This blog was coaxed into being with the help of an assignment in "proactive ministry in a media culture," a class I am taking from Mary Hess at Luther Seminary. Part of the assignment is for the class to all set up blogs, comment and use news readers.

For the class:
Firefox Browser--The tabbed browsing is great open a new tab in the window with Ctrl+t. (F11 also gives you full window browsing, nice.) Sage RSS Reader--A RSS plugin for Firefox, activate with Alt+s. Thunderbird--Mozilla's email client. It's free, relatively customizable and supports opensource but the address book isn't that great.