Living Open Source

It would be easy to fill your book shelves with bible commentaries. I have recently had a bit of a cull on my shelves, making use of the Amazon Marketplace to lighten the load from commentaries I have never even opened.  While trying to find a better commentary on Mark’s gospel, I came across BestCommentaries.com.

Brian McClaren’s book, A New Kind of Christian, has been around for a while. It is part of a trilogy of books that highlights some of the issues facing Christians and the church as it negotiates the transition from modernity to post-modernity (or whatever you want to call it). If you haven’t yet got your [...]

One advantage of using the train is being able to read. So last week’s jaunt down to Brighton meant I got round to reading Rowan Williams’ latest book, Tokens of Trust. This is the Archbishop’s introduction to Christian Belief which takes a walk through the Apostle’s Creed and the Nicene Creed in order to paint [...]

Churches struggle with the whole area of publicity and communications. Church noticeboards, posters, newsheets and web sites are all areas where churches fail to communicate effectively in the modern world. Here are a couple of books that might help you move your church into the 20th and maybe even the 21st century…

After discovering WordPress a while back, and becoming immersed in the world of blogging, it seems to me that the blog has a lot to offer the church wanting to share its story. And now Brian Bailey has even written a book saying just that! The Blogging Church – Sharing the story of Your Church [...]

Rob Bell is founding pastor of Mars Hill (–with a web site to go ooooh over of course). This recent book is his angle on what living the Christian story might look like in a post modern world. Admitting that he spent his first year at Mars Hill teaching through the book of Leviticus may [...]

Its been a while since I managed another theme. This one is designed with churches in mind and is the result of having helped a couple of churches online with WordPress. WordPress really is much more than a blogging tool. This theme is the next step along the WP-driven church evolution. I may even finally [...]