Beginners Guide

OCTOBER 10

Si Smith (revive, Leeds UK)

'40' is a CD-Rom comic strip meditation on Christ in the wilderness - a unique worship and meditation resource produced by 'revive' church in Leeds. We caught up with illustrator Si Smith to chat about the CD-Rom, inspiration and to ponder on what Jesus really did do with all that time. so... '40'. it's fantastic. tell us how it came about, where the idea started... it's an idea that i borrowed/nicked from the artist stanley spencer. he once embarked on a project to paint 40 images of christ in the wilderness - one for each day of Lent - but he never…

OCTOBER 10

Amanda (Washington US)

Hi, welcome to our virtual coffee shop. Pull up a chair, take the load of your feet. Let's chat. So who are you, where you from, what do you do in life?My name’s Amanda… I’m from Washington and currently I’m a student although I’m taking a year off to work in the city on the East coast to work with the urban poor. Can I get you a drink? Cappucino, earl grey, dandelion and burdock, pale ale?I’m a tea drinker… Green tea would be appreciated. Would you like a doughnut or pastry to go with that?No I’ll pass for now……

OCTOBER 10

Steve Collins (UK)

If there's one single thing that characterises emerging forms of church across the western world it's that they are networked. There is no one leader or format or theology, nor is there likely to be. Instead there is a thriving mess of cross-linkage without regard for conventional church structures or channels of communication. It's the context and lifeblood of the emerging church, the arteries of the Body so to speak, and yet it's largely invisible to the existing institutional forms of church. Partly this invisibility is down to technology-blindness, since a lot of the connection happens on the internet. More…