Living Open Source

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.

If you browse the online resources in search of help for Sunday’s service, you’ll notice that in America it is also Mother’s Day! In fact on some of the usually great web sites I regularly check on, you wouldn’t know it was Pentecost this week.

I’ve just discovered that the Baptist Union of Great Britain have been running a web site award for churches over the past couple of months. The winner is to be announced at the Assembly in Blackpool this weekend.
I must admit I had missed this piece of news, though somebody a couple of week’s ago [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]