Tag: Alway

Jan201030

Culture, Society & Mission, Current Issues, Film

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AVATAR: 4 Perspectives on the Top Grossing Film Ever

Avatar is now officially the top grossing film of all-time worldwide, making (so far) $1,849,317,325 at the box office – that’s 1.85 billion dollars. I saw it a couple of weeks ago and was captivated simply by the sheer epic proportions of the film, let alone the wealth of meaning and metaphor behind it.

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Since Avatar’s release bloggers, journalists and critics have attempted to analyse and reflect on the meaning behind the film. Here are four very different perspectives I’ve read recently, which all bring a different insight into the film’s setting and storyline:

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Jan201020

Groups, Relationships & Learning

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Why Collaboration is better than Compromise

Last week I had a great conversation about conflict resolution with some friends, in particular on the differences between collaboration and compromise. We talked about the differences between the two and how collaboration is the most desirable solution to conflict, although not necessarily always possible. Dave has blogged through our thoughts from his point of view.

Here are some  of my own opinions on compromise and collaboration:

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Jan201011

Community Stories, Groups, Relationships & Learning

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IGLOO! – Photos and Reflections on a Snow Day

Last Wednesday was an awesome Snow Day – schools were closed and there were loads of young people out and about to play and hang out with. Here’s some photos and reflections on spending time in the snow – and pictures of our Igloo!

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Jan201009

Community Stories, Links

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Need design-work/web design/film production?

Three friends – Matt, Stef and Tom – have been hard at work launching their design business: The House That Love Built.

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These guys are seriously three of the most talented people that I’ve ever met, each in their own media/design fields. Check out their growing portfolio of work on the THTLB website.

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Dec200927

Reflection & Contemplation, Twelve Days of Christmas

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Three French Hens

On the third day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

Continuing my reflections on the Twelve Days of Christmas, the third day of Christmas is for French Hens. Within Christian folklore, the French Hens are for the three virtues faith, hope and love.

Update: For some reason yesterday the rest of this post after the jump got lost when the post was published. It’s now restored – please read on.

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Oct200928

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Journeys in Cyberspace – 28/10/09

Links to stuff that’s taken my interest online over the last week or so.

The Gospel for iGens

Scot Mc Knight’s article on The Gospel for iGens in Leadership Journal is really relevant and important for those engaging in mission with young people/young adults.

I’ve just caught up with FlashForward on Five on Demand (UK only) – it’s really beginning to grow on me. Also, Design for Life on BBC iPlayer looks really interesting.

Ed Stetzer’s video for The Nines is really good – “Mission is the opposite of self” (video after the jump):

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Aug200926

Culture, Society & Mission, Resources & Media, Talks/Sermons

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Faith and Technology Seminar Notes – New Wine Wales

Attached are notes, slides etc from my seminar from New Wine Wales a few weeks ago. Thanks if you were there and took part – was a good crowd.
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Jul200913

Community Stories, Links, Personal

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New Look Lab Website

Over the last couple of weeks, with some help from Cat, I’ve been in the process of redesigning The Lab’s website and updating it with new information for the new academic year, in particular about the Alway project – our work on the estate on the edge of Newport we live in.

New Look Lab Website

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Jan200926

Reflection & Contemplation

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The Struggle for Satisfaction

Satisfaction Guarantee

One of my big personal struggles has always been to juggle future plans with being content and satisfied in the present. From being very young, I’ve always wanted to make dreams and plans way ahead of myself – so it wasn’t surprising to me really that I was a Dreamer on the Myers-Briggs test. And constantly being about two or three steps ahead of myself has proved a great advantage in terms of leadership and long term planning.

But the struggle that this means I’ve always faced is being able to execute my plans, and to deal with it when they ultimately work less than perfectly – which is life. And I’m not suicidal or anything, but this gap in my mind between the present and the future has always left me feeling a bit unsatisfied. It’s not that I’m trying to live up to being more than I can be (although I am) so much as that I’m impatient for the future to come now. I want to skip the hard stuff and get onto to the point where everything has come together.

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Jan200923

Community Stories, Personal

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Life, Lab and Stuff

St Teilo's - "the Lab House"

With the new year well under way I thought it was about time I threw out a bit of a life update. As I’m writing its a beautiful sunny, Spring-esque day outside the Lab house – an awesome day for my housemate Dan’s birthday. We had a party on Wednesday and are having a bit of a dinner party tonight to celebrate.

As always there’s so much going on at the moment – so many experiments and little projects, as well as developing ones – and that’s what I love about pioneering and working for The Lab: everything’s changing and growing and developing all the time.

So I thought I’d try and through out some quick bullet points of the different things that are going on for me.

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