If you ignore four zeroes and one two, today is number of the beast day.  Make sure you enjoy it.

Greg the Explorer says:
What Would Greg Do? About what Bec? - Hey that’d be a great thread - What Would [insert your own name] Do - and then we could list all the things we would do and why if we were God - So let it be written; So let it be done!
Please
Make it […]

A friend of mine sent this to me by email:

Unwise as it might be, friends of ours have invited us to be God parents of their child.  Once all of the Brando impressions were finished, we have set about our responsibilities.  So for N’s dediction tonight, I trotted off to Word to get a suitably kitsch dedication present.  Given that they were fresh out […]

This sort of article in the BBC news online edition always facinates me. I am currently reading guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond and it is very interesting to see the movement of people around the world.

“A map due to be unveiled in Beijing and London next week may lend weight to a theory […]

This article highlights some stories of rudeness in churches in response to a request by the UK newsletter Church Times:
A wheelchair user was advised to go home instead of attending a service, a vicar was told by a church warden that new families attending a service “weren’t really our type”, and a visiting vicar told […]

An interesting post that Phil might think more at home over at geeky info is at xphiles. It is one way to organise all of the information a minister needs to over see several worship services a day. The moral of the story is that some solutions are particularly low-tech:
Since I’ve started doing […]

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert has formulated some fantastic rules for internet arguments:
1. Turn someone’s generality into an absolute. For example, if someone makes a general statement that Americans celebrate Christmas, point out that some people are Jewish and so anyone who thinks that ALL Americans celebrate Christmas is stupid. (Bonus points for accusing […]

Got an email from a freelance writer who is doing a piece for GQ on Hillsong. Noting that we have a “Hillsong website”, he asked us to invite any ex-Hillsongers who are willing to share their stories (and I would imagine that it could be anonymous if you like) to contact him. Now […]

I was a visitor at the church; a representative of a mission team that was working in the area. I went to visit the local church, say a few words about what we were doing and thank the congregation members for their support. It was an ordinary local church of a mainstream denomination. […]