This past summer I was asked to give one of the keynote presentations at the Canadian Lutheran Anglican Youth Gathering (CLAY 2012). The gathering was called HyperLink, and the title given to the last Large Group Gathering for which I spoke, was Attach / Send. Some day I may rework that presentation into a written form that can be posted on this blog. For now I am posted a link to a webpage that has an audio recording of that last talk. A word of warning - it is about 50 minutes long, so settle in before you start to listen.
Click here to listen to my keynote presentation.
There are a few spots in my presentation where visuals were important. All the relevant images are included in this post below. As you listen to the presentation you can look at these images at the appropriate time.
A short while after the Kuriakos Song I talk about a picture of a cross from Iona. This is the picture:
Then I refer to the Celtic Cross design, at which point this graphic is put on the screen:
Later in the presentation I am talk about being present to another. I one point I ask "Which might be more comforting?" showing this image on the screen:
Then this one:
Towards the end of my presentation I ask "What would church be like if we weren't really present to one another?" Then some music plays for a few minutes. During the music the drama troupe came on stage and sat down, not looking at each other, but instead focused on their cell phones. On the screen the following played out. I call this segment The Church of Text (there are 26 images that follow each other sequentially):
