Author: Kyle
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App Development: Day 5
Yesterday things shifted a bit. I can feel my priorities changing as my time here draws to an end. I’m out of free-ranging learning mode (building skills for future app development) and into a place where I hope to have a glossy prototype to show the folks here before I leave, to see if they’re…
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App development: Day 4
I continue to break what might be the most important rule in this place. Let me explain. You see, what we’re interested in, eventually, in the CMT is a rule of life app (more on why an app might be an appropriate companion to a rule of life in another post). So it seemed like…
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App Development: Day 3
Yesterday was a harder day. The programming details were less fun, more picky. A small victory was that I got the toy app I’ve been working on loaded onto my iPhone for the first time. That’s a cool feeling. On the other hand, the program crashed for the first time yesterday as well (map views…
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App Development: Day 2
Day 2 went (or at least ended) well enough that I feel like I can let the cat out of the bag and start making these posts public. On the technical front: I was up late, but I made a lot of progress learning Xcode, the development environment Apple provides for writing iOS apps. What’s so…
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App Development: Day 1
It feels good to be working on a spirituality app in the prayerful and purposeful confines of Richmond Hill. This convent-turned-ecumenical-community with a continuing vocation to pray for and work in the city is one of those gems representing the very best of what the church can be. The community Eucharist tonight doubled as a…
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When Advent gets away from us
Advent 4, Year C (Luke 1:39-55) PDF | Audio (or via Dropbox) | Text: Image source: Chris Wolff CC BY 2.0 via Flickr — Three weeks ago, Bishop Steven Miller bid us to embrace the present moment and put on the splendid apparel that is ours in Christ Jesus. Two weeks ago, Fr. Humphrey helped us name…
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Jesus Is Our (Metaphorical) Rock
Thursday in 1 Advent, Year 1 (Isaiah 26:1-6, Ps 118:19-24, Matt 7:21-27) PDF | Audio (or via Dropbox) | Text: Image source: idleformat CC BY 2.0 via Flickr — May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our rock and our redeemer. In college, I worked…
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Pictures from the Ordination
So many thanks to all who participated! More reflections to follow, I expect.
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CSC gets a new look
It was about time. OK, it was past time. The old Blogger-based Contraria Sunt Complementa site has been a good personal and professional home base for me since David Meerman Scott convinced me how much I needed one back in 2007. But it was starting to look more than a little dated, and a fresh…
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Gathering with the Saints
“I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, and for this reason I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers” (Ephesians 1:15–16). I hope the author of the Letter to the Ephesians won’t mind me borrowing these words.…