shifting espresso
espresso is our Tuesday evening congregation at Opawa. No sermon or singing. Instead opening prayer and closing “creative ending”; in between a free for all conversation about questions that are making...
View Articlewhat is sin to a 9 year old boy?
Updated: the finished product ended up here. I’m working on Sunday’s sermon. As part of the morning service, we welcome one of our community ministries, to 8-12 year old community kids. Since we’re...
View ArticleBill, Ben and their goat called raisins: Mark 2:1-12 storytelling sermon
Here is a storytelling in relation to Mark 2:1-12. (And in relation to the question I asked on Friday, about what is sin to a nine year old). The service today included a focus on a ministry reaching...
View Articlea christian response to swine flu part 2 (creative storytelling of Mark 1:39-45)
Today, in response to Mark 1:39-45, we prayed for all healthworkers. Everyone was given at the door either a white piece of cloth or a gold piece of cloth. One – white – stood for Mother Teresa, the...
View Articlea narrative approach to a theology of evil
Lots of stories are happy stories. Yet we live in a dark world. Babies get hurt. People grieve. Relationships break. This raises the question as to the presence of evil. Are there bad forces, outside...
View Articlerolling our story with God’s story: Biblical story cubes
Storycubes has got all sorts of church and worship possibilities. The instructions are simple: Roll the Cubes. Begin with ‘Once upon a time’ and tell a story that links together all 9 face-up images...
View Articlestories stories everywhere. mission and discipleship in Mark’s gospel
Today (UK Monday) has been a fun workday, preparing for the Network of Biblical Storytellers Conference annual conference, in Adelaide, this weekend coming. I’m down to do 3 keynote sessions, plus a...
View Articlestorytelling: including some quotes from Coupland’s Generation A
I’m off to the annual Network of Biblical Storytellers Conference. This is one area where Australia is way ahead of New Zealand, in having a network and a gathering around the sheer imaginative and...
View Articlethe richness of our shrinking world
The internet has some downsides. But it also has some amazing upsides. I am currently working on some distance material, around the theme of Jesus Christ today. The aim is a course to help lay folk as...
View ArticleAha, there’s a storyteller: Daniel Lanois, Brandon Flowers and a ministry of...
Daniel Lanois is a record producer and musician. His CV includes working with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Brian Eno and U2. Quite a list! Three of the albums he...
View ArticleMulti- sensory storytelling
“Passionate people wanted to produce something new” I went today to the recently opened Historium in Bruges. A wonderfully creative way to access history, that has some challenges for Christian...
View ArticleConversations at the tables
I’m speaking today at Conversations at the table. It’s a unique invite. They want me to talk actually at tables, around food, between courses. Not as the make them laugh after dinner speaker, but to...
View ArticleAfter rain: art and a spirituality of encounter
Over the long weekend, hoping to escape work, I picked up William Trevor, After Rain: Stories. Trevor has been called the finest living writer of short stories. He writes with a goal – to “illuminate...
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