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In Print & Online
Articles, Talks, TV & Radio
Marie-Elsa regularly writes for a variety of publications and joins discussions on television, podcasts, and radio.
Articles
Christmas Card by TOAST
TOAST company have great podcasts and a magazine. They tend to look for artisans and explore their craft or thoughts.
Article on Orthodox Jewish artist Helene Aylon – Standpoint Magazine
An article on Helene Aylon and her meeting with Mark Rothco, both from Orthodox backgrounds and looking at mysticism in their art.
Ascension Day Essays BBC Radio 4
Marie-Elsa wrote 4 essays for BBC Radio 4 on the Ascension.
Talks
Moon Meditations – interfaith hour of silence and contemplation 30 Dec, 28 Jan 27 Feb
These meditations are with the recent conference on the divine feminine in mind and planned for the full moon.
RAY OF GOD FESTIVAL 2020
Marie-Elsa will be talking with other women at this festival about the Divine Feminine.
CARTHORSE ORCHESTRA 31 October full moon and Halloween…
Marie-Elsa will be talking with Fiona Sampson and Gary Lachman about Mary Shelly and the bid to create life, even become God. She will be focussing on the idea of resurrection and what the Theology of the time might have been exploring as the creative ‘divine spark’.
TV & Video
Hay Winter Literary Festival 25 November Reformation lecture series.
Hay Festival 30th anniversary coincides with the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his Theses to the door at Wittenberg. International thinkers at Hay 2017 proposed their reformation of institutions and authorities, re-imagining the world.
Hay Literary Festival Interview with Rowan Williams May 29th 2017
Rowan Williams and Marie-Elsa Bragg discuss her novel Towards Mellbreak. This discussion includes ideas about spirituality, creative writing, ritual and religious life.
BBC Breakfast TV Interview 10 April 2017
Marie-Elsa will be on BBC Breakfast 8.30-9 on Monday 10th April.
Radio
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY – UNVEILING MASKS IN BELARUS -RADIO 4
This Thought For The day was about a particular moment in time and the hope it could bring. It was not looking at how the unmasking of policemen could then unfold in both positive and negative ways.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY – INDIGENOUS CULTURES -RADIO 4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08rdx4s..
RADIO CUMBRIA FOR SUICIDE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT
Marie-Elsa is the new patron of Suicide Bereavement Support, a cumbrian charity for local people with local groups.
Additional Archives
Sleeping Letters
Marie-Elsa's new book Sleeping letters was written on silent retreat. In this environment and companioned by the ritual of the Eucharist and monastic hours of silence, she was able to face the family tragedy of the death of her mother when she was only six years old....
Moon Meditations – interfaith hour of silence and contemplation 30 Dec, 28 Jan 27 Feb
These meditations are with the recent conference on the divine feminine in mind and planned for the full moon.
Christmas Card by TOAST
TOAST company have great podcasts and a magazine. They tend to look for artisans and explore their craft or thoughts.
Leap in the Dark
Coming soon.
Sleeping Letters Review TLS October 2020
Marie-Elsa Roche Bragg is an ordained Anglican priest and this profoundly moving memoir, in poetry and prose, was written during two silent retreats in an unspecified mountain region. Beautifully rendered childhood memories feature in a series of letters to her father and late mother, who took her own life when the author was six years old.
Marie-Elsa gives lectures, talks and runs workshops on spiritual development, creativity and devotional creative writing. .
2018 Marie-Elsa will be giving a series of talks and workshops with poet Don Patterson on ‘the line between poetry and prose’ and ‘poetry and the sacred’