jonnybaker

a conversation about imagination and creativity

when i was in colorado recently i got invited to have a conversation with rick lawrence on his podcast. we had been talking about creativity and imagination in the car so that was what we dived into (which happens to be one of mine and rick's favourite subjects i suspect). the flow of the conversation relates imagination to faith in jesus, the challenges facing the church today and how to nurture creative practice. the framework for the conversation is seven behaviours in the creative stance, a book put together by people teaching at art colleges in london to explore what helps someone creative flourish. i am sure i'll come back to review that book on the blog another time...

anyway the podcast episode is here - it lasts about 50 minutes

dissent

i am teaching MA students today on a leadership module at cms pioneer training and exploring dissent for leadership. this has led to me re-reading gerald arbuckle's refounding the church - what a book! it is honestly the most helpful book i think i have read related to pioneering ever. here's a quote from the book for today's presentation...

simple eh?! 

12 days of christmas at nomad

nomad podcast is doing a series of podcasts from a few wise men and women. jenny baker is one and she applies the bechdel test to the christmas story - nice idea! listen here

dreamers who do - talks, slides, notes and quotes

the talks i gave along with contributions from beth, harry, ric, andrea are now all downloadable from the breakout web site here. i have also added my notes, sheets of quotes i gave out and a pdf of slides. apologies that i forgot to turn the recorder on for the last section on the adjacent possible (for those who were there and remember).

asbojesus resource pack

jon birch has reworked over 200 asbojesus cartoons into a format that is downloadable and printable or projectable - i.e. each image is 300dpi - if that means nothing it means they are large enough! you may (or may not) remember a while back that jon had a burglary and computers stolen so this has meant a lot of painstaking redrawing and reworking. the resource pack is available to download on proost (if you are a subscriber it's in the download section).

these drawings are simply brilliant - provocative, questioning, cheeky, celebratory and lamenting and jam packed with theology.

brian maclaren and ian mobsby in conversation

ian mobsby yarns with brian maclaren on the latest moot podcast. they discuss the usa and uk situations, contemplative practices, the challenges of the global south (who i felt were in danger of being overly stereotyped as fundamentalists). brian oozes wisdom as ever. i really like his thinking around liturgy. i think in many places the missional conversation is focused on generating an outward focus but it is equally important to nurture a worshipping life that fuels the life of faith and mission.

interview with archbishop rowan williams

tim nash is doing the resource course – and i think loving it! he is part of a small missional community in nottingham. one of the things they have done is develop a podcast - http://www.nomad.libsyn.com/ . it is building up a series of interesting interviews on mission, emerging church and all that. i’m not quite sure how but this month tim managed to get into lambeth palace to interview archbishop rowan williams on fresh expressions. it is a brilliant piece. if you are part of the church of england and involved in anything on the edge or new, it’s really worth a listen. apart from anything else it is really encouraging to hear how rowan views things. his understanding of church is so relaxed and practical – when people encounter jesus they will want to meet with others – that’s church. he then suggests that they will then explore what it means to follow jesus, read the scriptures and shape life around it and (not necessarily immediately) will explore baptism and communion. the latter sacramental things are more of a challenge but important. anyway this is the direct link to the mp3 - i am actually experimenting posting via posterous.com to see whether putting a direct url in the e-mail with an mp3 address in embeds the audio?...

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blogs - greenbelt and tom sine join the conversation

tom sine has started blogging. i always enjoy tom's insights and reflections

greenbelt festival have also started a blog and podcast (well revamped their old blog is strictly more accurate). they are going to be uploading a talk fee each month so that's worth looking out for if you like listening to talks. i confess that whilst i think it's a good idea i have probably listened voluntarily to about 2 talks after an event in my entire life! i guess i'm more of a reader to learn...

on the subject of summer festivals we have bought tickets to the big chill and jen's coming this time round

alan jamieson talk as mp3

you can now download alan jamieson's talk (13mb mp3) - see below

red herring podcast

i have finally got round to listening to emerg::podcast put together by red herring. each programme lasts 30 minutes and a large part of each is an interview interspersed with some music tracks (some courtesy of proost). it's good, well worth a listen. it's actually quite a good intro to the whole emerging church thing... one of the things i like is that red herring seems committed to making it global - i hope he manges to sustain that emphasis.

