stations workshop
no idea yet on how to run a workshop on curating stations… nonetheless, we’ll be doing it on october 20. it will be here in the city, more details to come much closer to the time.
art of worship
[i didn’t get the learning group stuff finished yesterday, and i’m not back in the office now until thursday. i am officially running late with everything. no apologies – some non-work things have taken priority this week] i spent today at mark pierson’s “Art of Worship” workshop. It was excellent. i learn so much from…
mark’s workshop
wondering if anyone who reads this is going to mark pierson’s workshop on Saturday? i’ll be there [almost definitely, depending on one small thing that’s completely out of my control…]. i’d love to know who else will be.
art of worship
this workshop will be brilliant. it will also fill very fast [in fact, i registered this morning before posting this, so that i would be sure to get in…] The Art of Worship, led by Mark Pierson, April 21 at Collins Street Baptist Church.
looking forward…
Back in the office today, and loving it. it’s the first time i’ve really been in all year for longer than a glancing look in despair at my increasingly cluttered desk. January has been a fairly wild ride in all sorts of good ways, but it’s nice to be a taking a breath at this…
Reminder about Pete Rollins
I’m just back from NCYC in Perth… it was a pretty intense week. It was – as always – a privilege to be involved in such an event. Pete Rollins was superb. It was wonderful to watch some of the young people i know who are pretty cautious and sceptical about Christianity, faith and the…
Pete Rollins in Melbourne
Pete Rollins in Melbourne (the dates have changed slightly from those announced earlier) download it as a pdf here: PeteRollins.pdf
change
I had lunch with a friend yesterday who works for the church in a consultancy position – similar in many ways to a position i used to hold. She talked about how she’d just realised that the work she was doing wouldn’t change the church – that no amount of impassioned speaking, no cleverly crafted…
flow
a couple of thoughts after yesterday’s presentation at the SCM conference. jillian bull, from rmit, was speaking after me about virtual care. she talked about some research done by kipling williams through macquarrie university, which indicates that being ostracised on egroups (and someone can perceive they are being ostracised by simply not getting any response…
virtual church
i’m speaking at an SCM national conference on virtual worship this afternoon… a text message just came through to say that the data projector isn’t working, so i’m going unplugged and acoustic. that feels quite nice for a change.
what to say… there’s so much ‘out there’ in the virtual world in terms of worship. i’ve been particularly taken with a scottish virtual church which gives you the opportunity to sing along to “Abide with me” and “The day thou gavest”. There’s the Ship of Fools virtual church, church of fools, and it’s evolving counterpart, St Pixels… Among the ‘sacred space’ sites are rejesus, vurch, the Irish Jesuit daily prayer site, and many others. they’re good.
i find it really interesting that the attempts to create virtual worship – like the Church of Fools, and St Pixels – are still working on a very traditional format of worship. if i don’t want to be part of that off-line, why would i want to be on-line…?…