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Mar 18, 20215 min read
Gaming & Godstuff
by Pete Phillips Following up on Andy Robertson's post yesterday on "Bird Alone", today our MA course in Digital Theology had a seminar...
Mar 17, 20212 min read
Bird Alone - a video game with a bitter end - and perhaps that's a good thing!
by Andy Robertson, @GeekDadGamer Andy Robertson has written the Taming Gaming book and runs the Family Video Game Database. Video games...
Mar 12, 20213 min read
Digital Innovation for Easter
by Ben Jones of Missional Generation A year ago we were heading into the first lockdown from this pandemic. I think we will all agree...
Mar 10, 20215 min read
Repentance is more than saying sorry
by Pete Phillips, Head of Digital Theology Last week's Repentance Webinar on the Premier Digital Members Service was quite an...
Mar 8, 20213 min read
The women shaping Digital Theology #IWD2021
by Matt Batten Editor's Note: Yesterday was the funeral of one of the earliest pioneers of digital theology, Dr Bex Lewis. We remember...
Mar 3, 20212 min read
Being deaf in a digital age.
by Laura Neale and Emma Major What are the issues the deaf community have with accessing online content and belonging in online...
Mar 1, 20212 min read
Is everyone welcome at your church? A blog series on digital inclusivity
by Laura Neal and Emma Major So first off, let's introduce ourselves. Laura trained as a lay minister at Ridley Hall in Cambridge but...
Mar 1, 20213 min read
Beer and Hymns!!!
by Revd Graeme Dutton Before COVID We’d be rammed into the narrow, brightly decorated space of The Peacock Bar on North parade in...
Feb 26, 20212 min read
Why Easter could be a WIN WIN for the local online church
On Tuesday, Pete Phillips, Premier's Head of Digital Theology spoke at a webinar for the St Padarn's Institute of the Church in Wales. He...
Feb 25, 20212 min read
Worship without the Widescreen?
by Cat Jenkins In the midst of a pandemic, it’s easy to forget a potentially greater danger – the ongoing climate crisis. In 2020, the...
Feb 22, 20212 min read
A Very "Bex" Communion
Over 100 people joined in a Zoom celebration on Sunday evening to commemorate Dr Bex Lewis who died on Thursday 18th January at St Anne's...
Feb 19, 20214 min read
Bex, who turned Twitter into Church
By Pam Smith, webpastor of I-church.org I first met Bex Lewis at a symposium on online church at St John’s College, Durham, in 2009. She...
Feb 19, 20211 min read
Cancer sucks! A poem by Emma Major, a tribute to Bex Lewis
Bloody hell Cancer sucks And Covid sucks In fact, right now It all sucks And I don't give a flying f*** About my language But you know...
Feb 19, 20213 min read
A tribute to Dr Bex Lewis #BeMoreBex
by Natalie Collins (@God_loves_women) Bex Lewis (or @drbexl as she was known online) described herself as a Life Explorer. She was...
Feb 17, 20213 min read
Ashes to Ashes
Today, Ash Wednesday, is the start of Lent. This is beginning of forty days of reflection about the Christian story with lots of Lent...
Feb 17, 20211 min read
How digital enhances mission
Premier's Head of Digital Theology, Pete Phillips, recently talked to the NorthEast Mission Hub of the Methodist Church on the impact of...
Feb 15, 20214 min read
5 Things "Ready Player One" Can Teach Us About Online Church
Matt Batten writes: Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One (2018) is a love letter to 80’s pop culture - a theme inherited from Ernest...
Feb 9, 20211 min read
How to rest in God
We've been commissioning lots of videos for Premier's Digital Library. Here is one by Emma Major about resting with God, written while...
Feb 4, 20211 min read
Free Lent Resources 2
Look out later this week for a blogpost linking to all the Lent Resources we are making available from next week: THREE 8-week courses...
Feb 4, 20214 min read
BLESSED IN LOCKDOWN
Yesterday, we held our latest webinar supporting the church through the pandemic. We were discussing discipleship online. We had 600...
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