It has been fashionable to decry cermonial garb; however, we might be a bit more alert to some simple wisdom enshrined in the tradition… Enclothed cognition means that clothes can exert influence on the way the wearer feels, thinks, and behaves through the symbolic meaning associated with the clothes. Many pieces of clothing carry a […]
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Slow Food, Slow Church — Clayfire Curator
Slow church is a catchy way of thinking about it, the concept is not necessarily new; much of this is what we would hope to help liturgical leaders be formed into during training. Slow Church, then, means to be Church mindfully. It’s not about speed, necessarily; but to really think through what you’re doing and […]
In our minds eye as we plan …
It’s kind of obvious once you think about it, but it is worth reflecting on and making it a matter of conscious decision-making. The reality is that it’s simply a deliberate commitment to a pastoral awareness of who I am curating for. Another part of that process, particularly if I am working in a venue […]
Getting feedback as a liturgical leader
This is out of a stable that tends to interpret ‘worship’ as sung, stage-led. Nevertheless the attitudes and ideas are transferable. The important thing that comes out is about leading in vulnerability and how to manage that personally. YouTube – Feedback.
Tools for evaluating worship
I got to wondering whether there were any helpful or useful web resources for informing processes of reflecting on and evaluating acts of corporate worship. If you do a search, there seems to be a lot but not all of it is helpful in the kind of way that I’m thinking of. One issue is […]
Worship as (performance) art
A useful looking online book whose subtitle says what it’s about: a theology of liturgical expression. When Christians gather for worship, they engage in a dialogue that runs in several directions. God speaks to the people; people speak to God; people speak to one another. … Because much of what yearns for expression in these dialogical […]
Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley: A celebration of vapid worship
It was fun to see this order of service built round showing off, all together, a range of songs for worship … … singing songs that may be perfectly OK in the context of a balanced diet of modern church music, but get a bit much when you stick them all together into a glorious […]
Collective intelligence, women, solving problems
Having facilitated a team-building exercise last week, it’s been interesting to see this bit of research. In some ways it confirms with further data what we already know. On the other hand, by doing so it highlights the importance of enabling groups to work together well in order to help people learn and make better […]
Is Video Technology in Church Manipulative?
I think that this question is worth asking. It’s also worth looking at the arguments and seeing how far they might apply to other dimensions of corporate worship, like music. My short answer to the question is ‘yes’ and ‘no’! Mainly because I think that the question is mis-put. For why go here and read […]
Worship artisanship
This is really worth reflecting on further and I’d link it with the book ‘Curating Worship‘ which reflects on the role of leading worship from the points of view of the various types of curators. Particularly applicable to liquid worship, of course. However, the art curator is not so far from this and Dan Wilt’s […]