This coming weekend there is a conference in Melbourne that I would love to go to. Its purpose is to explore the connections between the Anabaptist network and the Neo-monastic movement.
Some of the speakers and participants are people that I would very much like to spend time with and explore ideas with.
My wife and I looked seriously at me going. We priced Airline tickets and considered the logistics.
But in the end timing beat us.
It is the weekend before all staff are due back at school. I would begin the year tired and with a head full of ideas and a gut full of emotions that would need to be worked through and processed.
Loading myself with this kind of burden right at the beginning of a school year would not be wise.
I take heart in the fact that the Peace Tree folk will be there and will be able to feed the results of the conference into the Perth Emergent/Radical/Anabaptist networks in various ways over time. All of us will benefit from that.
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