Posted on December 2, 2009 by christopbrooks
Last night at our Seeds dinner we had a discussion about why Advent is a time of waiting. Karen said it didn’t seem to make sense for us to spend Advent waiting for Christ’s birth, when we know that Christ has already been born, and it happened a long time ago. I think it makes [...]
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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 November 10, 2009 by christopbrooks
I was organising staff prayers this afternoon. I’d been reading The Artist’s Way that morning. In the part I was reading, Julia Cameron was talking about how we’re born creative (created in the image of the Creator, as co-creators), but often as we’re growing up we’re taught not to be. Cameron encourages her readers to [...]
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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 July 6, 2009 by christopbrooks
This morning (Sunday) I took Mike and Rachel C to St Nicholas’ Antiochian Orthodox Church. (The others went to St Michael’s and CSBC.) I really like going to St Nicholas’. Mike was saying that it’s like stepping into 2000 years of history. He said that everything seemed so unfamiliar, but it was also clear that [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2009 by christopbrooks
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 [...]
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