Archive for April, 2007
Friday, April 6th, 2007
Raoef (or Rauf) Mamedov is a film director based in Moscow, known for his fascinating photographic renditions of well-known Christian pieces of art. Originally from Azerbaidjan, Mamadov worked as a social worker in a pyschiatric hospital before studying at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. He is now professor at the Institute and is a director for Central Television in Moscow.
Mamedov began work as an artist in 1997 with two photo projects known as “The Last Supper” and “Adam and Eve.” The Last Supper consists of five photographs featuring models with Down’s Syndrome, each posing in positions similar to the characters in the Leonardo Da Vinci mural of the same name. Mamedov continued with the same approach, covering a number of New Testament gospel stories.
Mamedov’s photographs are on display with Silverstein Photography and Lilja Zakirova Gallery. Look out for “Ecce Homo”, “The Betrayal by Judas”, “The Annunciation”, Epiphany, Birth, and Gethsemane scenes.
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Anarchist and Christian traditions have often shared a commitment to non-domination, creative cooperation and the equality of all people. Not often has either movement been associated with the other - but anarchist principles can easily identified throughout the Bible story and Church history. Last year a group of people from the ANZAC countries met in New Zealand to explore Christian Anarchism in our context and this year they’re meeting again - and it’s an open meeting! The annual conference of the South Pacific Christian Anarchists (SPCA) will be held in Brisbane, 22-24 June, 2007.
Sessions (subject to some facilitators not being in jail) are likely to include:
Indigenous expressions of anarchy and faith in Aotearoa: Graham Cameron, Urban Vision, NZ
Why anarchists can’t be missionaries: Manu Caddie, Pacific Centre for Participatory Democracy, NZ
Peacemaking at Pine Gap: Jim Dowling and Donna Mulhearn, Christians Against ALL Terrorism, Pine Gap
Christianarchy - Being the Change you want to see in the world: Dave Andrews, Waiters Union, Brisbane
Power With, Power From Within, and Power Over: Jason Macleod, Non-violence activist and trainer, Brisbane
Register your interest at www.anz.Jesusradicals.com
The painting included here is by José Clemente Orozco, a Mexican muralist who was concerned about the violent effects of the Mexican revolution.
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Brother Maynard, blogging at Subversive Influence, has been updating his blogroll of emerging church/missional church kind of writers. He noticed that the Emerging Church Blog aggregate site (using feeds from a growing number of emerging church bloggers) had stopped working. He also noticed that the Technorati Emerging Church Blog List (prioritized by number of links) was missing some undervalued writers, only because no-one was linking to them.
Brother Maynard is asking us to think of between 3 and 5 blogs which we think are under-rated, under-appreciated, or under-valued. More people should be reading them, in other words. They need to be blogging largely on Emerging Missional Church themes and topics, and they should not be on the list of leading blogs on these areas, say 150ish+ links on Technorati.
To participate, copy this list into a new post on your own blog, and add the names you have to the bottom of the list, and encourage others to do the same. It could get fairly long, but that’s part of the point - helping us all discover those undervalued blog-s profile. Include these instructions with your post. When you-ve done that, leave a comment at Brother Maynard’s blog so he can keep track of who ends up participating.
You can get the code for this list by right clicking on the page (or control clicking if you’re a Mac user) and selecting the source view. The other thing to do is make sure you’re registered with Technorati, and have the ‘tags’ in your Technorati profile that will help people network with you.
This list comes from Paul Fromont, (Prodigal Kiwi) who picked up the list from Matt Stone (Journeys In Between), who added to the list from The Blind Beggar.
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