This here’s a Wordle of the front page of this blog. It’s a kind of designer word cloud, artistically arranged, for which you can set colours and fonts. It gives you some idea of the contents on a stream-of-consciousness level.Wordles are surprisingly engaging electronic playthings. Here’s another:
More details and the opportunity to produce your own from any text you like, or blog, here.Many thanks to Rev John Griffiths for pointing out how brilliantly wordles represent visually what our sermons were actually all about: He gives a link to one of his in the comments below, and I tried mine from yesterday morning (Trinity Sunday & Father's Day):
4 comments:
Hmm thanks for the reminder. You've commented on the unsuitability of sermons as texts or audio files on the internet. In a spirit of mischief you inspired me to worldle my last sermon - which as it happened was on John 17. Perhaps this should take over from the critiquing of sermon outlines. There's something very zen about losing all sense of the argument and just dwelling on the words. Here's the link: http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/923876/sermon_on_John_17
'for God so loved the worldle' or is it do not love the worldly or anything that comes from the wordle?'
John, thank you for a fabulous discovery — wordles do indeed help focus what a sermon was actually all about in a visual way. Congrats on yours, and I've now posted mine from Trinity Sunday on the blog. Great way to find out if what we said was on message!
Thanks for this - I discovered Wordle when I did Nanowrimo last November.
I'm about to give our vicar a shiny new website and I am just betting he wants to put sermons on it - any chance of a pointer to your discussion on this, which I'm afraid I can't manage to find in your archive?
A few years ago the home groups were given 5 sermons diced and audio sliced into bite sized chunks to discuss with our bibles at the ready. Don't go there. We did. We won't go again.
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