Living Open Source

MPs have just spent £3 million of my hard earned cash redesigning the UK parliamentary website! You might expect it to look awesome for that money. But it is horrible!

It has been such a long time since I posted on my blog. I’ve been on holiday and since I’ve been back, I’ve had blogger’s block. So I thought I’d break the blog silence with this image for Sunday’s lectionary reading in Matthew 10:40-42.

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 [...]

We’ve just spent the weekend in sunny Blackpool at the Baptist Assembly, along with a couple of thousand other Baptists from across the UK. On Saturday night I was officially recognised as an accredited Baptist Minister marking the end of a seven year journey. It was generally a good weekend meeting with friends and family [...]

One of the projects that is part of the St Helens Channel 4 Big Art project, probably says more about what the kingdom of God is than any sermon I’ve heard, book I’ve read or church I’ve observed. I’ve been working through Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope; and this is the best illustration by a [...]