trax16 podcast

cms youth team monthly podcast trax16 goes live today

youth podcast and nanos to be won

the cms youth team are plotting a youth podcast. they are looking for input, ideas and so on. and there are ipod nanos to be won so tell any teenagers you know...

mark berry podcast - a man of many talents

following the popularity of mark berry's desert meditation, he has started a podcast of his meditations. no 2 is dreams. due to the complications of copyright and music mark has created his own chilled track to go with it and it's excellent - a man of many talents! along with the outlines of what mark does at their midweek contemplative space it's a great resource.

the podcast is also a way mark hopes to generate a bit of support for his ministry so once he adds a donate button go and give him some support...

i have added the feed to his podcast into my list in the sidebar. (note to self: update the worship trick with his meditation so it includes the podcast feed)...

vj podcasting

i feel like i've hardly got my head around podcasting but seems like video podcasting is also going to be all the rage (though requires good bandwidth)...

ben hanbury gives a round up of vj podcasting

audiomission - cms podcast

audiomission is the new cms podcast. the easiest way to follow a podcast is to paste this feed into itunes or the equivalent

In this very first edition of Audiomission you’ll hear a special extended report from BBC Songs of Praise presenter Pam Rhodes as she discovers how CMS has been involved in the relief effort since the Asian tsunami struck. Anita Matthews, CMS’s national children’s work adviser, will bring you a faith reflection on the tsunami, and you’ll hear the latest CMS news headlines from Trevor Smith.

later in the year there will also be a youth podcast

kranky records podcast

if you like your music experimental, ambient, post rock (yes apparently it is a genre) then subscribe to the kranky records podcast. october's was a taste of their fall/autumn releases. december's is a dip into the archives. i came across kranky records because of the amazing dead texan album. i've added the kranky podcast feed to my list of podcasts. makes me think that maybe we should do an occasional proost podcast?...

if you've not listened to a podcast before the easiest way is to subscribe in itunes. simply go to the advanced menu and click subscribe to podcast and type the feed address in.

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contemplative prayer podcast

centering from the center is a weekly podcast from joanthan normon with weekly 10 minute meditation/prayer... nice idea

podcast support in typepad

typepad have added very easy podcast support... cool

stories from downunder

stephen said has been recording a series of interviews and podcasting them. i have subscribed to his feed and pasted it into itunes. as part of his podcast he has posted the first of regular discussions with hirschy. this picks up on a conversation that was sparked when forge put out a statement reacting to emergent's reaction to don carson. (i haven't blogged about that discussion because to be honest i thought it was dull and utterly pointless - carson hadn't done his homework - why give it the space? i've got better things to do. i also thought that the reactions were very defensive - not a stance i'm that keen on either.) emergent then reacted to forge and so on and so on... alan and stephen are discussing that reaction and trying to clarify what they were saying. the reason i have decided to mention this is because i think maybe some conversation about the different emphases is a good thing now. i think that different expressions of emerging church within different countries and contexts are a good thing. part of the forge gift and challenge to us in the uk is and has been to be more missional and i thank them for that. we see god more fully when we see god's image more fully reflected by engaging with all the parts of his body round the world. in that sense we all need each other...

the comments on the interview post with alan are an intersting conversation as well...

how not to use podcasting...

why is it that when churches discover a new technology they still think along the lines of the media they used in the old world?...

i am fed up with hearing people get excited about podcasting and then in the next sentence say that their church are thinking about podcasting sermons. why?! it reminds me of several of marshall macluhan's insights/probes:

our typical response to disrupting new technology is to recreate the old environment instead  of heeding the new opportunities of the new environment.

official culture still strives to force the new media to do the work of the old media. but the horseless carriage did not do the work of the horse: it abolished the horse and did  what the horse could never do.

the potential of any new technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors.

i am interested to know what other interesting/creative ideas people have for podcasting than preaching...