Friar Talk

Check this out.. It is a website that I hope could be used for Philosophy and Theology. I have begun a project at my Wiki for links to website resources for philosophy and theology and I am going to post the results there. I began it last night. The page looks skewed in Mozilla, but not in I.E. I hope to design a page that will be viewable through any browser.

Currently my biblical apostolate websites aren’t doing well. Otium Sanctum suffered from a recent MySQL breakdown. Lectio Divina hasn’t been updated regularly because of the recent downtime of AgustinongPinoy. And the rest… well, the rest are just getting along. I am worried that I’d have problems with bandwidth later on that is why I am trying to drive out traffice from my site by setting up these offsite links. In any case, we survive.

For some reason or another, the parish website cannot be accessed. I was told that the database stopped responding. It is working again though. Try it out.

If you wish to blog but do not know how, try blogging first at our “Make My Day” blogging community. Once you’ve learned how to operate a blogging application, then perhaps you can start your own blog here.

My blogs on Apollo Quibology are drawing the ire of some of the members of His Kingdom. The posts of one member in particular (perhaps the same one who calls himself Keji or Kingdom Youth) have become so offensive that I had to ban him from my TypePad blogs. The thing is, I have even set up a forum for them to post their thoughts about their beloved pastor, but they would not even register at the address I gave them. Certainly, I wouldn’t like to be drawn into a debate with someone who posts just to insult. What does he think a blog or a forum is? But see these comments on my blog…

For those who are wondering about how the Social Teachings of the Church can be made to bear on a money-driven economy such as ours, read this blog. Louis Even’s “Social Credit” may as well prove to be the a Christian alternative to capitalism. The Churches in the UK are lauching a debate centered on a wealth-driven economy, just as Louis Even has proposed it. It is worth a look.

Kubrick is one of the better layouts available for Wordpress. The only problem I have with it are the images for the header and the advertisement banner incorporated in the layout. Anyway, I’ll have the chance to introduce my innovations for the layout later.

WordPress 1.5 is out and looks good too. But I don’t know whether I would want to upgrade my current blogs. Bible Notes is WP 1.2. To upgrade it to 1.5 can be tricky. The same goes with Glitches In Time.

The homily guides for Ash Wednesday and the First Sunday of Lent are now available. Just go here.

I haven’t done much really in the way of updating the contents of AgustinongPinoy. After it became visible on the web again, all I’ve done is to post somethings about my forty-third birthday celebration. The most recent post is about last Saturday evening’s birthday celebration at the parish.. Bible Notes Simply Blogs and the Mystical Geek have been quite dynamic. I have been posting almost everyday on those blogs. Those of the Mystical Geek are recycled posts from an exclusive blogging network where I write on Spirituality and Web Technology. My WordPress tutorials at Blogsome is picking up a readership. You may also want to check it out.

Simply Blogs is currently out of commission. It has the same problems as AgustinongPinoy: legacy server. Don’t look for it in the coming days. I’ll just announce it here when it is again available. Here are some interesting blogs about the Santo Niño:

• "To The Beat of Drums" is about the secularization of the Sinulog festivities.
• Here is a Picture Blog about the MGC Parish Santo Nino celebrations.
• The above chronologically follows another one on the difficulty of disassociating the veneration of images (Catholic) and the “paganism” of popular religiosity.
• And finally, one on the history of the devotion to the Holy Child.