Daniel Lewis

So just a quick blog post (while my stomach digests my miso-noodles) which I have been thinking about doing for a while.
I wanted to let you know of various who have inspired me and in some way influenced my thoughts and actions. I’ll start with the ones within Computer Science, and then go into […]

Something quite amazing is going on, it goes beyond the goodness of any religion or creed, and I saw it in action today in Oxford City Centre.
Its the Free Hugs Campaign, which is a campaign where people out of pure selfless kindness offer hugs (aka cuddles) as a method of support to anyone who approaches. […]

“The Semantic Web and Anglicanism” by Daniel Lewis
My version of “The World Wide Web and the ‘Web of Life’” by Tim Berners-Lee
I’ve been considering lately how my beliefs and religious practices have interacted with my work on the Semantic Web and Linked Data… and so this is my version of “The World Wide Web and […]

It is Palm Sunday today (in most Christian Calendars), and my day started off with a quick blessing of the palms service at my Church (St Margaret’s in Oxford), we then processed down Woodstock Road in the pouring rain singing hymns with the 2 choirs (of St Margarets and St Giles Churches) and holding palm […]

Introduction
Its quite rare that I manage to get the chance to do a more personal blog post, but I really wanted to clarify the following blog post to people who aren’t Christian.
There are many many different denominations (aka groups) of Christianity, and within those you get varying amounts of variety.
For example I am a: Liberal […]

There is a competition for developing a logo for the DataPortability Project.
I’ve added my contribution:

You can win stuff! You can also see other peoples contributions on the flickr pool.
Technorati Tags: dataportability, data, portability, logo, competition

There is a really good video series titled “I BELIEVE“. Its a set of video documentaries about different religions, and the presenter (Dennis Wholey) takes a completely non-biased view asking both general and detailed questions. Its wonderful.
I am definitely pro-Interfaith-Dialogue, and this series has taught me a few things about the various spiritual paths. The […]

Technorati Tags: religious, christian, christmas
Hi all,
This will be the first Christmas I observe as a proper fully Baptised / fully Confirmed Christian. It will be the first time I go to a Christmas Midnight Communion and a Christmas Morning Service. Unfortunately I can’t share the experience at my home Church (St Margarets in […]

We have a Remembrance Day special over at intercessions.co.uk today. We have highlighted a few of our prayers that are particularly good for Remembrance Day intercessions.
But we need more prayers, so if you have some prayers to submit then please do email them to Beki at the email provided on the intercessions.co.uk home page.
After today […]

OK, its Sunday… Sunday being traditionally a Christian day of Worship. Many of the readers of this blog are not religious in any way, and don’t see “faith” or God as being rational…. and I can understand this, but I chose not to follow that school of thought, I choose to be a Mystic Anglican […]