Living Open Source

They may think that I have completely lost the plot this Sunday if I show a clip from Cloudy with a chance of meat balls in church.  Hamburgers dropping from the sky or a net bursting, haul of fish – what’s the difference?

This year I got the Rock Solid group to create the graphics for the carol service. Take a handful of teenagers, a few torches and a camera with a 6 second exposure and wow!…

This week’s Old Testament lectionary reading in Amos 7 includes the wonderful plumbline illustration. I felt it could be brought up to date a little.

It is interesting that later manuscript copyists felt it necessary to take Mark’s version of Easter morning beyond verse 8. Perhaps we share their concerns for the need for nice neat, happy endings.

In preaching class at college, we were told to look for the problem in the text. I was never very good at it but I think I found one this week. Jesus bunks off to pray, then leaves town, while a queue of the lame and looney stands hoping he comes back!

What did Jesus really mean when he invited his first followers to leave their nets and start fishing for people instead? This week’s lectionary gospel reading is Mark 1:14-20.

Last week I read many commentaries trying to explain away why anybody should eat locusts. Why these clever scholars thought it was at all interesting I don’t know. We have I’m a Celebrity get me out here so locusts really aren’t all that bad. This week’s lectionary reading (John 1:6-8) says something much more important [...]