Brian talks about the trap many worship leaders find themselves in, trying to serve the needs of sophisticated consumers of worship products and prefabricated worship experiences.
He concludes that there’s a difference between propaganda and art. Art can be about telling the truth - even if it’s not pretty. Being honest about the ugliness of life can be a beautiful thing. But trying to make everything look pretty makes it look cheap.
I agree. But the most difficult art is supporting people in the transition from the safety of the ‘worship industry’ culture to the sometimes threatening environment of honest worship.
NZ Edge is a site providing a connection between NZ Kiwis around the world. This week the site’s publishers started daily publishing at http://www.nzedge.blogspot.com, inviting Kiwis to join in as readers and contributors. The blog format is ideal for interactivity, discussion and participation, and will enable nzedge.com to grow beyond a sole focus on publishing.
Summarizing the posts this week:
Time Magazine visits the Edge
Location update on the New Zealand Diaspora
Obituaries of nine outstanding global New Zealanders
Kevin Roberts on the priorities for New Zealand rugby
A “Hero” story on Ettie Rout - “Angel of the Anzacs”
Denis O’Reilly on Parihaka history and possibilities
A note contextualizing our move to daily publishing
The blog will be updated about 4pm NZ time daily. You can register to email or RSS daily feeds. The NZ Edge team will also send a weekly update to everyone on the nzedge.com subscriber list.
Meg Tsiamis, at Dipping Into The Blogpond, has created a regularly updated list of the top 100 Australian blogs, based on Technorati rank, Alexa worldwide rank and Alexa Australia rank. Technorati provides a rank based on the sites linking to each blog. Alexa measures web site traffic. Duncan’s TV has hovered around 15th to 18th on the list.
