“Rendering Unto Visa what is Visa’s.”

An excerpt from: 'Improv. Gospel: Exploring Street Performances of Biblical Texts in Urban Con-texts with Augusto Boal' by Marcus Curnow, Research Essay for Masters of Theological Studies, Whitley College, University of Divinity, 2018  Imagine you’re reading the bible as a small group of people from your church.  Now I want you to transport that group in …

Maundy Thursday – Peter’s Denial Rooster and Hands

https://youtu.be/7SFLWIw6KUY Video & still images of video from final station of Maundy Thursday Worship Stations at Essendon Baptist Community Church, 2023. Reading Matthew 26: 57-75. Jesus before the Sanhedrin and Peter's Denial. https://youtu.be/VEc2ABvKp4o

Good Friday: Violence and Trigger Warnings

Essendon Baptist Community Church 2023 Theme: 'Once for All' Readings: Matthew 27:27-34 and Isaiah 53:4-6 Reflection / Intro. to Prayer of Confession: https://www.youtube.com/embed/8AHCfZTRGiI Good Friday should come with a trigger warning…  graphic violence and torture. You make it part of your Easter to come to church with your family. You hear the bible read and …

Abundance Wedding…

A Wedding Homily for Boris and Mariecris. Friends I know I’ve told you to put the phones away for the ceremony, but I notice most have ignored me, and hey, it’s understandable given such an instagrammable couple and the beautiful view. Which of course begs the important question. Which celebrity couple name hashtag are you …

Covid Crisis Communion Boxes

We developed an origami box containing a plastic communion cup and a rescued rice cracker for communion to run out of our community food pantry during an Easter Covid-19 lockdown. (You know those horrible, in case of emergency, mass produced communion cups with a plastic lid.... there was an old unused box lying around a …

Urban Seed Final Ritual

Order of Service  and Biblical reflections from the Urban Seed Final Ritual, Collins Street Baptist Church, Feb 25, 2018.  

PoC – Leonard Cohen

You are with me still. Even though I have been removed, and my place does not recognise me. Even though I have filled my heart with stones. And my beloved says, I will wait a little while behind the curtain – no, I have waited too long. You are with me still. Though I scorched …

Advent Prayer of Confession : Campaign to End Violence Against Children

Confession: The God to whom we make our confession is the God who loved us so much that God took on the form of a refugee child, choosing to limit the divine, in order to understand us and be with us. Trusting in that love... We confess that... in a world in which every five …

‘Woman Clothed in the Sun’ Advent Station

A worship station used at Advent Conspiracy Alternative Carols Service, Melbourne and Bendigo 2009 by Marcus Curnow reflecting on William Blake's painting of Revelation 12 "The Great Red Dragon and Woman Clothed in the Sun.' c. 1805-10. 'O Holy Nightmare' Reflection adapted from a Sojourners Article by Bill Wylie Kellerman of the same title. Reading: …

It Takes Faith to End Violence Against Children: Call to Worship

Advent is a time of longing and waiting, where Christians remember the ancient cry of oppressed people for salvation. Of patriarchs and prophets, sheep herders and a humble revolutionary virgin peasant girl, culminating at Christmas in the miracle and wonder of God who comes to us as a child. As we long for and await …