David Bunce: Freelance Web Designer

Who are we designing our church website for?

davidbunce — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:53:37 +0000

This is the fourth lesson in my free online course, “Designing a church website”. The aim of this course is to help any church, no matter what size, walk through the process of designing an effective website from beginning to end. Today we are focussing on the question of our audience: who are we designing [...]

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Where are we going? Identifying problems and setting goals for a church website.

davidbunce — Mon, 13 May 2013 06:34:17 +0000

This is the third lesson in the “Designing a church website” free online course. So far in the course, we’ve been looking at the websites we’ve currently got and seeing how they are. If you have been working through the course with us, you should now have a fairly solid idea about what the strengths [...]

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What have we got already? Analysing the strengths and weaknesses of a current church website design.

davidbunce — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:32:16 +0000

Although most posts in this “How to design a church website” series are designed to be helpful whether you are designing a new website completely from scratch or re-designing/updating your current web design, this particular post assumes that you probably already have a church website that needs to be updated in some way, or possibly [...]

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Why does our church need a new/updated website? Isn’t it fine the way it is?

davidbunce — Mon, 06 May 2013 01:59:35 +0000

This is the first lesson in an exciting new e-course designed to help your church go through the process of designing a new website. I hope that you will find this series useful whether you are doing the whole process within your congregation, using home-grown design skills, or whether you are using a web designer or [...]

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Why I’m proud to be a young Baptist today

davidbunce — Sat, 04 May 2013 23:03:19 +0000

It’s a common truism that the age of denominations is passing away and, if and when young people actually go to church at all, they float freely between churches and rarely concern themselves with the questions of larger denominational ties. Like all truisms, I suspect it may crumble very quickly when investigated – however, my [...]

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Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities hurt those they help

davidbunce — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:58:00 +0000

This is a book I have been wanting to read ever since I saw Carl Rashke recommend it on a blog post he wrote elsewhere. The question of how effective our church social projects are has been playing on my mind for a few months now, especially given the economic situation and the way it’s [...]

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Lament in church worship: a Worship Leader’s perspective

davidbunce — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:21:05 +0000

Every quarter, Vineyard Music produces a small magazine called Inside Worship. Edited by Dan Wilt, a man who has been a catalyst for great leaps in my own development as a “Worship Artisan”, it regularly explores both ancient and modern expressions of worship, asking how we might grow in maturity as a worshipping community. The [...]

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“Fifty Shades of Grey” reviewed by a simple bible-reading feminist.

davidbunce — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:31:36 +0000

When it comes to popular culture, I am not always the most on the ball person alive. I have the music taste of an old man and a reading list to match. However, I found myself in the odd position of taking time out to read the super-popular “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E.L. James. [...]

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St Mary’s Has Talent – Poster Design

davidbunce — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:51:10 +0000

“St Mary’s Has Talent” is the annual charity concert from the Undergraduate Student society in St Andrews divinity School, St Mary’s. As publicity representative for the society, my job was to come up with an eye-catching poster for the event that would stand out amongst the crowded noticeboards full of student events. I think you’ll [...]

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Friday Blogaround 5th April 2013

davidbunce — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:40:32 +0000

First week back after the holidays has meant that I have been hitting the books and website work, and my time on the blogs has been limited. It has also sadly been a week where a lot of online conversation that has come across my screen has been people who have been defending/advocating systems of [...]

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Being the change – Green Pastures

davidbunce — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:17:16 +0000

In Matthew 13 verse 33 Jesus says “The Kingdom of heaven is like leaven (yeast), which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.” The nature of the Kingdom therefore is to be hidden in this world until it has brought the change that society (the dough) so [...]

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“Glorious Ruin: how suffering makes you free” – Tullian Tchividjian

davidbunce — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:18:54 +0000

Holy Week seems to be an appropriate time to be reading and writing about suffering. In reality, the timing is fairly coincidental: “Glorious Ruin” has been sitting on my Kindle for a month or two waiting for me to get around to reviewing it. However, the fact that I was reading it during Holy Week [...]

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Simply Serve – James Prescott

davidbunce — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 11:08:27 +0000

Mission in our own community can be hard, especially in a nation like ours. It can be easy to think that mission is something you do in another country, that problems that matter to God – and should matter to us – like homelessness, a lack of food and poverty, is something that happens somewhere [...]

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Friday blogaround 29th March 2013

davidbunce — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:12:02 +0000

This week has been a quieter week for me on the web – I’ve been with Mairi’s parents and so been taking some time out to relax and re-focus. However, this is a summary of interesting things I have found on the web this week: The case for getting married young – The Atlantic. It’s [...]

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Interview with @drbexl from #BigRead13

davidbunce — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:12:59 +0000

The Big Read started off as an initiative in the North East of England in 2009 as Christians from all denominations started reading the gospel of Luke together in local groups. This grew over the last few years and the project is in the middle of #BigRead13. Today, I am pleased to re-publish an interview I [...]

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