Wonderful News!!

At the age of 19 I received a very clear call to be an Anglican Priest. So I applied and was accepted, starting soon after my 20th birthday. I completed nearly 2 and a half years before it all began to unravel…

Grace in your Face

I welcome guest blogger Dan Lee, brains behind MinistryCamp and one of the guys who inspired me to have a serious look at blogging. So you should blame him really.

Dan shares his heart about God’s Grace…

I’m a sinner

I sin. Not just occasionally but to be frank, quite often. Usually the sin takes the shape of

Baby Milly

I invite your prayers for a very sick baby called Milly.  I heard about Milly through Jessica Knott, one of the fine Bible Society staff in the UK.  Jessica states,

Milly has a bowel disease which means she cannot ‘eat’ and until they can sort that out and remove all the diseased bowel (which seems to be growing) they cannot make her better. She has had 5 operations and has a colostomy (stoma) bag which isn’t working. Basically her bowl is leaking into her body.

So I invite your prayers for Milly.

 Dear Lord,  we lift up to you Milly.  May you  bring healing. Amen

Virtual Reality – where to from here?

A first experience of Second Life usually results in initial confusion, then curiosity, then brief enthusiasm as you work on your appearance, then inevitably boredom as you ask the obvious question, ‘What is the point of all of this?’ This is usually why most never return, contributing to the statistic of 1.4 million log ins in over the past 60 days but more than 10+ million members.

 

Chris, who is relatively new to SL notes on her blog

 

Wandering about the empty landscape of the Learn4Life island is …well, frankly, boring. There’s a limit to how much I can amuse myself without

Interesting people interviews: Helen Thompson

From time to time I will interview interesting people. The first is Helen Thompson, a social media guru with some fabulous things to say.

MB: Tell us a little about yourself.

HT: I’m a cradle Episcopalian in the Diocese of Virginia, living in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the U.S. I had a break with faith in my teens that lasted until I was 32, and I’ll talk more about that in a moment. But first, a little more about the rest of me–professionally, I am a writer, on one shoe, and a social media strategist, on the other.

Ministry in a Technological Age

At the recent Anglican Missions Conference I presented a Workshop on Ministry in a Technological Age. After some adaption for this blog, I thought I would make it available …