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I’m at the Spring Harvest evangelical holiday camp for much of the coming week, and will be keeping a diary on my Church Times blog.
In the meantime please forgive the lack of posts and delays in comment moderation on this site.
Update:
Posted by Dave at 10:14 am on April 5, 2008 and filed under Festivals and Exhibitions, Blogging, Religion.
The BBC has issued a set of guidelines for its employees on blogging. The general message seems to be ‘talk to your line manager’. This guidance is part of a wider set of guidelines covering social networking and the internet and things like that.
There are also editorial guidelines on the subject of religion, which say, among other things:
Comedy and satire always have the potential for offence.
Indeed. I should probably issue a blanket apology every now and then just to be on the safe side.
Sorry everyone.
Posted by Dave at 12:04 am on March 21, 2008 and filed under Blogging, Religion.
I’ve posted a cartoon about Bishop Gene Robinson’s non-invitation to the Lambeth Conference on the Church Times blog. Also a brief observation on the fact that Wesley Owen are to be the official bookshop of the conference.
Don’t worry - I’m not going to write something here every time I make a Church Times post. But I might sometimes say something here when I’ve drawn a new cartoon, especially during these first few weeks whilst there are people wandering aimlessly up and down the corridors trying to work out where my cartoons are and which room they are supposed to be after the coffee break.
Posted by Dave at 11:54 am on March 11, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Blogging, Anglican goings-on, Religion.
At long last I am ready to make an announcement that has been waiting in my ‘pending announcements’ box (usually a very empty box it must be said) for some months. I am now blogging on a new blog, the Church Times blog, of which this is a sample screen shot:
The new blog will be about the same sorts of subjects that you’ll find in the Church Times newspaper - religious news with an emphasis on Anglican goings-on. There will be plenty of cartoons, both new ones and some unearthed from my filing ’system’. The aim is to bring some more variety to the Church Times site and hopefully reach a wider audience.
I know that the starting of a new blog will raise some questions, so I will attempt to preempt them. First of all, this Cartoon blog and the CartoonChurch website will continue as will my cartoons in the Church Times newspaper.
So, how will the ‘two blog’ scenario will work? Well, the Church Times blog will contain:
This blog will contain everything else. In other words:
Whilst the Cartoon blog will continue I will no longer advertise it as my daily internet column. CartoonChurch.com will contine and I will keep on adding new cartoons to the ‘content’ pages.
The Church Times blog site is new and it has only been live since Friday. I didn’t mention it here at the weekend as I’ve been away and wanted to be able to moderate any comments that might be posted and respond to any questions that might be asked. Please excuse any technical glitches that we haven’t yet ironed out.
You may well be wondering how I will find the time to post on yet another website. Well, I will be posting a bit less here, but I’m also going to be cutting down the amount of freelance work that I do as that is the part of my work I sometimes struggle with. Although I still have a lot to do in the next couple of weeks after that time I am going to (politely) say ‘no’ to a lot of projects for the sake of my sanity. I’m also hoping to find some people to be a bit more involved in the running of the Wibsite, the community website that I supposedly run but have, to my shame, rather neglected recently. Chris has had to do more than he should, which hasn’t been right.
I hope you’ll enjoy the new blog - I for one am very excited to be doing it. I’m also looking forward to working more with the people from the Church Times - the plan is for me to go into their offices in the City of London for one day a week as well as doing cartooning and blogging at home as I usually do.
There is a feed that you can subscribe to if you enjoy what I do. You can read the blog through a site like Bloglines, Google reader, My Yahoo etc, or you can get it delivered by e-mail as I know some people do with this site. The feed page should have the full information about that sort of thing.
Hope to see you there - and here.
Posted by Dave at 6:35 pm on March 3, 2008 and filed under CartoonChurch progress, Blogging, CartoonChurch.com newsletter, Religion.
Blogger Maggi Dawn will be interviewing the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in Cambridge this week and is asking for questions from bloggers (and, I’m sure, blog commenters). It looks as if lots of the events are ones you can attend too if you are in the area.
See also:
Update:
Posted by Dave at 3:23 pm on February 18, 2008 and filed under Blogging, Current events, Religion, Anglican bloggers.
Some of the UK’s Methodist bloggers have been having a gathering this weekend.
Note the dark brown cups as opposed to the pale green variety traditionally used by Anglicans. (Aside: If the Methodists and Anglicans ever join together the proposal is to have cups of a murky brown pale green colour.)
