CRAIG MITCHELL
Welcome to my blog and portfolio. I’m an educator, facilitator, author, multimedia maker, event curator, church worker, musician, researcher and culinary explorer.
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Ways to Pray
Yesterday I led a prayer activity at Messy Church at the church where I'm doing supply ministry. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of craft activities as a medium for Christian education or faith formation. Experience beats analogy every time as far as I'm concerned. I...
Reconciliation Sunday – Meeting by the River
People of many homelands - will you join us beside the river and bring your memories of place your wisdom of country to this place and this time in the hope that this land might become more truly our shared home? Yes, we will come People of many languages - will us...
Creating Authentic Online Communities
Last night I hosted the first of a series of workshops for churches seeking to have an online presence through worship, as part of my current role with the Centre for Music, Liturgy and the Arts (within the Synod of South Australia, Uniting Church in Australia). We...
Affirmation of Faith based on the Preamble
In about 2011, Rev Jenny Tymms prepared an Affirmation of Faith based on the Revised Preamble to the Constitution of the Uniting Church in Australia. This was done in consultation with First Nations people so that the language would work well in ways that were...
The stunning guitar instrumental album "Reverie" by the impossibly talented Rob Timbs is now available for free on the "Songs of Faith and Hope and Love" website. It's been made to sound even better by the original engineer Chris Adams - who does this as a wonderful...
God-bearer
I was introduced to the description of Mary, mother of Jesus, as God-bearer by Kenda Creasy Dean and Ron Foster in their brilliant book about youth ministry, The Godbearing Life. The term comes from the Greek work theotokos, and the theological notion is more...
Songs for the Season
Video Series
Our Faith: Christian Beliefs in the Uniting Church
Six short videos produced as a national learning resource for the Uniting Church in Australia. A range of church leaders – local, state and national – open up Christian beliefs about God, the Bible, the Church and God’s Mission. Discussion guide for groups.
“Here is a book of invitations to deeper water – to open a strange story and live in its pages, to learn to sing a new song in a different land, to be seared by a burning bush, to board a weathered boat and push out into the depths.”
Deeper Water: Resources for Immersive Worship