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This is an ecumenical website of resources and reflections on liturgy, spirituality, and worship for individuals and communities. It is run by Rev. Bosco Peters.

Tag Archives: google

spam update

As you can see on the above graph – spam has been arriving at this site exponentially year by year. Currently I get about a thousand spam comments a day (I’ve had a total of 286,107 spam comments). I can look at this from the bright side: a lot of Christian websites have gone down… Continue Reading

world’s first antisocial network

This post is dedicated to the latest upgrade of facebook which IMO has made it even worse! Launching the “upgrade” was facebook’s knee-jerk reaction to the announcement by Google+ allowing anyone to sign up for it. Facebook was to have rolled out its new design at its F8 Facebook Developers conference. But it just couldn’t… Continue Reading

rate your pastor

Online you can rate your teacher, restaurant, or any list of other things. Now, on a German website, http://hirtenbarometer.de, you can rate your pastor. Here is the English translation of the site. There are five areas you rank the pastor on: worship – how good is the service you lead; and is there room for… Continue Reading

Google+

As Google+ gets underway there’s plenty of joking about Google being ordained (Google+), Google automatically ordaining people as bishops (+Bosco), Google using a religious symbol… Fr David Cloake has written a witty Liturgy for the Creation and Propagation of a Google+ Account. The complete rite is here, here are some parts to whet your appetite:… Continue Reading

Christmas 2.0

Christmas 2.0

Christmas 2.0

How social media, web and mobile tell the story of the Nativity. Christmas story told through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, GMail, Foursquare, Amazon… Times change, the reality remains the same. Another cool Christmas video

respectful commenting

Having watched nasty, ad hominem, caustic comments become seriously destructive on websites and in some cases result in the site closing down, I was very wary about opening this site up for comments. But I was constantly urged to do so. And finally gave in, setting up a quite strong comment policy. In the event,… Continue Reading

popularity of liturgy & worship?

searches for liturgy

The search for the term “liturgy” on Google (top line) in the last six years has approximately halved. Online news about “liturgy” (bottom line) has grown a little in the same period: The search for the term “worship” on Google (top line) in the last six years has approximately halved. Online news about “worship” (bottom… Continue Reading