I remember as a youth pastor that I had a fair swag of ‘you can change the world’ sermons in my kit bag. It was a regular theme in my own communication and in most of the talks that I heard other youth speakers give. I even got pretty good at it!
The basic gist was [...]
We have often said this in relation to church buildings.
We build our places of worship and then they can so easily exert control over us and even dictate how we live our life of faith. By calling them ’sanctuaries’ we already give shape to how we will view them. I could give many examples [...]
There’s no question ’suburbia’ gets a pretty negative rap around the place and yet for all of that the vast majority of us live there. There has to be something that we like about it, or some advantage to suburban living… you’d think… Right?…
Its easy to throw mud at suburbia for its blandness and uniformity [...]
Do you ever think of suburban people as courageous pioneers?
Chances are you don’t.
I certainly don’t equate suburbia with courageous living in untamed environs, yet that is something of how the suburbs began here in Oz. As a nation that lived either in the bush or the city, the ones who pushed out to the fringes [...]
The handbook says that the first tutorial will look at what constitutes ’suburbia’ and whether it is ‘dream or nightmare’.
I imagine the first part of that question might be a bit easier to come to grips with than the second. I haven’t done any serious reading on this but my understanding of suburbia would be [...]
As you may have gathered from my earlier post I am a bit bummed that it just isn’t feasible for me to attend the classes for the course on the history and culture of suburbia. Since living here in Brighton and becoming much more aware of the rhythms and patterns of suburban life I [...]
As I began the class on suburbia today the quote sitting on the front page of the unit reader was this one:
“One of the best instincts in us is that which induces us to have one little piece of earth with a house and garden which is ours, to which we can withdraw, in which [...]