QuartzAs often happens, an idea for a Christmas installation came from a magazine picture and a chat over coffee. The idea is to use ‘light’ as a theme this Christmas. Of course, a beam of light is invisible. Light helps us see things, so in order to see light we put things where they will […]
This is a bit overdue! Here is a wee film to reflect on from our Easter Sunday Gathering. Several aspects of the new Wordsmith Crafts C.I.C. overlapped this Easter Sunday. Quartz was the lead project (#SensingSpirituality). We have been meeting as Forest Church for over a year now. Cluaran (living breathing heritage) skills were used […]
Have you decorated any eggs this year? With supermarkets and global supply chains it is easy to forget that for thousands of years eggs were only available when the sun returned and daylight hours lengthened. As well as looking like the stone which could be rolled away from the tomb for Jesus to walk out, […]
If you are truly searching for reality, do you need to tear down the structures that frame reality? To find the house of God does the curtain need to rip, and the temple be destroyed, so that it can be rebuilt three days later? Strong language, but perhaps art can provide the means to to […]
This beauty has been created by a band called Árstíðir It’s title is “Heyr himna smiður” Which can be translated as “Hear me Smith of the Heavens”. More info on it can be found here. I’m posting it here in order to use it as part of a discussion about pioneer ministry on Saturday. In […]
We held the March Forest Church meeting at Allanton Peace Sanctuary. This was part of one of the eight seasonal festivals they are planning for this year. These festivals recognise the changing seasons in what is sometimes called the wheel of the year. We had a particular focus on peace in Ukraine and Russia, but […]
“I, by my works, will show you my Faith…” The act of making art can visualise some very complicated emotions. Art in public can be an action that ‘moves’ many people. If you are a dancer, then dancing can be protest as well as performance, and we who are crafters have folded angels. We can […]
Have a read of the introduction to this song and video. Then as you sit back and enjoy it, contemplate the many possible real life stories that have formed this experience. What does “release for captives” mean? What invisible chains bind our minds, inherited, unexamined, frustrating the potential God has placed within creation? What crazy […]
A longer post today, inspired by thoughts of war which once again fill my social media feed, and mind. …When I tell the story of Ragnarock I grieve. It follows Loki telling too much truth, harshly. It is the breaking of oaths, conflict between those who should be family. It is the twighlight that follows […]
I can scarcely imagine what it must be like to have your country invaded and your home subjected to rocket attacks. How can you work when it is too dangerous to leave your house? How can you buy food when you can’t work? I will have sat round a campfire, after a days work, singing […]