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Monday, March 21, 2016
Rejuvenation in the Church: some theological notes (Candour repost)
(This is a piece I was asked to write for Candour, a blog for Presbyterian Church leaders, in January this year. )
Much of my thinking about a theology of rejuvenation was shaped during the early days of a difficult change process. I was working with a traditional church experiencing steady decline. Expecting resistance, I referred often in my sermons to the numerical decline of the last few decades. After a few months, an older gentleman commented quietly, "It wasn't all bad you know."
The comment got me thinking. Were my references to decline working against our shared desire for rejuvenation? I found myself reflecting on the change images used by Jesus in the Gospels. Jesus begins his ministry by declaring himself an agent of transformation, anointed by God to initiate shalom. [Luke 4:18-19] He describes his ministry using images of mustard seeds, yeast and grains of wheat. [Matthew 13; specifically 31-32; 33; 45-46; John 12:24] He commissions the church – as the Father sent me, so I sent you – as an agent of rejuvenation, to partner with the shalom of Jesus. [John 20:21]
Challenged, I threw away my graphs of decline. Instead, I gave out sunflower seeds. Creation grows and changes. Humans grow and change. I found myself tapping into what I now understand as a Trinitarian theology of rejuvenation.
As Christians we understand God relates to us in relationships: to create, reconcile and make all things new. Let me apply this pattern to rejuvenation.
In Genesis 2, God is pictured as creating a garden. The words used to describe the activities of God include
Former of people,
Breather of life,
Pleasant to look at.
Into God's garden, humans are placed, to work and care. [Genesis 2:15] Rejuvenation begins when we recognise ourselves as gardeners with God, creating environments of visual pleasure and practical nurture.
On Easter morning, the first encounters with the Resurrected Jesus are in a garden. A body is transformed, hope is updated, all of creation is reconciled. [Colossians 1:20] At the same time resurrection challenges a theology of rejuvenation. We see this clearly in John 12:24. "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." In Christ, rejuvenation is only entered through death.
Revelation ends in the garden. "Behold, I am making all things new," is a song of rejuvenation. The verbs of Revelation 21:5, when placed alongside the list of verbs in Genesis 2, give a sense of the Revelation garden completing the Genesis garden.
Maker -> Making
Former of people -> All things new
Breather of life -> Healing
Pleasant to look at -> No curse
The harmonies begun with Creator God, heard in Re-creator God in Resurrection, are completed in the Revelation making of all things new. The trees are for rejuvenation, the "healing of the nations." [Rev 22:2]
This provides a theological and relational pattern for rejuvenation. It is one based on the three persons of the Trinity. Another pattern is present in the processions of God in mission. In the Creeds, the Church declares both "God from God, Light from Light" and the Spirit "who proceeds from the Father and the Son." This is how God rejuvenates, in the mission of the Son in the incarnation and the inspiration of the Spirit who draws creation together in grace. This pattern allows us to discern what it means to participate in God's rejuvenation, whether inside or outside the church. [I am summarising the work of Paul Fiddes, Seeing the World and Knowing God: Hebrew Wisdom and Christian Doctrine in a Late-Modern Context]
Let me end by returning to the story I began with. Three months after I gave out sunflowers, I was shown a photo, of the older gentleman's grandson, standing dwarfed by a sunflower, planted from one of those seeds. Such is the power and potential of a theology of rejuvenation. For the church, it means that
- Rejuvenation has a theology when it finds itself within this arc of creation, redemption and the making of all things new.
- Rejuvenation has a shape, as it expresses the patterns of the mission of God in Incarnation and Integration.
- The rejuvenation of the church is a subset of God's work in creation. The Genesis garden is for humanity, God loves the world redemptively in Jesus, Revelation is for the healing of the nations.
- God is the active agent, initiating and sustaining rejuvenation.
This was the good news my church needed to hear, not my bad tidings of great decline.
Rev Dr Steve Taylor is Principal of Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership, Dunedin. This article is developed more extensively in his forthcoming Built for Change: Innovation and Collaboration in leadership (Australia: Mediacom).
Friday, November 13, 2015
Steve Taylor, "Inhabiting Our Neighbourhoods: Plot by Plot, Plant by Plant"
My practical theology of community gardens is now online, published by Urban Seed. It is one of 16 contributions, which are summarised here. They were all presented at Urban Life Together: Inhabiting Our Neighbourhoods, which was a grass roots missiology conference organised by Urban Seed on October 17-18, 2014. Conference contributors were invited to submit their presentations, which were then peer reviewed and copy edited, before being made available online – in order to enhance access.
Here's the summary of my contribution:
Gardens offer rich insight regarding how we might inhabit our neighbourhood. This paper considers gardens in Scripture, start, middle and end. It researches the development patterns of two inner-city Australian community gardens. The story of each is brought into dialogue with Scripture, including Luke 10:1–12 and 1 Cor 3:6–9. The insights from this dialogue between Scripture and two urban garden case studies is then enriched by consideration of two movies. Gardening with Soul is a documentary about an urban missionary who turned the lawn of her religious community into a community garden. Grow your Own is the story of a stranger's gift that grows healing among a well-established British allotment garden. Both point to the power and potential of a seasonal spirituality. Throughout this paper, beginning and end, is also woven experience—mine—into the place and potential of gardens in mission and ministry. The argument from Scripture, case study, film and experience is that gardens invite us and our neighbours to become good, plot by plot and plant by plant.
In this small thing is all of creation! God made it, God cares for it, God loves it. (A Paraphrase of Julian of Norwich)
In some ways, "Inhabiting Our Neighbourhoods: Plot by Plot, Plant by Plant" is is something I've been writing all my life. It became words because I wanted to reflect missiologically on community ministry, specifically community gardens. There is my personal interest in gardening, woven with research into inner-city community gardens, Scriptural reflection and my film reviewing. It is online here.
Monday, October 12, 2015
so many "news"
Today, I start a new role, as Principal of Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership. It involves a new country, a new city, a new denomination, a new team. That's a lot of news!
In an amazing set of "coincidences", the lectionary reading on the day I moved countries (1 October) was Luke 10:1-12.
Further, as I left Australia, a recent graduate gave me a gift and a word of thanks. "Thanks for sending us out in mission." The image is based on Saint Brendan and the Celtic pattern of mission.
So it's nice to be beginning a season of "news" with a reminder of Luke 10:1-12. Here is what I wrote about Luke 10:1-12, for a book on mission in New Zealand, in 2008.
First, listening occurs as the disciples first hear the sending God, and second, seek to discern where God is already at work. Hence the command to "Take no bag, no purse, no sandals" (Luke 10:4). This is a radically different concept of mission. We start not with what we imagine the needs of the community are. Instead we start by looking for the welcome that God has already prepared in advance for us. There are echoes of Exodus 3:5, where Moses is instructed to take off shoes, for he is standing on holy ground. This suggests that for the sending God, the places we go, the mission places, our towns and villages, are actually holy places. This is holiness not as separation, but holiness because God is present and up to something.
