New Kid on the Blog

As my dulcet tones (ahem) have been absent from this blog for a while, here's the podcast of this last Sunday's sermon....

Well, this is it, the pointless drivel church website is up and running - or gently ambling in the case of me and Brian. It's basically a forum for us to air our views in a podcast format about, well, um, anything. But mainly Churchy, faithy stuff. Visit it here , or in the link that will appear in my sidebar very soon...

The pointless drivel church podcast is now up and running with our first three nattercasts (a more accurate description than podcast). We've not actually posted anything since the end of October, but an hour and a half is probably quite enough of us warbling on for now... We aim to post regularly for 2007 when we just find enough time to record the next ones. www.pointlessdrivelchurch.org.uk

National Novel Writing Month has begun and i have made a start, a pitiful, vague and almost unreadable start, but a start nonetheless... so 1000 words down and 49000 to go - er um Don't expect to see a huge amount of me over the coming weeks... You can always email me, or leave a comment (which will then be emailed to me) or go and visit pointlessdrivelchurch.org and hear my dulcet tones as i spout about all sorts of things but don't make much sense on our podcast over there... see ya

The audio adventures of a couple of bearded pseudo-theologians continues - still in trial phase so please do let me know if you would like to check out the website (too complicated to just post a link, you will need the password & identity) and give us some feedback. fracme[at]yahoo.co.uk

...at least in 'trial' format, the podcast and website are now available to check out and give feedback for. As it might not interest everyone (anyone?) and because it is still in trial do send me an email fracme[at]yahoo.co.uk if you want to listen to it. Its about church, theology and all that stuff....

We actually managed to record an hour's worth of material for our podcast, taking in such themes as accountability, every member ministry, commitment, and church structures and institutions. It was a fun and revitalising way to spend a couple of hours in an aftertoon and the results will soon be available for anyone to download and criticise, or comment on or whatever.

Me and my friend, colleague and co-conspirator Brian plan to do our first podcast recording today, though my expectation is that we will drink lots of coffee, wonder about what to say, smoke too much and then come back another day to do it. I have set aside a couple of hours for this out of a hectic day because i am off to a long meeting this evening and want to do something theological and ecclesial with some time... If and when this all comes off, please don't expect to hear the end of it!

Following on from thoughts a couple of posts ago I was talking over the issues of applying management models to Church - or rather to 'churches' (as I'm pretty sure that it would be impossible to apply any one model to the Church as a whole) - with a friend of mine who is 'teaching deacon' at a local baptist church - we warbled on so much that we actually came out with an idea, or rather he did. We thought we might go for a podcast based on thoughts about running the church. Watch this space...