Rock Salt Collective, a community of artists and creatives connected to the Rock, have been exploring some of the parables Jesus told. We started with some stories that Jesus told when he was being criticised by the religious leaders for hanging out with the "bad guys" too much. Jesus tells three stories about how precious lost things which are lost are. The most well known of these three stories is the story often known as "The Prodigal Son." It's a story of a son who has

Rock Salt Collective, a community of artists and creatives connected to the Rock, have been exploring some of the parables Jesus told. We started with some stories that Jesus told when he was being criticised by the religious leaders for hanging out with the "bad guys" too much. Jesus tells three stories about how precious lost things which are lost are. The most well known of these three stories is the story often known as "The Prodigal Son." It's a story of a son who has

( Note from editor: an introduction to this series of blog posts can be found HERE.) This is my story behind the objects I have chosen for my still life photograph. I have titled it 'Hidden Treasures: An Outward Sign of What is Within.' The Bible. This particular copy is not too exciting to look at but full of stories, full of knowledge, compassion, excitement, mystery, and thrilling suspense. Being expectant of what's inside. Opening a treasure chest of poetry, art, landsca

( Note from editor: an introduction to this series of blog posts can be found HERE.) ‘Come now, let us settle the matter’ The still life picture that I put together to show part of the character of God was of one forgiveness. I chose forgiveness as it touched so many layers of a parallel personal and faith journey which really began when I joined the Rock Salt Collective nineteen months ago. The first time I experienced real personal rejection, I sought out the passage Isaiah

The psalmist (a fancy word for the guys who wrote some songs in the Bible called the psalms) talks about being still and knowing God. Our community of artists, Rock Salt Collective, like a good play on words, so we've been exploring God's character through the art form of still life photography...and we thought we'd share the images we created and also the story behind the objects that form our still life descriptions of God. First Up... "Elohim" by Oli Higham The very first

Have you ever looked a medieval still life and looked at the objects which make up the composition? Have you ever noticed that the same objects seem to appear in loads of paintings? You haven't? Oh. Well, you'll just have to take my word for it! If you look across the breadth of these ancient paintings you will start to notice reoccurrences of pairs of birds, globes, candles, fruit with peel hanging off, books, glasses of wine, butterflies, and a range of other familiar image

*a note from the editor One of the groups at the Rock is a monthly get together called Bible In A Year. The group originally started as people who wanted to read the Bible cover to cover over a calendar year (I guess the clue is in the name!) After that first year the group has continued to meet but taking their reading of the Bible at a less intense pace with two or three books of the Bible being explored each month. One of their side projects was artistically interpretin

One of the Rock Community Church groups is the art house group also known as Rock Salt Collective . We meet on a fornightly basis and explore faith through various creative media including art, photography and poetry, to name a few. One of our recent exercises was to pick a word from 1Peter1, 3-5 and use a word link process. I chose the word shielded. As soon as i completed mine the people of Syria and that war torn country came to mind. Like so many others the situation h

*a note from the editor One of the groups at the Rock is a monthly get together called Bible In A Year. The group originally started as people who wanted to read the Bible cover to cover over a calendar year (I guess the clue is in the name!) After that first year the group has continued to meet but taking their reading of the Bible at a less intense pace with two or three books of the Bible being explored each month. For the past few months they have also been taking a ps

Scripture Union have just released a new interactive game called Guardians of Ancora (www.guardiansofancora.com) but that’s not what this blog post is about. I searched for this game on Google Play but what popped up first were apps for the film Guardians of the Galaxy. This reminded me of going to see it at the cinema, which made me think about trees, standard grade art, mirrors, spray paint, and the creative impulse inside me. I believe this impulse comes from being made i