Second, community building starts because the sending originates in community. The disciples are then sent out in community (Luke 10:1). They are sent to eat and drink in table fellowship (Luke 10:7). (It is a great life being a Luke 10 missionary!) As one writer put it (Robert Tannehill, Luke), "the mission requires contact with people in their homes and towns, while brief contacts on the road are insufficient." Mission is an act in community, an invitation to dwell, deeply, incarnationally, within the lives of people.
Third, the mission of God includes the proclamation of peace (Luke 10:5). This speaking has echoes of First Testament concepts of shalom. God's covenant concerned the whole of life: economics and politics, crime and justice, societal and environmental relationships. God was forming Israel as a community to live together in ways that protected new migrants, offered justice when accidents occurred and encouraged sustainable farming. The mission of God is thus this call to seek the wellbeing of all the facets of our community. Hence we engage in acts of healing.
Fourth, Luke 10 is written to a changing church in a changing world. During times of change we all seek certainty. Some seek certainty in historic understandings of church and the Bible. Others seek certainty in charismatic leaders. Luke 10 offers us a different type of certainty, that of God in the world. Luke 10 tells the story of a sending God who invites us to seek God's future in the ordinary and everyday. It is an affirmation that 70 no-name disciples could be trusted with God's missionary purposes. It is the anticipation that as we accept the hospitality of the culture, then God's healing and redemptive purposes can be discerned. It is a vision of church as wholistic, embracing shalom: word, sign and deed. It reminds us that God is active in our world, at the tables and cafes of our culture.
Old words. Historic words, that provide a simplicity and a clarity for the "new" season – listen, build community, speak peace, welcome change in the ordinary and everyday.
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Book Review: The Faith Lives of Women and Girls
Book review: Done for Regents Review 6.2 (April 2015), Regent's Park College, Oxford publication.
The Faith Lives of Women and Girls: Qualitative Research Perspectives, ed. Nichola Slee, Fran Porter, Anne Phillips. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013.
One way (for a male) to review a book on women by women is through a lens provided by a third woman. Drusilla Modjeska, in her study of the writings of Australian women describes the "enormous energy" required by women writers to maintain themselves intellectually and artistically (Exiles at home : Australian women writers 1925-1945 / Drusilla Modjeska, 15). She documents the essential role of one person, Nettie Palmer, in nourishing women writers and how her work as an editor created a supportive network in which women writers flourished.
It is a helpful frame by which to approach The Faith Lives of Women and Girls, edited by Nichola Slee, Fran Porter and Anne Phillips. Such an approach offers historical insight and encourages a respectful gratitude for their essential and nourishing role as editors and initiators of a supportive network in which research on female faith might flourish.
The Faith Lives of Women and Girls is part of Ashgate's Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology series. It consists of 19 chapters, all written by woman, all emerging from practical theology. Each chapter offers original qualitative research on the faith lives of women and girls, drawing on a range of approaches, including ethnography, oral history, action research, interview and case studies.
This alone makes the volume worthwhile. Reading as a minister, I found myself reflecting on my pastoral and ministerial practice. Anne Phillips chapter (God Talk/Girl Talk) offered new preaching resources, while Kim Wasey's chapter (Being in Communion) challenged my hopes regarding the impact of women presiding at the Eucharist.
The book raised what seems a perennial question in practical theology, concerning the relationship between sociology and theology. Some chapters felt more sociological and descriptive than theological. Other chapters, like Fran Porter's work on Irish women's understanding of God ("The 'In-the-middle' God: Women, Conflict and Power in Northern Ireland) offer rich theological insights (including for my Easter preaching at a youth camp).
The quality of research and reflection did vary across the volume. This is perhaps inevitable in a volume that includes both experienced researchers and post-graduate students.
Studies of between six to ten women, as in Jennifer Hurd's chapter on understandings of death ("The Relevance of a Theology of Natality for a Theology of Death and Dying and Pastoral Care) or Francesca Rhys's unpacking of ordinary Christologies (Understanding Jesus Christ), raise questions about the place of sampling and representation in qualitative research.
The Faith Lives of Women and Girls lacked an overarching theme. The introduction suggested a distinct discipline. However the absence of a concluding chapter that synthesised a theme (or themes) raised questions concerning what makes feminist practical theology a distinct discipline. Is it anything that studies women? Is it, given that all 19 contributors are women, something done only by women? Or is it that 19 fine grained studies might, with the ongoing encouragement of contemporary Nettie Palmers, be the grit around which a pearl of great price, research resulting from the lived experience of women and girls, begins to develop?
I suggest the latter and look forward to reading further work from those who contributed to this important and ground breaking volume.
For application to fresh expressions see here.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Writing in Australia: a missiological analysis
During my time in Australia, I've had 26 pieces of writing published. This includes 13 book chapters; 2 peer reviewed journal articles; 3 book reviews in peer reviewed journal; 7 other pieces including 3 in Australian Leadership. It totals to over 80,000 published words in the 5 years.
(I have also completed work on a number of rejected journal articles and work on two book manuscripts in relation to sustainability of fresh expressions.)
In preparing for the Mission and the church course, I decided it would be interesting to analyse this published-in-Australia writing from a missiology perspective. It would test the frame of this course, the seven practices. It would also be a way of letting the frame test my work. Am I covering all the areas of mission or am I narrowcasting?
I was (pleasantly) surprised to find that my writing covers all seven areas. I have written most about the planting and forming of new ecclesial communities and least about evangelism. (although I do spend a lot of time talking about evangelism with certain PhD candidates!) Four of the pieces do not fit the frame and I want to think further therefore about whether the frame might need some adaption.
Prayerful discernment, listening – 3
Apologetics – 2
Evangelism – 1
Catechesis – 4
Ecclesial formation – 4
Planting, forming new ecclesial communities – 6
Incarnational mission -3
Unplaced – 4
This exercise thus becomes helpful in guiding my ongoing research. I need to pay more attention in the next phase to apologetics and evangelism. Overall, the pieces include a degree of engagement with indigenous voice, but less engagement with Pacifica cultures. Again, doing this overview of my work helps clarify for me my ongoing research.
On the course website, I have provided an annotated bibliography of this writing. Over the next few days, I will be adding a brief summary of each piece. I will also provide a second paragraph, explaining the missiological reasons why I wrote it and what were the missiological questions that I was seeking to engage with.
This resource sits alongside a standard class bibliography. That was representative of global voices. This is one voice. Most of these pieces I have written do not provide a neat overview of learning to date. Instead, they are more at the edge. They are seeking to address questions I think need to be answered in moving mission thinking forward. This includes the fact that many of my pieces involve engagement with contemporary popular culture and from these emerge conversations about various practices of mission.
The full bibliography is as follows: (more…)
Saturday, June 13, 2015
We're all men: gender in teaching mission
Monday I begin a four day intensive, teaching on Mission and the church. Much of this week has been spent building the online site – loading up readings, video clips, extra resources, web links – that will enhance the educational experience.
introduction to Mission and the Church from steve taylor on Vimeo.
