Social Media and the Church

Bosco Peters made me aware of these videos recently which are very sobering news for all of us who aspire to communicate our message to others and really does make me wonder how effective our social media communications are.  Is it just a way to connect to people or can we really develop meaningful relationships [...]

Surprised By Community: the Spirituality of Blogging

Here is the second of the articles that appeared in the recent MSA Seed Sampler that I wanted to highlight in the series What is a Spiritual Practice. This article is by Tim Mathis who lives in Seattle with his wife Angel.  He currently aspires to be an Episcopal priest, writer and member of the [...]

Twitter as a Spiritual Practice.

The July MSA Seed Sampler was published today.  Its topic is Writing as a Spiritual Practice and there are several articles that I wanted to share with you over the next few years as an introduction to the summer series What is a Spiritual Practice.
The first article is by Gerard Kelly the founder of the Bless [...]

Busyness Consumes me

This morning I have read my email, checked out twitter updates, read through the latest posts of my favourite bloggers through Google reader, synched my Blackberry (yes still no iphone) and done a new blog post, all before 8am…. and that is just my internet connections   What a contrast to yesterday my Sabbath day [...]

Am I addicted

We arrived back from Winnipeg on Friday to find that our wireless router had died while we were gone.  Did I panic?  Of course not but I did go straight to Best Buy to get a new one in spite of the fact that I was still feeling spaced out because of lack of sleep.  [...]