Tensegrities

Thanks to Ron for sending me these links. The ELCA has recently redone their website, and in the process I couldn’t find some pieces I knew had to be there, like the social statement on education, the policies and procedures for addressing social concerns, talking together as Christians about tough social issues (currently in the archive), and talking together as Christians cross-culturally.

If you live in or near the Twin Cities and are interested in some of the things I talk about in this blog, you’re welcome to join me for a meeting on July 28th at Luther Seminary to talk about digital story-telling and faith formation. Here’s the more formal invite I just sent out:

Dear colleagues and friends,

Some of you have heard me mention over the past several months my enthusiasm and excitement over the ways in which digital story-telling helps to give voice to disparate groups of people, and individuals. I’ve been particularly interested in the ways in which such story-telling might have an impact on, or contribute new insights to, faith formation processes.

Others of you are simply people I’ve run into over the last couple of years who have expressed some interest in the intersection of media and religion; or people who’ve come to a workshop I’ve done.

I have an invitation to offer to you: I am inviting all of you (and you should feel WELCOMED to invite others) to a meeting at Luther Seminary on July 28th at 10:30 am to talk about these issues. I’d like to get all of you in a room together, and simply have you each introduce yourselves. That alone is probably reason enough to meet! But I’d also like to share some of my own ideas about how digital story-telling and faith formation might go together, and ask for some brainstorming help on finding other people/groups/organizations locally who might be interested in participating in a participatory action research project around these themes.

Coming to the meeting does not commit you to anything, other than introducing yourself.

I hope you’ll consider this invitation! Let me know if you have questions or concerns, and if you’re able to come.

blessings,
Mary Hess

Also thanks to Grid2Gazette for this list of useful contact numbers and websites for our neighborhood, and St. Paul more generally.

The University of St. Thomas is building a new parking garage a couple blocks from our house. I walk past it every day, but the walls around the construction site are so big it’s hard to see what’s going on. Thanks to Grid2Gazette, I’ve learned there’s a “ramp cam” keeping an eye on the project.

Check this out: one of the frequent contributors to FeAutor has uploaded a short video that explains (and demonstrates) how to upload something to the site.

I’m going to try and ask that this be published at FeAutor, but in the meantime, here’s a very thoughtful July 4th service.