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 [...]

…to bluegrass. No really, if your church worship band doesn’t do bluegrass, then you are so twentieth century. I came across this mailer on the Flickr Church Marketing lab by Tyler Tate for a new worship service at his church.

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, [...]

Grab a few images, put them together with artistic, professional looking video effects, a touch of subtle background music and publish in a video format. All in under 5 minutes? No this is not a tutorial, in fact you don’t need to know anything about video, music or such things. If you have a bunch [...]