Living Open Source

Using WordPress to open the window into your church’s life is a recurring theme of my blog and one of the ways I’ve been able to share some of my skills with others. A number of my own WordPress themes were designed for churches in mind, and I was surprised to discover someone had reckoned [...]

Jesus promises help from the helper - a hands on approach to living as Jesus taught us. This week’s graphic focuses on the fact that our helper is nothing like that annoying little paper clip that used to pop up with help in Microsoft Office, before I ditched it. The lectionary text is found in [...]

Time to mark the 200th plus entry into the directory of churches using WordPress to run their web site. Here are five more churches telling their story on-line with the world’s most popular blogging/CMS platform.

I haven’t quite managed a lectionary graphic over the past couple of weeks, but here is one for this week’s gospel reading (John 14:1-14). This passage seems full of lots of phrases people quote a lot, but very rarely put together as they are here. At funerals you’ll hear the “many dwelling places”; fundamentalists [...]

Fresh from immersing myself in Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope, I’m trying to preach during Eastertide on the long lost hope of resurrection. I’d like to sing about it too, but Mission Praise and Songs of Fellowship only seem to confirm to the caricatures that Wright paints in his book. Where is resurrection in our [...]