I had coffee yesterday with Phil McCredden who is the new director of Forge Victoria. Our relationship with Forge has always been pretty rocky, so our conversation yesterday was an attempt to find a way to work together differently – thanks to Phil for initiating it. Forge Victoria are reconfiguring themselves at the moment, and…
[update: more photos from mike here – thanks mike.] mike takes the best photos. looking towards the entrance of the basement, projection of degraves lane on the ceiling… holy ground …
[writing hopes in the laneway] we were visited this afternoon by a freelance photographer who came to take photos of the space for an article about the alt worship project… he’d never been to a christian thing before. ‘it’s really grungy and edgy’, he said. ‘it reminds me of the tate modern’. i really liked…
images of acts of redemption in the city… and these words: glimpses of redemption already unfolding. acts of justice; of pre-meditated unprovoked, love. surges of liberation pre-emptive strikes of hope. do not wait to see the flames in a burning bush. the flames are everywhere: held in every piece of gravel as pervasive as the…
the Forge Grassroots festival is happening in melbourne this week… Age Greenwood and I are organising one of the hubs, at the UC centre, including a basement installation and sacred space. The sacred space is called holy ground :: holy city. The basement will be open between 1.15 and 4.30, Saturday and Sunday. If you’re…
it hasn’t slipped my attention that a quarter of the year has passed before I’m putting this up… there barely seems time at the moment to take a breath. Easter: we’re not doing anything, for many reasons… but the Urban Seed guys let me know about a Stations of the Cross which will be happening…
Grassroots is a festival being organised by Forge in Melbourne on April 11-13. It’s a veritable feast of input and opportunities: Sally Morgenthaler, Mike Frost, Danielle Strickland, Steve Timmis, Andrew Jones, Alan Hirsch, etc. etc… We’re hosting a hub, as part of the festival, here in the basement. It’s going to be based around the…
i’ve had a lot of reactions to the article in Sunday’s Age. It’s surprised me because i didn’t really think it was that well written. The first two comments i heard were at the Forge conference, with both people calling me a heretic… to which i replied that maybe i simply choose to live by…
i’ve spent the last couple of days at Dangerous Stories 2 – the missional church conference run by Forge. i’m always grateful for situations like this that put me in contact with people who i wouldn’t otherwise meet. i heard some wonderful stories and met some exceptional people. Highlights were meeting Jarrod McKenna and hearing…
Dangerous Stories 2 I’ve just registered, although a little ambivalently – i felt like a fish out of water at DS1, and Gotan Project are playing on the friday night at Womad in Adelaide…
