Author: Margaret Chisman

Poetry Corner: This Earth – Our Home / L’Envoi (Departmental Ditties)

Seek moderation When you walk the earth Ask, who are the trespassers? Who needs protection? We can’t be friendly To the earth while we’re hostile To other people Be kind to yourself Gently nurture each...

A Selection of Haiku

Affirmation

I will learn to be autonomous: to take responsibility for myself in all my relationships and decisions. I will seek the truth in deed and word, in fact and feeling, in head and heart. I...

SoF and the Humanist Tradition

This is the third in our series looking at “streams which feed the Sea of Faith”, following articles on Quaker and Catholic traditions and their relationship to the Network. Margaret Chisman is a member of...

Seeking New Solutions

It needs no patent, but SoF is a new “social invention”, according to MARGARET CHISMAN, a director of the Institute for Social Inventions, retired civil servant and member of Berkhamstead SoF local group. Here she...

The Quiet Pilgrim

THE QUIET PILGRIM Margaret Chisman It is June 1991 and I am sitting at my writing desk, looking out at the sea of 6ft high nettles bending their heads in the pouring rain, and feeling...

Green Spirituality: A Start-Up Guide for Groups

SPRING 1991 PAGE 9 SEA OF FAITH MAGAZINE GREEN SPIRITUALITY A START-UP GUIDE FOR GROUPS Margaret Chisman (This practical approach has been tested success/Et/4f by Margaret C/7/.:5/77,9/7:5′ daughter who set up a Green SpintU8/14/ group...