- Website
- http://masowden.posterous.com/
- Description
- I am a trainee Methodist Local Preacher and an Oblate of St Dominic in the Anglican Order of Preachers. The digital world enables me to expand my vision and my focus on being a disciple of Jesus Christ. A mother of two adult children, I am a wife to Richard and proud owner of Alfie Lurcher. I love to talk to God about the world, and to the world about God!
![This week I have been reflecting on Matthew’s gospel and one particular verse in chapter ten has been running through my mind, almost constantly. Matthew 10:16 I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as […]](http://archive.bigbible.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Cotswold_sheep_ewe_with_young_lamb_suckling_Rare_Breed_Trust_Cot-115x115.jpg "“Sheep in the Midst of Wolves.” #digidisciple @MurielSowden")
![I’m always very interested to hear of ways in which we, in the church, are finding new ideas to serve the communities where we find ourselves and I’m particularly pleased when I hear of people using social media to benefit […]](http://archive.bigbible.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/TeaToast-115x115.jpg "A “good news story” (@MurielSowden)")
![Psalms 19:14 (NIV) 14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. I realise that all good conversation includes the discussion of ideas, thoughts […]](http://archive.bigbible.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/speak-love-RGBstock-115x115.jpg "An attitude of humility #digidisciple (@MurielSowden)")
![One of my favourite advertisements has to be this one, from O2:- with the strapline “We’re better, connected.” The original campaign included ads with sport, music and relationship themes. The strapline seems to apply equally to our lives as disciples […]](http://archive.bigbible.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Screen-Shot-2012-07-05-at-23.34.11-115x115.png "“We’re better, connected.” @MurielSowden #Digidisciple")
![Some of the #digidisciple(s) were present at the Thinking Digital 2012 Conference in Gateshead last week -a conference “for people who believe in the power of innovation and creativity to help change their world.” I was not able to travel to […]](http://archive.bigbible.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Screen-Shot-2012-06-06-at-12.28.12-115x115.png "Using digital technologies to transform the lives of the socially excluded #TDC12 @MurielSowden #digidisciple")
![For the past few weeks I have been researching our family history online: delving into census records, marriage registers and trawling through photographs of gravestones. (I did start a paper version of the Family Tree quite a few years ago, […]](http://archive.bigbible.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Dawn_Rosemary-Humphreys-12baskets-115x115.jpg "#BigRead12 Mark 6:1-29 with @fragranceofgod")
![Today is the Feast Day of St. Romuald: one of the greatest reformers of the Benedictine Order and also Founder of the Congregation of Monk Hermits of Camaldoli known as the Camaldolese. Romuald had an unquenchable thirst for silence, austerity […]](http://archive.bigbible.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/eyefilm-115x115.png "Sacred Quiet #digidisciple (@fragranceofgod)")
![I have always been particularly attracted to the monastic ideal of living a simple lifestyle. On the material level, living a simple life means dispensing with clutter, being content with the necessities, not desiring more and more money or possessions. […]](http://archive.bigbible.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/cross_10L-115x115.jpg "Living a simple life #digidisciple @fragranceofgod")
![A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with a friend who said that there was nothing good about Facebook and there was no way that God was at work there. He also argued that there was nothing Christians […]](http://archive.bigbible.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/hh1-115x115.jpg "Who is my (digital) neighbour? #digidisciple")
![The thing that distinguishes most traditional religious orders is living together. Monastics generally live out their calling in community together, holding all things in common and living by a Rule of Life. However, there has recently been an increase in […]](http://archive.bigbible.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/diginetwork-115x115.jpg "#digidisciple Digital Dominicans (@fragranceofgod)")
From 2010–2015, the BigBible Project sought to host conversations about the Bible through local reading groups & online conversations. Since 2016, the project has taken a slightly different focus, hosting discussion from experts on Biblical Literacy and Biblical Reception in a Digital World. 
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