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Wednesday, 19 August 2015
10 useful links (no. 15) - includes smartphone hologram #hack, #facebook training, 3D Underground ( #Tube UK) pics & more
how to use your smartphone and a cut up CD case to generate a 3D Hologram - found via mental floss
basic facebook training - found via @fusilli
digital bodleian - search their images
make custom in ear monitors for $10
flashpoll - mobile participation - plus a post about using it
vatican library - manuscripts & stuff online - found via @liesvanaelst
3D maps of Underground (London) tube stations - found via @TimHarford
Tree of life graphic - This tree is from an analysis of small subunit rRNA sequences sampled from about 3,000 species from throughout the Tree of Life - found via @dallandrummond
media, technology and worship quotes
Free research papers on evangelism and/or fresh expressions of Church
Previous 10 Useful Links posts
No.'s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
Monday, 12 January 2015
10 useful links (no. 4) - uk #poverty, online resources for churches, social media lessons, #lent, mental health, 64 twitter resources, #spirituality, internet quote
uk poverty look up tool - found via @thechurchmouse
online resources for churches - found via @dgirardier
buffer's 10 social media lessons we learned about in 2014
church urban fund lent resources
diocese of winchester lent course
passion plays - info about and resources in UK
mind & health - exploring christianity and mental health
a list of 64 twitter resources - by @dgirardier
rsa spiritualise report
just a good quote ....
MeredithGouldFriday, 24 January 2014
Friday, 29 November 2013
#10 #quotes from the #pope's recent exhortation
if you want to read the whole original exhortation document its here
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the 10 quotes that struck me from Chapter 2 entitled "Amid the crisis of communal commitment" are
1) the majority of our contemporaries are barely living from day to day, with dire consequences
2) To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own.
3) While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation.
4) Until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence. The poor and the poorer peoples are accused of violence, yet without equal opportunities the different forms of aggression and conflict will find a fertile terrain for growth and eventually explode.
5) In the prevailing culture, priority is given to the outward, the immediate, the visible, the quick, the superficial and the provisional. What is real gives way to appearances.
6) In cities, as opposed to the countryside, the religious dimension of life is expressed by different lifestyles, daily rhythms linked to places and people. In their daily lives people must often struggle for survival and this struggle contains within it a profound understanding of life which often includes a deep religious sense.
7) The pain and the shame we feel at the sins of some members of the Church, and at our own, must never make us forget how many Christians are giving their lives in love.
8) In some people we see an ostentatious preoccupation for the liturgy, for doctrine and for the Church’s prestige, but without any concern that the Gospel have a real impact on God’s faithful people and the concrete needs of the present time. In this way, the life of the Church turns into a museum piece or something which is the property of a select few. In others, this spiritual worldliness lurks behind a fascination with social and political gain, or pride in their ability to manage practical affairs, or an obsession with programmes of self-help and self-realization. It can also translate into a concern to be seen, into a social life full of appearances, meetings, dinners and receptions. It can also lead to a business mentality, caught up with management, statistics, plans and evaluations whose principal beneficiary is not God’s people but the Church as an institution. The mark of Christ, incarnate, crucified and risen, is not present; closed and elite groups are formed, and no effort is made to go forth and seek out those who are distant or the immense multitudes who thirst for Christ. Evangelical fervour is replaced by the empty pleasure of complacency and self-indulgence.
9) In various countries, conflicts and old divisions from the past are re-emerging. I especially ask Christians in communities throughout the world to offer a radiant and attractive witness of fraternal communion. Let everyone admire how you care for one another, and how you encourage and accompany one another
10) Lay people are, put simply, the vast majority of the People of God. The minority – ordained ministers – are at their service.
(ht wikipedia for the image)
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1) the majority of our contemporaries are barely living from day to day, with dire consequences
2) To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own.
3) While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation.
4) Until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence. The poor and the poorer peoples are accused of violence, yet without equal opportunities the different forms of aggression and conflict will find a fertile terrain for growth and eventually explode.
5) In the prevailing culture, priority is given to the outward, the immediate, the visible, the quick, the superficial and the provisional. What is real gives way to appearances.
6) In cities, as opposed to the countryside, the religious dimension of life is expressed by different lifestyles, daily rhythms linked to places and people. In their daily lives people must often struggle for survival and this struggle contains within it a profound understanding of life which often includes a deep religious sense.
7) The pain and the shame we feel at the sins of some members of the Church, and at our own, must never make us forget how many Christians are giving their lives in love.
8) In some people we see an ostentatious preoccupation for the liturgy, for doctrine and for the Church’s prestige, but without any concern that the Gospel have a real impact on God’s faithful people and the concrete needs of the present time. In this way, the life of the Church turns into a museum piece or something which is the property of a select few. In others, this spiritual worldliness lurks behind a fascination with social and political gain, or pride in their ability to manage practical affairs, or an obsession with programmes of self-help and self-realization. It can also translate into a concern to be seen, into a social life full of appearances, meetings, dinners and receptions. It can also lead to a business mentality, caught up with management, statistics, plans and evaluations whose principal beneficiary is not God’s people but the Church as an institution. The mark of Christ, incarnate, crucified and risen, is not present; closed and elite groups are formed, and no effort is made to go forth and seek out those who are distant or the immense multitudes who thirst for Christ. Evangelical fervour is replaced by the empty pleasure of complacency and self-indulgence.
9) In various countries, conflicts and old divisions from the past are re-emerging. I especially ask Christians in communities throughout the world to offer a radiant and attractive witness of fraternal communion. Let everyone admire how you care for one another, and how you encourage and accompany one another
10) Lay people are, put simply, the vast majority of the People of God. The minority – ordained ministers – are at their service.
(ht wikipedia for the image)
Monday, 17 June 2013
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
pews and passion
a great story found in a july 2009 post on bishop alan's blog, attributed to martin jackson, a parish priest of st cuthbert benfieldside, co durham and drawn from the annual durham clergy gathering, on the pairing of nostalgia and pews.as plans were drawn up to remove some, wailing arose .....
“someone died in that pew.” to which the parish priest had replied, “then it had better go before it kills someone else.” at which another priest leapt to her feet and shouted, “let me have it - i can put it to good use in my parish....
Monday, 13 December 2010
give a man a fish
and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and ......
- you feed him for a lifetime
- he will push an entire species to extinction
- you get rid of him for the whole weekend
- you lose a wonderful business opportunity
- you will not have to listen to his incessant whining about how hungry he is
- you can sell him fishing equipment
- somewhere some woman is going to have to learn how to clean and gut that fish, then how to prepare it, and finally, how to put up with those neverending "fish stories" about the one that got away
- you feed him for a lifetime. Teach him to cycle, he'll realise fishing is stupid & boring.(ht @Cyclr)
- give a son a fishing rod and you get rid of him & his dad for the whole weekend (ht @SparrowsNursery)
- give a man a knife and he can learn to gut fish himself (ht @SparrowsNursery)
- you can sell him fishing equipment
- somewhere some woman is going to have to learn how to clean and gut that fish, then how to prepare it, and finally, how to put up with those neverending "fish stories" about the one that got away
- you feed him for a lifetime. Teach him to cycle, he'll realise fishing is stupid & boring.(ht @Cyclr)
- give a son a fishing rod and you get rid of him & his dad for the whole weekend (ht @SparrowsNursery)
- give a man a knife and he can learn to gut fish himself (ht @SparrowsNursery)
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