Living Open Source

In a bar humbug kind of mood, thought I’d see which carols irritate you the most (from a theological perspective)? The list could be huge so if you have others you’d like to vote on that are not here, leave a comment and I’ll consider adding it.

Well, I loved Jars of Clay’s new Love Came Down track so much, I wanted to be able to play it myself. There is a song book out, but of course it hasn’t reached this side of the water! The chords are actually very easy. The original mp3 is available for free download at last [...]

Last week I kicked off this series by introducing you to the concept of Creative Commons for licensing creative works. It is a way of sharing creative works that maintains rights for artists while providing a framework for more freedom in sharing and reuse. In this post we are going to begin exploring this world, [...]

When God comes, wildernesses will become gardens. On the back of swords being recycled into ploughs, and goats chilling out with leopards, Isaiah’s picture of a desert in bloom inspired this week’s image.

One of my favourite Christian bands, Jars of Clay have a Christmas songs album out. They have a nice animated version of the nativity to accompany one of their songs as well as a book of reflections (Life as Advent).

Grab a few images, put them together with artistic, professional looking video effects, a touch of subtle background music and publish in a video format. All in under 5 minutes? No this is not a tutorial, in fact you don’t need to know anything about video, music or such things. If you have a bunch [...]

Well that is what one WordPress-driven church seems to have done. Fellowship Community Church in Grove City, PA have gone all festive with their church blog, courtesy of a pretty cool theme by Design Disease.
So how will you blog your church this Christmas? Hang angels from your Blog Title? Give away virtual gifts and [...]