Living Open Source

It is just so simple – WordPress rules! There are geeks out there trying to shoe horn their church into Drupal or Joomla, but for for the church without such a purest technical junky in the congregation, WordPress wins hands down.

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.

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.

Which is the best video sharing site? No contest – it is vimeo. And now there is a vimeo channel dedicated to videos that inspire living the Jesus way.

With some trepidation we volunteered as a church to be part of the 2009 Year of Continuous Prayer across Merseyside. The idea being that each week a different church in Merseyside would take on the baton (a diary) and pray for the community. This week it was our turn…

Myself and a colleague, John Draycott from Holy Trinity here in St Helens spend much time drinking coffee and trying to help each other help our congregations get a grip on God and his world. Well, having being inspired by Tom Wright’s book, Surprised by Hope, we set about creating a course to make the [...]

To break my blogging silence, here are five more sites I’ve noticed recently using WordPress to run their church web site. This crop of churches shows that to have easy free content management, you don’t have to sacrifice design.