

Welcome to our conversation.