Living Open Source

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.

I thought it was time for another series on using WordPress to run your church web site. One important addition to “out-of the box” WordPress is a way of managing and displaying some kind of events calendar.

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 [...]

I’ve just discovered that the Baptist Union of Great Britain have been running a web site award for churches over the past couple of months. The winner is to be announced at the Assembly in Blackpool this weekend.
I must admit I had missed this piece of news, though somebody a couple of week’s ago [...]

Using WordPress to open the window into your church’s life is a recurring theme of my blog and one of the ways I’ve been able to share some of my skills with others. A number of my own WordPress themes were designed for churches in mind, and I was surprised to discover someone had reckoned [...]