Glancing at the class list yesterday, I shook my head in disbelief. The entire cohort, all 9 of the enrolled students, are male. And, if the surnames are in any way reliable, all white fella.
I can't recall teaching an all male, white fella class. Ever. Certainly not in my experience in the Uniting Church, where one of the things I have most appreciated is the greater gender mix that is present, compared to my experience in Baptist Churches in New Zealand.
I am puzzled and disturbed. What to do?
I do have diversity built in through the readings, which include voices, male and female, and from Asia, Africa, Europe, United States, Australia and New Zealand. I do have guest presenters both male and female. I do have short spoken mission biographies to splice in at various points, of woman and indigenous. The stories of fresh expressions video clips are of women pioneers.
But that does not address the mono-cultural discussion that will inevitably result.
Cancelling the class does not seem fair on each individual who has enrolled. I suspect it is also not permissible in a higher education environment.
I don't think I can suddenly find someone willing to give four days to participate in an intensive at such short notice. And it runs the risk of tokenism, asking one voice to speak for an entire culture or gender.
I wonder if I should, on the first morning, note the reality of our room. And then place three chairs at three points around the class. And suggest that every now and again, we pause and ask each other:
Now if a woman, or a first-nations person, or a migrant with English as a second language were present in our discussion, what might they be adding to our discussion? What might they be critiquing?
This runs the risk of transference. But at the heart of mission is a commitment to engage with the other. So three empty chairs might in fact provide an object lesson in lack.
Tuesday, June 02, 2015
Church and mission in multi-faith contexts
Ecclesial Identities in a Multi-Faith Context: Jesus Truth-Gatherings (Yeshu Satsangs) among Hindus and Sikhs in Northwest India, by Darren Duerksen, is a fascinating book. Part of the American Society of Missiology Monograph Series, it offers research into the church in a mission context. The focus is Yeshu Satsangs (Jesus truth gatherings) amongst Hindus and Sikhs in Northwest India. These are "insider" movements. They critique the forms of the inherited Christian church and want to experiment with new forms of church. Sound familiar?
Yeshu Satsangs embrace the Hindu bakhi tradition, an approach to religion that focuses not on elaborate temple rituals, but on devotion connected to a respected leader. They also tend to be multi-cultural, attracting people from Hindu, Sikh and tribal communities. In sum, "a less ritualized and more socio-religiously inclusive community that is part of the Hindu framework." (52)
Three religious forces have shaped their emergence.
First, foreign mission. A glance into history shows that in response to early Christian work, Hinduism was revitalised. It engaged in reform which strengthened its (Hindu) life and witness.
Second, Dalit conversion. Widespread mass movement to Christianity has meant the perception that "Christianity is the religion of the Dalits." (65)
Third, Pentecostal. They tend to offer an exuberant worship, led by charismatic, entreprenurial pastors. These forms of spirituality communicate more of a western culture. So, "the learned practices of eliciting God's power, such as using words like "hallelujah" and shouting "praise Jesus!" (in English) perpetuates the perception that Christianity is "western" or Other." (68)
We now turn to the emergence of Yeshu Satsangs. This is where it gets interesting missiologically. In light of this history, and in trying to understand their faith in their cultural context, these Yeshu Satsangs have emerged as mission experiments. Duerksen conducted interviews with 8 leaders and 50 followers (satsangis) and argued for a a number of distinct practices.
- worship using local forms and instruments (bhajan or kirtan). These provide an emotional tone and a more indigenous habitus
- objects like incense and coconut for communion; the blowing of a seashell trumpet as a call to worship
- a preaching style, in which leaders sit on a mat on a platform, the incorporation of phrases that are more Hindu or Sikh
The result is a church that has a distinct set of identities. These include a bhakti-influenced devotion to Jesus, the experience of God's blessing and power, a careful discerning of evil and a distinct Christian witness.
Finally, Duerksen reads the book of Acts in light of the research. Acts is chosen because it is the story of the church's emergence. Duerksen explores how Jewish Christian's understood their identity, how they remained rooted in many of their Jewish practices as they sought to follow Christ. He argues that this approach, rooted in tradition and culture, offers a helpful way to understand the Yeshu Satsangs.
It is rich and fascinating missiology. It deserves to be placed alongside the literature for emerging church and fresh expressions, in a mutual search for missional wisdom.
Sunday, May 03, 2015
research memo: How to evaluate mission? Using processions of mission in Preamble
Research memos describe what is being processed during a research project. They allow you to describe the research process and what may be emerging in the data. They can be written during and after research. They can be a few paragraphs or a few pages. Here is a research memo in relation to tomorrows' presentation:
The Trinity as two processions in mission: a post-colonial proposal for evaluating ecclesial life
Monday, 4 May, Uniting College for Leadership and Theology Research hour, 4-5 pm
As I begin to analyse my data, the question of evaluation emerges. Simple measures for evaluation are numeric and financial. Do these communities grow? Do they survive? How are they sustained financially? I find these problematic. First, they don't account for the richness of my data. Second, my methods are qualitative and numbers are quantitative. Third, the standards of numbers applied to fresh expressions are not consistent with those applied to inherited churches.
So I am looking for more explicitly theological measures. I wonder if a Trinitarian mode might help. First I consider God as Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer. This is promising. I can argue that my data shows a high degree of creativity and a high degree of faith sustaining, but less of an overt redemption. However when I read my widely, I note a wider theological unease with God as Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer. It runs the risk of turning God into a doing, not a being; of cleaving the immanent Trinity from the economic.
Then, by a process of curiousity, I discover the work of Bernard Lonergan, Neil Ormerod and Robert Doran in regard to the processions of mission. I read over eight journal articles and two books. This is most promising and a framework develops, by which I can assess my data. It would allow quantitative measures to be held with a qualitative frame. It unites the immanent Trinity with the economic Trinity.
However, I remain aware that I am reading men, from a Catholic and Western tradition. Thus there is an (inevitable) particularity about where they are doing theology from. I continue to ponder this. Is there any work done on the processions of mission from a post-colonial perspective?
Not that I can find. However, I can still work from first principles and primary data. The source closest to hand is the Uniting Church Preamble. While on Walking on Country, among indigenous people, I read again the Preamble. This is a most promising direction. There are indeed two processions of mission in the Preamble. However they yield quite a different framework by which to consider my data.
At this point, I remain undecided about whether to try and synthesis the two frames (Lonergan et al and the Preamble), or to keep them distinct. I suspect a way to progress my thinking might actually perhaps lie in my data. Thus my next task is to see what emerges from my data when these two frames are applied. But as it stands, I certainly have enough to present in my paper tomorrow.
Monday, April 27, 2015
Accepted – "Inhabiting our neighbourhoods: Plot by plot, plant by plant"
News today that my chapter on community gardens in urban spaces has been accepted for publication. It was written for the launch of "Inhabiting Our Neighbourhoods": a flagship publication of Urban Seed's new Urban Studies Centre and was a proposal for a contemporary urban missiology for community mission.
