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Category Archives: blogging

CofE falls foul of digital switchover

19-Jan-10

You know how you sometimes bookmark news stories and websites that you think ‘I must blog about that’ and then never get round to it? No, may just be me then. Anyway, here is my oldest ‘must blog about this’ story that I never got around to that stems from 2007. The BBC ran a [...]

What I’ve been reading this weekend

14-Jun-09

Like Dave Walker, I recently made the switch from PC to Mac and I’ve been interested and mostly in agreement with his observations. A really interesting little article on the Faith and Theology blog about why sex tells you nothing about what it means to be human. I particularly like the observations on friendship. Covenant [...]

Pausing and wrestling

19-May-09

Well, that was a hectic week last week of blogging! For those that have been counting and watching, yes I know that I still haven’t said anything about my ongoing wrestling match with membership of New Wine. I guess it’s testament to the wrestling and struggling that I’ve yet to get any thoughts down on [...]

The day Giles Fraser got it wrong and exploding pumice

12-May-09

Giles Fraser, Church Times columnist and parish priest, is kind of like my journalistic equivalent of Marmite. You either love what he writes or you hate it. Frequently I find myself from week to week doing both… one week he gives you hope that there is indeed a God, seven days later and I’m wondering [...]

Catching up and moving forward

10-May-09

I can’t quite understand where the time goes. To not blog at all throughout April demands an apology should there be anyone out there who happens to be passing or, indeed, if anyone has me in their RSS feed of whatever kind and has wondered why the silence. I certainly know some of you have [...]

I’ve been banned by YouTube!

22-Dec-08

Here’s an odd thing. I’m not a big user of YouTube. I occasionally watch video clips that people send me links for – everything from Cristiano Ronaldo doing something amazing with a football to funny advertisements to things I might be able to use in church. I have also uploaded ONE video clip myself – [...]

Heeere’s Davey!

02-Dec-08

Yes, I think it’s time to get Wannabepriest back in the saddle. For those that are really bad at updating their RSS readers and so have been provided with this blogpost out of the blue after nearly 18 months of silence and a pretty firm decision (at the time) to not blog anymore, I’m back [...]

It’s all gone quiet over there…

13-Mar-07

I am highly conscious of having gone quiet on this blog. There are two main reasons… The first is that I am ruminating on whether to shut this site down. I have an idea in my head for another site I would like to do but it all tends to take a bit of a [...]

Wine and wineskins

10-Dec-06

When I was still working for the National Church Institutions, I decided one day to get myself in with the digital Jones’ and set up a blog. As I’ve mentioned before, I was a few posts in when the kindly Dave Walker dropped me an email and suggested I might like to check out whether [...]