The Methodists are way ahead of use Anglicans in terms of mixing and mingling. Not only do they meet in real life, but they’ve had a Facebook group for a lot longer than our brand new Anglican one (I’ve been overjoyed at the response by the way - thanks everyone).
Dave Warnock has posted quite a bit about the Methodist bloggers get-together, as has Richard starting here and with pictures here. Other Methodist bloggers at the event included Olive Morgan (86 years old), Pam, ‘Turbulent Cleric‘, John and Will.
Finally, from Richard’s comments:
Kim Says:
When can we expect the joint communiqué?Paul Martin Says:
Sorry Kim, but we can’t agree on one.
Great stuff. God bless the Methodists.
Posted by Dave at 11:59 pm on January 5, 2008 and filed under Blogging, Ecumenical matters, Religion.
I have decided that whilst procrastinating from my main task, that of producing one good diagram a day, I will attempt to mend the rift in the Anglican Communion using various methods.
Part one is the formation of a Facebook group entitled ‘Anglican Bloggers‘ which is for all bloggers and blog commenters with an interest in Anglican things.
A group for people who blog about Anglican goings-on. Also the people who comment on the blogs about Anglican goings-on. Also Anglicans who blog, but not about Anglican goings-on. Also those who have no idea what is going on, but want to join in.
This is a group for those who blog from the right hand pews, those who blog from the left hand pews and those who find themselves blogging in the central aisle where they might be struck down by a hymnbook from either side or be run down by the procession. Everyone is welcome.
I hadn’t planned this to be a place for in-depth debate, as there are lots of those out there anyway. But it might become a place to connect with the people behind the websites. Who knows, we might discover we’re all human after all. And where the bloggers lead the bishops follow. Or something.
If you know any Anglican bloggers and commenters then please let them know. There is a thread where you can add your own site and hopefully other discussions will develop. If you’re not on Facebook it is quite easy to sign up, but if you don’t want to do so for idealogical reasons I respect that.
By the way I have drawn the people in the cartoon wearing cassocks as I am assuming we all wear cassocks when blogging and commenting. In fact I tend to wear a dressing gown, which is a short cassock made from towelling material.
OK, let’s send some invitations to some distant (and not so distant) pews. I know all of us Anglican bloggers check our referrers on an hourly basis. To the following - you’d all be most welcome to join us:
This is by no stretch of the imagination anywhere remotely near an exhaustive list, but I had to start somewhere. Simon of the Thinking Anglicans has already joined, as has Bishop Alan and a good number of others. Well, we’re into double figures.
Please feel free to use the above cartoon on your own site. Just copy and paste this handy code:
<img src="http://www.weblogcartoons.com/cb/anglican-bloggers.gif" alt="cartoon from www.weblogcartoons.com" />
<p>Cartoon by <a href="http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/">Dave Walker</a>. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at <a href="http://www.weblogcartoons.com/">We Blog Cartoons</a>.</p>
Update:
I’ve posted a couple of responses from a few of the blogs on theFacebook group. I particularly appreciated the post from Mark Harris: PRELUDIUM: The Fulfillment of Predictions 1. Also Fr Jake Father Jake Stops the World: All You Need is Love? and from the other side it will be interesting to see the comments on Stand Firm - I Thought I Felt a Disturbance in the Force.
Posted by Dave at 9:19 am on January 4, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Church, Blogging, Anglican goings-on, Religion, Anglican bloggers.
The ‘How to become a famous blogger‘ cartoon (excerpt above) which I was encouraged to draw last week as part of my ‘Cartoon Challenge Night’ has become an unexpected hit in a few segments of the internet. This is largely due to the fact that a genuine famous blogger, Darren Rouse, has posted it on his Problogger site. Since then I’ve had quite a lot of weblog links from all over the place, which I am secretly very pleased about.
Talking of Darren, there is a good interview with him about blogging and suchlike on Tim Challies’ site. Darren always has interesting things to say about blogging and Christianity, in particular going beyond the Christian bubble and interacting with the rest of everybody else a bit more.
We need to get out and about in the real world. I think that this afternoon I will go into Basildon.
Posted by Dave at 11:22 am on October 12, 2007 and filed under Church, Cartooning, Blogging, Religion.
Premier have kindly put various clips of the Christian Blog Award ceremony up on Premier.tv, their TV sort of site. The video of me receiving my award and giving my three sentence speech is here. You’ll need broadband I think.
