June 2006

Time. You never seem to have enough.
If getting more stuff done is your main concern, Ian has 13 tips for more effective time management.
On the other hand, you may be more focussed on “being” than “doing” right now. In which case our friend Bene Diction recommends the Jesuit-run Sacred Space for some online contemplation. As [...]

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The BBC reports
A Spanish firm is to sell subsidised routers as part of a plan to turn domestic wi-fi networks into public hotspots.
Fon will sell wi-fi routers, which allow people to surf the net wirelessly, for $5 (£2.75).
The company, which has financial backing from Google and Skype, aims to create public wi-fi networks street by [...]

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I’ve been enjoying bloggedy pod, the podcast of bloggedy blog. I reckon you will too.

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Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

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Happy Catholic: How to be a happy blogger: another helpful link turned up by Sperocite

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Further to Richard’s post below Rown Williams has just released a letter to the Anglican Communion tackling head on the issues currently facing the denominination.
He identifies the current challenges, explains Anglican decision making, speaks to truth and unity, the Anglican Identity and future directions of the 77 million under his charge.
There is no way in [...]

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via Sperocite (excellent resource!) I picked up Vatican to Anglicans: NO to Women Bishops by one Gavin Swank. It’s basically a downer on the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
Of course, to Williams biblical data seems to hold little value. He has not stepped forward as a biblical champion on any doctrinal issue, particularly not speaking [...]

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I’ve got a Windows PC sitting in the corner of my study. I rarely use it — it belongs to my daughters, a gift from my brother when he upgraded his computer. But recently it has begun to complain that “this copy of Windows is not genuine”, that we might be “a victim of software [...]

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I do this. It’s a good tip, which comes via Ian’s Messy Desk.

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Locusts & Honey has the latest Methodist Blogs Weekly Roundup.

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Our own Kim fabricius offers Ten propositions on preaching over at Faith & Theology. Here’s the first to whet your appetite (!)
What is a sermon? Wrong question. A sermon is not a what but a who. A sermon is Jesus Christ expectorate. You eat the book; it is sweet in the mouth but bitter in [...]

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I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath,
and when my voice is lost in death,
praise shall employ my nobler powers;
my days of praise shall ne’er be past,
while life, and thought, and being last,
or immortality endures.
Happy the man whose hopes rely
on Israel’s God: he made the sky,
and earth, and seas, with all their train;
his truth for ever [...]

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Picking up on Kim’s post about the The Disappearance of the Church as the Demonstration of Its Truth, I can’t help but to post my view of the American church. Kim describes it as walking tall or medium height. Frankly, I think the idea of that is preposterous. Instead, I’m reminded of [...]

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Digg is a hugely popular tech site in the US started in 2004 that is so successful it’s moving into more generalized categories.
It has become part of internet vocabulary as in ‘the digg effect’. Like Richard’s wiki, it is a user driven idea in an age where we are suffering information overload, RSS fatigue and [...]

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If Christianity leaps high in Africa and walks tall (well, medium-height) in America, in Britain it staggers and falls to its knees. That’s the bad news. But worse news still is the way many Christians respond.
Some circle the wagons and gather round the campfires of nostalgia. They tell tales of revival, [...]

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The British Methodist Conference is in session and, if you’re really keen you can listen in to the sessions via streaming audio. But only if you’re a Windows user. (Bah! :()

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Bene Diction’s series on blogging culture reaches its third episode.
Bene also brings news of the Progressive Faithblog Convention, which sounds like fun. Wish I could afford the airfare.

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The senility prayer
“God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference”

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Apropos Richard’s post “Singing about death”, here’s a recent hymn:
Death comes in many forms,
it comes to young and old,
it comes as friend and enemy -
its ways are manifold.
It comes as sudden shock,
it comes as soothing sleep,
it comes at dawn and noon and dusk
its final tryst to keep.
It comes in quake and plague,
it comes by knife [...]

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