background
Most of this project has been a work in progress… a combination of acting instinctively and reflecting on that action with reading and research. This is an attempt to give language to what we do, and to offer some kind of framework for the context in which the worship, spaces and other work of the project develop.
Downloads and Resources:
Blog posts about background:
- faith isn’t faith…
- deviations from the norm
- myth and ritual; darkness and courage
- if i were called in to construct a religion…
- on not going back to church on back to church sunday
- thinking in public
- religion, media and culture: a conversation
- back home [sort of, anyway]
- all the best words
- this is what we did
- the looming memory of god
- On Diana Butler Bass [and being a fish out of water]
- culture & context – structural changes and reorientations…
- no guarantees
- look! shiny sparkly things over there
- communal justice: changing the goal posts, changing the game
- re-visiting Viola
- enough with the analysis already
- black is the new black
- on judgement and understanding
- the 2009 UK trip
- there probably isn’t a happy ending – but that won’t stop us starting
- basement spaces – a strategy [and an invitation]
- i follow the religion of love
- next year’s trip ii
- today’s reading theme: worship
- mis-communication
- restoration and power
- poetry is not a luxury
- scarcity and generosity
- if it’s tuesday…
- the memory of water…
- changing the conversation
- a thought in progress
- prison chaplain’s workshop
- wrap up from the UK trip
- unleashing imagination
- not a problem to be solved
- alternative alternatives
- restorative justice and alternative spaces
- sacred spaces and Fowler’s stage 5
- alt worship at wisdom’s feast [and a bit about singing...]
- imagination
- tipping points
- the god who isn’t there
- ordination
- from the beginning
- just as real as each other
- dangerous stories
- do what is right