Spirited Crone - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:11:46 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Spirited Crone - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Muslim woman's seam of resistance https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/10/02/muslim-womans-seam-of-resistance/ Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:32:56 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=34499

There's more to art and spirituality than meets the eye, ear or intellect. More is what lingers, soothing the troubled soul, leaving a bad taste, irritating beyond belief or what we thought we knew. More is about our interaction with that which is not obvious, a process that inadvertently engages us in co-creation of the Read more

Muslim woman's seam of resistance... Read more]]> There's more to art and spirituality than meets the eye, ear or intellect. More is what lingers, soothing the troubled soul, leaving a bad taste, irritating beyond belief or what we thought we knew. More is about our interaction with that which is not obvious, a process that inadvertently engages us in co-creation of the ongoing story. We are changed by our engagement and so is the artwork.

For Your Eyes Only is a three-minute DVD, a story about Muslim women preparing for a wedding, part of the exhibition, In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary at the Dowse Art Gallery. But only women can see it, a boundary that has prompted complaints of discrimination.
Not everyone agreed the boundary discriminated. A collective of artists and art educatorspointed out that "Our own work … makes us constantly aware that "the public" is not simply the absence of boundaries, but the development of sites where effective participation and reflection on boundaries can take place." Read more
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Sande Ramage is an Anglican priest and blogger.

Muslim woman's seam of resistance]]> 34499 Tangling with Divine space https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/09/11/tangling-with-divine-space/ Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:32:39 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=33146

Just because your life's fallen down doesn't mean there's nothing left I thought as I gazed at the skeleton of Knox Presbyterian Church in Christchurch. Instead of being desolate, this space had a stark kind of beauty. On the whole, space, silence and nothing are discomforting. So much so that we try to fill space, Read more

Tangling with Divine space... Read more]]> Just because your life's fallen down doesn't mean there's nothing left I thought as I gazed at the skeleton of Knox Presbyterian Church in Christchurch. Instead of being desolate, this space had a stark kind of beauty.

On the whole, space, silence and nothing are discomforting. So much so that we try to fill space, banish it, shift it, tie it down, and explain it away, anything other than live in it. Perhaps it deserves some reimagining.
Punctuated a bit differently, nothing becomes no-thing. No-thing that can be tied down, described, contained or theologized about in concrete terms. Read more
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Sande Ramage is an Anglican priest and blogger.

Tangling with Divine space]]> 33146 Pray for London on post-it-notes https://cathnews.co.nz/2011/08/16/pray-for-london-on-post-it-notes/ Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:30:47 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=9248

A traditional religious response in times of trouble is to pray. Not in expectation of divine intervention, instead it's a way of expressing pain, recognising our shared humanity and dreaming of a hopeful future lived within the Earth, the only home we have. At one of the workshops during the 'Let's Pray - Kia inoi Tatou' symposium hosted Read more

Pray for London on post-it-notes... Read more]]> A traditional religious response in times of trouble is to pray. Not in expectation of divine intervention, instead it's a way of expressing pain, recognising our shared humanity and dreaming of a hopeful future lived within the Earth, the only home we have.

At one of the workshops during the 'Let's Pray - Kia inoi Tatou' symposium hosted by the Catholic Diocese of Palmerston North, participants were asked to pray the news in five minutes on one post-it-note after reflecting on a photo depicting the riots in London, while listening to Mahler's symphony number 5.

Click here to read 15 prayers from that workshop
Click here to read more prayers from the Symposium

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