Rethinking Perspective

One of my images was shown at the the Musee de l’Elysee’s exhibit ‘We are all photographers now!’

This exhibit features participants from all over the world.
allphotographersnow.ch

The exhibition is up in Lausanne, Switzerland from February 8th, 2007 to May 20th, 2007.

The exhibition will attempt to shed light on many burning issues, among them:

• Does the digital shift constitute a revolution, or merely an evolution?
• Does the shift represent a real democratization of photography?
• Is citizen photojournalism worthy of its name?
• Does the shift threaten the livelihood of professional photographers in fundamental ways?
• Does the shift represent a shift towards more authenticity or truthfulness — or less?
  Is a true Casual Capture *on the horizon?

Andrew Jones just linked to a site entitled Letters from Leavers. This website is a project created by Tim Bower and Jason Loftis who attend Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.The site part of a research project for Dr. John Drane’s course, Theology & Culture.

I just posted a letter about our last few years of church experience here. Much of my letter was originally composed as our introduction to the conversation that we hosted at the Soliton sessions. I thought this was a good forum to share some our of experiences on leaving church.

After we walked on the beach with Jim Ang and Erin talked about leaving difficult experiences behind and moving forward.

The background of this clip:
Ang and I got to host two conversations during the Solition Sessions. We got
to talk about the transformation of Church as it moves from traditional models
to new models. Leaders and seekers from around the U.K. and the States were
there with us to help us process our thoughts. Thank you to all who participated
in the conversations. You have helped us along on our journey. I hope that we
helped you on yours.

Here is a small sample of what we discussed:

Matthew 13:33 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with (Greek: “hid in”) three measures (21 kg enough to feed over a hundred people) of flour until all the dough had risen.”

Maybe the Kingdom is the ever present indwelling of Christ in our network structures.
Maybe the church appears where connectivity between each other appears.

More of what we talked about in our converstaions (or related anyway) can be
found here and here

 

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This is an attempt to capture the reflections of people that attended the Soliton Sessions in Belfast and Portrush. Hopefully this can give those that were not able to attend a feel for what went on.

Chris Enstad (many posts)
Ian Mobsby
Andrew Jones (many posts)
Si Johnston
Feminine Feminist
Brodie and here
Pete
Crookedshore
Trevor Debenning
The Open Office (Kester)
Emma
Jonny Baker
Kester
Brandon
The Father
Angela Spain
Zack Newsome

If you happen to find this list and your blog post is not included just leave a comment below.

Gareth Higgins interviews

Angela Spain
Pete Rollins
Pete Brierly

This interview was done during the Soliton Sessions in Northern Ireland. Gareth asks the following questions to the assembled panel.

1. How do you characterize where you are at with questions of faith and spirituality?
2. What do you miss form the tradition you used to be a part of?
3. What has been the most nourishing / difficult thing for you in this whole Soliton/ Emerging/ Alternative thing?
4. What does the phrase Jesus is the way the truth and the life mean to you?

Sorry the video is so bad. It was very dark.

 

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Cary talks for a bit out site a put about what life is like at the Ikon community in Northern Ireland, what God is, and how to know him within their community.

 

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I got a chance to film Zack Newsome of various parts of Arizona and asking him about what life was like as he is in the process of setting up an alternative faith community.

 

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