Living Open Source

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.

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.

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 [...]

I’m sure there is a scene in one of the Lord of Rings films that features an army coming alive. Can anybody remember which one, to save me scanning the entire trilogy? The lectionary this week includes the raising of Lazarus and the valley of bones in Ezekiel 37. God asks Ezekiel if he thinks [...]