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…
Yes, we are doing the trip again, both this year and next, in collaboration with the NSW Synod. This year’s trip will be in similar style to last year’s – participating in Greenbelt, then splitting into two groups, one visiting leaders to talk about how to create space for new communities; the other visiting new…
Unlike the hand forgeries which preceded lithography, photography, film and audio recording, [Walter] Benjamin argues that the nineteenth and twentieth centuries placed art in an era of mechanical reproduction, which necessarily changes our perception of art itself. In particular, Benjamin argues that the “aura” of an original, “the essence of all that is transmissible from…
i started writing this in Hong Kong sometime yesterday… i’ve been home for 18 hours, asleep for not quite enough of them, and hope this doesn’t reflect that!… i intended to write a lot more while i was away, but barely touched the computer… no regrets there… We had a good trip. Greenbelt was followed…
