Compact Archive: WordPress Plugin

Description My blog has posts going back over 11 years and the archive of posts by month in my sidebar was getting very much out of hand. In the search for a more compact way of displaying the monthly archive a plugin was born. Compact Archive displays the monthly archive of posts in two compact …

Recent Comments: WordPress Plugin

Update 13th January, 2007 Recent Comments Version 2.0.0 beta is now available. Largely rewritten, it includes better retrieval of comments, some new options and many more possible styles of display. Version 2 now has its own page where future developments will be documented. Comments are now closed for this post but can be added to …

Recent Posts: WordPress Plugin

Update 13th January, 2007 Recent Posts Version 2.0.0 beta is now available. Largely rewritten, it includes some new options and many more possible styles of display. Version 2 now has its own page where future developments will be documented. Comments are now closed for this post but can be added to the new page. Version …

Random Posts: WordPress Plugin

Update 13th January, 2007 Random Posts Version 2.0.0 beta is now available. Largely rewritten, it includes some new options and many more possible styles of display. Version 2 now has its own page where future developments will be documented. Comments are now closed for this post but can be added to the new page. Version …

Tuesday Week 29 Year II

Readings: Ephesians 2:12-22; Luke 12:35-38 Paul is falling over himself with metaphors today, mixing and matching like crazy, but all to one end: the urgent communication of a distance dwindled to nothing. In Christ, foreign has become familiar. In Christ, two become one. In Christ, distance becomes closeness; hostility, harmony; war, peace. We are now …

‘Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching’

That’s the title the London Review of Books gives Terry Eagleton’s savaging of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It’s a guilty pleasure to read something as well-written (pleasure) and scathing (there’s the guilt). He begins: Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and …