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Busy; Brave; Funny; Sad

bignorm — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:04:27 +0000

After finishing all my essays for college this month, and preparing for three major speaking engagements (after an approx 12 month rest), I’m packing up my house ready to move to a new home. Normally, this would be easy with Emily around, but since she is ready to ‘pop’ with our new baby, things are slightly more complicated. Wish me luck.

Hence, blogging has not been priority, and may not be over the coming weeks, but I’ll see what I can do.

In the Spirit of bgnmdtnt, I leave you with a video especially geared for all of you involved with a church. Emily and found great humour, stark truth, and sadly, a contemporary reality in this because we’ve both worked at a church. And like Dorothy in Oz, we’ve seen the man behind the curtain.

Does the church that you go employ clever coercion (technical, programming etc.) to create a spiritual atmosphere more than they should?

Derry Sasquatch Sighting

bignorm — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:32:41 +0000

Im struggling to get time to blog at the minute. Essays are climaxing, we’re getting ready to move to Skerries, and I’m speaking this May a lot. Its really all go.

Check out the Google Maps image of my old house in Derry (below). I zoomed in and guess who is going into the garage after cutting the lawns?

Naked Expectations

bignorm — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:45:03 +0000

Truth, courtesy of the Nakedpastor.

Irish Prepare For Rob Bell

bignorm — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:56:47 +0000

In preparation for Rob Bell’s visit to Ireland this month, Scripture Union have decided (for some reason) to display Rob’s book in the kids section of their Talbot Street window display.

Welcome to Ireland Robert.

Irony For The Irish

bignorm — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:26:05 +0000

Osservatore Romano’s photograph in today’s Irish Times seems slightly ironic considering Vatican secretary Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said that “humilty” is the key to true renewal within the Irish Church.

Maybe my cynicism lets me see something different in this photo. Hmmm.

Pomegranate Phone

bignorm — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:54:36 +0000

Finally a phone that does everything, yes, EVERYTHING. Forget the iphone or even the new Palm Pre, the Pomegranate IS the ticket.

Check it out: www.pomegranatephone.com

Pro-Blogging Pope

bignorm — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:34:27 +0000

In his message last May, the Pope acknowledged that priests face new challenges due to cultural shifts that have brought the conversation online. Thus, priests must do more than just take the Word of the gospel to the web.

Here’s a small excerpt from the entire message from the Pope:

“The spread of multimedia communications and its rich “menu of options” might make us think it sufficient simply to be present on the Web, or to see it only as a space to be filled. Yet priests can rightly be expected to be present in the world of digital communications as faithful witnesses to the Gospel, exercising their proper role as leaders of communities which increasingly express themselves with the different “voices” provided by the digital marketplace. Priests are thus challenged to proclaim the Gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources (images, videos, animated features, blogs, websites) which, alongside traditional means, can open up broad new vistas for dialogue, evangelization and catechesis.”

This seems like a step in the right direction. Although, I’ve no doubt that priestly bloggers can look forward to the initial wave of colourful comments and expletive replies from the multitude of ignored abuse victims.

Courtesy of Mashable

Star Wars Kid

bignorm — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:11:28 +0000

Dont get caught making a fool of yourself with your new video camera this Christmas.

Distractibility

bignorm — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:10:29 +0000

Tech-heads and time wasters: Check out this distractibility chart from those wizards over at informationisbeautiful.net

Clever graphics and imagery can make anything beautiful. (see OK Magazine for more examples)

Oink – I Mean Ouch!

bignorm — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:49:21 +0000

I was SO tired and achy this morning, Emily and I thought that I could have early stages of Swine Flu.

Thankfully though, after a decent breakfast and few “there, there” pets on the back of my head, it turns out that it’s only a mild relapse of non-lethal Man Flu.