I’m a bit annoyed with people who are loudly proclaiming all the projects they’ve achieved during lockdown. I’ve achieved very little. Partly this is because I have been sick for most of that time (non-Covid related, although I’m sure I could create yet another conspiracy theory that did connect the two). I’m also annoyed with…
How do I love thee? Let me count the days.
Day 33 of Lent Day 7 of Lockdown in New Zealand Day 1 of unemployment, and being a pastor without a community. Day 1 of April: April Fools Day 2020 isn’t a great year for April Fool’s jokes.Not practical ones anyway. Memes are in. For a joke to work it needs to connect with our…
The International Guild of Tea Liturgists adds new members.
It was with great pleasure that the guild recently added Pete Majendie (Christchurch, New Zealand) and Ted Lyddon Hatten (Indianola, Iowa) to its membership. Both initiations took place in New Zealand and involved the fabulous NZ grown Zealong tea. Pete’s initiation took place at Festival One when we took our Tea-in-a-Suitcases out among the punters,…
Launch of the International Guild of Tea Liturgists.
Guild of Tea Liturgists Today is an auspicious day in the history of tea-liturgists and tea drinkers around the world. Today we launch the International Guild of Tea Liturgists, complete with patron saint. There appears to be no patron saint of tea drinkers already appointed. The founders of the Guild of Tea Liturgists have chosen…
Artists and Arts in the Church in Aotearoa-New Zealand: a symposium for pastoral leaders
While I have no talent for music or visual art, I do consider myself an artist. My art form is worship curation. In 2011 I met well known music producer, songwriter and musician T-Bone Burnett. He prayed for me and offered prophetic encouragement. The significance of that ocassion wasn’t that he was famous (a fact…
To Tea & Be or Not to Tea & Be – that is a better question (contd.)
(Part 2) Tea & Be sessions at Festival One, began with a 10 minute introduction to the history of tea, how to use the tea apparatus, an explanation of the teas available and how the session would proceed. After that people chose their tea and talked with those around them. Each individual gaiwan was labelled with…
To Tea or not to Tea – that is the question.
I like drinking tea. In 1906 the seminal The Book of Tea by Japan’s Kakuzō Okakura was published in the USA. He says of tea, “(i)t has not the arrogance of wine, the self-consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of cocoa.” That’s good enough for me, although I do enjoy “simpering innocence” most days…
The Other Side of the Sheet
I have a pretty cast iron stomach. The most I usually feel is slight nausea regardless of what I eat. Six weeks ago when I had my head down paying homage to the great white porcelain god Toto I knew it was because of the Bratwurst sausage I had purchased off a market bbq the…
A Worship Curator’s Vocabulary
I learnt a new word last week. I shouldn’t have been surprised. I was at Yale which has been dealing in old words and new since October 9, 1701. I was there 315 years later to the day, although in different buildings and location to the original. I not only learnt the word, I experienced…
Stations of the Cross 2003: an analysis of a liturgical experience and its relevance for spiritual formation today
This is a copy of my thesis published in 2008. Sadly all the images have been removed to make it a manageable file size. One day I may figure out how to retain them. ThesisMFP_1 FRONTMATTER ThesisMFP_2no imagesThesisMFP_2no images