Tag: Dirt
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Protest4 | The Truth Isn’t Sexy
As the government releases its proposals about clamping down on prostitution, there’s a timely release of Protest4’s website and presence. Si Johnston has had a passion for justice in this area – people trafficking, sexual slavery and abuse – for a long time, and I’m confident that the viral strategy he’s set up is a…
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Find the Imperfection: Exist there
It’s always refreshing to have a drink with Nic. We got onto talking around post + modernity, pre + post incarnation, plausibility structures and the concept of phase changes, which Pete Ward never quite expanded on in his book Liquid Church… Usual pub fayre. The root question: how do things change? What are the actual…
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Ode To Joseph
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Joseph is one of those characters that has always intrigued me. His is an apparently strange story in the nativity, and we hear little, if anything about him afterwards. But behind the scenes he is quite an extraordinary figure. He is engaged to Mary, probably about 14 or so. Who gets pregnant. What the?!! And…
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Advent: Dirt and Creation
As we think about the coming season of Advent, I’ve been mulling about the process by which ‘newness’ comes about. I was talking with two Vaux accomplices on Sunday, who are both doing post-graduate studies variously around ideas of space. Both were commenting on the varied backgrounds of the people they were studying with, and…
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Sanctuary and Dereliction…
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I’m going to be away from Saturday until the following weekend. Holiday in Wales, then to Manchester on Thursday 20th to speak at Blah… on Cities, God and the Urban etc. Be good to see people there. In the mean time, many thanks to Saga (more of soon) for the link to these wonderful images…
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The Bubble Project
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Another great link from the super-powers at Ratio The Bubble Project is that simple. Get a load of speech bubble stickers. Stick them on ads. Go back later with a camera. Share online.