May The Blessings of Melusine be Upon You,
I hope the new audio (+transcript) approach works for you. It’s a tad more effort this end but it will at least help me realize how I stutter and splutter through these updates. I don’t want to script them but I feel I need to be a little more professional in my presentation.
I forgot to offer you my thoughts on the schedule of events. I’ve spoken about this with a couple of people. I’m definitely feeling that I’m close to wanting to crack on and begin creating the churchofburn.org site. I have a rough idea that we should be looking at mid June to do a soft launch.
I’ll try to work out a firmer idea of deadlines. But certainly I want to get churchofburn.org up this summer so that I can focus on social media work as we go into autumn. I guess that’ll be the time when we find out how effective the strategy will be. And if it works (please, Melusine!) it’ll give us just enough time to plan a major event before the end of the year. We should hopefully do some smaller scale stuff before then, too.
It’s been a long time and I’m absolutely burning to get our Church churching once again.
So a few things I mentioned;
My original post on the churchofburn.org homepage is here. As I say I’m less inclined to put any media at all on this page now. I think I’ll go with a simple registration form plus branding. And do the heavy lifting on social media.
The London Fortean Society: Art / Magic / Lore event is on Saturday, 29th June 2024. You can get details here. And this was my update on Circling the Square Mile on 3rd March.
I’m slightly reluctant to share this link - as it now looks more of an incomplete mess than when I first shared it - but the google doc with the workings for the Welcome Series Emails is here. I wouldn’t get too into the detail of it yet as its still forming… but general overarching comments would be welcome.
I look forward to renaming this Substack as The Vestry. I’m thinking I should do that one churchofburn.org is soft launched. Perhaps we should have a virtual (or real?) Vicar’s tea party to celebrate.
Thanks so much for bearing with me through all this nitty gritty work.
Hopefully it won’t be too much longer until we can pull everything together and see how it plays out in public.
Jon Xx
Lovely stuff! I came close to mentioning CoB on a religious podcast yesterday... but chickened out. I was at the Museum of Faith in Bishop Auckland for an interview with Mat Collishaw about his new piece there, Eidolon. Which is wonderful, but I was a bit suspicious of the Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego experience of "burning without being consumed". I also noticed there was precious little smoke. Burning without being consumed sounds very static, almost like cryogenetics. CoB 2019 taught me that burning is transformation, and fire without smoke & ash is suspect.