The editors commented: "We really enjoyed this piece. One of us said, "The more I read the more fascinated I became, and I'm not into gardening!""
Here's the abstract for the chapter, which I've provisionally titled Inhabiting our neighbourhoods: Plot by plot, plant by plant
Gardens offer rich insight regarding how we inhabit our neighbourhood. These include opening ourselves to the stranger's gift, the slow, seasonal work of prayer-as-composting and celebrating life together.
This chapter begins by bringing the development patterns of two inner-city Australian community gardens into dialogue with Scripture, including Luke 10:1-12 and 1 Corinthians 3:6-9. Stranger's gifts emerge when we act in ways that enable our community to be neighbours, both good and diverse.
These insights are enriched by consideration of two movies. Gardening with Soul is the story of an urban missionary who turned the lawn of her religious community into a community garden. Grow your Own is the story of a stranger's gift that grows healing among a well-established British allotment garden.
The argument, from case study, Scripture and film, is that gardens provide rich insight, in practices, processes, patterns and postures, regarding how we might inhabit our neighbourhoods.
It should be out in the middle of the year.
The only major suggestion for change is to make the structure a little more like a garden. This involves making a little more room for wildness, less linear logic and more ripe vegetables and fistfuls of herbs! Which was how I presented the spoken paper, but in writing, sought to conform to a more academic style, so I will gladly conform!
I was one of very few academics present and I'm delighted to be able to add some missiology reflection into what was a gritty, community-engaged conference. It's also the first time some of my monthly published film reviews (which now number nearly 100) have been woven into a publication, along with what is a personal hobby. So it all feels nicely integrated. It also brings to six the number of pieces of work written in 2014 that will now be published. A good year indeed!
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
witnesses of a wounded church: sermon on Luke 24 (Easter 3)
A sermon I preached among our candidates and Faculty. The Biblical text was Luke 24:36b-48 (Easter 3) and I have been reflecting on being Christian in a country with such a tragic historical relationship with indigenous peoples.
On Saturday, I was offered front row seats at the episcopal ordination of Chris McLeod as Assistant Bishop with special responsibility for ministry alongside Aboriginal people in South Australia. It was amazing to drive down King William Road at 9 am on Saturday morning and to see Bishops from all over Australia and New Zealand all dressed up.
And behind them to see clouds of smoke from an indigenous Kaurna smoking ceremony, billowing above their heads. I wondering if St Peters Cathedral was on fire for a minute.
Chris is the first ever Aboriginal Bishop in South Australia; and the 3rd ever in Australia. Chris is one of my PhD students, hence my ability to secure a front row seating. Closer to the action even that all the Clergy, including Peter, Vicky's husband.
The ordination made major news, with footage on Channel 7 on Saturday night and in the Sunday Times yesterday. When interviewed by channel 7, the sound bite they grabbed was of Chris saying he hoped to a Bishop of healing. It struck me as a rich way to understand our Bible text, the Gospel reading for Easter 3; Sunday April 19. In particular the last words from the reading, from verse 48 – you are witnesses of these things.
I'm a missiologist, so when the word witness pops up in the Bible text, I pay particular attention. When I'm working with church groups I often suggest that "witness" is a better word for us to use than "evangelism." Witnesses simply pass on what they experience. In court the task of an eyewitness is to report what you see. No hearsay, no interpretation, no guesses at motives or the big picture. Simply be a witness.
For most church groups, this is encouragement. And challenge. Encouragement, because there's a simplicity when evangelism becomes report what you see. You don't need to know everything. You don't need to be skilled at apologetics. You don't need to know all the story. You don't even need to have done Heritage and Polity or Church, Ministry Sacraments. So that's an encouragement. We're to be witnesses. It's as simple and as honest as report what you see.
But alongside the encouragement, there's also challenge. Do you have a faith story that's active enough to witness to? Can you share of healing. Or are you stuck nursing your resentment and pain, polishing it for revenge? For a mainline church like the Uniting, when at times being a church member has been linked to social status, the invitation to be a witness becomes a particular challenge.
I love the way that "witness" in this Bible text is so framed by experience. The disciples are startled and terrified in v. 37. Those are pretty honest words to keep in your story of witness. Jesus responses with "Touch me and see" (v. 39). That's a pretty experiential approach to being a witness. And by eating fish in v. 43. That's a very practical response to being risen.
I love that these honest and experiential and practical details are included, presumably as an example of what being a witness will actually look like. It will involve telling the honest and experiential and practical details. Which helps me make sense of the ordination of Chris. He hopes to be a Bishop of healing. For Chris to do that there'll need to be remembering. And a grieving. You see, Chris's mother and grandmother are stolen generation.
And so Chris can't tell his story without telling their story. And in so doing, telling the story of a church, who contributed to their pain. That's what will need to happen as Chris sets out to be a witness to healing.
I've been reading Australian Catholic theologian, Nieil Ormerod's lastest book, Re-Visioning the Church: An Experiment in Systematic-Historical Ecclesiology. Neil looks at the church through history. He divides history up into eras and every Era he gives a name. And the name he gives to this era, the era we're all in together, is the Era of the Wounded Church.
And it's in this Era of the Wounded Church that you and I are called to be a witness. It's in the era of woundednes that you are seeking to exercise ordained ministry in the Uniting Church.
Which means, taking into account the Ordination on Saturday, our witness must to include our woundedness, the woundedness of the church. That's the only way for our story to have the human and experiential and practical details which are so clearly part of being a witness here in the Luke 24. Being startled and terrified. Touch my wound, and see.
Neil Ormerod (Re-Visioning the Church: An Experiment in Systematic-Historical Ecclesiology) talks about the defensiveness that has emerged within the Catholic church as it is wounded. But also about the creativity that's also been part of the church's story, how the church has transformed itself through history. And by how the strongest transformation's have occurred when mission has been the integrating principle.
So the church in the Era of woundedness can chose to be a defensive witness. Or an honest, truthtelling, finding creative transformation in mission witness. You are witnesses of these things.
The Uniting Church recently agreed to a new Preamble to its Constitution. Which begins, As the Church believes God guided it into union so it believes that God is calling it to continually seek a renewal of its life as a community of First Peoples and of Second Peoples from many lands.
Continually seek a renewal.
After the ordination on Saturday, I got talking to a Uniting Church colleague. And he said that he and his mob really hoped this is ordination was not just symbolic. That it would actually lead to real change.
And we could ask the same about the Preamble. How is it practically, continually renewing our witness. As a College. As individuals. Because every one of us who lives in Australia, we are witnesses of these things.
