There’s a blogger’s rule that posts are not meant to be more than 500 words long… alas, this is well over 1000, but i’ve always thought that anyone who reads this blog must be particularly tenacious, so i’m happy to break the rule with you in mind… In a similar way, I’m including the following…
Sarah sent me this Judy Horacek cartoon in response to the last post. [Judy is a Melbourne cartoonist / illustrator, her work is simply amazing…] I’m impatiently awaiting the delivery of Robert Wright’s new book, The Evolution of God. I loved this article he wrote for the NY Times: If salvation is indeed about feeling…
I’ve spent the last two days at a conference with Diana Butler Bass, which some colleagues of mine were organising. It was a last minute decision to go, and I’m so, so glad I did. Diana is the author of A People’s History of Christianity, Christianity for the rest of us, and numerous other books…
Most conversations about new forms of church or christian community are about rethinking the table at which the disciples sit. True confession: this project doesn’t emerge from any interest in that table, or even really in the disciples. i think the really interesting stuff of the gospels is the other stories – the tables Jesus…
I loved these last two paragraphs from Mark Vernon’s review of Terry Eagleton’s Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate “There are no guarantees that such a transfigured future will even be born,” is how Eagleton ends. But, you know, there is an optimism that lurks in the dark heart of pessimism. For…
Random thoughts in the absence of cohesion I don’t read many church blogs, but it seems there’s a bit of a theme going around that people are stopping blogging for a while, and becoming a little jaded with social networking. Someone asked whether the sporadic posting here meant i was stopping blogging. I have no…
I love the whole area of systems thinking and organisational / cultural change [it was a large part of the study for my masters, which ended up focussing on intuition as a valid form of knowledge, and it’s place within organisational learning]. The ‘pop’ version of this can be found in Margaret Wheatley’s writings and…
We were in at the NGV yesterday, and popped in to see Bill Viola’s ‘Ocean without a shore’ installation again… it was still lovely. I really like that it’s not in the contemporary art section, but that you have to walk through the Greek and Egyptian antiquities section… Craig responded to my last post about…
So we workshopped… it was a fascinating morning. I know less now than I did before. It confirmed for me that the way we work with hope – the language we use to invoke it, and the role we believe we play in offering it – is absolutely central to our understanding of faith. And…
Someone told me the website had been very black over the last few weeks, and that it will be scaring people away. Alas, i wear black better than any other colour… It’s not all dark here, by any stretch of the imagination, but i can’t write about the fun work stuff just now. We’re making…
