Posted by: Clayton Fopp
on 8 May, 2010
Having been playing around with Wordle for the artwork for First Things First, the Ephesians teaching series starting tomorrow, I decided to put the text of this blog through Wordle to see what the word cloud would look like.
For those of you unfamiliar with word clouds, the words in a given text are presented different sizes relative to their frequency. So the most commonly used words are larger, the least commonly used words are smaller.
The finished product is below. It's pretty obvious what most of this blog is about!
Click on the image to enlarge.
Posted by: Clayton Fopp
on 26 January, 2010
I stumbled upon Melinda Tankard Reist's blog this week as I looking at the website for the new Eternity newspaper. (Both are worth bookmarking)
Melinda's latest post But Wait There's More: Why Does Supre Treat Little Girls This Way? would have been almost unbelievable were it not for the photos of the 
overtly sexual "pussy power" artwork emblazoned on one of the company's T-shirts.
Perhaps, I thought, this isn't a case of the sexualisation of young girls, who Melinda says are Supre's main customers. It might not be a case of turning young girls into fodder for an overly sexualised culture what treats young girls as miniture women. Maybe it's just what I would have to say is an appalling poor choice of shirt aimed at (older) women. So I checked the Supre website, looking for some statement of the primary market segment the brand targets. The very first comment I found outlined the company's summer fashions for "young trendy girls."
Posted by: Clayton Fopp
on 20 October, 2009
Ladies, there's a new blog in town.
in tandem is a blog for ministry wives, with contributions from three women who are all married to men in full-time vocational ministry. Interestingly, the ministries that these men and their wives are involved in are remarkably diverse! As they say on the site, The role of the 'ministry wife' is one of the hardest roles to define, because every marriage is different and because there are so many ways of being 'in ministry'!
As I understand it though, their purpose in writing though, is to explore some of the unique challenges of being married to someone in vocational ministry.
Posted by: Clayton Fopp
on 18 October, 2009
If you're interested in church planting, you're quite possibly aware that the Church Planting Center at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York has launched a blog.
The RCPC Blog, currently labelled as "beta," is home to reflections from Tim Keller, Scott Sauls and others from the Redeemer staff team as well as members of their church planting network.
In one of Keller's first blog posts, maybe even his first, he brings John Frame's tri-perspectivalism to bear as a tool for analysing the phenomenon that is Willow Creek Church. (Incidentally, I have Frame's The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God, sitting on my desk which I've started reading about 5 times and never managed to quite get through it!) It's an interesting read, although I think that viewing tri-perspectivalism as the silver bullet with which to harmonise the various threads of broad evangelicalism is probably misguided. That said, I don't think Keller is saying it is the silver bullet, but others around the blogosphere seem to.
Posted by: Clayton Fopp
on 17 February, 2009
This picture is really just a way of directing you to our friend Nathan Tasker's blog. 
He posted this picture last month, but his blog is actually quite serious! Nathan is a singer songwriter based in Nashville, but has lots of friends in the Trinity Mount Barker community.
Head over to http://nathantasker.typepad.com/like_you_blog_me/ and check out Nathan's reflections on music, life, American experiences (and chick flicks!).
