We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. MARCEL PROUST
Photo by Martin Martz on Unsplash Dear book club friends, For a while now it has felt like I lost focus for bookclub content. I drifted into a thing for a bit, and then couldn't quite sustain enthusiasm for it...drift toward another thing...I am sure this isn't news to any of you. I am pretty … Continue reading A shift post
The Resources So, we're moving on to the Charismatic Tradition, and this is going to be a short-ish post but guaranteed to stimulate much thought and discussion. The resources this week are taken from the teaching materials used by Forge Aotearoa, which is a work in progress training programme for equipping people to lead in … Continue reading Power, here and now…
Photo by Brooke Lark on Unsplash The Resources As I've reflected on the themes in this stream, there seem to be three main areas that it aims to bring into focus: A celebration of embodied aspects of life and faith An opening or deepening of perceiving and becoming more aware of Presence A cultivation of … Continue reading Holistic Spirituality
The Resources The tag line for this stream is "Practicing the Sacramental Life". The material offered by the Renovare folks has two main teaching points. The first one is about the opposing pair work/faith, and explores some of the practical aspects of the sacred/secular separation that is still alive and well, active in our language, … Continue reading Introducing the Incarnational Stream
Photo by Alexei Scutari on Unsplash The Resources Parker Palmer wrote a book, which I love, with that title - Let your life speak - and it's about his experience of recognising, at some point in his own life, that he was deeply unhappy and that he was deeply unhappy because he had followed an … Continue reading Let your life speak
Welcome to 2024. I'm doing something a bit different this year in that I have actually got a plan, more or less. I'm not much of a planner, to be honest and so I'm not super confident that this one will really work out...I'm good at ideas - big, creative, exciting ideas full of beautiful … Continue reading A teaching moment
Photo by eberhard grossgasteiger: https://www.pexels.com/photo/aerial-photography-of-zig-zag-road-1612462/ The Resources Well friends, we are approaching the final gathering of the year, and as we do I want to take some time to reflect on the year together. The above image seems apt to my own journey this year...and there are some very particular events and encounters that stand … Continue reading Reflections on 2023
The Resources As I've listened to stories of people who have been through a faith deconstruction and/or re-formation, and reflected on my own experience, one of the things that stands out is the grief over losing a sense of community. For some, leaving the church means losing all of their social connections, perhaps because those … Continue reading Friending and Belonging
Photo by Darshak Pandya: https://www.pexels.com/photo/back-view-of-person-standing-in-fog-4378759/ The resources I'm in a strange place right now, and as I consider this place, I am aware that my 'right now' actually started a while ago. I've been in a strange place for a season - and while my journey into this space has its unique quirks, I know … Continue reading Getting lost in transition
Photo by Laura Gilchrist on Unsplash The Resources The last piece of the puzzle about the times we are living in is how we participate in the work of crossing the bridge from the old form, model, or paradigm and into the one which is taking shape, being born, around us (in us/through us). Revivals … Continue reading Awakening in action
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