Martha Reeves (anchorite)
Martha Reeves (born 1941) is a vowed
Anglican solitary (or
anchorite), with
Rowan Williams, the former
Archbishop of Canterbury, as bishop-protector. A graduate of the
Madeira School (Class of 1959), she is also a
Stanford-educated professor of
theology who has written numerous articles and books under the name "
Maggie Ross" as well as translated a number of Carthusian Novice Conferences. Reeves, at one time
Desmond Tutu's spiritual director, was Bell Distinguished Professor in Anglican and Ecumenical Studies appointed to the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Kendall College of Arts and Sciences,
The University of Tulsa. In 1995, ''[https://issuu.com/dltbooks/docs/silence_a_users_guide_vol_2_sample "A Rite for Contemplative Eucharist"]'' emerged while being a theologian-in-residence in an Episcopal church in the Diocese of Southern Ohio. In March 2008, she donated '
silence' to the
Museum of Curiosity.. Ross as an interviewee also shared about silence in the 2015 documentary [https://www.pursuitofsilence.com/ In Pursuit of Silence] directed by
Patrick Shen. In October 2016, she gave the lecture [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEsE1nGaso "Healing Silence]' at Durham University for its [https://www.dur.ac.uk/csth/events/sth.seminars/2016-2017/michaelmas.term.2016/healing.silence/ "Spirituality, Theology, and Health Seminar Series."] The
Hay Festival has been an event for presenting about the [https://www.hayfestival.com/p-3416-maggie-ross-talks-to-rachael-kerr.aspx?skinid=16 'work of silence'] under the topic title [https://issuu.com/hayfestival/docs/hay_festival_2015 "Maggie Ross Talks to Rachael Kerr"]. She was an attendee of the 2018 Epiphany Conference on science and religion, a collaborative initiative between the
Cambridge Epiphany Philosophers and the Oxford Monastic Institute. The [https://issuu.com/desertfisher/docs/affirming_silence 'work of silence'] has touched grounds for many years now through the r''avenwilderness blogspot,'' and an index of posts from 2006 to 2013 can be viewed from [https://issuu.com/desertfisher/docs/maggie_ross_blog_guide here] and the entries from 2013 to 2020 [https://www.scribd.com/document/495268141/Maggie-Ross-Blog-Guide-2013-2020 here.] The British & Irish Association for Practical Theology (BIAPT) had a planned inaugural event for its Spirituality Interest Special Group in 2020, with Ross as keynote speaker but was postponed. The keynote address "''Silent Ways of Knowing''" had been shared in four parts in Ross's blog. Reeves lives in
Oxford, the
United Kingdom, where a number of sermons and talks had been shared through the years in churches and academia around the area.
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