Sunday, April 12, 2015
picnic rugs, being church and mission planning
I've been sitting for the last few days with Faith Ringgold's art. Titled Church Picnic Story Quilt, 1988, it is tie-dyed and printed fabrics; acrylic on cotton canvas. It tells the often bittersweet history of daily life in Black America from a personal and feminist perspective, combining traditions of storytelling and quilt-making in her painted "story quilts." Because of copyright, I'll simply provide a link.
It is a visual resource suggested by Imaging the Word: An Arts and Lectionary Resource, the fabulous visual lectionary resource. It is suggested to accompany the lectionary reading – Acts 4:32-37.
It strikes me as a helpful way to think about being church on mission. The quilt is about a church picnic, of Freedom Baptist Church. It's outdoors and that's always a more public space for a church. The picnic involves various families on rugs. They've got their food spread out on the rugs and I like to think that's a gesture of sharing. Each rug, and each of the dishes on the rugs, is distinctive and I like to think that each family is bringing something unique, a food that they especially enjoy and especially enjoy preparing. There are children running around and I like to think they are acting as ice-breakers, providing a way to ease into relationships and create connections across rugs.
It got me thinking about appreciative enquiry, (Memories, Hopes, and Conversations: Appreciative Inquiry and Congregational Change) and how it emerges so easily from this art image.
- What is your dish? In other words, what are the unique gifts of your community you would like to share? What efforts would you make to ensure you give time to offering that unique dishes?
- What are the public spaces in which you need to spread your rug? In other words, where, outside your building, and in what community, are you spreading your rug? What do you value about that space?
- Who, in your community, are the children, the people that create connections? What efforts could you put into nourishing those strengths?
I would suggest that with about 30 minutes in groups working on these questions, a church would have found some rich material for their mission planning. They would have established their strengths, the strengths of their context and how they might go about connecting their strengths with the strengths of their community.
Such is the gift of an art piece of a picnic rig and some well chosen questions.
Thursday, April 09, 2015
The Trinity as two processions in mission: a post-colonial proposal for evaluating ecclesial life
A precis of some reading, thinking, writing and chatting (with anyone I think might even be vaguely interested in listening).
How to evaluate the mission life of a church? Popular measures include numerical, economic (can we afford a minister and building) and romantic (the good old days). This paper will explore the measures that emerge when the Trinity is understood as one God, three Persons and two processions in mission. It will seek to develop the work of Bernard Lonergan, in conversation with Neil Ormerod. It will analyse their understandings, including paying particular attention to the understandings of Spirit and mission embedded in the Uniting Church Preamble. This provides a post-colonial voice in the development of a proposal for a post-colonial missional ecclesiology. Four markers will be identified and tested on a case study: the author's empirical research into fresh expressions of the church ten years on.
Which I get to present, Monday, 4 May, Uniting College for Leadership and Theology Research hour, 4-5 pm.
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
Doctorate in the Practices of Monastic Spirituality
Congratulations to Gary Stuckey, with news last week that his doctoral thesis has gained examiners approval and he will graduate Doctor Gary in May. I've been working with Gary for the last four years on his Doctor of Ministry. It was a fascinating project that mixed having a go, critical reflection and deep reading in the Christian tradition.
Essentially Gary tried to plant a fresh expression of monastic spirituality. He used a short course approach, offering a year long training in monastic spirituality. At the same time, in order to rigourously test his practice, he sought to measure participant's spiritual experience, at the start, middle and end.
His thesis reflects on his learnings, all the while reading deeply from across the centuries in how monastic patterns were developed and how they sought to form faith. At the same time, Gary becomes increasingly dis-enchanted with what he considers the historical rootlessness of much of what currently trades as new monasticism.
Finding Your Inner Monk: Development, Presentation and Assessment of the Effectiveness of a Program Introducing the Practices of Monastic Spirituality
With a growing interest in monastic spirituality, Gary Stuckey developed and presented a program introducing participants to historic monastic spirituality and its contemporary significance, and spiritual practices drawn from the Benedictine tradition. His thesis assessed the effectiveness of the program in enhancing participant's spiritual experience as measured by the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale. The project also identified each participant's spirituality type with a view to determining whether or not it was people with a more contemplative nature who were attracted to and benefited from the program. Gary found that the program did help enrich people's spiritual experience. The resource material presented, the learning of and reflecting on spiritual practices, and discussion with other participants were major factors in the outcome. While most participants were of a contemplative type, not all were. Those who were not generally benefited from the program, opening the possibility of its wider application in the future.
It was a fascinating and multi-faceted project to supervise, by a creative, dedicated and hard-working person.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Reading Charles Taylor missionally: learning party
What does it mean to speak of church, mission and faith in a secular age?
I am offering a reading group to engage theologically and missionally with Charles Taylor, one of the most insightful cultural thinkers of our time. We will focus on four key books
- James McEvoy, Leaving Christendom for Good: Church-World Dialogue in a Secular Age, 2014.
- James Smith, How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor, 2014.
- Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity, 1992.
- Charles Taylor, A Secular Age, 2007.
The aim will be to absorb, to reflect and to consider the implications for mission and ministry.
Wednesdays, 5.15 – 6.45pm, fortnightly from Wednesday 4 March at Uniting College. Seven sessions, finishing June 10. For information, please comment or email steve dot taylor at flinders dot edu do au.


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A one-day workshop will help beef producers improve the quality, consistency and value of Nebraska beef, said Randy Saner, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension educator in Lincoln and McPherson counties.
The workshop will begin at 8 a.m. and conclude at 5 p.m. at the Ag Building on the Lincoln County Fairgrounds.
The program starts with a review of beef quality auditing as it's been done in the past. Presenters will also discuss changes in recommendations and things producers can improve to increase quality and price of their beef.
In a yield and quality grades session, producers will get to look at steers on videotape and to evaluate and price them. They will also participate in a carcass yield and quality grade activity using photos of foreribs and ribeye cuts.
"We'll actually cut up, fabricate some beef ribs for yield and value," Saner said, "so we'll see how much yield and value are in those ribs."
Subprimal and cut-out value, tenderness and palatability, will all receive some attention before the taste tests to evaluate what producers saw during the day and how it tastes.
Pre-registration deadline is Wednesday, Jan. 20, but producers should sign up as soon as possible because each session is limited to 30 participants.
The Nebraska Beef Industry Council and the Nebraska Cattlemen's Association are sponsoring the event with UNL Extension so there's no charge for attendance.
For more information, contact Saner at the Lincoln/McPherson County Extension Office or on-line.
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Plains, Sumter County town in southwest Georgia, is located approximately nine miles west of Americus and thirty-seven miles north of Albany. Situated in the northern part of Georgia's peanut belt, this farming community's main crops are corn, cotton, peanuts, and soybeans, although its main industry is tourism. The town is well known as the hometown of U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter. According to the 2010 U.S. census, the population of Plains was 776.
Plains was founded in 1827 after federal authorities forced out Creek Indians under the Treaty of Washington, and was located one mile north of its present site. The surrounding land is flat, and Plains was originally called the Plains of Dura, after the biblical place.
