Greenflame

Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand

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  • Wellington in Black and Gold

    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,…

  • Westie power lines and the suburban landscape

    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…

  • The Hasty Contemplative: Photography and Spiritual Formation

    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…

  • Comics and Graphic Novels on Waitangi Day

    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).

  • COVID Comics

    Over the past few months I’ve started to collect comics and graphic novels that document the experience of COVID-19 in various communities. Most of these books are anthologies – collections drawing together vignettes of life from the perspective of people from all walks of life. There is something about how COVID-19 has permeated the everydayness…

  • Working from home

    Something I made today when thinking about working from home. Might be a helpful conversation starter. Feel free to share. (PDF link under the picture) Work at home rhythm (PDF)  

  • Index Theologicus (IxTheo) – Open-access Bibliography

    Was pleased to see a link to this in Facebook from Rob Bradshaw over at Theology on the Web (https://theologyontheweb.org.uk/)  Index Theologicus (IxTheo) is the biggest free European search engine in the field of theology provided an international open-access bibliography of Theology and Religious Studies. The index is produced by the University Library of Tübingen,…

  • Religion and Comics – A Top 10

    I picked up a few comics and graphic novels in the past couple of months that have various religious themes, characters and motifs, so I thought I might do a Top 10 list and subsequent postings for my favourite comics with religious and spiritual material. This is the list of comics that I tend to…

  • Childhood Science Fiction: Ice Cream

    The 1970s were a time when every cool science fiction show had an ice cream or ice block (lolly). There were stickers and games associated with them too. Here are a few I remember.

  • The article is about questions from the audience at literary festivals but could also apply to academic conferences. Over the course of the weekend, I attended seven hour-long events, which means I sat through 105 minutes of audience questions. That’s 110 too many. There isn’t even a spontaneity about it because there are really only…