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59 - tea fuelled art produce a video with harry baker

harry has been doing poetry at various spoken word events round london over the last year. at one of the evenings run by tea fuelled art the monies raised on the door go to a creative project. not sure exactly how it came about, but they put money from one night into making a video with harry of one of his poem's - 59. it's quite brilliant (if you'll forgive the proud dad perspective...).

asbo jesus book

jon birch has published  asbo jesus as a book - both physical and an ebook. it's available on lulu here. and don't forget that if you want the cartoons as standalone high res images to use you can get those on proost.

the book is amazing - it really works well. hilarious and poignant in equal measure. the man is a genius!

blogging for beginners

i did two training sessions this week on blogging. there were quite a few people there interested in starting a blog who were not interested in getting too techy or anything. the first session was terrible in that i couldn't get online for the only time the whole week. but in the second we started a blog on blogging for beginners and it occured to me that if i tidied it up it might be useful for other people and might be something for the first group to make up for the rubbish session i led! it is and will remain only ten posts in total - i don't intend to expand upon it. and it's also just on setting up a posterous blog and nothing else. and it's aimed at people with not too much tech knowledge. anyway it's here

blogging4beginners

tunnel

chirk tunnel from jonny baker on Vimeo.

one of a few movies i have added to vimeo from our holiday

mission and creation care

at cms the library subscrbes to anumber of mission journals. increasingly these are online and some you have to be a member or subscribe to access but others are free. i mentioned anvil's re-invention recently online and free.

well another journbal that is online and free is the international belletin of missionary research. the latest issue which you can download is on mission and creation care possibly one of the most important edges in mission as we head into the next few decades. loads of back issues are available. if i am being penickety i found it awkward to find out what issues might be interesting as the titles of the issues online are the dates of publication rather than the themes. but having said that there is a search facility on the site. there's a wealth of mission thinking and research here - have a dig and see what you find.

dreamers who do and breakout

this week i am the guest blogger at share and have blogged on dreamers who do

in september there is a breakout conference which is a gathering of pioneers at which i have been invited to be the main speaker which is fairly daunting but which i'm looking forward to. in the blog post i mention that and some of what  hope to be exploring there.

how's your french? - l'église émergente

the wonderful jean hassenforder interviewed me for the french gospel and culture network website temoins on mission, grace, the web, the emerging church in the uk and the wider landscape, and pioneer leadership. and no my french isn't good enough for this so it was translated... anyway it's here - l'église émergente: un itinéraire pionnier

llangollen canal

just back from a family holiday boating up and down the llangollen canal which runs through wales, shropshire and cheshire. it was a wonderfully chilled week with amazing weather. i have added a set of photos to flickr - llangollen canal. i pretty much ignored e-mails, blogs and all that so plenty to catch up on. this photo is taken in chirk tunnel (i think it was that one).

come to us or go to them

come to us or go to them

awesome and intimate

this is tracy emin's neon sculpture beneath the huge stained glass window in liverpool cathedral. when she visited the cathedral she sensed the presence of christ or so it seems... it's in pink but i quite like this black and white. this is a photo that is included in a booklet 'awesome and intimate', a spiritual trail guide round liverpool cathedral that has just come out. together with a friend dean, we were invited to create a spiritual trail round the cathedral and take photographs for it. this has now been produced into a small booklet with a series of photographs and ten reflections/meditations with a map to guide you round. you can pick it up for free if you visit. the thinking behind this is that often people visit and can get a heritage tour which is all fine and good but it is also a spiritual place, a space for reflection, quiet and prayer. if you visit let us know what you think.

the church year and community rhythms

steve collins muses on the church year. i think this arose from a discussion we had at the grace weekend away this year on what the rhythm of our community might be in the year...

the story of everything

this animation the story of everything was made by rich and submitted as a piece of work on the cms pioneer course i am teaching as a timeline telling the bible story - wonderful! worship trick 8, series 4.