In railroad connecting Americus, Preston, and Lumpkin, was built as a more convenient way for getting cotton to market. Plains moved one mile south to a site on the newly built railroad in 1885. That same year, the small town's business section burgeoned, but Plains was not officially incorporated until 1896. A railroad depot station was built in 1888.
Like most farming communities in the South, Plains subsisted mainly on cotton production until 1915, when farmers were forced to find another crash crop after the boll weevil infestation substantially reduced cotton acreage. Largely due to the work of George Washington Carver, an African American agricultural scientist who taught at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, there was a large shift toward peanut farming in Georgia. Plains is still known for its peanut production, which is celebrated in the annual Plains Peanut Festival held each fall.
In Lillian Carter, worked there as a registered nurse. Another Plains physician, Joseph Colquitt Logan, was the first doctor to treat and cure a case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Plains became famous in 1976 when Carter ran his presidential campaign from the historic depot. Carter was raised in Plains, where as a boy he sold the peanuts harvested on his family's farm to the townspeople. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, returned to Plains at the end of his presidential term in 1981.
Another area attraction is the SAM Shortline Excursion Train. This historic train line, which created a direct route between Savannah, Georgia, and Montgomery, Alabama, by way of Americus, dates back to 1888. Visitors can ride the train through the countryside of southwest Georgia between Cordele and Archery. Tourists can also visit the Plains Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Steven Borns, People of Plains, Georgia (New York: McGraw Hill, 1978).
Jimmy Carter, An Hour before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001).
Marcia Klenbort, The Road to Plains: A Guide to Plains and Nearby Places of Interest in Southwest Georgia (Atlanta: Avery Press, 1977).
Beth M. Walters, History of Plains, Georgia, 1885-1985 ([Plains, Ga.?: n.p., 1985]).
Jimmy Carter, An Hour before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001).
Marcia Klenbort, The Road to Plains: A Guide to Plains and Nearby Places of Interest in Southwest Georgia (Atlanta: Avery Press, 1977).
Beth M. Walters, History of Plains, Georgia, 1885-1985 ([Plains, Ga.?: n.p., 1985]).
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Maybe you were always a healthy eater (lucky you!). But I know I wasn't the greatest (also not the worst!). I've always been a healthy weight for my size and within a normal BMI, but I've really been trying to step up my nutrition since learning about my pregnancy.
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I found the scenes yesterday on YT to watch, and they were great, but I groaned when I saw Ashley with him at the UG. I thought, "Their scenes are over, already?"
Some have commented they miss seeing Johnny. I do too, but I just realized, I don't think we've seen Katie in anything other than swaddled in a blanket, and she's over 6 months now. She should be a chubby, little angel, wearing an impossibly cute summer romper with matching sandals that her gorgeous mom couldn't resist. I wonder if when we see her, if she'll be a blue-eyed blond, or have Victoria's rich brown hair?
Also, I'm starting to wonder if NE's offices exist anymore? Victor is always at Jabot's offices, even if they are the same company. And Victoria had just had a new office designed when she was in her final months of pregnancy, and she was supposedly going to have a nursery next door for Katie. Do the writers remember what they wrote?


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Solutions for Chapter B
Jenny Calhond is 25 years old and has just finished college. While in college, she paid for many expenses on her credit card and runs a balance of $6,400; but no longer uses her credit card since she found a great paying job. She has student loans totaling $28,000. Jenny earns about $2000 per month, after taxes have been paid and she has contributed to her 401k. Despite this, Jenny doesn't seem to have much money left over at the end of every month to save.
Jenny pays $450 per month for an apartment she rents with a friend. Her utilities and other expenses are about $300 per month. She budgets $200 per month for food and rent. Her student loan repayment is $110 per month. The minimum payment on her card is $75 per month. She enjoys going to concerts, so her entertainment budget is $150 per month.


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Ecclesiastes273 4 years ago#31
KH2 reminded me a bit of the first one, and had some intense gameplay, but the plot was a bunch of stereotypical convoluted JRPG garbage, but MORESO. The gameplay itself was easy at the hardest of times, but at least the core was solid, and allowed for a lot of player-enforced tweaking. At its base, it was a fun game, and its failings are only so reviled because it made so many overwrought and ambitious plays.
Chain of Memories. Fun gameplay, lots of customization potential, but holy hell was the "plot" 95 recap/filler, half the tracks were 5 or 15 second loops, and most of the rest of the tracks were just loops that didn't straight up STOP and RESTART. Riku mode was lulz in the worst way. The ending was nice, maybe even pretty good, but KH2 did an amazing job of pretending this game didn't happen. Riku being angsty in KH2 actively defies his development here. Bah.
Birth by Sleep. Great gameplay, data install is a godsend, and customization was never better. Plot still sucks, though, but not too much.
Overall, even the worst of those games were still fun and entertaining. KH1 was a bit of magic, and I'm not sure I want to see SE attempt to recreate it, given their more recent offerings. They're decently good games, and not so egregiously flawed or controversial as some other SE games.
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peonus posted...Kingdom Hearts was good
You may be confusing KH controls with Mario controls.
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CokaineCowboy77 4 years ago#32
Thamauturge posted...
lol at anyone who doesn't like KH being interested in this game
How is that funny?
I don't like KH because it's for kids, I want this gane because it looks good and is aimed at a older audience.
XIII is...just terrible.
grand_kaizer 4 years ago#33
CokaineCowboy77 posted...
Thamauturge posted...lol at anyone who doesn't like KH being interested in this game
Not to take a shot at you personally, but I've always found this sentiment to be one held by, ironically, less mature people. Y'know, that stage everyone goes through where they despise anything kiddy-esque because it doesn't fit with the whole "I'm becoming an adult now" mentality, before they mature a little more and realise it's not so bad to have a soft spot for a little bit of childishness?
Might just be what I've seen of people, but everyone seems to get that one. I mean don't get me wrong, everyone still has days where they prefer God of War to Ni no Kuni, I'm pretty well certain that's a fact, but I don't believe anyone can honestly say there never comes a time when they could stand something that doesn't have as many sharp corners.
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CokaineCowboy77 4 years ago#34
grand_kaizer posted...
CokaineCowboy77 posted...Thamauturge posted...lol at anyone who doesn't like KH being interested in this game
Don't get me wrong; I don't mind a bit of childishness, say the odd cutscene or two, or a childish character like Cait Sith, but KH is aimed specifically at kids, to the point where it's overbearing even if the gameplay is good.
XIII is...just terrible.
Because it keeps being released on portable systems, how am I supposed to keep up with the series when it has a game on every system. Still love KH1, KH2, and BBS though.
It's not the great who are strong, It's the strong who are great!
MasterShot2k5 4 years ago#36
Was one of the best hack n slashes ever, but many the fandom complained it was too cutesy when it first came out. Then they tried to make it darker and now the story sucks massive donkey dick....I cannot help but wonder if some of the fault belongs to the fans for constant request to make it darker.
