Mike Entner is working on a Master thesis and has developed a survey tied to Internet usage patterns and spiritual formation. It is anonymous and no one will contact you.

survey link

Ancient Future Mass
The project we’ve been doing in York Minster for the last 10 months or so!(mixing up ancient chants, future beats,visuals funky lights,creative prayer, and lots and lots of incense)Its certainly been an amazing year, and we’ve been having to get used to working with much larger numbers than we have been in normal Visions services. 90 folks came last week, and we managed to use up the Minster’s tea light supply! (which I thought was impossible, but I think they’d forgot to restock the tealight cupboard!)

I’ve put pix of the service up on Facebook (if you are a facebooky person). There is a Transcendence group which is open to anyone with them on. Or you can see video stuff at www.transcendenceyork.org

Anyway the service at Greenbelt will be in Centaur (the biggest indoor venue) at 9.30pm. We can’t bring the Minster with us sadly (or can we???) but we have been let into areas of the building that tourists are normally not allowed into to take some rather unique photos that we’ll be using as part of the imagery in the service.

The other thing Visions are doing is something rather bizarre but fun. We’re doing a funky version of 1662 Evensong on the Saturday at 4pm (yes really!). The idea came about because someone requested a 1662 evensong, and I tried to get some singers to do choral evensong, but failed, and so rather than cancel or have us do trad choral evensong badly I thought it might be fun to have a play with the whole genre, especially as we’re spending a bit of time hanging round a Cathedral these days.

So the words are technically Evensong according to the Book of Common Prayer, but what will happen will be rather unique. We’ve written a new set of responses “Wallace in Trip Hop”, and there will be images (which may be icons, or may be rather more technological depending on set-up time!), and creative prayer activities, and stuff for everyone to sing, and ambient music, and a bit of dance music too.

Sue

Just in case you didn’t get any other info, see below for the contribution of Moot to this year’s festival…

What kind of Church is Emerging? Panel discussion from Emerging Church practitioners (Ian Mobsby contributing)
Place: Shine Stage
Time: Fri 22nd Aug 7.15pm

Seminar: What the emerging church and the desert mothers & fathers have in common
Place: Ian Mobsby contribution to ‘Evening Seminar Programme’, Children’s Festival Stage
Time: Sat 23rd Aug 6.15pm

Moot Service: Perpetual Dawn?
Dawn follows night follows dawn. In this contemplative and visceral service, Moot explores the (im)possibility of the second chance, the fresh start, with the Christian God.
Place: New Forms Venue
Time: Sat 23rd Aug 9pm

Moot Service: Trinity Twister
This active, family-friendly Communion service will be an opportunity to re-imagine our relationship to God and others in the light of the love and intimacy modelled within the Trinity.
Place: New Forms Venue
Time: Sun 24th Aug 10am

Seminar: I just can’t stop! Addiction: the hidden secret
Clare Catford is leading this important seminar following on from her book.
Place: Cabaret - Sovereign Venue
Time: Mon 25th Aug 10am

The Moot Community have launched a short online survey to explore where people are coming from on the whole spirituality debate, please help us by completing it and encouraging others to do so too..

See moot-blog.blogspot.com/2008/06/great-moot-spirituality-survey.html

Kevin Gibson have been mulling over the idea of crossing the pond and attending the worship symposium at London School of Theology. Leave feedback if you are attending too.

www.ennerdalemusic.co.uk/lst/symposium/

Ian Mobsby, author of The Becoming of G-d, has just returned from his speaking tour of the United States. His book is selling very well and has had some great feedback already. Ian has a podcast where he talks about the book. You can listen to it by logging on to:

mootuk.podbean.com

Workshop an exciting Christian learning experience designed to encourage and strengthen you on your spiritual journey in today’s fast-paced, constantly changing, ever demanding world, is running theology workshops.

workshop.org.uk

A message to all members of RUNspace

Now RUNspace is up and RUNning we like to encourage more activity.
Ways you can be more actively involved are to join groups, start discussions and/or write blogs. These will give the basis for others to join in. If you don’t see a group for your area of interest, why not start one?
Our prayer is that this site would become a real focus for interacting on all matters mission but it will take a little effort to get things going… Why not invite some friends?
Visit RUNspace at: runspace.ning.com

there will be a proost lounge in the literature venue on sat evening 7-8:30pm which will feature many artists and sparkling wine for the first 100 people there.

proost.co.uk

Sat
10:30 Serum - space to explore Christian spirituality hosted by Naz
12-1pm mission in spiritual market place with Jonny, Ben and Laura
1-2 Networking and learning opportunities for mission leaders
2-5 Business as unusual 1 Shannon Hopkins
4-5 in CMS main venue - reimagining Christian thinking on other religions - Richard Sudworth
5-6 gender and youth work - Jenny Baker
6-7 mission service opportunities

Sun
10-30-12 Serum
12-1 God as Flow - Richard Passmore
1-2 Climate Change - James Pender
4:30 Skinny on the emerging church - Andrew Jones
5:30 Spirited exchanges with jenny macintosh
6:30 new monasticism - Mark Berry
7-8 Asbojesus.com - Jon Birch

Mon
10-11 CMS main venue - Yemi and Jonny head to head discussing African certainty vs emerging doubt
11-12 Aradhna
12-1 Bible in 60 minutes - Paul Thaxter
1-2 Cafe church in bangalore - Jacob Isaacs
2-3 mission in 1024 window - Andrew Jones (i.e. your computer screen)
3-4 Spirited exchanges with jenny Macintosh
4-5 discussion around ordinaton and pioneer ministry with Stephen Croft and Paul Thaxter