morepraxis

As it turns out,
every map has an artificial edge
prescribed by those
who define its scope;
who draw the thick black line,
however arbitrarily,
around the edges of the world.
But here, at the edge of the map,
where it tells me the road should end
by way of a thick black line,
i can see
quite clearly
that it doesn’t.

And to be sure,
I’ve taken [...]

The World Council of Churches (WCC) will welcome five young people (aged 18-30 years) to serve as interns in its Geneva offices from February 2010 to January 2011. Interns bring valuable experiences to the WCC at the same time as they undertake several modules of ecumenical learning.
The next 12 months’ internship period begins in February [...]

We launched the new Culture and Context Unit yesterday, with champagne and cake…

We whipped some postcards together at the last minute, as a take-away for those who came to help us celebrate. We’re framing the work of the unit around the questions we’ll be exploring, rather than the answers we’ll be offering, so the front [...]

?10,000 butterflies for ?comfort? women?
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Dear Adrian,
A woman holds a butterfly in her hands
This is incredible! Earlier this month, we asked the Amnesty community to claim justice for survivors of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery system by sending a butterfly to our Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd.
As of this morning, 4,664 unique butterflies are winging their way to [...]

I wrote a faith piece for the Age today… [a friend from the UK emailed to say that he's read it online, but i can't see it there. i'll paste it below ].

I haven’t written for the paper for a few months – i’ve been writing for other things – but coming back to this [...]

So have a look at the program and think about your lightning talks. (oh and assume that the option of “whatever” runs through the morepraxis gathering)
As you can see we have…
2 options of worship ‘Justice singing styled’ and ‘Alt worship arty style’
The 3 processes of praxis Think Act Reflect – Led by Adrian ‘Age’Greenwood, Tess [...]

Our friends over at justact thought we would enjoy this.
“The International Trade Union Confederation has produced a very short online video on the subject of child labour. Sounds boring, right? Wrong. Warning – you that you may not want to watch this (you could see this on a show like the Gruen Transfer).
We think [...]

I keep coming back to this image from Gareth Holt, part of an exhibition of his work focussed on visualisations of statistics of social hierarchy. The only thing that’s missing in this image is the baggy green tracksuit pants worn by the men screwing nuts onto bolts in the work room at the prison…
Mark Vernon [...]