firefox 3

Coming soon: Download Day… Firefox’s attempt to set a world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours to mark the launch of Firefox 3: “With more than 15,000 improvements, increased security, blinding speed and cool new features that, apparently, will change the way we use the Web.”

Yurting around

Had a great few days last week in east Devon staying in a yurt… beautiful structures and lovely to sit in rain or shine! Fortunately we timed our trip with the few days of sunshine last week, so most of the time we were hanging in the hammock under the sun… watching the buttercups move [...]

Bluebells

Found a ’secret’ bluebell wood last week… just down the road: photos

The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne

I’ve been trying to blog about The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne for a while now… but somehow every time I think about it I can never really sum it up. But that is probably because it is such a simple book about the story of a community of hopefuls [...]

Wild Swimming

I suffered from a post-viral fatigue illness for a number of years and despite many visits to many doctors I got very little helpful medical advice about what I could do to get better. With no quick fix and no drug that can be prescribed, doctors often just don’t know what to do… and as [...]

Blood River

I recently borrowed Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart by Tim Butcher from the Crowther Centre at CMS - it’s a great read and I flew through and have been meaning to mention it for a while…
The book follows Tim Butcher as he attempts to retrace the steps of Henry Morton Stanley [...]

Easter images

It’s been a hectic but brilliant couple of weeks following the arrival of Ayla… but now it is back to the real world, post-paternity leave!

I’m late blogging this but CMS and the Diocese of London recently produced a new schoools resource for easter - this modern representation of the Easter story comes in photographic form, [...]

How to get your own website

I’ve been thinking of writing a post about how to set-up your own WordPress.com website for a while (that is the software and hosting we use for this site) - it is so easy, free and whilst being simple also has some fairly advanced stuff too. It is also Opensource which makes it even better in my view. [...]

Exiles by Michael Frost

Over the past 4 or 5 months we have both been reading Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture by Michael Frost – another good book that we’d recommend. In a nutshell the book explores ways of being church, or communitas, in a post-Christendom western-culture dominated by consumerism, isolation and indifference, where the church too [...]

Bombs by Faithless - action tip

I came across the video for Bombs by Faithless months ago and keep forgetting to blog about it. The video and song would be a great tool for a creative look at injustice and the world – it would work well for a church service talk or reflective meditation. The images and lyrics talk of [...]