Living Open Source

Since Easter day, we have been exploring the theme of hope and resurrection in church. Making much use of Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope, it has been an interesting experience to challenge some of the accepted understandings that people hold to. Having noted the lack of appropriate songs, I’ve also had a go at writing [...]

Fresh from immersing myself in Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope, I’m trying to preach during Eastertide on the long lost hope of resurrection. I’d like to sing about it too, but Mission Praise and Songs of Fellowship only seem to confirm to the caricatures that Wright paints in his book. Where is resurrection in our [...]

Well, that is at least what my kids have affectionately called it. I wrote this song recently and finally found some time to try and have a go at recording it – probably badly. The song is based pretty solidly on Psalm 8, one of my favourite Psalms. Not least because we did it to [...]

Well, I loved Jars of Clay’s new Love Came Down track so much, I wanted to be able to play it myself. There is a song book out, but of course it hasn’t reached this side of the water! The chords are actually very easy. The original mp3 is available for free download at last [...]

Last week I kicked off this series by introducing you to the concept of Creative Commons for licensing creative works. It is a way of sharing creative works that maintains rights for artists while providing a framework for more freedom in sharing and reuse. In this post we are going to begin exploring this world, [...]

One of my favourite Christian bands, Jars of Clay have a Christmas songs album out. They have a nice animated version of the nativity to accompany one of their songs as well as a book of reflections (Life as Advent).