Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Author: Stephen Garner
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A couple of weekends ago I took part in the practical part of a street photography workshop. The workshop also featured two online video meetups either side of the physical meetup to here about street photography from the tutor’s perspective, and then an opportunity to share photos and experiences with the others on the workshop.…
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The streets of Wellington are one of my happy places. The combination of years spent walking them in high school and when working after university, as well as living in the Wellington region for my early years means that I feel completely at home there. I support the sports teams from here, love the hills,…
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One of the dominant features of West Auckland are the series of high tension power lines that run from pylon to pylon across the suburbs – across rivers and creeks, over residential properties and schools, alongside motorways, and through commercial and light industrial areas. Taking electricity generated down south to the north of the North…
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Really pleased to see my article “The Hasty Contemplative: the spirituality of street photograph” is out now in the latest issue of Refresh: Journal of Contemplative Spirituality (Summer 2023). It’s a brief exploration of my experience of photography as a way into spiritual formation and wellbeing. In the article, I talk about some of the…
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When I started this blog post series a year or so ago I had no idea where it would end up, but after 12 posts it feels like time to have a little bit of a breather. So links to the set down below if you want to catch up.
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Photography quite naturally lends itself to feelings and expressions of nostalgia, where nostalgia might be seen as a deep or wistful yearning or desire to reconnect or return to some imagined past. The spiritual life can often becomes nostalgic as one looks back at times when perhaps God felt closer, faith more real, and things…
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Way back four years ago, I posted the first part of what I thought would be a series on robots, artificial, and theology. I guess life got in the way of that but given I’m doing some writing on AI at the moment and that things like ChatGPT and Bard are all the rage, it’s…
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Over at Awkward Asian Theologian, my friend Matthew Tan links to a book review he wrote recently on Frank G. Bosman’s Gaming and the Divine for Humanum Review. Tan, Matthew John Paul. “Playing for Eternity.” Humanum Review, no. 2. (2022): np. https://humanumreview.com/articles/playing-for-eternity. In it, Tan comments on how gaming connects in many ways to the…
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Reading Mark Millar’s American Jesus comic series.
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Just a short post today highlighting some comics and graphic novels which might be of interest on Waitangi Day (and through the rest of the year too).