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Messing Around With ChatGPT

In which an artificial intelligence system gives some answers to questions about mission.

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Pros and Cons of The Kindle

Why I’m starting to prefer my Kindle to “real” books.

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STEP: Scripture Tools for Every Person

An update on a very excellent set of tools for Bible Study.

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We Need To Think About Technology

Printing has brought a huge amount of good to the church, but there is another side to the story.

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In Praise of Paper Bibles

I can’t listen to twenty-year-old cassettes, but I can still read a 500-year-old Bible. Some technologies are more durable than others.

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Not Everything On The Internet Is True!

Please don’t spread rubbish (I wanted to use a stronger word, but this is a family blog) like this. If you find a story which is too good to be true, it probably isn’t. Do a simple Google search for some of the key names or themes in the story and check it out. Or visit Snopes and search for it there.

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Tennent Chapter 1: Megatrends

“I am convinced that if we are attentive to the refreshing winds of the Holy Spirit during this tumultuous and yet thrilling time, we will have a missiological rebirth where, side by side, with the global church, we will see a remarkable renewal of the church’s life and faith like we have not known.”

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Wisdom in Mission

This week I spent a day at the annual Wisdom in Mission consultation which was held at Launde Abbey. WIM is sponsored by the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide and brings together a small group of mission practitioners, leaders and academics for 24 hours of reflection and discussion. There were three hour-long presentations each followed […]

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A Couple of Social Media Peeves

One of the things that I find fascinating about social media is the way in which people often act in a completely different way to how they would in real “offline” life. There are a couple of things in particular which are increasingly common and which I find rather frustrating. Spreading Facebook Hoaxes There have […]

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Missionary Committees and Social Media

If you have a role in a Church supporting missionaries; then you must have a Facebook account! Most people have recognised that we have moved from an age of print communication to digital, on-line communication. In the missionary world, the old printed newsletters (our first ones were done on a manual typewriter) have been largely […]