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Soft, flavorful rolls are the best with a juicy burger. With this recipe you can make soft rolls at home. At the winery, I use this base dough recipe for many types of bread - soft dinner rolls, Philly-style soft pretzels, and even the best doughnuts you can imagine!
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- In a stand mixer bowl, combine the milk, butter, yeast, and sugar. Let sit for 10 minutes.
- Add the egg and flour. Mix for 2 minutes with the dough hook attachment, adding the salt 30 seconds into mixing.
- At this point the dough should be very soft and somewhat wet. Remove the bowl from the mixer, cover with plastic wrap and put in a warm location. Set a timer for 60 minutes.
- Preheat your oven to 400°F.
- Turn the dough out onto a well-floured surface. Portion the dough into 12 4-ounce pieces and roll into little balls or into ovals for hot dog rolls. Place on an oiled tray in a warm location to let rise for two hours.
- Gently brush or mist the rolls with water and apply garnishes, if using. Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool for at least 30 minutes. Rolls will last up to a day on the counter or up to a week in the freezer.
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This coming Saturday, Jan. 28, at 4:00 p.m. EST, the Senior Bowl game will be broadcast on the NFL Network from Mobile, Ala.
As Buffalo Bills general manager Buddy Nix has identified, improving the Bills pass-rush is one of the top priorities of the team as they prepare to make their playoff push in 2012. As mock drafts continue to pour in from around the country, Bills fans will continue to see specific names repeating as the likely choice of the Bills with the overall No. 10 draft pick in the first round. Most mock drafts have the Bills taking a pass-rusher, although the names of that pass rusher continue to change.
Today, we are going to explore the Senior Bowl rosters and look at some of the players that Bills fans should keep an eye out for, as there is the possibility that some of these payers could be calling Buffalo home in 2012.


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A look at Gaza conditions amid Israeli offensive
JERUSALEM -- Sunday was the bloodiest day in the conflict between Israel and Hamas as the nearly two-week offensive surged. Here's where things stand in the Gaza Strip:
Death toll: Health officials say at least 432 Palestinians have been killed since Israel's campaign began on July 8 The Israeli military says it has killed 178 militants. The United Nations says a majority of the dead are civilians.
Internal displacement: About 83,000 Palestinians have fled their homes and are staying in 61 United Nations shelters.
Children caught in crossfire: Children make up nearly a quarter of the dead in Gaza, according to an Associated Press count. About 60,000 children in Gaza will be in need of psychosocial support as a result of the current round of violence, according to UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency. Israeli children stressed by rocket fire also have been traumatized.
Stressed medical care: As thousands of wounded continue arriving at hospitals across Gaza, doctors have warned of shortages.
Water and electricity: More than half of Gaza's population remains without access to a water supply, according to the U.N. About 80 percent of Gaza's population is receiving electricity for about four hours a day, down from 12 hours before the conflict.
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Schoolteacher Mikhail Platonov has a problem – he's irresistible to women. Set in the blazing heat of a rural summer, this freewheeling comedy is a cry of youthful defiance against the compromises of middle age.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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The Woman in Black
The Woman In Black is one of the most exciting, gripping and successful plays ever staged, and it has been playing for over 25 years in the West End. Don't miss this West End classic, book your tickets online!
No Man's Land
Following their hit run on Broadway, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return to the UK stage in No Man's Land, one of the most brilliantly entertaining plays by Nobel Prize laureate Harold Pinter. Get your tickets here!
Lunch and the Bow of Ulysses
Witness a couple meeting for the first time, on a bench in a park near the sea. Then find them again years later, and experience through them the paradoxical isolation and partnership that comes after two decades of coupledom.
No's Knife
This world premiere of No's Knife in London sees Samuel Beckett exploring the powerful resilience to stay alive. Book your tickets here!
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
The play you are about to see is sealed inside of an envelope. The actor that is about to perform has never seen it. In fact, there is a new actor every performance, and they've only been told what is absolutely necessary. Book your tickets to a unique theater experience here!
Death Takes A Holiday
Thom Sutherland directs the UK premiere of Death Takes a Holiday, music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and book by Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan. Get your tickets here!
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An Inspector Calls
Stephen Daldry's multi award-winning production of JB Priestley's classic thriller returns to the West End for a strictly limited season. Hailed as the theatrical event of its generation, winning more awards than any other production in history, this magnificent NATIONAL THEATRE presentation has thrilled more than 4 million people worldwide. Now Daldry (Oscar-nominated Director of The Reader, The Hours and ...
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Pulitzer Prize winner Kushner makes a highly anticipated return to Hampstead where his Slavs! Debuted in 1994. His other plays include the classic Angels in America and screenplays include the Oscar nominated Lincoln and Munich.
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Eleanor wants a child. Richard would oblige if he could, but he's too busy running the Dead Funny Society.
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Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's classic 1928 comedy, The Front Page, arrives on Broadway this fall.The press room of Chicago's Criminal Courts Building is buzzing with reporters covering the story of an escaped prisoner. When star reporter Hildy Johnson (John Slattery) accidentally discovers the runaway convict, he and his editor Walter Burns (Nathan Lane) conspire to hide the ...
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My love of potatoes knows no bounds. I'll eat it mashed, grilled, fried, boiled, cut up into wedges or fries and then deep fried or oven baked. I don't think I've stopped loving potatoes and their versatility. So when a baked potato store opened, my sister (Also a potato head) found it and got me to try it. It was just simply perfection.
The name of the store is Spudbar, and it's been a firm favourite ever since I went there a couple of years ago.
They have a number of stores around Victoria, and when I went to get my Macbook replaced in Doncaster Shopping Centre, I just had to go back there.
On this occasion, I tried their Tuna Melt Spud, there are plentiful dishes you can order and you can also make your own spud selection but just for convenience sake I chose the Tuna one. They used to have one called 'Hot Stuff' which included, kidney beans, a nice spicy sauce and vegetables but over the years I guess people weren't interested in it.
The Tuna Melt Spud, is quite tasty. I doubt anyone can ruin potatoes for me, anyway. The only downside was that the dressing and tuna are cold, and well it makes the warm spud just a bit too cold for my liking. Nonetheless, it was still delicious. I added some chilli flakes, and tabasco sauce just for some added kick and it was great.
The mixture of the cheese, peas, carrots, corn, dressing, tuna and of course the potato all worked really well together and it's really filling so you know you got a good meal out of it.
If you love all things potatoes, this is the dining experience you'll not want to miss.
