A Spirited Pentecost
Through the eyes of Jesus' 'beloved disciple' with Acts 2:1–21 I watched as Peter paced up and down throughout the house, edgy and impatient. That man cannot sit still. Others were jittery, [...]
Then I remembered
Holy Week Stories with Christ Church Uniting and The Effective Living Centre Three stories, for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of Holy Week. Listen to or read one a day as a meditation if [...]
Guiding your people through Advent
I have been creating liturgies for, and retelling the stories of, Advent and Christmas for many years now, and I would like to share that creativity with you. Perhaps you'll use a prayer [...]
Space for your story
Turning up I turn up. I make time, I open a Zoom chat, come to your home, welcome you to mine, or meet you in another warm, inviting, environment. When I turn up, [...]
Jesus welcomes children
It is a story to which I return again and again. It is the story I use to demonstrate what I mean by emotion, physicality, and audience showing me meaning in a biblical composition [...]
Performing Deborah’s song
Learning about Leading. Lesson 3: carry the song Deborah's song. Sometimes known as Deborah and Barak's song. But Deborah is the one who sings it (the verbs are first person, singular, feminine, in [...]
Now available: Embodied Performance
Embodied Performance Mutuality, Embrace, and the Letter to Rome Buy Now! Keynote One from the Network of Biblical Storytellers' Festival Gathering 2020 introduces Embodied Performance Analysis, the [...]
Learning about leading. Lesson 2: connection.
Communication is key Leadership is all about relationships. Someone whose leadership I appreciate is Phil Ruge-Jones, facilitator of the Network of Biblical Storytellers' Scholars Seminar. He's been reading, too, and found these insights [...]
Biblical Storytellers Festival Gathering Keynote One
This Friday, Australian time, catch the first of my keynote sessions for the Network of Biblical Storytellers International Festival Gathering - free! 10 am in the east, watch live on YouTube, [...]
God still calls: despite doubt, insecurity, brokenness.
on Jer 1:4–10 and Luke 13:10–17, for Wesley Uniting Church Canberra, 25 August 2019 My, but we can get in God’s way, can’t we? ‘Not today, God, there are rules we cannot break.’ ‘Not [...]
Who are we, Community of Christ?
The Stories: Acts 16:16-34 and John 17:20-26 I want to begin with the story in Acts; the first part of the story, which we often skip over for the sensational miracle in the jail [...]
