QuartzPaint what you can to see what you can’t The word used to describe artists like Mucha takes its meaning from broken pottery! In Ancient Greece a treaty could be recorded using pottery. Each city state held a broken fragment of the whole. If you have ever tried to glue a mug back together you […]
If you were omnicompetent, understood everything and held the expanse of time like a lump of clay in your hand – how would you handle creating everything? Or scale it down to something as simple as a trip to your ancestral home. Would an unexpected pregnancy, room booking failure, and the univited arrival of a […]
Marking a trail Following up on interest about Forest Church at the Christmas Tree Festival we will be meeting as usual 2pm on the 3rd Sunday outside the Crichton chapel. We will meet in Christs name, read (text and natural environment), pray and worship. We will also explore the readings and our life experiences by […]
Quartz Artists have been making an Angel collage, bot online and in person, on Queensbury Square. The hope is that this will encourage people to send a message to God at this time of year You can read more about it here:
Quartz Forest Church Sunday the 20th of August We will gather as usual at 2pm outside the Crichton Memorial chapel. More info about what will be happening will hopefully be posted closer to the time, but it the experience is meant to be a little wild! Please dress for the weather. Meanwhile, here is something […]
Finding Jesus in Quartz Forest Church This post continues the theme from the last post, and builds on conversations the summer season has given time to nurture. Some people find it easy to become aware of the presence of God in a forest. Or to feel closer to the person of Jesus by taking time […]
We made these to accompany taking our worship outdoors. The aim was to find ways to help make #SensingSpirituality while walking more accessible that just asking people to “Find Jesus in the Trees” and hoping for the best. They contain information and questions which the authors have found helpful when they want to become aware […]
Continuing the theme of water. 23 Some went down to the sea in ships,doing business on the mighty waters;they saw the deeds of the Lord,his wondrous works in the deep.For he commanded and raised the stormy wind,which lifted up the waves of the sea.They mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths;their courage […]
It’s the summer, but just in case you are unable to take time out to stand on a bridge and watch the water, here is some light to bathe in. There is something important about the way in which just experiencing somethings builds us up. Or simply brings a smile to our faces and a […]
Some thoughts on bells Whilst researching making an early medieval bell (to use at Caerlaverock on Saturday) I stumbled on the Latin for ‘bell’ used in Irish/Scottish texts, which is Clocca. The similarity with “clock” struck me, and I went back to working metal. I then started wondering about ways of telling the time, as […]