I have four three-ring binders on my desk. Each with a print-out of a book in it. I shuttle them in turn between home and work, since peculiarly, they touch both on my work and personal — that is to say, church — life, and I thought you might be interested in these four nonfiction… Continue reading What I’m reading; all nonfiction
Category: New Church Office
Feature set for LaTeX order of worship project
On my netbook, tapping out ideas while my home desktop computer finishes updating the latest version of Ubuntu Linux. That massive software project makes me think about the little, somewhat procedural and documentation-focused project I’ve started. To recap, I want to help automate the production of orders of service using LaTeX, a typesetting language more… Continue reading Feature set for LaTeX order of worship project
Software for publishing hymns
A new hymnal — or at least ready-to-reprint hymns — is one of the pre-conditions (among many) I see for Unitarian and Universalist Christians growing new churches. Singing the Living Tradition doesn’t have the corpus of hymns needed for a rounded Christian life, other denominational hymns often have their own limitations and besides — as… Continue reading Software for publishing hymns
How I can work in the snow (and an offer)
Federal offices in D.C. are closed today because of the snowstorm, and my office follows that decision. But with the year winding down, I still have work to do, and so I wanted to tell you about a tool I’m using that makes that possible. Dropbox synchs up for files between your computers and at… Continue reading How I can work in the snow (and an offer)
Google Wave invites, especially for small-church ministers and seminarians
So Google Wave is the big new thing, right? (Of course, the same was said of the Segway scooter-ma-bob-thingy and the sight of one still makes me giggle.) It’s a email-editor-chatty thingy, or in English, real-time communication and collaboration. For church people, the value is in holding remote working meetings. Work up a schedule, draft… Continue reading Google Wave invites, especially for small-church ministers and seminarians