HeartEdge May Mailer

May HeartEdge Mailer is at the post. Usual mix of ideas, encouragement, plus this month - politics and preaching, 'Woke' church, plans for post-pandemic church, Greg Smith on flags, Val Barron on commercial, Sami Award on doing Palestinian theology - plus an extract from the new book by Carla Grosch Miller...

Have a rummage here.

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Natalie Bergman - Paint The Rain.

HeartEdge: December Mailer

HeartEdge is an international ecumenical movement of churches and other organisations developing mission focused on commercial activity, congregations, cultural engagement and compassion.

Our monthly Mailer is a "smorgasbord of ideas, inspiration and resource focused around HeartEdge 4 C's."

This month:

• "If the cafés are open on Christmas Day, then the churches should surely be. And we should not be celebrating a sort of 'Narnia' Christmas, fantasizing about the good old days, whenever they were. We are celebrating Christmas this year in a world at war, full of uncertainty, inequality and injustice." Lucy Winkett on being open for Christmas.
• Plus - a Christmas group work resource, a look at community meals, and the Library of Things
• Also - Henri Nouwen, 'Spirit Level' authors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett on social status, Simon Sinek on power dynamics, 2019 trends and Chine McDonald on identity politics.

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Gungor feat. All Sons & Daughters - Oh Light.

Curiosity: an art practice as a way of looking

"The main corridor is decorated with small egg tempera panels encased as if modern day icons, except rather than images that command worship these are quiet, contemplative, incidental observations of everyday life. They quietly request us to slow down and appreciate the world, and that, ultimately, is the role of art according to Julie Caves." (Lisa Freeman)

Julie Caves says: “I am very interested in the push-pull of visual space and the polarities of ideas - object and ground, positive and negative, good and evil. I have always looked at both sides of the coin, seen the hare and the duck. I’m interested in the structure of the painting and my own kind of balance. Often my method of closing-up, searching for rightness and negotiating each mark results in a complexity nearly hidden in the final simplification, a subtle activation.”

"London-based American artist Julie Caves’ first major solo exhibition has taken over two years to create, with work celebrating beauty and its many juxtapositions: work and play, nature and synthesis, life and death.  Housed in the peaceful and contemplative 19th-century Crypt Gallery in Kings Cross, Caves has sensitively curated a largely site specific show comprising of Colourist painting, sculpture and installation."

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Curiosity Killed The Cat - Ordinary Day.