Last weekend was the second Affirming Liberalism Day Conference in a rather wet Oxford. As with the first conference I went along both as an interested participant, and also with a technical hat on to record the two sessions.
I uploaded both sessions to the website earlier in the week, and thanks to Dave Walker we [...]

This afternoon we had Lucy’s Baptism Service at St James’, whilst we had a good many friends and family who made it along to the service and the party afterwards, we know there were some who weren’t able to come.
It’s not quite the same, but here is a copy of the service we used, which [...]

This is a little tribute to any Youth Leader, who having been asked to contribute to some Church event, has found themselves on stage with a number of semi-unwilling members of their youth group, feeling like they’re doing a solo, and yet somehow managed to pull it together in the end.
As a background to this [...]

So are you fed up with X-Factor winners getting the Christmas number one spot? How about this as an alternative?
 

This is the latest album from Voces8, who we went to see in concert on Tuesday night, and who were fantastic! The group is run by two brothers, Barney and Paul, who are also the sons [...]

I’m certainly not the biggest fan of Christian Voice, but their press release discussing the Richard Dawkins backed plan to put an advertisement for atheism (although from the wording of the advert I’d say it was more agnostic) has produced probably the most amusing quote, one which the BBC are highlighting on their news story:
Bendy-buses, [...]

This weekend was the annual Heritage Open Days weekend when historic buildings across the country, sometimes buildings that rarely allow public access, open their doors to the public. Locally this was organised under the banner of the Wokingham Heritage Weekend, and as our contribution we opened the church to visitors and as we do in [...]

Years ago, a friend of mine was called as a witness for the prosecution in a local magistrates court. Although the charges were relatively minor, the defendant was the son of the agent of a rather senior politician of the time. The evidence against the defendant was pretty conclusive, however he chose to plead not [...]

Years ago, a friend of mine was called as a witness for the prosecution in a local magistrates court. Although the charges were relatively minor, the defendant was the son of the agent of a rather senior politician of the time. The evidence against the defendant was pretty conclusive, however he chose to plead not [...]

Now I’m certainly not the kind of Christian who believes that God is some kind of cosmic puppeteer, and that he will manipulate the rules of the world at the request of his followers. There are however some who do, check out this video from Stuart Shepard of Focus on the Family, the conservative evangelical [...]

One thing I haven’t commented on so far is the final part of Make Me a Christian, the rumblings about which have even reached the hallowed pages of the Church Times, who published a news item about the programme last Friday.
The item treads a similar path to that of the earlier Telegraph article, focusing primarily [...]

I’m a few days behind with a review of part two of Make Me a Christian – the series that a review of episode one said would have “Christians enthusiastically smashing their foreheads against the wall with delight at the way they’re representedâ€?, something that most Christians would be doing even more after the second [...]

New kids on the block Cuil might poor scorn on their algorithms, but the way Google floats popular pages up the rankings can still tell you a lot. For example, say you were looking for Texas Attorney Mark Brewer, the fact that, at this point in time, there are six references to his dealings with Dave [...]

New kids on the block Cuil might poor scorn on their algorithms, but the way Google floats popular pages up the rankings can still tell you a lot. For example, say you were looking for Texas Attorney Mark Brewer, the fact that, at this point in time, there are six references to his dealings with Dave [...]

I’d seen the trailers, and from those I knew it would probably be bad, but seriously as a practising Christian “Make Me a Christian” was enough to put you off Christianity totally.
For a start, the main front man for this self-proclaimed mission to save the sinful soul of Britain was George Hargreaves, leader of The [...]

We now have a little bit of press coverage for the Dave Walker/SPCK story from outside the blogsphere – Private Eye has picked up on the story, plus the general ridiculousness around the bankruptcy.

Thanks to David Keen, Sam Norton and SPCK/SSG News Blog for highlighting the Private Eye story.

We now have a little bit of press coverage for the Dave Walker/SPCK story from outside the blogsphere – Private Eye has picked up on the story, plus the general ridiculousness around the bankruptcy.

Thanks to David Keen, Sam Norton and SPCK/SSG News Blog for highlighting the Private Eye story.

Things have progressed a little with the Dave Walker/SPCK story overnight with the publication of a great document by Matt Wardman. The document brings together copies of the original seventy-five posts from CartoonChurch, along with subsequent relevant posts and comment from other blogs, such that the document runs to a pretty epic 130 pages. However [...]

Things have progressed a little with the Dave Walker/SPCK story overnight with the publication of a great document by Matt Wardman. The document brings together copies of the original seventy-five posts from CartoonChurch, along with subsequent relevant posts and comment from other blogs, such that the document runs to a pretty epic 130 pages. However [...]

As a little bit of light relief, another video from Baptist preacher Steve Anderson, whose previous video I linked to back in February.
In this one he tells his congregation that Jesus didn’t wear a dress, and that people in the Middle East only started wearing dresses as a result of Islam… Or maybe it isn’t [...]

Hat tip to David Keen for giving a name to the phenomenon of an attempt to silence or censor information backfires – much as Mark Brewer’s efforts to silence the SPCK story are currently – it is apparently known as the Streisand Effect.