Living Open Source

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.

Just back from hanging out with Baptists in Bournemouth at our annual Assembly. It is now customary and obligatory to blog about the experience, pointing out what was funny and what was profound.

From the many e-mails I get about Wordpress-Driven Churches, I have noticed that church planters are frequent users of my WordPress themes. Steve Swisher over at Churches Planting Churches has also noted the tool’s usefulness to those seeking to push boundaries of church that bit further.