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I once heard the Aussie evangelist & God Squad president “John Smith” say “if you want to understand a generation, a good place to start is by looking at its art.” He is quite adept at using songs & images from the contemporary era to open up a discussion on the meaning of life, faith, belief etc. I think that it’s one of the reasons that people either love him or loath him, in church circles anyway, & that is that he is prepared to not simply react to the contemporary culture around him, but to look at it, study it, find out what it is saying, understand it & when appropriate, speak to it. It’s a little like Paul in the Acts of the apostles when he was prepared to examine the culture of the Greeks, then use their knowledge & understanding of art & the world to open up a question about faith & belief. (Acts 17, 16 - 34)

As I prepare my thoughts to run a yr 11 retreat, I am asking you to help me do the same.

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I am coming out a self imposed retirement next month, to facilitate a retreat for some year 11 students. I haven’t done this for a while & even though it is 4 weeks away every time I think of it the adrenalin pumps a little harder.

The working theme of the retreat is exploring “Faith, Hope & Love”. What I am asking with this post is that you might contribute a word or 2 to help me develop my thoughts on the subject at hand. For instance, I am trying to generate a word list of words relative to those three; i.e. what “other” words spring to mind when you see those three. What I am hoping to do is spend some time pulling apart some key words related to those themes.

Also; the brief from the school is that this is a Creative Arts retreat, (more…)