Church as Co-working Space

I came across an article about church as a space for co-working yesterday. It was one of those moments when you think that something is so obvious you can’t believe everyone isn’t already doing it! We know that working patterns have changed.  Loads of people work from home now.  That’s great.  You don’t have to Read More …

digital housekeeping

Is it just me, or is it much easier to hoard digitally? I’m running out of memory on my laptop.  I keep everything.  I have music I’ve never listened to and ebooks I’ve never read.  I have every worship service I’ve ever led and every PowerPoint I’ve ever bored people with. I have 2 external Read More …

one at a time

Do you ever notice that when you are focusing on an idea, a concept or a task that resources appear.  A blog post, a tweet, a book, a newspaper article, a movie or a conversation somehow relates to your thoughts. Sometimes it happens the other way around and something inspires you to focus on something Read More …

always available

My name is Stewart and I have a problem. Over at We Live Simply Jonathan is thinking about ‘downtime’. His thoughts really made me think. We probably all have a sense that we are more available than we used to be.  The mobile phone sorted that out.  But the smart phone has taken our availability Read More …

43 Things

I posted a list of things that I Will… do in 2010.  They are goals, not resolutions.  What about the things I’d like to do longer term? Well, 43 Things is a pretty simple little online tool with an iPhone app that lets you write, update, track and share your goals as well as encouraging Read More …

Disconnected

My MacBook is home and all fixed.  My couple of days being laptopless have been interesting.  Here’s what I learned: Old windows laptops suck I have a very old (8 years) laptop with a massive 500mb RAM and 20GB hard drive which lives under the bed.  It would have been as well staying under the Read More …