Casting the net
On my clown course we learnt to ‘cast the net’. This is an act of the imagination using a metaphor drawn from fishing. It is a practice used at the start of an interaction with an audience where the clown…
Sneaking a peek over God’s shoulder to see what He is up to: thoughts on future church
Sneaking a peek over God’s shoulder to see what He is up to: thoughts on future church
On my clown course we learnt to ‘cast the net’. This is an act of the imagination using a metaphor drawn from fishing. It is a practice used at the start of an interaction with an audience where the clown…
This post about public school in America, its industrial roots and lack of connection with the nature of contemporary society gives clues to how we might train people in theological colleges, how we ‘do’ mission and church, and how we…
Easy-to-organise last-minute creativity for a Christmas service if you’re pressed! Goes well with Luke 2:8-20 (or radical choice – instead of!). “We’re the unsung heroes, you know…No one gives us the blindest bit of notice. You’d think we were dirt,…
A group of ladies were making their way towards us along the corridor, a little unsteadily, led by care assistants. We’d started the worship-service-cum-hymn-singalong in the second floor lounge while they made their way up from the bottom floor: it…
It was a joy to see our church members serving the punters at the Flower Show. It’s not part of our church culture or tradition to be so ‘out there’ in terms of pointing to an invisible Other. Our congregations…