Living Open Source

Hebrews 13:1-8 in the lectionary this week offers some advise on building a healthy common life in and around the Christian community.
“Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.” (v1)

The concept of the Kingdom of God is one of those slippery subjects, that too many Christians have been content to place purely as some time in the future. But Jesus said its at hand and the writer to the Hebrews this week urges us:
“We should be grateful that we were given a kingdom that [...]

I thought I’d exhausted my list of useful open source (or at least free) software that churches might be interested in. Then I came across Scribus - a desktop publishing application that is a great alternative to Microsoft Publisher.

I came across Angelhouse Media, while looking for illustrations for Jesus’ teaching on prayer in Luke 11. And particularly that story Jesus tells about the man who goes to a friend at midnight and asks for bread to feed unexpected guests. The question is “Is God bothered?”. I think what the story and the [...]

My own list of WordPress driven churches has reached the lofty number of 123. So I thought I’d highlight five more great examples of churches using WordPress.