widows mite - do something small to make a big change for young people!
do something small to make a big change for young people - text the word MITE to 82540 and help frontier youth trust raise £100 000!ok it sounds optimistic right but if all of you who read this do so then that's a good start (i admit i am not in the league of 100000 readers) but then if you tweet or blog or facebook send it viral and keep pushing it on. how difficult can it be?! it's called widow's mite based on the story in luke 21 where jesus praises a poor woman who gives a little as more generous than the rich who make a display of their giving. in these credit crunched times it's a story that connects. here's why i am into it...

once more into the void
void, originally uploaded by jonnybaker. some of us from the ealing lip photo group went to visit the how it is installation at the tate modern on saturday and the strolled along the southbank and to the national portrait ga

greenbelt pocket liturgies book
it's a bit of a proost week on the blog... ben edson (who co-ordinates the worship at greenbelt) had the great idea of pulling together some of the liturgies from groups who had contributed to the worship programme at greenbelt this year to make a book in the pocket liturgies series on the festival theme - standing in the long now. this whole self publishing world is am

in scotland...
next week i am in scotland. at the start of the week i am hiding away for a couple of days to write. following the series of blog posts on worship curation i am writing a book on it which will be out next summer in time for greenbelt. the bulk of the book will be a series of conversations/interviews with people who curate worship. i'm pretty excited about it - i have found the interviews so interesting...then i am headed to glasgow to hang out with doug gay and do some teaching for his students and then be part of a couple of discussions. if you are around the friday evening

beach hut advent calendar now available on proost
in addition to all the other wonderful advent stuff on proost we are now stocking the amazing beyond advent calendar. you need to order quick to get yours in time for dec 1! order here