Living Open Source

Well, instead of an image this week, I put together this little animation. Inspired by the word picture in Isaiah 2:1-5 of ploughs being manufactured from reclaimed swords. I’m also working on a longer version using a track from Paul Simon’s Surprise album, called Wartime Prayers You might find this music helpful for Sunday.

They will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Advent begins with one of Isaiah’s wonderful pictures of the kind of transformation that this season announces. Swords into garden tools. What might be transformed in our communities? - knives and guns, into shopping trolleys and walking aids?
One of the great literal [...]