Ancient Future Perspective
So the BBC is bringing Bill and Ben the flower pot men back to our television screens after 3 decades away! Those of us old enough to remember the pre-digital animation of the talking flower…
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An Insiders Perspective
I go to a church called Cityside Baptist, known to Reality readers through our pastor Mark Pierson’s columns during the last two years. Cityside is difficult to describe, and his columns did…
An Interview
Church life in the Non Mainstream NZ Baptist editor Duncan Pardon talked to Mark Pierson about non-mainstream or alternative worship, and how it works in practice… A few Sundays ago Mark Pie…
Anti Excellence
I’m anti excellence. I’m anti excellence in church life and I’m particularly anti excellence in worship. It’s not a popular opinion to express in some churches today. In fact excellence has…
Contributors
Mike Reeves-McMillan Gabrielle McClean Mark Laurent Brenda Liddiard Jolinda Milbank Fergus McKinlay Kirsten Malcolm Derek McCormack Marion Deeble Gwen Strickland Colin Wood Adee Wood Dave Cu…
Curating Worship
I believe the Church is desperately in need of a different model for putting worship together, regardless of the style of worship being pursued. It is time for worship leaders to undergo a r…
Curators Introduction
The basic format of worship using stations is to have an overall theme, and then some designated points of activity around the worship space. Each of these offers stimulus and directions for…
Ethos Introduction
Cityside Baptist Church, generally referred to simply as Cityside, is a church on the edge of inner-city Auckland, New Zealand. It has been built from the ground up on a series of evolving p…
Forward to Basics
I’m a U2 fan. I love their music, their style, their involvement in the culture and causes, their ability to not believe their own publicity, that they’re reinventing themselves as they get…
Integrity in Worship
Today I attended a Memorial service for a young woman recently murdered. The service in the hot open sunshine of the Domain drew several hundred people, mostly her friends or acquaintances…
Intrinsic Extrinsic Motivations
How was Christmas for you? More specifically how was church for you this Christmas? What did you think of the services you attended? Would you have been happy taking friends who weren’t part…
Intrinsic Extrinsic Motivations
How was Christmas for you? More specifically how was church for you this Christmas? What did you think of the services you attended? Would you have been happy taking friends who weren’t part…
Introduction
Following the publication of ‘The Prodigal Project: journey into the emerging church’ in 2000 (Riddell, Pierson, Kirkpatrick, London: SPCK) I have received a steady flow of requests for reso…
Reframing
Reframing is a counselling term used in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. It relies on the idea that the meaning of an event, and our emotional response to it, depends on the context in which it…
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