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St John’s College, Durham (Monday 20th – Friday 24th June 2011) MediaLit offers an opportunity for first class training and resources in media for ministry for those engaged in formal pre-ordination training, those already engaged in local or national ministry and anyone concerned to connect Christian faith with communication in a digital age.  We will [...]

Using RSSUsing RSSWhen deciding on which Bible software to use, the cost of resources should be a significant consideration.  Following on from my discussion of Bible software on the iPad/iPhone, I have made a quick comparison of resource cost for two of the major Bible applications on the mac (which synchronise to the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch). [...]

A few months ago, I wrote a small post on using the iPad in academic theology.  Having had time to reflect, I thought I would cobble some of my thoughts together.  Much of my workflow (which entails a reliance upon Dropbox, iAnnotate, OliveTree Bible Reader, and Evernote) has remained the same, with the device being [...]

RSS means Really Simple Syndication, which strangely enough, doesn’t sound very simple at all. Basically, it is a standardised protocol that enables people to monitor a ‘feed’ (i.e., a special URL address) and get alerts to new content.

As someone who suffers from an acute case of earlyadopteritis, it is with little surprise that I was keen to jump on the iPad pre-order bandwagon. I had considered many eReaders in the past, but none provided sufficient capability for my particular set of needs. So this post is not a review of the iPad [...]

I recently asked twenty-five friends and colleagues which five ‘theological’ books they would recommend for people considering – or commencing – studying theology.  The participants were from diverse professions, nationalities, ages, theological positions, and traditions.  Almost all of them had some formal theological education. There were three main reasons why I considered this a worthwhile [...]

Last Thursday and Friday (20-21 May) I was fortunate to attend the Holy Spirit in the World Today Conference at Holy Trinity Brompton.  The speaker lineup was most impressive, including Archbishop Rowan Williams, Jürgen Moltmann, Professor Miroslav Volf, Professor David Ford, and Rev’d Tom Smail.  Those with strong connections with HTB (i.e., Nicky Gumbel, Ken [...]

Wright, N. T. Virtue Reborn. London: SPCK Publishing, 2010. [ISBN: 978-0281061440] It feels like aeons have passed since I was last able to read books unrelated to work and/or study.  Thus it was with great joy that I picked up N. T. Wright’s new book Virtue Reborn (which is published under a different name – After [...]