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
Settling In….
Just settling in and wandering around in this website while I get to know the place and who lives here. I’ve just arrived and its all new to me. As my welcoming gift I’ll leave the Hand Out (HO) for the 24/7 YouthWork Training Prayer morning I’m curating next week. No one has seen this and…