Dear me. I don’t think I come across very well, but then perhaps no-one thinks that they do. The sunday school gag is a bit lame, so sorry about that. I had to think of something on the spur of the moment. As I said before I also forgot to say thank you to the award organisers and judges, which was a bit lax.
Here is the full list of video clips:
The Christian Blog Awards site is here.
Posted by Dave at 12:43 pm on October 3, 2007 and filed under Church, Blogging, Religion.
I have discovered that one of the people who was up against me in the Creative Blog Category in the Christian Blog Awards is an evangelist who navigates around Britain in a sailing boat, stopping here and there to evangelise riding a Sinclair A-bike whilst dressed as John Wesley.
You don’t believe me do you?
Here’s a snippet from his website:
I went for a coffee in the local Nero’s and met Grant who like many many other people was intrigued with my A-Bike, which following an explanation of its workings allowed me to continue our conversation with me sharing the gospel with him.
On my way back to see if my new friend had arrived at the meeting point I was astonished to be stopped by an elderly lady who must have been well into her 80’s who wanted to talk to me about my bike.
I would reiterate what I have said in an earlier newsletter that if you are at a loss on how to start conversations with people to share the good news about Jesus with them, then buy an A-Bike and you will have many such encounters each day. They can be obtained from www.a-bike.co.uk for £149.95.
The A-bike, in case you are wondering, is a folding bicycle. It is apparently great to carry but not so great to ride. If you want a space-age bike that is great to ride but not quite so great to fold then I’d recommend the Strida. Not that I’ve got one, but who knows, one day.
Anyway, enough about bicycles. John is the intrepid evangelist’s name. I wish him all the best on his mission.
Posted by Dave at 11:27 pm on September 24, 2007 and filed under Blogging, Cycling, Ecumenical matters, Religion.
We had a splendid time at the Christian Blog and Web Awards last night. The organisers really put on a fantastic event at St Stephen Wallbrook, and I was most impressed. The evening started with champagne and mingling, after which the Bishop of London gave a speech. Hopefully this and other elements of the evening will, before too long, be on the Premier website or on Premier TV, but they aren’t there at the time of writing. The meal was a tasty treat, and then came the awards. These, from memory, were the winners - there are a couple I will need to add:
Best Church Website: King’s Church Manchester
Best Worship Blog or Site: Worship Central
Best Young Christian Blog (for under 25s): Unfurling Flower, by Emily
Most Inspiring Leadership Blog: Unashamed Workman (Thanks to Krish for remembering this)
Most Successful Evangelistic Blog or Site: Rejesus
Best Christian Newcomer Blog: Krish Kandiah (His post about the awards)
Best Christian News and Reviews Site: Christian Today
Best Provision for Youth Blog or Website: Soul Survivor
Best Christian Social Action website: Stop the Traffik
Premier Radio & Premier Online People’s Choice: Mindandsoul.info
Best Creative Christian blog or website: Um… me.
In fact mine was the first award of the evening to be awarded, which was a bit nerve wracking. I gave a short garbled three sentence speech in which (in hindsight) I should have explained what my blog is about. But I did remember to thank my wife and you, the blog commenters, even if I did forget to thank God, Premier and the cats. So, thanks to everyone who has been involved. I received a splendid glass trophy and a present, which is a wireless rabbit. I will look forward to playing with that later.
Here is a picture of me leading everyone in prayer:
The photo was staged after the event as like a fool I checked my camera into the left luggage area before the evening began. I blinked as I always do these days when flash photographed.
I will link to official and other reports of the event as I discover them (see ‘Update’ below). I suspect most people who were there are still having a lie in.
Thanks again to Premier for organising the Awards - I hope they continue and flourish.
Update (Sunday):
Update (Monday):
Update (Tuesday and onwards):
Posted by Dave at 1:34 pm on September 22, 2007 and filed under Church, Blogging, Current events, Religion.
These days you do not need to be an internet ‘whizz’ kid to make a website. In order to demonstrate how easy it is to make a website for a church (or any other purpose) I have made one for an imaginary church in about half an hour (perhaps an hour - but I dilly-dallied along the way) and it is here: http://churchwebsite.wordpress.com/
Here is how to make such a website in fairly easy steps:
You can of course make many improvements to this by spending a little more time. There are I’m sure lots of other good ways to make a website, but for someone starting from scratch I think wordpress.com is a great option.
Hopefully this will help someone out there.
Other useful Church website resources:
Posted by Dave at 11:59 pm on August 10, 2007 and filed under Church, Technical, Blogging, Religion.
