Our Digital Archive
A new and exciting development for the Fellowship in 2023 is our Marian Dunlop Legacy Project - the beginnings of a complete digital archive of more than 900 meditation papers from 1938 to the present day. This is available not only to our members for their use but also via the internet as a searchable database.
Follow this link to see the beginnings of this archive.
Our Library
The Library of the Fellowship currently holds some 1000 titles. The core of the collection was Marian Dunlop’s personal library. This has been augmented by donations from members and a small number of titles are purchased each year.
The focus of the collection is on spirituality, religious experience and mysticism. It includes the experience and practice of other faiths.
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The library is open to members at any time when Marian Dunlop House is open. Books are freely available on loan and may be requested by post. Non–members need to seek permission in advance and will be asked for a £25 deposit.
Recent Additions to the Library - updated September 2024
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The Singing Bowl (a collection of poems) Malcolm Guite In Malcolm Guite's eagerly awaited second poetry collection includes poems that seek beauty and transfiguration in the everyday; sonnets inspired by Francis and other outstanding saints; poems centered on love, parting and mortality. A further group, 'Word and World', searches for the life of the spirit in the midst of modernity and includes and ode to an iPhone, while others wrestle with the problem of evil and the difficulty of prayer. Throughout, the poet seeks to celebrate the world of which he is made, find heaven in the ordinary and echo a little of its music.
Guides to Hidden Springs Mark Gibbard In his Twentieth-Century Men of Prayer, Mark Gibbard has already shown how we can be helped in our search for a way of prayer by other men and women of our century. In this new book, he looks for guidance from earlier in history, from as far back as the psalmists and the New Testament. Here, then, are brief introductions to Mother Julian and the writer of the Cloud of Unknowing, Ignatius Loyola and Teresa of Avila, Francis de Sales, Vincent de Paul, Henry Vaughan, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Rufus Jones and Bede Griffiths. Through them, Fr Gibbard shows ways in which our own prayer can be deepened.
Church of the Wild - How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred Victoria Loorz Like many who feel unfulfilled by traditional faith expressions, Victoria Loorz went in search of a spirituality strong enough to reckon with the unraveling of her vocation, identity, and planet, and found herself in the wilderness. With an exospiritual lens on biblical narratives and a fresh look at a community larger than our own species, Church of the Wild uncovers the wold roots of faith and helps us deepen our commitment to a suffering earth by falling in love with it - and calling it church. Here Loorz helps us connect to a love that literally holds the world together - a love that calls us into communion with all creatures.
A complete index of the Marian Dunlop Collection is available as a pdf, please click on this link to download.
See Publications for booklets and pamphlets based on the Fellowship’s method of meditation, available from the Office Manager, including stories of how lives have been changed through practising meditation.