Kodak dominated photography for over a century. Then in 2012 it filed for bankruptcy. Why? What happened? While it was instrumental in the invention of digital photographic technology, it failed to recognise its significance. In the late 1990s sales of photographic film declined and Kodak was slow to transition to digital photography. The Swiss dominated
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Habit 3 – Help others I was recently part of a discussion about the famous quote The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members.* It appears in different forms, and is variously attributed to William Temple and G.K. Chesterton. The point is clear. And it
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I have placed online the NZ Anglican Baptism rite with the promises, commitments and creed before baptism. This was authorised in 2002. Although some people touted NZ Anglican’s baptismal practice, of pouring water over someone’s head and then seeing if after that they believe anything, as a breakthrough in Christian baptismal history, I have always
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I have been designing a logo for this website. I now have some variants, and I would be interested to hear which you like and why. So please vote for one of these three, and in the comments you can give reasons why you prefer one over the others. The logo, of course, will normally
image source (and larger). H/T Peter Carrell. Comments at the original: Mind the Agape. The red line should stop at Derbe and the green needs a spur into Illyricum. With the creator’s response: You’re right the red line should stop at Derbe, but I think I just liked the circular look, though I might change
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Strike the Cloud – Understanding and practising the teaching of The Cloud of Unknowingby Graeme Watson (SPCK) 2011; 82 Pages. I was thrilled to be able to meet the author of this book, Rev. Graeme Watson, at church on Sunday, and to spend time with him last night (photo above). Fellow blogger, Fr Ron Smith,
We are going through the four marks of the church: one, holy, catholic, apostolic. In this post we are looking at the fourth mark: apostolic. I tire of the image of God as a little man in the sky controlling the weather. One metaphor for God I appreciate is God as the music of the
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Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick produced the following wonderful list of coffee heresies: Decaf is Docetic because it only appears to be coffee. Instant is Apollinarian because it’s had its soul removed and replaced. Frappuccinos are essentially a form of Monophysitism, having their coffee nature swallowed up in milkshake. Chicory is Arian, not truly coffee at all but a separate creation. Irish
