Whilst I’m on an ‘asking for things’ day…

As I’ve mentioned here I’m going to have a stand in the ‘Marketplace‘ area at the Lambeth Conference. It will have books, calendars, cards, cartoon licence information and suchlike. I have a small team of people who are kindly helping me to run it, but I could do with one or two more people.

The dates are as follows: Monday 21 July – Saturday 2 August, closed on Thursday 24 July and Sunday 27 July. Opening times are 11am to 9pm except on the final Saturday when it closes at 6pm. The Marketplace is open to the public as well as all of the bishops, spouses and everyone else involved.

I am looking for anyone who would enjoy helping with such a thing who would be willing to be around even for a single day. Food would be provided and I do have some accommodation available for those able to help for several days. I plan to have several people around on each day to look after the stand so that there are plenty of opportunities for breaks, mingling with bishops etc. The number of people I will need does depend upon various factors – the plans of one or two people I’m still waiting to hear from being one. If you might be interested send me a message and we can talk.

I forgot to say – there will be special badges.

Posted by Dave at 12:07 pm on May 27, 2008 and filed under Festivals and Exhibitions, Lambeth 08, Religion.

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[How to tell what is going on, another of the 10 cartoons uploaded yesterday to the cartoons section of the main CartoonChurch.com site.]

If anyone has any requests for subjects for my Church Times ‘Guide to the church’ series I’d be very happy to hear them. There are probably some aspects of church life (local, national, or international) that I have omitted to explore. Please post in the comments below or feel free to contact me directly. I can’t make any promises about which ideas I will use of course, but all responses are very much appreciated.

This is my way of asking for ideas without making it look as if I am too desperate.

Posted by Dave at 9:37 am on May 27, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Ideas appeal, Religion.

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I’ve posted ten cartoons on CartoonChurch.com. They have all appeared somewhere else in the past, but they are newly available for subscribers and some of them have not been posted on the internet before. You can find links to all ten here, or I’ve posted individual links below:

The cartoons:

• The chain of command (From The Dave Walker Guide to the Church / originally published in the Church Times)
• Small children (From The Dave Walker Guide to the Church / originally published in the Church Times)
• The Vicar’s study (From The Dave Walker Guide to the Church / originally published in the Church Times)
• How to tell what is going on (From The Dave Walker Guide to the Church / originally published in the Church Times)
• The collection (From The Dave Walker Guide to the Church / originally published in the Church Times)
• How Christians can work together across the divide (Originally posted on this blog)
• The church is empty (Originally posted on the Church Times Blog)
• Asterisk (Originally posted on the Church Times Blog)
• How to be in two or three places (Originally posted on the Church Times Blog)
• Church meetings (posted on this blog, original version from the Baptist Union booklet Making a Splash)

Information about republishing these cartoons in church publications or elsewhere is in the usual place.

I’m aware that many of you are waiting to renew your church licence. Please do keep using the cartoons if that is the case – it is my fault not yours. Sorting out my renewals system is a major task which has needed doing for a very long time. I have to admit to struggling to keep up with doing both the creative side of things and the administration side of things, and this is the thing that has been left out. I am getting someone to help me set up an efficient way of doing the renewals and if all is well you should hear from me within the next month.

Posted by Dave at 5:31 pm on May 26, 2008 and filed under CartoonChurch progress, CartoonChurch.com newsletter, Cartoons, New CartoonChurch cartoons, Religion.

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I’ve posted some more new cartoons on the Church Times blog:

• On Friday: Preparing for Lambeth (new)
• Yesterday: The Vicar’s study (Taken from the ‘Guide to the Church’ book, but I can’t remember posting it online until now. I will add it to the CartoonChurch downloads area soon.)
• Today: Women bishops – the Manchester report (new)

If you’d like to keep up to date with my Church Times blog postings and cartoons you could subscribe to the feed.

Posted by Dave at 3:09 pm on May 19, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Church Times blog, Religion.

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The Ship of Fools folks had a stand at the Christian Resources Exhibition this year for the first time. A few photos are below – click ‘read the rest of this entry’ if you can’t see them.

You can find more of my blogging from today’s CRE on the Church Times blog. I’ll be there again tomorrow to do a bit more blogging and for the former SPCK employee gathering.

Above: Simon (left), Tony K (right) and someone else whose name I’m afraid I’ve forgotten.

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Dave at 9:49 pm on May 13, 2008 and filed under Festivals and Exhibitions, Religion.

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Today I will be writing blog posts ‘live’ from the CRE in Esher, Surrey. You can follow my progress on the Church Times Blog.

Posted by Dave at 7:17 am on May 13, 2008 and filed under Blogging, Church Times blog, Religion.

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One of my clients over the last month or two has been After Sunday, an organisation that helps people to explore their vocations.

A couple of my cartoons are now on their website – After Sunday have the exclusive first web rights to these drawings so they don’t currently appear anywhere else. You’ll find my work on these two pages:

• About After Sunday – a cartoon entitled ‘Where God is’
• Exploring Vocation? – a cartoon entitled ‘A hierarchy of vocations’

Do have a look at the rest of the site while you’re there.

Posted by Dave at 9:24 pm on May 11, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Cartoons, Religion, Spirituality.

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I’ve been drawing a few cartoons for the Church Times blog. Today’s is ‘The Church is empty’ for my post Is the church in decline?. At the weekend I did one called ‘Episcopal oversight’ for a post entitled An unwarranted invasion?

The best way to get all of my Church Times blog cartoons is to subscribe to the feed. If that makes no sense please ask and I’ll answer questions about how it works.

Posted by Dave at 2:22 pm on May 8, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Church Times blog, Religion.

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If you can stand to read my self-centred ramblings there is an interview with me on the Wesley Owen website. You can find it by clicking links on this page (Click cartoon, then link that says ‘Click here for Dave Walker interview’) or you can go to it directly here but without the rest of the page (I’d link directly but there are frames). A cartoon of mine is appearing there on a monthly basis.

Posted by Dave at 12:34 pm on May 6, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Religion.

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The Anglican Journal is the independent national Newspaper of the Anglican Church of Canada.

From the latest issue: Cartoonist’s role at meeting of bishops a bit sketchy.

Posted by Dave at 2:24 pm on May 4, 2008 and filed under Anglican goings-on, Cartooning, Lambeth 08, Religion.

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I’ll post this up on the site tomorrow in a high res downloady version. Unless anyone asks me not to.

Posted by Dave at 10:40 pm on April 30, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Church, Religion.

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I notice that the webpage for one of the projects I have been working on is now up: What am I Doing Here? – A Beginner’s Guide to Church by Hilary Brand. It is published by Church House Publishing.

I’d tell you more, but I’ve a train to catch.

Posted by Dave at 11:04 am on April 24, 2008 and filed under Books, Religion.

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