Comments on: Practical and Pastoral Theology in Dunedin

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:20:13 +0000

Thanks Chris. I’ve learned from experience though that having heaps to offer is not always valued. I’m interested in working where there’s a healthy level of intellectual curiosity alongside willingness to have a go at putting ideas into action.

By: Chris Bedford

Chris Bedford — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:53:17 +0000

You’d have HEAPS to offer, Dunc, because it seems to me you have such a breadth of understanding of the gospel in the 21st century church. And I don’t perceive you to be captive to any one group or ‘ism’. You’ll be snapped up if you haven’t been already!!

By: Mary-Jane Konings

Mary-Jane Konings — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:17:26 +0000

Rod Mitchell illustrated his pastoral care process with a clip of how his model works in practice, and Jacky included edited video of her interviews with secondary school students.
The need to take a different approach to sharing our thinking was an underground conversation for me in the whole conference; many of the papers graphically illustrated the tension between linear, propositional abstract thinking, and creative imagination, meditation (Geoff New), art, even dealing with the context at hand, or the particular and peculiar events in front of you.
Good thoughts.