Living Open Source

Since Easter day, we have been exploring the theme of hope and resurrection in church. Making much use of Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope, it has been an interesting experience to challenge some of the accepted understandings that people hold to. Having noted the lack of appropriate songs, I’ve also had a go at writing [...]

There are plenty of places to read the bible online—the BibleGateway being about the best. But now there is YouVersion, a completely fresh Web 2.0 approach to engaging with the ancient texts, in community.

I thought it was time for another series on using WordPress to run your church web site. One important addition to “out-of the box” WordPress is a way of managing and displaying some kind of events calendar.

How do you explain the Trinity? If I’m honest I just went along with all those Sunday School analogies until I went to do theology at college. There are many illustrations people dream up to try and explain it, but in the end none of them really work.

I got a bit bored with that last theme, and so have tried to make something a bit more eye catching, reflecting the largely visual emphasis of many of the posts here, as well as making the text more readable. A number of folk have e-mailed to say they would like me to share the [...]