Living Open Source

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.

After weeks of tinkering, my all new Mu WordPress theme is born. This is a cutting edge theme with a host of features, and in growing numbers of flavours. It is easily configured through its dedicated theme options page; thumbnails abound and on the fly, menus drop down gracefully and it all hangs together even [...]

The steady flow of e-mails highlighting churches using WordPress to share their story on-line continues. I don’t always get round to adding them to the directory, but I try. Here are five more new and updated examples of what you can do with this great tool.

Our local group of churches have used various means to publicise jointly the fact that Christmas is a time to go to chruch. This year we managed to get nearly half a page in the local paper for a bargain price and so here are three ideas for an ad. You can vote on which [...]

Last Sunday was Back to Church Sunday in the UK when churches up and down the land took the radical step of inviting people to church.

I gave up trying to retain any control of my WordPress themes a while back. They are now distributed under a GPL license. The reason ? – other Christians thought they could use them without credit, even sell them in a couple of cases and pass them off as their own designs! But check this [...]