I was speaking at the Manchester Centre for Public theology last thursday, we were exploring how the church engages with young people. I spoke about Sanctus1 (although the average age is prob 30 and the oldest person is probably in their late 40's, but that's young in the eyes of the church) and Anna spoke about the Message and their work with the eden teams in manchester.
I've never been in a place where we're being compared with The Message before, mainly because we're a very different animal. However, Anna spoke well and, although i'm not a big fan of The Message's large scale events, i think that the work that they do with The Eden projects is fantastic.
Chris Baker from WTF, was summing up and had some really interesting thoughts, highlighting the difference but complimentary nature of Sanctus1 and The Message. The first one, and the one that I've been pondering on is that one is far more focused on 'the word' the other is focused on the image. The image can be interpreted in a number of ways, the word, in this example, is fairly straight forward. We are very image focused in Sanctus1, whether film or Art, and i think that that beauty of that is that we have a variety of interpretations. However, i think that we were all once individually in a place where we needed it straight down the line...
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