pioneer processes workshop
Part of a letter sent today … A key signpost for us at Uniting College is to grow pioneers in innovation and invigoration. We’ve been blessed to see a number of pioneers – at least eight I can think of...
View ArticleBen Edson: hearing another story part 1
Ben Edson met with Pastoral Relations Committee (PRC) this morning, helping start a conversation that went for 2 hours. It was an excellent time together. In the Uniting Church, this body assists the...
View Articlepioneering workshop update
Yesterday I led a Pioneering workshop, a day in which I invited the Uniting church in South Australia to reflect on the processes of selection, discernment, training, placing of pioneers in our life....
View Articlea loose collaboration of experimental journeyers
Over the last two days, I’ve been at the National Fresh expressions and mission-shaped ministry 2014 conference. Today, I provided a brief public explanation to those gathered of the story to date. The...
View ArticlePioneering Plan B: bite-sized education?
Last Friday, I was contemplating a pioneering disaster. Last Friday, we only had one student enrolment for the March 17-21 Pioneering intensive with Dave Male. Despite a range of advertising, despite...
View Articlest patricks day pioneer worship
Yesterday was both St Patricks Day and the start of our week of pioneer evenings with Dave Male. So it seemed appropriate to bring them both together. I began with a contemporary icon of St Patrick,...
View Articlepioneering a pioneering week
It’s been an intensely busy, but very productive week. We’ve had Dave Male from the UK with us. Each evening we’ve engaged in storytelling around pioneering. Four folk have told local stories – one of...
View Articlehow a voluntary society in a rural town made eHistory
I love stories of innovation. Here is one of a voluntary group in a small, rural town, who made eHistory. The full story is here, but to give you a taster, I’ve made a summary, using words from the...
View Articlepioneering mission in Australia: Caroline Chisholm
The saint for today in the Revised Common Lectionary is Caroline Chisholm. Her story is strongly shaped by Australia. In other words, the eyes of the world today will reflect on what is an Australian...
View Articlepioneer exits
Yesterday at chapel included naming the transition that is happening for one of our candidates, Karen Paull. Karen began at Uniting College as I began in 2010. As a first year, first semester student...
View ArticleDiploma of Ministry: New pathway in Innovation and Pioneering
It seems appropriate in the week following Pentecost, to note the recent decision of the Academic Board to approve a new pathway in Innovation and Pioneering. Dave Male has endorsed this, saying: “This...
View Articlepeople matter: collecting and collating stories in practical theology research
He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata! He tangata! He tangata! What is the most important thing in the world? It is people! It is people! A Maori proverb that reminds us that people are essential. So...
View ArticleEvaluation of innovation training: celebrating an ethics milestone
As I landed back in Adelaide, my phone lit up with the news that Ethics approval has been granted to begin the Evaluation of innovation training research project. What? The Uniting College of...
View ArticleThe Church in Contemporary NZ: Perspectives and Challenges – Whanganui bound
I’m speaking in Whanganui tomorrow evening (August 9, 7:30 – 9 pm) on the theme of The Church in Contemporary NZ: Perspectives and Challenges. The presenting reason is to met an incoming KCML intern,...
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