Tag: Gift
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From the Church to the Concert Hall, and Back Again | Etiquette | Gift
Interesting piece on Radio 4’s arts flagship Front Row this evening, concerning etiquette at classical concerts. There has been some consternation among the classical faithful that a new breed of concert-goers are filling the seats, and they simply don’t know when to applaud. Etiquette has it that one doesn’t at the end of movements, only…
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Goodbye, for now | New Book
I think the time is right to drop the curtain on ‘Signs of Emergence’ / ‘The Complex Christ’ / ‘Der Jesus Faktor’ and move on. The idea of this blog has been to give some space to extend the ideas presented in that book, and, personally, I feel that’s been successful. But you shouldn’t keep…
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Two Shirts | Excess
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It’s probably just me, but you ever got all your laundry done, finally cleared out the utility room, got the whole lot ironed, and realised you don’t actually have the cupboard space to put it all? Dirt and excess. I’ve often thought about a year’s project based on Matthew 6 where I’d aim to give…
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Wikiklesia Paperback Available | A Tale of Two Publishers
I’m really pleased to see the Wikiklesia book published in physical form. Go get your copy here and support Not For Sale as you do. I contributed a chapter on the move between text, audio and video, which seems to have gone down well. Wikiklesia is one of those great publishing projects you are happy…
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The Human Dress | Signs Launch
Thanks to everyone who helped out to give Signs a fantastic launch last night. It was great to phrase it as a time of worship; the guys from the Bridge imagined different sections in terms of doing laundry. Out of that I wrote this piece, meditating on ‘the human dress’, beginning with a quote from…