Resources
I admit that I’m a resource junkie. Here are a bunch of both new, and tried and true resources for learning, multimedia, faith development and other stuff.
Interactive Christmas
I've just led a workshop on Interactive Christmas, an annual event that I directed at Rosefield Uniting Church in Adelaide for five years in the 2010s. Here's an outline with links. Interactive Easter was the first event in a seqeunce, both a community stand-alone...
Four Lenses for Faith Formation
Last Saturday I spent time with a church council, and a perennial question was raised. "Why aren't more people interested in Bible Study?" We were discussing what it means for a church to see faith formation at the heart of its life together. Is Christian education...
Praxis-based Learning
Thomas Groome's work on Shared Christian Praxis is one of the most influential things in Christian Education since the 1980s (Harper & Row, 1980). The field of practical theology covers a range of approaches to theological reflection, including Groome's approach....
Encounters with Jesus: Guided Scripture Meditations
Take yourself back into the Bible narratives through contemplative reimagining of the sights, sounds and other senses. As an exercise in prayer, look and listen to what God might say to you as you experience these events. This is a book of guided prayer meditations...
“Meeting Together” Resources
"Meeting Together" is a new booklet from the Uniting Church, Victoria and Tasmania designed to help committees and other groups to explore what make meetings healthy and how to recognise and name poor behaviour in meetings. The booklet was produced by the Presbyery...
Imago Vita: Photo Discussion Cards
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...
Saying Sorry Game
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 person closes...
John 9 Audio Meditation
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 meditation by...
Acts 2: Contemplative Reading
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...