Living Open Source

Following the success of our last course, Dying to Know, John Draycott and myself have just put together a second course all about the meaning of cross.

St George’s flags have been appearing on cars this week and the World Cup hasn’t even started yet. Oh! it’s St George’s day. Some want to make it a holiday. Some want to claim the saint as the champion of englishness. But as Jonathan Bartley suggests in his article in the Guardian, if we were [...]

Some will know that our church have just started a major building project to refurbish a nineteenth century building. The work has started and today I was presented with a bundle of papers that were found by our contractors when they demolished an original wall.

Just got back from 3 days in Blackpool on our local ministers conference. We were privileged to have Steve Holmes with us for the 3 days as our main speaker, talking about communication and preaching.

They may think that I have completely lost the plot this Sunday if I show a clip from Cloudy with a chance of meat balls in church.  Hamburgers dropping from the sky or a net bursting, haul of fish – what’s the difference?

Ever wanted to know where your nearest Baptist Church was? Or how big it was? Somebody at Baptist House has plugged the big Google machine into their database and come up with a map.

This year I got the Rock Solid group to create the graphics for the carol service. Take a handful of teenagers, a few torches and a camera with a 6 second exposure and wow!…