Colouring Outside the Lines: Celebrating postgraduate work in mission and...
I’m delighted with the publication of Colouring Outside the Lines. Celebrating postgraduate work in mission and ministry from the Adelaide College of Divinity 2010-2014. It profiles the unique work of...
View ArticleHauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction Book review
“[H]ow remarkably easy it is for middle-class white Americans to be pacifist, since for many it need involve little beyond talking correctly.” So observes Healy, Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical...
View Articleactivist researchers and community up research as fresh words and deeds
One of the benefits of being at Uniting College is our connection with Flinders University. This includes their extensive professional development workshops. So yesterday, on a beautiful autumn...
View ArticleCreative research
Traditional research methods are used to “avoid creativity” (179) Such is the provocative challenge by Helen Kara, Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide. She argues that...
View ArticleTrinity worship, breath prayers and researching Lonergan
I led chapel today and had the sense that it worked brilliantly, offering a space that for many, provided a deep sense of connection with God. It connected with a range of senses, including seeing...
View ArticleActivist research: an examination of lived practices Conference paper accepted
Delighted that my conference paper for the 2015 Ethnography and Ecclesiology Conference, September 15-17 has been accepted. In this paper, I will be trying to unpick some of the complexity around...
View ArticleA class above: Evidence based action research into teaching that is...
I’ve spent much of the week, between various work meetings, working on a conference paper on innovation in teaching for the ANZATS (Australia New Zealand Association of Theological Schools) in Sydney....
View Articlevaluing empirical research in the study of fresh expressions
This is a section I wrote today, part of Part 3 of the Sustainability and fresh expressions book project – Third, the argument – as to the presence of both sect and mystic types – emerges from a study...
View ArticleEurope study leave: Amsterdam, Durham, Holy Island, Adelaide
My tickets for Europe arrived this week. I have some study leave I need to take before I finish as Principal of Uniting College and I’ve been working toward presenting some of my research overseas for...
View Article“regard as valuable”: Missiological approaches to the “Silence” of religious...
Abstract (1) for 14th Assembly of International Association of Mission Studies, August 11–17, 2016, Seoul, South Korea Conference theme: Conversions and Transformations: Missiological Approaches to...
View ArticleFiction as missiology: an appreciation of religious change in Drusilla...
Abstract (2) for 14th Assembly of International Association of Mission Studies, August 11–17, 2016, Seoul, South Korea Conference theme: Conversions and Transformations: Missiological Approaches to...
View ArticleSteve 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...
View ArticleAcceptance: New kid in class: Qualitative research into flipped learning
I’m delighted with the news, received yesterday, that my New kid in class: Qualitative research into flipped learning in a higher education context paper has been accepted for BERA (British Educational...
View ArticleJesus as the divine tracker: an indigenous experiment in a post-colonial...
My abstract for ANZATS 2016. The theme is atonement, which opens some space to reflect on indigenous Christology and develop a sermon I delivered at Port Augusta Uniting Aboriginal and Islander...
View ArticleThe complexity of being woven together: A microhistory
There’s an interesting conference in Wellington, 9-10 June, 2016. It is sponsored by UNESCO and Victoria University. Titled Woven Together? Christianity and Development between New Zealand and the...
View Article“Women’s wealth” as human agency: lines as bridges in Drusilla Modjeska’s The...
Behind Sunday’s sermon, on “women’s wealth” and Dorcas as a pioneering a fresh expression of justice, lay an academic research project I’ve been pottering away on for the last few weeks. As a result,...
View ArticleSandpits. Why some papers write quicker than others.
I had an interesting experience over the last 48 hours. Back in October, I submitted two conference paper proposals (250 word abstracts) to International Association of Mission Studies (IAMS) Korea...
View ArticleWhy bother with historical research in practical ministry and theology?
I’m delivering the NZ PRESBYTERIAN RESEARCH NETWORK Winter Lecture Thursday, 16 June 2016 Why bother with historical research in practical ministry and theology? Who else, beside historians, should...
View ArticleThe potential of micro-ecclesiologies: Or Who else, beside historians, should...
I delivered the Presbyterian Research Centre Network winter lecture tonight. It was my 4th talk, on my 4th different topic, in my 4th city, in the last 8 days. Tonight was a chance to try out something...
View ArticleWanangha nai: a post-colonial indigenous atonement theology
I’m crossing the ditch this week. First stop is Melbourne, where I am part of ANZATS (Australia New Zealand Association of Theological Schools). Second stop is holidays (more on that later). In...
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