Aiya Iluvatar

New Version of Keeping It Collared.

New Version of “Keeping It Collared” Released

HolyCow software is pleased to announce the newest release of Keeping It Collared, the free clergy time tracker, available to run on Excel or Google Docs.

Many clergy persons now have letters of agreement (LOA) that designate a certain amount of blocks of time as a work week (Morning, afternoon and evening). This simple Excel spreadsheet can track these blocks and tell you how you are doing as a steward of your time. It will keep a running average of the number of blocks you work per week. It can alert you if you spend more nights a week than is stipulated in your LOA. It can track missed days off and help you track make-ups. It will also track reading time, vacation, continuing ed, sick days and Sundays off.

The Excel version of KIC 3.0 adds the ability to track multiple positions and have them tally on a master sheet.

Downloads and information are available at http://www.keepitcollared.org

anglican, christianity, episcopal, religion, clergy, time management

Mission Trip

I am going on a mission trip to Camp Coast Care next week (March 18th-24th), so the blog will be kinda lonely unless I can get online and update down there....

David+

New Blog

After running www.askthepriest.org for a while, using it as a catch-all for my blogging, I decided to add some new voices to AskThePriest and using it mainly for answering questions and theological musings.  The more personal posts will now be on this Blog, Ayia Iluvatar.

I decided to give it a Tolkien theme, because I have been studying the works of Tolkien and their religious significance for several years now.  I am firmly convinced that Tolkien is one of the greatest Christian writers of the 20th century, and that his works spread a Gospel message in a very subtle way.  But not all of this blog will be Tolkien-related.  In fact, most probably won't - I just like the theme.

What, you might ask, does Ayia Iluvatar mean?  In Quenya, the high-elvish language of Middle Earth, it means roughly "Hail, Creator" or possibly even "Praise to thee, God."  The name "Iluvatar" is used in the Silmarillion extensively and the Lord of the Rings sparingly as the name of God.

I look forward to fleshing out this blog.

David+