I’ve mentioned it before, but I finally got round to actually using Annie Leonard’s great little film The Story of Stuff in church last week. I showed the film and then we discussed it. It raises all kinds of issues, about the environment, the exploitation of developing countries, and where we find our value as… [Read more…]
October 20, 2008
FutureShorts have just released their first DVD, which you can buy here, and among the 16 films is this little gem, The Crab Revolution. It’s by Frenchman Arthur De Pins, about the crabs of the Gironde estuary, which I visited on honeymoon in July in fact. The crabs can’t change direction, and when one does…… [Read more…]
October 20, 2008
Just a quick plug for the Metavista blog, which I’ve been updating today. It’s one of two blogs I keep an eye on for work (this being the main one). Today I’ve been posting some thoughts on the financial crisis from Rev Dr Colin Greene, author of Metavista: Bible, Church and Mission in an Age… [Read more…]
September 4, 2008
I saw this film and I thought immediately of September 11th. It is a striking example of a visual prayer, if you see it that way, of what is broken coming together again. With the anniversary coming up, I thought I’d mention it again. It is by French design collective Pleix, with audio from Kid… [Read more…]
August 27, 2008
Church on the Corner’s ‘Urban Wilderness’ session went pretty well at Greenbelt on saturday night. The potential for it to go horribly wrong kind of grew the nearer it got, but it worked and people got it and we were pleased and relieved. A Christian Aid blogger wrote a nice review of it here, if… [Read more…]
August 14, 2008
If you’re at Greenbelt this year, let me invite you along to ‘Urban wilderness – the spirituality of the city’, hosted by Church on the Corner in the New Forms Cafe on saturday night. Here’s the blurb from the programme: Christian spirituality has often focussed on escaping the noise and pressure of the city, so… [Read more…]
August 1, 2008
Sometimes things that look scary at first are good for us in the end. If you want this in a higher res, it’s available on Stash, issue 42.
March 31, 2008
Hopeinfo.co.uk has been relaunched with a number of new films. The latest ‘girl musing on train’ Big Hope is quite similar to the ‘man musing on bus’ Fresh Hope, but it does have a vox-pops start that roots it in real life, and it should be widely useful in mainstream churches. There’s also the iMatter… [Read more…]
October 30, 2008
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