Living Open Source

SHINE is an organisation that aims to resource the local churches in St Helens. One of my latest projects has been to move their website over to use WordPress. A by-product of this is a cool google maps plugin I have put together to provide a drill down interactive map of all churches in the [...]

Came across the Lord’s Prayer in text messaging competition on the Ship of Fools website.
The challenge was to keep the text below 160 characters. Quite a challenge if you are going to retain its focus and meaning, because the prayer is already pretty concise in full English.
Not sure this will catch on in church, but [...]

There are literally hundreds of song projection programs designed to project song lyrics and control your data projection in church. Most of them are actually pretty poor, with terrible user interfaces and what is more - they cost the earth. At one point I began writing my own, a project still lying incomplete, but then [...]

Continuing the campaign to see churches get online the easy way - with Wordpress. Here a few more churches using WordPress:

Kings Church, Chinley, UK

Faithbridge Presbyterian Church,Texas, USA
Grace Church, Arkansas
Carrigaline Baptist Church, Carrigaline, Co. Cork, Ireland.

Cambray Baptist Church, Cheltenham , UK

I’d love to hear from anybody using WordPress to run their church website.

Talking to a few colleagues the other day made me realise that not everybody is aware of the huge potential of Open Source Software, particularly for church use. So I thought I’d create a regular feature here to highlight some of the Open Source tools that I have come across that might be of use [...]