WordPress has changed its widgets so that it includes avatars in the ‘recent comments’ side bar. It looked ghastly in the old format. So, I’m playing around. Things might look a bit strange tonight. And before anyone tries to help — yes I know I can buy the option to play with the CSS, but for now I’m experimenting with the (free and) easy options.
Update: WordPress has now explained how to turn the avatars off. But I think change has become inevitable. What do you think?
All blogging activity today has been consumed in the thurible.
Anyone who’s missed all the fun should go read.
Tomorrow’s game is connect the dots:
No, don’t panic. I’m not launching a campaign.
But I’ve just stumbled across an interesting video about a church’s decision to replace its pews with chairs. Lots of churches do this — but in this case, the potential opposition was high. St Paul’s Chapel is part of Trinity Wall Street — the church that kept standing as the Twin Towers fell down around it. Trinity and St Paul’s served as the base for much of the rescue operation, and the firemen slept in St Paul’s pews. So it was a really brave decision to change the pews now — just as people were beginning to revere the scratches and chipped paint caused by the fire-fighters’ equipment.
The video only takes a few minutes, and can be found here.
I got interrupted in a conversation today just as I heard someone say ‘but all my friends are Christian’.
Clearly I have been getting this business of outreach all wrong. We need to go right back to basics. If all your friends are Christians, it’s time to find new friends. Adopt a pagan. Befriend an atheist. Spend time with someone who radically disagrees with you.
You have about 92% of the population to choose from, after all. (OK– that’s based on actual church attendance, but even the most generous estimates of Christian allegiance in Britain leave you will a full 24% of the population from which to find new friends.)
wonderful exchange 