Posted on December 3, 2009 by christopbrooks
Did these at Pain in the Arts yesterday, thinking about next Sunday (Advent 2)’s lectionary reading from Luke 3:1-6:
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Posted on November 23, 2009 by christopbrooks
Did this at Pain in the Arts on Wednesday:
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Posted on July 7, 2009 by christopbrooks
Early this morning Sarah Scott-Webb (from our Youth & Schools team) led us through an examen for debrief/prayers.
Afterwards Andreana took the Mission Exposure punters up to visit St Mary’s House of Welcome in Fitzroy. I stayed back to cook lunch in Credo. (Chicken soup and vegetable soup.)
At Credo gathering Spriggsy inited us to think about [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2009 by christopbrooks
We started this morning (Monday, day three of Mission Exposure) with some time to debrief and pray about what’s going through everyone’s heads. Alice was reflecting a bit on an encounter she had on Sunday night with an indigenous person in Credo, and on the differences between indigenous/colonist relationships in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand).
We [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2009 by christopbrooks
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 [...]
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Posted on March 8, 2009 by christopbrooks
This is my response to today’s Lenten Lectionary reading:
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Posted on February 11, 2009 by christopbrooks
This is an animation about the unburned bush, which I produced for ‘Prayers for Melbourne’ at Collins Street Baptist Church, last week. I tried to upload it after I used it, but I had to work out how to make Vimeo videos work in WordPress. Then after the weekend I didn’t know if it was [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2009 by christopbrooks
Thought I should post some updated pictures of our rooftop garden. Took these Thursday night while we were having dinner up there (which included home-grown zucchini), and was thinking about the parable from Ezekiel 17 about the vine trying to grow in Babylon.
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