Check this TV news special out. See the monastery we are living at as well as my wife and one of my daughters who appears ON TV! How exciting for TJ (10) to be on the telly. All of this big fuss of course because one of the members of our community, Justin, got himself a…
Read MoreThe Dreadlocked Barefooted Bishop of Wellington
Update: Watch the news on TV and read May 5 NZ Herald interview. Original: Some very exciting news. The papers are ablaze this weekend with the announcement that Justin Duckworth has been elected Bishop of Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city. “The Anglican Church needs to be ”dusted off” and it believes a dreadlocked, barefooted priest is the man to do…
Read MoreResonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences
So yesterday we went through Part One of Duarte’s 2Day VisualStory training. There were about 30 of us in the training room at Duarte in Mountain View, sitting at tables, being led through a journey of storytelling ins and outs by our capable and amiable expedition leader named Kevin. Nancy Duarte was there at the…
Read MoreVisualStory training at Duarte
I am wasting a few hours at Sydney airport before boarding a plane a plane for San Francisco. I just downloaded Nancy Duarte’s book Resonate which some are saying is the first interactive business book created for iPad using iBooks Author – something that I am keen to do also one day. Oopppps! Forgot to…
Read MoreCharles Colson Passes
“There’s much about the emerging movement that I applaud.” Charles Colson to Andrew Jones on Tallskinnykiwi. Charles Wendell “Chuck” Colson passed away today. It was good to see so many bloggers and Christian leaders speak well of his life and ministry for a few days before his death. I hope his family shared some of those compliments with…
Read MoreAnyone have an extra DSLR?
I need a camera. My blog has suffered ever since my camera was stolen [by Christians, no less] in Cairo last year. I have a little money to buy one. Does anyone in USA want to sell me their old Canon or Nikon DSLR? Let me know. I will be in San Francisco all next…
Read More10 Year anniversary of a Christian communal blog
On April 19, 2002, at exactly 11.23am, I gathered a few of my blogging friends and launched a commununal blog called A Kingdom Space. The tag line was “A global diablog – stories that are bigger than our own.” Within a very short time, we were about 40 bloggers telling our stories of what God was…
Read MoreSan Francisco next week, but not Seattle
I will be in San Francisco for most of next week. I LOVE this city. Three of my children were born here. Working among alt. youth and street kids in the Haight Ashbury was the turning point in our ministry. It will be great to be back. I will be a part of a visual…
Read MoreOur eco-friendly $5000 home
In the past few months, we have turned a storm damaged yurt into an eco-friendly, toxic-free, funky home for our family. Last night my wife and three of our kids officially moved in to the house we created from recycled materials. We slept on our new wood floor, lit a fire in our pot belly stove,…
Read MoreFinding your inner monk
You are never too young to be a monk. We have been enjoying this weekend with a bunch of young people (16 – 25) from around New Zealand who are part of the Order of St Stephen (OSS). Nice people. Mostly Anglicans, maybe all of them Anglicans, probably due to the re-launching of this monastic Order…
Read MoreBlue Like Jazz. Now see the movie.
I haven’t read Don Miller’s best-selling book by that name but that’s not because I was waiting for the movie. I just never got around to reading it. But Steve Taylor’s movie Blue Like Jazz is released today and since I will be in San Francisco in a few weeks, so . . . I…
Read MoreThomas Kinkade gone
I heard that Thomas Kinkade passed away suddenly at age 54. Although he might have been “America’s most collected living artist”, his paintings never appealed to me. However, my son Samuel loved them as a child and I think his first Bible had Thomas Kinkade paintings all through it. I didn’t say I thought they…
Read MoreCentral Easter Camp
Today a team from Ngatiawa headed over to the Central Easter Camp a little north of Wellington. About 1000 teenagers camping out and journeying through the Easter weekend together. Mostly Baptists but this year some Anglican youth groups are joining in and the Ngatiawa contemporary monastery, where we are staying, have been invited to lead some…
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