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We were wondering the same thing - same thing happening with our TV - could you please send us the instructions? I am good at soldering and could probably fix it email address is firstname.lastname@example.com
Mitsubishi WS65513 Blinking Green Light
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Tue, 08/11/2015 - 22:43Permalink
My blinking timer light is flashing green, can someone please email me how to fix it, email@example.com
Tue, 08/11/2015 - 22:45Permalink
Can't do it myself with the soter, any professionals in LA YOU RECOMMEND
Fri, 01/29/2016 - 11:02Permalink
I'm having the same problem with the blinking timer light. I have been able to use the surge protector to turn on and off. This just started happening when I disconnected the DirectTV receiver and stopped using that remote. Can I get the repair instructions sent to email@example.com
Sun, 01/31/2016 - 12:57Permalink
WD-65831 tv here doing the same thing. Was working fine. The timer green light would blink on starting the tv then it would work fine. Was playing xbox one on it about an hr ago when the screen and all went out and the green timer light started blinking. Larry could I get you to email me the instructions as well. email@example.com thanks
Mon, 02/01/2016 - 13:08Permalink
I have a Mitsubishi WD65737 that has a green blinking indicator light for approximately 15 seconds followed by the Mitsubishi electronics screen coming up for about 15 seconds then tv shuts off. I recently replaced the bulb and it worked great afterwards. I have tried the reset process via the owners manual but this has no effect. I have unplugged it from the wall outlet and surge protector for overnight and still no change in the result. Any help would be appreciated. Clint
Fri, 02/05/2016 - 14:34Permalink
Regarding post "I have a Mitbushi WD65737" above, I was able to solve the problem myself and wanted to post it here to help anyone who is having the same issue. After checking the error code that my TV generated after it shut down, it yielded the code of 12. This code indicates that nothing is wrong with the hardware of the TV. Hence it had to be a software problem. The Mitsubishi website has a section that explains how to download new software to a USB drive and install it on your tv. Very easy to do and after I followed the procedure they outlned, my TV works normally again.
Sat, 02/06/2016 - 11:26Permalink
Not sure if my first message posted. I have a WS-65711 with the dreaded blinking green light after a power surge. would appreciate it if you could send me the file with instructions as to how to fix it to email@example.com
Wed, 02/24/2016 - 17:18Permalink
Hi, my name is Joe. This message is 4 Larry Dillon. Or to whom ever can help me. I noticed u were helping others with their situations with thier tv's. I was hoping to get your help also. I have a Mitsubishi WD-65833 Diamond Series with a code 34 (lamp abnormality) exept i know for sure the lamp is good. It could be that the ballast is no good but i dont know that for sure. When I turn the tv on it stay on for about a minute then turns off. The picture and sound are fine until it shuts off. Then the fans run for a while after that. I'm gonna assume they stay on b/c the bulb has to cool down. So i just let them run. I noticed you had mentioned that it could be some bad capacitors. Also that they can look in good condition even tho they are not. Anyway,...I was wondering if you can email me the instructions as to how to go about fixing this tv and R&R'ing all the capacitors and/or whatever else needs to be replaced. I appreciate your help if you can. Thank you in advance. I can sure use the help. Also i can help out other people with the same problem if you are willing to help me.. My email (s) are.... kkruzito2013 @ yahoo .com kkruzito2013 @ gmail .com
Wed, 02/24/2016 - 17:22Permalink
LARRY DILLON...PLEASE HELP!!! I'm not sure if last post got posted so again can you plz help me Mits WD-65833 turns off after a minute. Can I also get the Instructions as to how to fix my tv...thanks in advance.. You can send instructions to: firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com
Fri, 03/04/2016 - 22:07Permalink
Hey Larry I know this is a super old post. Hopefully you will still see this. I'm having the same issue as everyone else. I'm excited to break out the old iron and give this a whirl. Is there a chance you could send me the same Info to email@example.com? Thank you in advance!
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Hi, I have a WD-57831 with the green timer light blinking fast. Can you please email me the instruction for the fix? Thank you very much. email@example.com
Wed, 09/14/2016 - 11:10Permalink
Hi Larry We have the same problem with the blinking green light. Can you please send the link on how to repair it and the service manual for WS55613. My husband is pretty handy with these things. Thank you in advance. firstname.lastname@example.com


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The May WWR Giveaway: Gavox Squadron
It's a new month, so that means that it's time for us to spin up a new giveaway. This time around, we have something pretty unique for you, a Gavox Squadron.
It's a new month, so that means that it's time for us to spin up a new giveaway. This time around, we have something pretty unique for you, a Gavox Squadron.
When it comes to watches, many folks will often have a a favorite watch from particular brands. Less common is an expressed interest in the wider line, especially with the indie watch brands. For me, at least, Gavox is one of those brands that I think have something in all of their models. Sure, the earlier watches we very much similar to what we saw from Techne, but that's not a bad thing. As of late, though, Gavox has really stepped up their game, with introductions of watches like the Aurora and Squadron. Their most recent model, the Gavox Avidiver, shows the brand continuing to branch out.
Are the kids having difficulty with making it to class on time now that school is back? Are you forgetting to pick them up? Or do you just want a discount on a great looking watch? Now through October 11 the web retailer Time2Give is offering a 15% back to school discount on Gavox and Techne watches. All you need to do is pick your watch and then enter the code "backtoschool" in the voucher spot on the bottom of the shopping basket page.
Hello and welcome back (I hope) Watching the Web, our weekly installment where we highlight interesting watches related articles from other sites, and point out own more popular articles over the last week. Today, we have a review of the Borealis Seahawk 1500 from a diver's perspective, a photo essay from a watchmaking class held by Audemars Piguet, and a tutorial on how to remove scratches from a watch crystal. From our site, Patrick swept the top spots, with his recent reviews of the Shinola Rambler GMT, the Gavox Aurora, and the Steinhart Military 42.
Gavox has had some interesting models lately. Most recently, it was the Gavox Squadron (more on that here and here) which was purpose-built for military pilots. Now, with the Gavox Aurora, they have another watch for pilots (designed with input from aviators) that offers something you do not often see with a world-timer – the ability to account for time zones that do not simply shift time by an hour.
Thanks for taking the time to check out our weekly installment, Watching the Web, where we point you toward some interesting watches and articles that have popped up over the last week (or so), and take a second look at what were our more popular pages. Today, I am going to highlight the Roger Dubuis Excaliber Tourbillon from ABTW, the Time Bum's review of the Prometheus Piranha, and Tempus Fugit's lunch with the Michael Happé from Gavox. From our site, we have the Ventus Caspian on Kickstarter, the AVI-8 Hawker Harrier II, and The Christopher Ward C7 Rapide Chronometer.
The last time we covered Gavox, we were looking at watches that very much fit the military / aviation theme. Today, Gavox is back on our pages with a watch that takes things in quite a different direction. While I won't go so far as to call it a dress watch, it is indeed a more refined-feeling piece.
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Garda€ arrest man for fatal stabbing in south Dublin
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Garda€ have arrested a man in connection with yesterday's fatal stabbing in south Dublin.
The victim, 26-year-old Mark Spellman from Dalkey, died in hospital following the attack.
It happened near Lansdowne Tennis club in Sandymount just after two o'clock yesterday morning.
A second man was also suffered minor injuries during the row.
Garda€ arrested a man in his 20s late last night, and he is being held at Donnybrook Garda Station.
He can be detained for up to 24 hours.