[ hold :: this space ]

It’s busy at the moment. I got into the office this morning while it was still dark, and i’ve been watching the sun come up over the buildings outside my window - Melbourne glows in autumn. The other afternoon we had a fierce storm - thunder, lightning, hail… I could see everyone in the office block over on the next street  lined up against their windows watching it. It was a shared moment of awe: the city needs more of them.

Anyway… as I said, it’s busy. Here are a few of the reasons why there won’t be much action on the blog over the next few weeks.

Don’t tell Grace who’s processing the registrations, but I’m willing to extend the deadline to register for the Communal Justice Workshop on Saturday. A few people have asked if we’ll be filming sessions - we will be, but due to privacy issues [respecting those who are telling stories - particularly ex-prisoners and victims of crime] we won’t be able to make them widely available.

I’m speaking at the Progressive Christian Network gathering in St Davids UC, Canterbury on May 18.

The Urban Ministry Forum seems like it is shaping up nicely. It’s here in Melbourne, from May 29 to June 1. Jonny Baker will speaking at that - he arrives in just a few weeks.

There are a small number of spaces left for the alt worship nosh… I’m so looking forward to this. Registration forms can be downloaded here:  altworshipnosh.pdf.

The first half of this year has been a relentless flow of events… all good, but at almost all of them i’ve been talking about alt worship to interested onlookers, rather than working with people who live and breathe it. Most of the events are with church groups [conferences, workshops, etc.], and i have to remember a whole different language in those contexts. It’s like i’m searching in my memory for my rusty schoolgirl french [and i never was so good at that - all i have left is 'je voudrais un espresso, s'il vous plait', on which i've survived whole weeks in Paris].

I think humans are hardwired to create - something dulls in me when i don’t have the space to do that…  it’s been a good few months, but i’m a little tarnished. The second half of the year is shaping up quite differently, and already it feels like it will be much more like home…

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