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Innovation in Home Working
The Pandora's box has been opened – working from home has suddenly become a practical reality that many of us wish to make a permanent part of our lives. How many of us, though, have been in Zoom meetings where our work colleagues have had, as a backdrop, their home...
The ‘Outsider-Focused’ Church of the Future
Many traditional Christian churches in Australia were in crisis before this year. For many of those churches the current pandemic will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. The churches that do survive will most likely be those that adapt to change and that are...
The Church has left the building.
In an article entitled The Post-pandemic Church will need to Wipe Out, Spread Out and Reach Out!, US-based architect Ravi Waldon quotes someone who recently said “The Church has left the building”. That is literally the case just now! But what needs to be done to...
Here’s to Collaboration, Health and the Future.
Discussion abounds regarding how the world will change post-Coronavirus. As the human population grows denser, scientists are racing to protect humanity from future pandemics. Designers can play their part as well. Global research is advancing in the...
Ian’s ABC Interview – Regenerating Places of Faith 2019
Joining Conversations
The idea of co-housing - becoming tight-knit neighbours within the same home as family, friends, or others who find themselves in a similar situation, is more common than you might think. Look at current Aussie drama Five Bedrooms, and the proliferation everywhere of...
Re-discovering Our Family
As human beings it is our nature to be social. It is well recognised that the degree to which we interact socially has a direct bearing on our individual mental health, yet we are getting lonelier. Our natural instinct is to bond, yet our fast-paced modern lifestyles...
Ian’s ABC Interview – Fire of Notre Dame
My Church Journey
I was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1962. As a youngster my parents took me to Sunday services at the local Presbyterian Church. I went to Boys Brigade, youth club and a badminton club, all at local churches. I attended a methodist grammar school where pupils...
Innovation in Home Working
The Pandora's box has been opened – working from home has suddenly become a practical reality that many of us wish to make a permanent part of our lives. How many of us, though, have been in Zoom meetings where our work colleagues have had, as a backdrop, their home...
The ‘Outsider-Focused’ Church of the Future
Many traditional Christian churches in Australia were in crisis before this year. For many of those churches the current pandemic will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. The churches that do survive will most likely be those that adapt to change and that are...
The Church has left the building.
In an article entitled The Post-pandemic Church will need to Wipe Out, Spread Out and Reach Out!, US-based architect Ravi Waldon quotes someone who recently said “The Church has left the building”. That is literally the case just now! But what needs to be done to...
Here’s to Collaboration, Health and the Future.
Discussion abounds regarding how the world will change post-Coronavirus. As the human population grows denser, scientists are racing to protect humanity from future pandemics. Designers can play their part as well. Global research is advancing in the...
Ian’s ABC Interview – Regenerating Places of Faith 2019
Joining Conversations
The idea of co-housing - becoming tight-knit neighbours within the same home as family, friends, or others who find themselves in a similar situation, is more common than you might think. Look at current Aussie drama Five Bedrooms, and the proliferation everywhere of...
Re-discovering Our Family
As human beings it is our nature to be social. It is well recognised that the degree to which we interact socially has a direct bearing on our individual mental health, yet we are getting lonelier. Our natural instinct is to bond, yet our fast-paced modern lifestyles...
Ian’s ABC Interview – Fire of Notre Dame
My Church Journey
I was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1962. As a youngster my parents took me to Sunday services at the local Presbyterian Church. I went to Boys Brigade, youth club and a badminton club, all at local churches. I attended a methodist grammar school where pupils...