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What Would You Do with an Empty Church…?
News stories and memories colliding around rollercoasters, circuses and empty church buildings. Outrageous, glorious, both?
Oct 133 min read
Notes on Trust, Contingency and Chapter Seventeen
The unfolding of Chapter Seventeen's architecture and approach feels compelling. I’m thinking aloud here about potential areas of research.
Oct 56 min read
The Safest Encounters Happen Only in Laboratories
We should explore this world as an adventure — unless, of course, it might actually affect us.
Oct 33 min read
Where you wander and are held
Six months from now, on a dull day, when someone stumbles through the Stage Door into Chapter Seventeen, thinking — Where am I?
Oct 33 min read
The plan so far: Chapter Seventeen
I'm thinking aloud about Chapter Seventeen, but you're welcome to listen or read, climb in or create, write or study, collaborate or unplug — and carry on doing all the same things in the real world…
Sep 268 min read
Catacombs and Smuggling
How can I say this loudly enough. There are sites that get the job done, and there are sites that don't think that was the point.
Sep 253 min read
Hyperlinks: My Inspiration for Theopoetic Experiments in Community
About the origins of the Chapter Seventeen experiment. It all comes down to hyperlinks, which, when you think about it, are the technological equivalent of walking through walls. Or something about an Ethiopian eunuch...
Sep 243 min read
In Crisis and in Christ: Interdisciplinary Discipleship at Chapter Seventeen
These things would only ever happen in church or in a crisis. (Like Tom Hanks with an ice skate — needs must. Sometimes. Other times it's inappropriate, dangerous, outrageous and misguided.) Hence my new fancy word, ship-wreck-less-ons. The kind of things any one of us might learn in Chapter Seventeen.
Sep 234 min read
The Other Draining Board: Aspirational kitchen geography, and why it seems theological.
Doesn't everyone have two draining boards? No? Well, that's okay. Contemporary systems seem to flatten our natural urges. Hang on. That may be more important.
Sep 214 min read
Theological imagination and scaffolding poles. Learning the ropes in the style of the "four candles" sketch.
Fork handles. Scaffolding poles. Metal things and metaphors that might be in a box out the back, but I'll have to look. Was this what they meant by theological imagination?
Sep 184 min read
Five surprising things I’m actually not trying to do or say here at all!
Yes, I know it looks like what I'm doing here is creating a website. After all, I'm creating a website. But don't misunderstand me. The website isn't really the point.
Sep 174 min read
Chapter Seventeen: The Stage Door
The whole Chapter Seventeen-ness of things seems highly unlikely and yet thoroughly Biblical at the same time. All the more reason to head for the Stage Door.
Sep 142 min read
As if by Magic: Theology, Imagination, and a Thought Experiment
My website looks quite standard until that menu item — Stage Door. It's what happens with a literary imagination birthed in Bible and Bagpuss.
Sep 83 min read
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