I have been on holiday now for nearly a week and that can only mean one thing! Illness!! It started last Saturday and has had me feeling pants until today. I have managed to make it out of bed and dressed and feel almost human. Appologies for my absense (I have a note from my mum)!
One thing I have been able to do whilst ill is scan my films from Greenbelt. These shots were taken using a Holga on fuji velvia film that was then cross processed. Check them out on my flickr account.
I haven’t posted a worship idea in a while. I guess that is mostly due to the context I find myself in for the next 6 months. Worshipping with a monastic community is a wonderful experience and it is greatly informing my understanding of emergence – but it doesn’t often appear to be alt. worship.
This post came out of a conversation at ASBOJesus about the efficacy of preaching a sermon as part of an act of worship. One of the main concerns was that there was not enough opportunity in a “traditional sermon” for interaction. This idea for Jazz Preaching came from a friend of mine who used the analogy of how Jazz Musicians interact with each other following a theme but improvising around it. Her idea was that a small group of people from the church meet in a local coffee shop on Monday morning. They would go through the readings for the next week and sit and talk about it over a Danish pastry. They would do much the same thing on Thursday morning. This would then follow on to a pint on Saturday evening with the same kind of theological discourse. On Sunday morning in church they would then sit around a table and the conversation continues. People would be able to improvise on the theme because they have been living with the issues raised from the passage for a week. It would also allow a diversity of opinion and more voices to speak to the conversation. If anyone has things to say from the congregation they can (Trisha stylee with a roving microphone).