It takes faith to wait without hope, to trust that although there is no sense to this we must do it anyway. At the limits of our capacity to make sense of the world at the edges of our grace, energy and love lie this: bread and wine. Take and eat. If nothing else, it…
Jonny has posted a really lovely advent movie, using footage he made of sky lanterns at the Big Chill festival with words from a prayer I wrote a few years ago. I’d use it on christmas eve, i think. He’s made it available as a free download on vimeo – and proost subscribers can download…
for Port Phillip Prison tomorrow… still to be tweaked We’ll be laying out a different image of the balloon girl in the centre of the worship space – towards the end of the service we’ll invite the men to light tealights and place them on the balloons… i love this image, but couldn’t find it…
It was lovely to see Mark Pierson over breakfast this morning. Kurt Vonnegut’s eight rules for writing a short story came up in the conversation: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one…
I came across Laurence Weiner’s work for the first time while in the UK – I saw the piece below in the Tate St Ives, and the fact that I could still remember the piece, and quote it in its entirety without effort two weeks later led me to buy this book that then doubled…
So we’re in Telford, slowly recovering energy after a full-on Greenbelt. Post-Greenbelt, ‘just wait til you hear what you missed’ posts can be horrible to read… and they feel indulgent to write. Which doesn’t seem to be stopping me… I had a great Greenbelt. One of the best I’ve been to, i think. It was…
So I’m in London – no jetlag to speak of, and the weather is perfect… The tour part of this trip starts on Wednesday, when Nicole and I meet up with half the Australian group to travel down to Cheltenham. The rest of the group will be joining us over the next few days, then…
I want to put this here so i don’t forget it, even though it might not make much sense yet. One of the intentions for those of us working in the new Culture and Context Unit is that our unit meetings will be biased more towards developing a learning community, rather than spending time catching…
I’m at Fitzroy Uniting Church on Sunday at 10am. I wasn’t going to do spaces, but i have lost my voice [as has most of melbourne], and though it will be back by sunday, it won’t survive a service. So spaces it is… It’s Pentecost Sunday. We’re using Ezekiel 37:1-14, Rabbit Proof Fence [by special…
ezekiel 37, again you do not give up on the broken and the lost you do not give up on the fractured or the shattered or the dying or the dead you do not give up on the fearful or the hateful or the impossible you do not give up when there is no heartbeat…
