Australia’s biggest social experiment is not Married at First Sight (that’s not an experiment at all, obviously). It is our new normal, something we have never imagined. Monks have a little known fourth rule in addition to poverty, chastity and obedience. It’s stability, as in, staying put. Don’t leave where you are, ever. It seems easy compared to…
(this is a transcript of a talk given by Richard Fay, CEO of the Centre for Men, at the “Amplify” conference in Brisbane, on Saturday 7 March 2020). The Jesuits recently commissioned research in Australia on the attitudes and behaviours of men aged 18-30. It involved an online survey of a representative sample of 1,000 young men from…
In late July this past year, on a clear, cold winter night, I sat on the west-facing precipice of a still warm cliff, waiting for all the light to wash away. I had enjoyed the silent company of several others, who gradually retreated to camp as the darkness pressed in. Still, the sky held court, lilac giving way…
Terry did his MROP in 2001 at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. He has been involved in doing men’s work ever since. “I went home from Ghost Ranch enlivened and energized but there was no place to plug into anything remotely like my MROP experience. Within 6 months I planned and carried out a rites of passage for…
The first poem I heard of Rumi’s is perhaps his most famous:Out beyond all ideas of right doing and wrong doing, there is a field.I will meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.Which is why I’ve tried to stay mostly silent these past few months on the…
What is a man box? How would you identify it and how do you get out of it? We invite you to join us for a free BBQ and talk on Monday 3 June at the Brookfield Centre, 139 Brookfield Road Kenmore Hills. The night starts at 6pm and will conclude before 9pm.CEO Richard Fay will speak on…
The following address was given by Richard Fay, CEO of Centre for Men, at St John’s Anglican Cathedral (Brisbane) on Sunday 7 April 2019, on the pioneer of our work, Franciscan priest Richard Rohr, as part of the mystics, theologians and Godbotherers series.About a decade ago Mark Dyer, the late Episcopalian bishop of Jerusalem, observed that about every 500…
You are invited to a free BBQ and talk by Richard Fay, CEO of the Centre for Men, on Monday 4th February at the Brookfield Centre, 139 Brookfield Road Kenmore Hills. All men are welcome. The night starts at 6pm and will conclude by 9pm. It is free for guests and $15 for regulars.In 2018, amidst the #metoo…
One our traditions around Christmas was birthed as a rite of passage for boys and men. It harks back to the celts and a time when myth embraced all of life.Christmas wasn’t even on the radar of the church for the first 500 years. It was not until people who relied on the sun – at first this…
