Ben
Ben is married to Laura and is studying at Moore College. He is a student minister at Jannali Anglican Church and makes websites in his spare time. The gospel coalition’s doctrine of church
(I know its been a while, but I’m going to just post away like nothing happened)
I was having a look at the gospel coalition’s lovely website when I came across this section in their doctrinal statement:
BestCommentaries.com
This has to be useful: http://www.bestcommentaries.com/
The easiest way I’ve found to make a booklet
From time to time I’ve had to make a booklet for a camp or bible study or something – you know the ones where you have to shuffle the pages and hope that page 8 follows page 7 etc…
Here is a great little bit of software which makes it a cinch.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/86349
It adds an item to [...]
Website Thinking – Part 2
I’m sharing a few of the thoughts behind dundasanglican.com.au in the hope that they may be useful to someone.
I thought pretty hard about the top level structure of the site’s navigation. There were two principles for me:
1. I wanted to keep it lean. Previous attempts at making church websites have tended to spiral out of [...]
When will Book Publishers Get with the times?
I tried to buy two books in the last week or so. One was out of print. The other was on order and is four weeks away because it is on a ship from the States.
The interweb has been around for a while now. Surely, there need not be such a thing as ‘out of [...]
John Howard Yoder
Ever wondered what former PM John Howard did before politics? Apparently he was a Jedi knight and wrote books about pacifism.
I’m reading for an essay on John Howard Yoder’s ethics and I found this pretty amusing.
“Mr. Yoder’s stance reached a wide theological audience when his book The Politics of Jesus was published in 1972. But [...]
Snow Leopard comes out on Friday
I’m going to walk down to the apple store to get my copy after class if anyone wants to join me.
Here are the new things in it for $39.
In particular, this caught my eye:
Bidirectional text.
For languages that are written right to left, such as Hebrew and Arabic, Snow Leopard now elegantly handles mixing in left-to-right [...]
Making MP3 Sermons nice and small
A typical MP3 song will be about 1MB / min. But being speech, sermons don’t need to be nearly as high quality as music. I did a bit of experimenting with the MP3 compression settings for sermons.
I’ve been getting 25 min sermons down to about 6MB, and still very clear and easy to [...]
Website Thinking – Part 1
As I mentioned last post, I have just launched a new website for our church which I am really happy with. It’s far from perfect, but I did think pretty hard about it and I think I’ve avoided many common pitfalls (most of which I’ve fallen into in the past). So I thought I share [...]
Why our churches need a good website
As I’ve been thinking about our new church website, a new thought occurred to me. You probably already knew this, but I’ll share it anyway.
I had been thinking in terms of three groups of users.
1. The local person we’d like to come to our church, they need basic info – where and when – plus [...]
