by admin | May 24, 2022 | Leadership, RESOURCES, Spirituality
Imago Vita or Pictures of Life is a set of 86 A5 photos produced on behalf of eLM: equipping leadership for mission for the Uniting Church, VicTas Synod. The varied images are chosen for use in a range of group activities, from community-building, to reflecting on...
by admin | May 5, 2022 | Children, RESOURCES, Uncategorized
Here’s a game that I made up for Alive@5 on the theme of saying sorry and forgiveness. It’s designed for a mixed group of parents and primary school age children. Sit in a circle. A volunteer stands in the middle – they are the spinning pointer. This...
by admin | May 3, 2022 | Bible, RESOURCES, Spirituality, Uncategorized
The story of the blind man at the pool of Siloam is well-known to readers of John’s Gospel. This is an audio recording of a guided mediation that I wrote for the book Encounters with Jesus. I’ve done this recording so that people can undertake the...
by admin | May 1, 2022 | RESOURCES, Spirituality
In your imagination, take yourself back a couple of thousand years to Jerusalem, the Jewish capital. Imagine the Middle Eastern city on a hill, the buildings of clay and stone, narrow streets, city walls, the hustle and bustle – streets filled with locals and...
by admin | Mar 21, 2022 | Children, RESOURCES
“A very simple definition of children’s spirituality might be God’s ways of being with children and children’s ways of being with God.” Rebecca Nye’s book Children’s Spirituality (London: Church House Publishing, 2009) is a brief but excellent introduction. She begins...
by admin | Mar 19, 2022 | Leadership, RESOURCES
Here is a set of discussion cards about leadership as improvisation. In my doctoral research I made a distinction between improvisation and innovation as follows: According to Sharon Parks, adaptive leadership occurs through experimentation and improvisation....
