David Adam (minister)
David Adam was born in Alnwick, Northumberland. When he left school at 15, he went to work underground in the coal mines for three years before training for the ministry at Kelham Theological College. He was vicar of Danby-Castleton-Commondale in North Yorkshire for over twenty years, where he began writing prayers in the Celtic pattern, and he later became Rector of Holy Island, Lindisfarne, where he ministered to thousands of pilgrims and other visitors. He was made a canon of York Minster in 1989. He is now retired and lives down the coast from Lindisfarne.
Read more about David Adam (minister): Writings
Famous quotes containing the words david and/or adam:
“In the graveyard, which was crowded with graves, and overrun with weeds, I noticed an inscription in Indian, painted on a wooden grave-board. There was a large wooden cross on the island.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)