‘…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:

Curly worms

… a righteous Branch …

This Sunday will be the first Sunday of Advent, so I’ve been having a bit of a look at the lectionary readings. Jeremiah 33 talks about how Israel is pretty much doomed because of their evil. But then it goes on to talk about God causing ‘a righteous branch to spring up for David’. So [...]

What I’ve been drawing in my notebook

Did this at Pain in the Arts on Wednesday:

… a spirit or an angel …

Did this at Pain in the Arts yesterday, reflecting on a tweet from @JesusQueries:

All Things in Common

So last weekend I was down at Phillip Island for TEAR Australia’s Victoria Gathering. This year’s theme was ‘All Things in Common’. I was involved in running the ‘Hospitality and Inclusion’ workshop stream, and I was also setting up some installation art in the main auditorium and the ‘Praying in Hope’ space.
When we went down [...]

The vine in Babylon

Jeff scanned this for me today:

(The scanner here wasn’t big enough to scan it.)
I drew this at Pain in the Arts last year, when I was working on the Sacred Space for State Youth Games. It’s based on Ezekiel’s parable of the vine in Babylon (Ezekiel 17).
(Unfortunately I ended up having to pull out of [...]

Near Inglewood

It’s been over a week since Mehrin and I went up to Bendigo, but I didn’t get to blog about it, because last week was so silly.
Mehrin and I caught the train up on Saturday afternoon. When we got to the station Ali and Di asked us if we wanted to go on an adventure. [...]

The squid and the cross

I’ve been looking at a little book called Empowerment of Indigenous People by Bakthan Tychicus. It has this image on the cover:

… the squid embracing the cross was painted by Bruce Wangurra, Aboriginal artist from Jabiru Land Council, N.T.
From the Aboriginal perspective the squid is the giver of life. Within the dreaming it contains the meaning [...]

If you had a billboard, what would you put on it?

At Pain in the Arts today I was thinking about ideas for the TEAR conference. I started asking the others, ‘If you had a billboard, what would you put on it?’ I ended up writing their responses on the tower in my sketch below:

The stuff written at the bottom are the responses I got to [...]