Back at the beginning of last year, a few of us talked together about how we’d love the opportunity to ‘play’ with alternative worship together. Australia is a pretty big country, most of us see each other once a year or so at conferences, where often we’re presenting or leading. We decided we wanted to…
Steve Collins is visiting Melbourne in a couple of weeks. If you’re around, we’ll be having a night at the pub with Steve on Wednesday 11th October. Email if you are interested in being part of that, and i’ll give you details.
the event is full… this is for those who have already indicated an interest, but lost their registration form! registrations close on august 22nd. AWN-Confirmation_oct.pdf
in response to last week’s workshop at otira, I’m going to organise another workshop in November – a very practical, hands on workshop about learning how to use media, etc. in alternative worship. It seems the logical next step. I’ve been wondering about making it open only to those who aren’t ordained. There are a…
a couple of quick things… the alternative worship workshop i’m running next thursday at Otira is full… we’ll do another one very early next year, if you wanted to come and hadn’t got your act together. I’m speaking at an SCM workshop on 29th June along with Phil McCreddon, from NCCC, Al Macrae from theological…
i’m leading a day long alternative worship workshop on June 14, at Otira in Kew. This is part of Otira’s Continuing Education for Ministers program. Register by ringing Otira on 9853 2000. Workshops on alternative worship – particularly with ministers – are always tricky. there are a lot of assumptions about worship that alt worship…
i spent yesterday with uniting church prison chaplains from around Victoria. they have a retreat every couple of months, and i joined them to talk about worship within a prison setting. This is part of an ongoing set of work that i began talking about here. It’s started to take on bigger dimensions, as these…
mark pierson and i are curating worship on easter saturday. if you’re in melbourne for the weekend, come along. It’s at 8pm in the dome at the Mission to the Seafarers, 717 Flinders St, Docklands. email mark or me if you want to know more, or download a pdf of the poster here: Dead Man…
I spent last weekend at the Forest Edge Festival. Age was running Cafe Praxis, a kind of ‘alternative space’ to the rest of the festival. It was good to spend some time with the Urban Seed crowd there, and to meet some of the people from Tear. People are always the best part of these…
A couple of things have been confirmed today for Lent and Easter… We’ll have a labyrinth on Ash Wednesday (March 1), here at the Synod office in the city (I think all the stations will involve ashes… i’ll post that up here as soon as it’s written) I’m curating worship with Mark Pierson on Easter…
