How to draw God?

Been reading next Sunday’s lectionary readings (particularly Isaiah 6) and thinking about how to draw God. According to Judaism or Islam (or First Millenium Christianity) I probably shouldn’t try to draw God at all. In Isaiah 6, the prophet doesn’t say anything about what God looks like in his vision – although he does describe God’s robe. Wondering about whether I should draw on the Torah’s representations of God (eg. the burning bush, the pillars of smoke and fire) but I don’t think I have any reason to believe that Isaiah’s vision of God was anything like those depicted in the Torah. I also don’t want to draw God as an old man with a long beard, because I think that idea comes more from ancient Greek religion than from the Abrahamic tradition.
What do you think?

Visiting the cats


In our neighbourhood there are a lot of cats. Which works out well for us because Mehrin and I both like cats. So we have made a habit of visiting all the cats of the neighbourhood in the evening. Some of them we see almost every evening, others are only out now and then. Some are very friendly, while others are quite shy. Read more »

Love (1 Corinthians 13)

This is a film I made to use at CSBC tonight, illustrating 1 Corinthians 13 (one of the lectionary readings for the fourth Sunday after Epiphany). We used it as the call to worship.

I decided to use footage from around our city neighbourhood to illustrate the scriptures, in order to try and make sure we don’t forget the world outside when we’re in church.

Adam and Eve?

I know that artists normally portray Adam and Eve as slim and classically beautiful, but for some reason this piece by Mic (it’s on the side of a house in our neighbourhood) makes me think of Adam and Eve:

I have wondered for a while whether Adam and Eve would really have looked anything like the classical images of beauty or wether they would have been large and hairy and asymmetrical? The stuff in Genesis 3 about Eve and Adam trying to hide themselves might help us to understand our culture’s obsession with covering the blemishes of our physicality.

Port Douglas

A few weeks ago I said I’d post some photos from our honeymoon in Port Douglas, and I still haven’t. So now I am.

Took this on the flight to Cairns:

We spent a lot of time in the pool:
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Daal saag recipe


Tonight I was going to cook daal saag for dinner, but we didn’t have all the right ingredients. So I tried changing the recipe a bit. It turned out well, so I thought I’d post the recipe here. Read more »

Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? (Matthew 2:2)

Our engagement party/wedding

For those of you who don’t know, on December 18 Mehrin and I had our engagement party on the roof at Central House (the Collins Street Baptist Church/Urban Seed building). Most of the people we invited didn’t know that we would be getting married at the engagement party! It went perfectly. Here are some pictures our friend Aun took on the night:

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‘…make his paths straight…’

Did these at Pain in the Arts yesterday, thinking about next Sunday (Advent 2)’s lectionary reading from Luke 3:1-6:

Climate-change Pantokrator

This is an image Marcus put together for church at Footscray Baptist on Sunday:

I was reading the Revised Common Lectionary on Sunday with Luke getting all apocalyptic.  What with ” Son of Man coming on cloud”, “seas roaring, consider the trees… signs of the times etc.  With our hottest November since 1868 being announced it is hard not to think of leadership and authority as world leaders approach Copenhagen and confront the apocalypse that is climate change.

Mindful also this weekend of  the storm clouds brewing amongst the Australian Federal Liberal Opposition…

More from Marcus here.
(They also used my Branch of David animation.)