Ryan Holt

Head of Chaplaincy, Caulfield Grammar School • Anglican priest, chaplain theologian, fly angler

[Ryan Holt @holt_rd]

Alexander Nowell (1517-1602) Anglican priest, theologian, angler. Izaak Walton, "this good man was observed to spend a tenth part of his time in angling; and … bestow a tenth part of his revenue, and usually all his fish, amongst the poor that inhabited near to those rivers…”

[Ryan Holt @holt_rd]

Autumntide.
Yarra Junction Campus,
Caulfield Grammar School.

[Ryan Holt @holt_rd]

A river is water in its loveliest form, rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart ~ Roderick Haig-Brown

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“Most of the advice we are given on how to live a healthy life ignores or even undermines the great intangibles, the unmeasurable qualities, as opposed to the measured quantities, which make that life worth living.” @malcolmguite

https://t.co/i0ajcwcI9Z

[Caulfield Grammar School @caulfieldgs]

Last term our Y8s took part in their own 3-day Youth Summit, More than Citizens, designed by our Learning Mentors & Chaplains in partnership with not-for-profit organisation Together for Humanity.

#CaulfieldGrammar2025

[Ryan Holt @holt_rd]

@ric_thorpe Great news. We look forward to welcoming you.

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

"We have lost a vocabulary for speaking of free time in political terms. We speak of time management, of efficiency, of making room in our schedules for activities we value. Time is individualized."
@CharlieTyson1
https://t.co/1aoCg7NXnW

[Caulfield Grammar School @caulfieldgs]

Founder’s Day Service is a significant event in the life of our School and this year more than 1,000 people from our community celebrated at St Paul’s Cathedral with readings, musical performances and reflections led by our students.

#CaulfieldGrammar2025

[Ryan Holt @holt_rd]

Plenty of room for a back cast #flyfishing

[Ryan Holt @holt_rd]

The grace of shadows.

[Ryan Holt @holt_rd]

‘Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect’
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through it

[Comment @commentmag]

"One of the most powerful and surprising (to me) practices for the healing of trauma is the practice of hospitality."

Gregory Thompson on hospitality and trauma.
https://t.co/bUZmeJSR0c

[Ryan Holt @holt_rd]

Of Roderick Haig-Brown
‘He is a genuinely famous fisherman in an era when famous fisherman scramble to name flies and knots after themselves with a self-aggrandizing ardor unknown since the Borgia popes’
Thomas McGuane, The Longest Silence

[Ryan Holt @holt_rd]

Yarra Valley brown #flyfishing #flyangler

[Luke Bretherton @WestLondonMan]

Theological reflection on the recent conversion of public intellectuals & high profile figures such as @Ayaan @rustyrockets & sympathetic fellow travelers like @jordanbpeterson
https://t.co/R9ebadToRz

[Ryan Holt @holt_rd]

Great southern brown

[Ryan Holt @holt_rd]

Early spring wade and wander. Could feel the chill in my bones.

[W. David O. Taylor @wdavidotaylor]

Thinking about Nick Cave’s bracing thoughts on hope on the way home tonight.

“Hopefulness is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism.”

[Michael Frost @michaelfrost6]

Missional advice from the legendary Banksy.

[Ryan Holt @holt_rd]

Doctrine is less theoretical than it is theatrical, a matter of doing—speaking and showing—what we have heard and understood.
Kevin Vanhoozer, Faith Speaking Understanding

[Ryan Holt @holt_rd]

@keeper_orchard Tom McGuane country:)